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Charlie Delta (has been a ghost this whole time! 👻) @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 16h

October 14th – ultimate (final)

On gambits.

Av’ry tries to convince the city guard to please investigate the temple performing the mind control ritual before it’s too late.

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“Back in interrogation, you all but admitted to owning the contraband. Why didn’t you deny it?”
Av’ry smiled, finally a question where the truth would serve him. “Exactly, why wouldn’t I deny it? Clearly, I could have. I didn’t, because I didn’t want to be released. If you send me out with R’evat, I will certainly end up just another mindless thrall. I’d rather be in prison.”
Sh’ol turned and eyed him skeptically. “You must admit that your story is hard to believe.”
The soldier was a professional; he had heard many men claim that they had been framed, many men with more believable stories than this. However, one difference was that this was a story he wanted to believe, a chance to discredit a man he resented, a chance to come out on top.
But that lure wasn’t enough to make him reckless. So, Av’ry played his final card. “You don’t need to take my word. There is a way to play this that would benefit us both and be of very low risk to you.”
Sh’ol watched him intently for a moment before finally speaking. “I’m listening.”

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Nicole "Ashrah" Hidalgo @sayaashrah.bsky.social · 5h

#AwesomeCharacters If alone, Ashrah alternates between reading and enjoying the view while taking pics. Depending on where she's going, she may take her erhu. Might bicker with Datusha, too (well, she's never truly alone), and also depending on where she's travelling through, fighting is likely.

Charlie Delta (has been a ghost this whole time! 👻) @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 5h

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Ok about to have a long drive. Might post this and dip for a bit (but I will be back!)

So, tell me how your characters keep themselves occupied during a long horse/car/ship trip!

Games? Stories? Podcasts?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Prof Emily but Spoopier Now @professoremily.bsky.social · 4h

I know right? *dreamy sigh*

And they also don't NEED to always be talking. They're fine with comfortable silence too ❤️

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Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 4h

Daemrin and Lex are very good at passing the time with simple conversation. He's extroverted and says whatever's on his mind, and she's curious and thoughtful. Comfortable silence is always good, too. Separately, she'll read and he'll watch/listen to sports games.

Charlie Delta (has been a ghost this whole time! 👻) @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 5h

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Ok about to have a long drive. Might post this and dip for a bit (but I will be back!)

So, tell me how your characters keep themselves occupied during a long horse/car/ship trip!

Games? Stories? Podcasts?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Samantha Boo-reaux @woodenvelt.bsky.social · 4h

#AwesomeCharacters

In book 2, Bruce and Spencer teach Wren a game that is basically "Never Have I Ever." As a mercenary, Bruce has lots of downtime, on ships or horseback, or guard duty and this is one of his favorite games.

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“Who among us hasn’t…” Bruce paused, scrunching his eyebrows together and tapping his chin thoughtfully, “been naked in public?”

Wren’s hand shot to her face, touching her finger to her nose as she looked around to see who else did the same. Her eyebrows crept slowly up as she realized she was the only one.

“What? All of you?”

“Skinny dipping,” Molly shrugged, leaning back against a pile of crates with her hands laced behind her head. Spencer’s face turned a little pink. It couldn’t be from the bright sun in the cloudless sky, not with that hat. The brim was wide enough to shade a small village. Bruce grinned and nudged his cousin roughly in the ribs.

“You tell it,” he snickered while the priest groaned and covered his face.

“Fine, fine! Stop elbowing me,” Spencer slapped at Bruce’s arm and faced Wren somewhat reluctantly. “We snuck into Saltbeard’s temple once to swim in the Seapool. One of the priests heard us splashing about and found our clothes. We had to make a run for it without them.”

“We streaked across Temple Square and there were three full moons that night,” Bruce howled and pounded the deck so hard the boat sloshed a little in the water, prompting a rough yell from the bow.

“Oi, quit playing grabass back there or I’ll dump you in the drink!”

“Yes sir! So sorry Skipper!” Wren answered politely, kicking Bruce roughly in the shin.

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Prof Emily but Spoopier Now @professoremily.bsky.social · 4h

#AwesomeCharacters

Big shocker if you've been following my posts, but Mireia & Kena would absolutely play games to pass the time.

Also, assuming they're not driving, reading - either to themselves or, more likely, Kena reading to Mireia.

Also just talking. They can talk forever 😊❤️

Charlie Delta (has been a ghost this whole time! 👻) @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 5h

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Ok about to have a long drive. Might post this and dip for a bit (but I will be back!)

So, tell me how your characters keep themselves occupied during a long horse/car/ship trip!

Games? Stories? Podcasts?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Prof Emily but Spoopier Now @professoremily.bsky.social · 7h

🫣😊🥰 Thanks Hiria!

