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39 ~ Wasphole (NA) and Hartwood (YA) ✨️❤️🌈🏴‍☠️🦉🐍🌳🐟🪨✨️ Wasphole : Blood of the Brethren out now! wasphole.com Kindle Unlimited: https://mybook.to/Wasphole

#SumLuv I've been reading fanfic for nearly my whole life, and most of the ones I read were very shippy. I never read just straight up romance books (but fantasy with romance, yes) until I got to college, and I believe the first contemporary romance I read was Red, White, and Royal Blue.

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 18h ago

Do you remember the first romance novel you read? Where did you get it from? 🧡 #SumLuv 🧡

Romance Writers Summer of Love #SumLuv @EllieYellu Day 5: Romance Reads. What was your introduction to romantic fiction?

G'morning #WIPSnips! Some banter between Milly and the lone staff member of the manor to stay behind while the school is in session. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt

“Stone?”
“Unit of measurement, don’t worry about it,” Cook says as he slides a glass of orange juice towards me.
“Fair enough.” I eat breakfast in silence, savouring each bite. It’s exactly what I needed.
“Lunch isn’t for a few more hours, so if you’re not looking to interrupt the class, are you going to try out the thing from yesterday again?”
“No. I feel uneasy about something. Going to check out the treeline for a bit. Everything is still closed up tight, right?” I ask.
“Oh yes! I can open this back door right here, but nothing else. You good to go out alone?” His voice carries a lot of concern for my safety.
“I think so, with these new guns of mine,” I say, and I have to fight so hard not to laugh at his frown, and again when his expression changes to irritation when I hold up my arms and flex my fingers.
“Don’t get too cocky just yet,” he continues gruffly, “you’re only just scratching the surface of what a Draakkin can do!”
“Alright dad, but I still have to check the treeline for anything I find either suspicious or troubling, cause that’s my job,” I say with a smile and walk towards the back door. He unlocks and holds it open for me.
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 11h ago

The #WIPSnips word for August 5th is “carrier” (Sorry y’all The scheduled post failed.) #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt

The word for August 5th is “carrier”

August 5th – carrier #AnthropomorphicNovel, today! Ray is waiting in a hotel lobby to meet a date. But that doesn’t mean the date gets to meet her. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

	I circled towards the main desk. Smiling employee Annette was helping a harried looking woman with a pet carrier in her hands.
	“You told me you allowed pets!” the guest shrieked, borderline hysterical. “You can’t turn Marvin away!”
	“Yes, ma’am.” Annette’s smile never wavered. “We do allow cats and small dogs. Ball pythons, however, may make our other guests uncomfortable. If you read the relevant section of our website…”
	I chuckled to myself as I walked back out of earshot. The hotel business must get very interesting. Not that my job was boring.
	I completed my circuit and arrived back at my seat just in time to see a woman in a yellow sundress enter. She was young, pretty, more nervous than Greta had been. She clutched her bag to her chest and scanned the hotel anxiously. It didn’t look like she did this kind of thing often. 
	She certainly didn’t look like a hardened killer. But appearances didn’t mean anything, so I took a moment to study her. Then, I grabbed my things and headed for the door, brushing past her on the way out.
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 11h ago

The #WIPSnips word for August 5th is “carrier” (Sorry y’all The scheduled post failed.) #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt

The word for August 5th is “carrier”

Today's word is "carrier". Using "sack" instead. Coyolxauhqui tracks down Xipe Totec in a corn field after she hasn't seen him for a couple days now. CW for body horror. #weirdwestern #wipsnips #writesky #writingprompts #writingcommunity #Aztec

It seemed that she walked forever before the magic mirror warned her that she’d reached her destination. When she looked around, she was deep into the field, crowded in by tall green stalks. She heard panting nearby though, reminiscent of dog. She followed the sound to the edge of a clearing.

Xipe Totec knelt in the black dirt, clutching the base of a wooden pole. Unlike the poles his victims were once bound to, this one had a cross bar, reminiscent of the wooden crucifixes that loomed over the pulpit of every Catholic church she’d ever had the misfortune of visiting. And like those gruesome artifacts, this one had a twisted, mutilated body attacked to it by its wrists, made from maize husks and old faded burlap sacks rather than carved from dark wood or alabaster. 

