Made it onto the Midnight Writers longlist! 🥳 Many seriously incredible names on this list, very honored to be among them 🥰
Sy Power
@sypower.bsky.social
"Modern Flippancy" They/Them. I write weird shit. Sy Power is the pen name of the writer Summer Thyme Greene
"Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?"
Friendly reminder to study up on your antisemitic dog whistles. This screenshot was taken from a discussion on a Leftist meme page. Nazis have these conversations directly in front of us all the fkn time. Stay vigilant.
Managed to earn a Creativity trophy for my WB Tempest submission! 🐝✨
2026: The Year of the Novel ✨🥳 No fkn clue what this novel is yet but FUCK YOU it is HAPPENING 🙌💕 Happy New Year, friends 🥰
I know jackshit about Homestuck but gdi y'all, I relate to this panel on a primal level
Warmth Haters: It's better to be cold than to be hot because you can always bundle up! 😇 Me, going to bed in a sweater, buried under as many blankets as possible: 🥶🥶🥶
a man with ice on his face is standing in a snowy field
ALT: a man with ice on his face is standing in a snowy field
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My Vampirical Romance ended up at the top of its house today! 🥳 Congrats to everyone else who advanced! Condolences to the folks who didn't 🫂 Excited to see how everything shakes out on Sunday!
Honestly incredible that a piece I scrambled to finish and barely got to edit did this well 🥳 congrats to everyone who placed this weekend! #writingbattle
Breaks my heart how modern hyper-vigilance has led to a cultural shift towards casual cruelty as a means of self-protection. Trying to talk about it leads to commentary about how no one owes each other anything. Although this also means that Basic Kindness is Punk✨ Happy to be Punk AF these days💗
I have just learned that there are people in the world who don't engage with the Comedy genre and my brain is short-circuiting.
3rd in my group for NYC Midnight's Rhyming Story challenge! I had a few clunky rhymes in there that I was worried about, very relieved that the piece was strong enough for the judges to overlook those parts. Onward to Round 2! #NYCM #NYCMidnight #RhymingStory #writing
Dreamt I found a device that could fast-travel the holder to whatever coordinates they selected on a map. Ended up speeding off to Nashville, TN over the course of a few blurry, confusing minutes. Met @jasonkpargin.bsky.social, got to Beta read for him 👀 1/3
They call it a rooster's "crow" cause they sound like they're getting murdered 😇🐓
Chuck Tingle cooked with this 🔥🙌
LIT SNOBS IN SHAMBLES
I've started reading public domain literature on TikTok in an anime girl voice ✨ Kicking off with "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe — might eventually expand to other voices if there's a demand for it 😂😶🌫️ hope y'all enjoy me being a silly lil shit
The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe — read by an Anime Girl uwuuu✨#theraven #anime #voiceacting
TikTok video by thesypower
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New Substack post! Today we're exploring what it means to Punch Up or Down in Comedy, and why 'always punch up' is considered an important rule
Punching Up, Punching Down
Did wokeness really ruin Comedy?
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I'm on Substack now!! 🤩🥳✨ Gonna be using this to talk about comedy writing and how it works. First post is Live, more coming soon! Thanks for reading, y'all! #writing #comedy #substack
Introduction
Comedy 101 - start here!
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My silly little Twice-Chicken man made it through to the FS 🥳 last pro-judge Writing Battle (Heart) I crapped out in R5, feels fantastic to be moving onward and upward 🥰💗 Best of luck on Sunday, y'all!!
Made it through to the Final Showdown with 8 points! 🥳 Best of luck on Sunday, y'all!!
Thrilled to have placed 4th in my group this time! 🥳 Best of luck to everyone in R2 this weekend!!
The 1st Round results for the 100-word Microfiction Challenge 2025 are up at nycmidnight.co/4k5Zs8D! Congratulations to the top 15 in each group for advancing to the 2nd Round, which kicks off this Friday, May 16th. Best of luck to them, and thanks to all who participated!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #books #bookchallenge Day 1: Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits, by Jason Pargin
500 is typically a tricky length for me but maaaaan I had so much fun writing my own Apocalyptic Game Show for this one! 🤩🔥 Can't wait to see the crazy creativity these prompts inspired! LET'S FKN GOOOO 🥳
Been staring at this and giggling for about 15 minutes now, happy 4/20 everybody 😶🌫️🫶