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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · May 19

Since my second book is heading down the refinement pipeline, it's time to update my pinned post with my linktree!
I've got my ko-fi (where I sell signed copies of my books and maybe some goodies comin' up), my itch.to, and my website on there. Don't be afraid to check 'em out!

linktr.ee/danteatlas

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · Jun 30

A really good friend of mine regularly says "I am cringe, but I am free" and I think that's a good way to live!

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · Jun 30

God I feel the same way.

Please please please yap!!!!!

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · Jun 22

Every third post on here

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · Jun 22

things are! very bad! in the world! i have nothing to add significantly other than this sucks shit

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · Jun 21

I took a couple day break from social media, I'm exhausted. It's hard not to feel like I'm not doing anything worth while in the current climate. I'm going to keep telling queer stories, I'm going to keep being alive.

This is the only resistance I can perform, and it's enough.

Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · Jun 21

Dustlings is about a human rediscovering their roots, and since "Dustling" is a word used to describe humans in the magical world, it felt like a good placeholder, but I ended up liking it so much I couldn't change it.

WO's titles all relate to the theme of familial trauma in an abstract sense.

Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · Jun 20

If you’re a writer, how do you come up with story titles?

Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · Jun 18

#WIPSnips June 18th - Sheet

There was no point, Winifred had gotten away and Garret was going to be angry with him for being so reckless and stupid. Henry would never forgive him for getting in the way of his victory. Not to mention the pain that was spreading through his skull with every second that passed.

“Alistair!” Was it Garret’s voice or Carmine’s? He couldn’t tell anymore. “C’mon, lad, say somethin’.” It was definitely Garret, who was holding him in his arms and shaking him, trying to get him to come back to consciousness.

“I’m okay, I’m fine,” Alistair mumbled back, blinking as his vision returned blurry and spotted. His head throbbed and he reached his hand to touch where Winifred had struck him over and over. When he pulled his hand back in front of his eyes his finger tips were stained with blood.

“You’re not fine.” Margot argued, standing over him with her arms crossed, “you took about five strikes to the head, you’re lucky you’re not dead. Your brain could be bleeding right now, and we’d have no idea until you’re flat on your back.”

Buck was white as a sheet, looking between the three of them and waiting for someone to explain. “W-was that Winifred Everborn?” He looked at Margot, his eyes widening as he realized the missing piece in the puzzle. “You’re Margot, her daughter. Why was she attacking? What did you do?”

“We’ll explain when we get out of here, any camp supplies Winifred left behind in her hurry we should take, she won’t come back for ‘em.” Garret carefully stood and pulled Alistair up with him, supporting the younger man by holding his arm across his shoulders. “We should put out her fire too, make sure we don’t let it burn the whole forest down.”

Alistair struggled to stay up right, even with Garret helping him, the pounding of his head got worse with every step, and it felt like he was wading deeper and deeper into a fog. Over and over he could hear Buck’s accusation. What did you do?

Wouldn’t it be nice to know?

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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · Jun 17

if i can be y’all’s dad for a second:

one of the most important things I’ve learned is that acquiring a skill is literally uncomfortable

that awful moment where you feel confused and stupid and embarrassed? it means you’re about to learn something. and it’s *mandatory* if you want to get better

ceej @ceej.online · Jun 17

I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger

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Johanna Taylor 👻 ✍️ 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · Jun 17

Also, it’s especially important to do this in the hell-year 2025.

Find small joys anywhere & everywhere you can. Put them on your desktop, in your pocket, clutch them to your chest and share them with others.

It’s not toxic positivity.
It’s seeking out beauty & joy, in defiance of a cruel world.

Johanna Taylor 👻 ✍️ 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · Nov 8

Collecting/saving nice comments is a great coping skill because it forces us to engage with, remember, and catalogue positive interactions, which helps override our brain’s usual impulse to fixate on negative interactions.

It’s important—healthy, even!—to give more weight to our positives.