The maize god himself was a horrific sight. The skin he’d worn as clothing was completely gone, but his own skin now peeled off him in tattered rags. Only clumps of his long black hair remained on his head; the rest lay in the dirt, decaying. His hands were gnarled claws of muscle and tendons—even his fingernails had fallen out—and when he turned to look at her over his shoulder, he stared back at her with grotesquely round orbs, the muscles attached to them flexing and squirming as his eyes moved. The only remaining skin on his face was on his cheeks and the bridge of his nose—the rest of which was mostly gone, exposing the sharp edge of the nasal bones underneath. His shriveled lips left his teeth bared like a mummy’s. He did have one ear left, though that too fell off when he caught it on his shoulder as he turned his head away from her.
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 11h ago

The #WIPSnips word for August 5th is “carrier” (Sorry y’all The scheduled post failed.) #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt

The word for August 5th is “carrier”

Second round of tube tests today... 😐 ...but happy news! 🌈 I get my first doses of biologics delivered tomorrow! I've not even trying to not get my hopes up. There's a chance I might get something resembling a normal life back. I've seen it happen for other people and my hopes *are* up.

#AugustWorldbuilders Our only teacher so far is Guide Alma in Hartwood. Her brain is a bit melted from hexshroom poisoning and she keeps mistaking MC for his shunned older brother. It makes everyone a bit uncomfortable because Hartwood Brethren aren't supposed to talk about members who leave. 🫢

Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle)@kiraofthewind.com · 18h ago

Hello, #AugustWorldbuilders! What are the teachers like in your fictional school? Have you written one? What were they like, both as a person and as an educator?

MonthlyWorldbuilders prompts daily feed card 
#AugustWorldbuilders
Hosted by Kira of the Wind
Week 1: Education
5. What are the teachers like? Have you written one?

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#AwesomeCharacters Kenneth ends up writing a travel guide, entitled "A Gentleman's Tour of the Empire." His book appears several times in Wasphole, 10 years later. It gets a mixed reaction from the younger generation. He hasn't been to half the places he writes about so a lot of it is lies. 🧛‍♂️

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 2d ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Your character is writing their memoirs! How honest are they being? Are they playing up their heroism and the drama? Are they leaving anything out? Why? What tone will it have? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Daelan and his best friend, Steph (who is Daxton's older sister) are obviously the experts on car maintenance, not the guy who is in mechanic school or the father with 30 year experience in the field. 👨🏼‍🔧💅🏼 #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts bsky.app/profile/wips...

“Okay, all you need to do is take that thinger with the silver flap and put it on the thingy with the black hose attached.” Steph says with full confidence, like it wasn’t the dumbest thing I had ever heard.

“No, Steph. That thinger with the silver flap goes on the thingy with the orange hose. It’s like the thingy that makes the car go vroom vroom or whatever.” Daelan looks over at us with a small smile, “God, what would you guys do without us, you would be so lost.”

My dad looks over at them as he rolls his eyes, but the small smile betrays his true feelings, “Oh absolutely. How would a mechanic of 30 years and a soon-to-be mechanic ever get by without the two dictators sitting over there drinking their juice boxes telling them how to fix a car.”
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 2d ago

The #WIPSnips word for August 4th is "box" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag
August 4 - box
Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration
Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics
Synonyms, variation and vibes are fine.
Support others on the #WIPSnips tag!
Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social

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#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #box The Marinell trees are housing extra people. Cerel’s rearranging Rushak’s room. He’s about to be caught in the middle of something. POV Cerel - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power

Lyndina had moved a trio of Keledrath youths
from the large room they occupied and placed them in Rush's, to make room for a larger family in the sector. With another bed placed between Rush's bed and
Drisal's, there was still room for the Keledraths and their clothing and shoes once the BOXes of scrolls had been lifted off the floor and stacked on the desk.
Cerel, having finished showing Thanilas around, was trying to wipe an ink smudge off his hand when Drisal burst in, demanding an explanation.

"We're solving a space problem for Lyn,"
Cerel said. "Since Rush isn't using his room."

"That's an assumption. It isn't true! He—“

Cerel grimaced. "Stop blustering. Not in front
of Than." Thanilas smiled shyly, lifting a hand, and Cerel shoved Drisal out the door. "Now what's wrong?

Brother's Keeper
A.C. Turek
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 2d ago

The #WIPSnips word for August 4th is "box" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag
August 4 - box
Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration
Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics
Synonyms, variation and vibes are fine.
Support others on the #WIPSnips tag!
Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social

The image behind the text is a border that is dark blue with gold stars with a black background with neon blue border. An illustrated caticorn holding a pencil and writing in a book with a rose behind one ear is in the lower right corner. A different version of the same illustrated caticorn is curled up writing in the lower left corner