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Prof Emily but Spoopier Now @professoremily.bsky.social · 9h

Sadness! 😭 But looking forward to more Hunt in future books!

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Prof Emily but Spoopier Now @professoremily.bsky.social · 9h

I don't usually mind spoilers either, but it kinda depends on the situation! I think what I wrote here is good spoilers, whereas revealing things like which twin has the fake charagma or what's the real deal with Gehenna & El would take away from the story experience.

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Prof Emily but Spoopier Now @professoremily.bsky.social · 9h

HUNT!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Wait so does this mean my bb boi Hunt won't be in 1661 much? 😢

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Isaac X Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 10h

#PlotTober
Wedding bells (not for Alexander, lol) and, if we're continuing a tradition, jumping out a window…

A series motif is evil being punished/unpunished. I think the sympathetic characters are rescued, but the "bad" guys houdini away. Alexander challenges/gets challenged on if this is good. +

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 23h

#PlotTober Day 14: Story endings

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

#PlotTober - a WIP plotting game by @gunsmile.bsky.social

14. Now that you have some ideas of your story's beginning and the main character's goals & growth, can you come up with a few different story endings that would be satisfying for a reader?

Remember: Use the #PlotTober hashtag, engage with others, and have fun!

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Orlando B ✍️ @sarkastiklover.bsky.social · 12h

Happy #PortfolioDay!

My name is Orlando and I'm a digital illustrator from Portugal, who likes to play with colors and design.

All my links linktr.ee/sarkastiklover

Adira, Last of the Valquírias, an adult magical girl strutting into battle

A close up on the face of a woman running through the woods at night, her mouth and hands dripping with blood

A woman sitting on a bed overflowing with white, silky sheets, her left leg up in a chair, her right hand on her knee and her left hand holding a sheathed sword

Link, facing down Calamity Ganon, with the Master Sword ready and Zelda in his thoughts

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 12h

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity

Here, Grilled tells Aubergine about his plan if the powers-that-be ever decide to take the inn away from them...

“I learned about it from a note I found written by Mamallot’s great-grandmother, the innmaster from fifty years ago, Yamma. In it, she talks about how Old Man Egg came back from the war with six bombs. They’re like… Ophidian weapons. They’re packed with the same material they use in guns. If they’re lit, they’ll blow up like…” Grilled struggled to find the right words, having never described an explosion of this magnitude before. “Like, they would destroy everything around us. The inn would be shattered into pieces and anyone around here would probably die. Innmaster Yamma placed them around the inn because she planned to destroy everything if the lady baron at the time took the inn away from her.”
Aubergine stared, dumbstruck. “And it would kill everyone? Even us?”
“It would kill whoever stays till the end. It’s the final ‘fuck you’ if we lose everything.”

Grilled from the Good Thyme Inn books, sitting on a stool and looking menacingly at the viewer. His wrists are bright green with fire and he's holding knives. He's resting his chin on one hand. He has long silver hair and is wearing a hat with a rainbow feather.

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Amanda Turek👻Headless Horsewoman @acturek.bsky.social · 16h

#WIPSnips #fantasy #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #ultimate

Vibes: at the TOP OF THE WORLD with Cerel and Jer!

- Brother’s Keeper, book one of my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power.

Cerel stood on a narrow trail along a steep
cliff face. He beheld mountains around him, bare rock and alpine flowers, blue sky—in front of him, not only
above. He did not recognize the mountains, but he smelled the sharp wind. A faint, sick worry prickled his insides, tangled with a vague surprise. Behind him, on the trail, Jer laughed out loud.

"See, brother? Isn't this living?"

"Jer! How did you get here?"

"What? I've always been here! What's the
matter? Does the homelonging trouble you? Here's the trick. Look at all the beauty around you. Take a deep breath. Think about all you've learned from the effort it took you to get here. This is the very top of
the earth, brother! We are the only ones ever to crest it! Why? Because we're not at home sitting under the dripping trees. Would you have it any other way?"

Brother's Keeper
A.C. Turek

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Nicole "Ashrah" Hidalgo @sayaashrah.bsky.social · 16h

#WIPSnips 14. "Ultimate"

Fresh out of the oven, from "When Death Breathed Life Into Me," a new short story for #ChroniclesOfTheRealms that shows how Quan Chi became... well, Quan Chi. Might be a good "Halloween" story, too.

#ChroniclesOfTheRealms #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

The ghoul relished every letter, every parcel of knowledge that nourished its mind and its soul. An exotic, invigorating feast this was. Not that the ghoul remembered its previous meals: they were but faded remembrances, bereft of meat. All it knew was that it had eaten, and the certainty that it had not been as delicious as this one.

But every feast had an end. The Accursed, for all the mettle in her marrow and the might in her magic, met her ultimate adversary not in the ungainly giant, but in the guile of the marrkal. The ghoul tasted the putrid poison as it chewed on what remained of the elf’s flesh, and that, too, delighted it.

End. Marrow. Guile. Poison.

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Alyssa Lauseng 🐉🩸🔪 @5feetofredfury.bsky.social · 16h

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #writingprompt

Talismans of Sin (and the boys putting their two braincells to work)

Obito took it from his friend’s outstretched hand to study it more closely; it didn’t look like much on the surface, but a sense he couldn’t logically explain told him not to underestimate it—like something ancient and powerful resided within, although believing as much sounded like utter nonsense. He didn’t dare mention those things to Daisuke and moved their conversation along instead. “I wonder if this is what Giichi was talking about—the person he met with asked if Hideo had the talisman he was supposed to deliver to General Aki.”

“A talisman?” Daisuke blinked, blankly taking the charm when Obito gave it back. “Hideo’s visit to the General would’ve been months after Giichi’s meeting with that person in Zhao, but I guess if your ultimate plan is to overthrow the crown, it’s smart to move slow sometimes.”

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 12h

#PlotTober

"Hail Santa" ends of Christmas, and Virgil gets it cemented that, one way or another, he never has to do things alone anymore. Including saving himself.

And then, a lovely little stinger, when the Hidden Folk tell them about the baby they found in the woods.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 23h

#PlotTober Day 14: Story endings

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

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Prof Emily but Spoopier Now @professoremily.bsky.social · 10h

Your art is absolutely stunning 😍

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Aowna @aowna.bsky.social · 21h

Hey #PortfolioDay 👁️ I'm Aowna, a fantasy artist & writer, as well as a technical 3D artist by day. I take commissions!

Here's some of my recent work:

bsky.app/profile/aown...

Digital painting (commission) of a mushrooms forest with all kinds of different shrooms, all within a warm sunset-y color palette. In the center is a tro-odon (bird-y looking dinosaur) with red, orange, and yellow feathers.

A digital sketch in the style of a saint's icon. In a frame, with a gold halo and green robes, is a woman with four pale-grey hands. One hand is holding a miniature of a hotel, the windows of which glow red. The woman is grinning, but the upper part of her face is missing. There is a similar hole in the center of her chest.

Commissioned fullbody illustration of a giant grey wolf with rusted manacles on his legs, rime and mushrooms growing on his body, and some bones and muscles exposed. A rusty-orange mist drifts off his body.

Colorful blue and pink painting of a unicorn-woman standing in a magical pool, reaching for the stars overhead, surrounded by swirls of sky and magic. She has pale skin, light purple hair, three eyes, a horn, hooves, and a tail.

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MechaniChris @chrisakins.bsky.social · 11h

For today, why not kick things off with the opening of chapter 1 (after the prologue mind you)

And as always, go here to get your own copy! www.christianakins.com/grimportents

#writingcommunity #WIPSnips #writesky #booksky #indiebooks #halloween

Chapter One
The First Day of the End of My Life
My only concern in the hours leading up to
my wedding was whether I would be able to adequately affix a bow tie. It's an infuriating garment that likely would have been phased out of fashion decades ago had it not pitifully clung to the wedding industry as a last bastion of relevance. Admittedly, no one was forcing me to adopt such an outmoded accessory, but it wasn't as if I knew how to do a regular tie any better so I figured I might as well opt for the "fancier" option. Had I known that my choice of tie would ultimately determine the fate of all sentient beings in the universe, I would have bought a clip on.

Grim Portents cover featuring a skeleton hand holding a feather and emerging from an open book. The title is on a burning banner that envelops the feather and a large beast looms over it all. At the top, the tagline reads: Welcome to the first day of the end of your life…

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Dichoro @dichoro.bsky.social · 16h

#PlotTober Science Fantasy

I don't have a firm enough idea of a plot to say exactly how this ends, but I think I know what state I want my two leads and my villain in by the time I reach the final scene. That should provide some basic idea of where I'm going with this.

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Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 23h

#PlotTober Day 14: Story endings

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

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Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · 14h

Not as certain on the ending. Obviously, Ace love witch & rival will stop whatever shenanigans rival’s ex is doing (curse on rival, negative magic in area, whatever).

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Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 23h

#PlotTober Day 14: Story endings

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

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Prof Emily but Spoopier Now @professoremily.bsky.social · 11h

a dog laying on the floor looking at a cat with the words " no you " written below it

Alt: Gif of a dog lying on the floor, and a little cat runs up and boops his nose then runs away, with text saying "NO YOU!"

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Prof Emily but Spoopier Now @professoremily.bsky.social · 11h

YES YES TO ALL OF THIS 👏

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Prof Emily but Spoopier Now @professoremily.bsky.social · 12h

I just love your style so much ❤️❤️❤️

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