Johanna Taylor 👻 ✍️ 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · Nov 8

I have rejection sensitivity, so I started a folder on my PC called “Nice Things,” where I keep screenshots of compliments, good-news emails, fanart of my OCs others made, etc. So now when my imposter syndrome brain tells me I’m Bad at Art, I can pull up evidence to the contrary. ☺️

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ACLU @aclu.org · Jun 17

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds.

While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.

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Adam P. Knave @adampknave.com · Jun 17

Do you really fucking think artists do better work stressed about making rent, or not having enough to eat? Do you do your best work that way? Of course not. It's total brainwashing scam bullshit.

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Adam P. Knave @adampknave.com · Jun 17

The "Starving artist" trope was started by ppl who didn't wanna pay artists (writers, painters, musicians, etc) & wanted it to seem a good thing. Artists suffering for art, starving artists, doing it for love only/shunning money - All myth turned folklore as reason to NOT FUCKING PAY US OUR DUE.

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Gravewriter Cryptid Is Proudly Transmasc @gravewriter71.bsky.social · Jun 18

This thread is the funniest own I've seen today. Also, good on Signal for vowing no AI shit.

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Jun 17

...he says to Signal's president

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · Jun 17

#WIPSnips June 17th - Famous (popular)

Sometimes you find the enemy you're looking for in a masquerade. Sometimes you stumbled into an enemy looking for you.

In his determination to keep an eye out, Alistair nearly knocked over someone else as they passed by. Their drink sloshed dangerously in the thin glass flute they were drinking from as a yelp of surprise burst out of their mouth. “Watch where you’re going! You nearly got wine on my suit!”

“Sorry, I didn’t mean—” Mid apology, he caught sight of a small detail on the man’s mask. The same symbol that had been so popular in Red Fort, a singular, angular, gold eye peered at him from the stranger’s cheek. Alistair straightened his back and began again, “I’m looking out for a friend of mine, I didn’t mean to cause any problems.”

The light eyes behind the strangely decorated mask blinked. Now that Alistair was looking at all of it, it was covered in eyes. Were they supposed to be a spider, or a monster? “The night’s only just begun, a little early to be so careless.”

“It’s our first party,” Ignatius cut in, his voice staying smooth and even despite the circumstance, “my partner is just excited, aren’t you? How many masquerades have you been to that you can keep yourself composed so easily?”

Well, it had been a good run, but certainly now this stranger, this follower of the father, was going to strike them down where they stood. Alistair was certain of it. But they didn’t draw their weapon, or cast a spell. Instead they laughed and smiled.

“I’ve been to three masques, though never one here. It’s a special occasion.” They carefully swirled their unspilt wine and stepped back, giving the pair a wider berth to pass. “I suppose there was no harm, my mistake.”

Ignatius offered them a little bow- which Alistair emulated quickly and without complaint- and a wide smile of his own. “I think it is easy to get caught up in your emotions on a day like today.” He leaned into the arm of the man accompanying him, squeezing his hand a little tighter. “Thank you for your understanding.”

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · Jun 16

#WIPSnips

Lionel tells Alistair several hard truths in this chapter, the hardest for him to swallow is that his parents victory against The Father of Dragons was not as clear cut as he imagined it. But his mother, Ada, was never afraid until they turned up at her father's door.

“So it seems we’ve both got a few questions for each other.” Lionel had steady hands. They didn’t shake even a little as he poured them each a cup of tea from an ornate looking pot. “We were never very close, but you learn a thing or two when you save the world together.”

“I’ve never met her family, do you know anything about them?”

The mayor pursed his lips, carefully taking his cup and the accompanying saucer in his hand as he sat in a chair near the short end of the table. “I know her father was still alive when we went to Crooked Ridge. She didn’t have any siblings, and her mother had long passed.” He wrinkled up his nose. “I remember that her father didn’t come to the party thrown in her honor there.”

“She dragged all six of us to go find him in the rundown shack that she grew up in,” he recalled, stirring in a few spoonfuls of sugar into his tea, “All of Crooked Ridge was like that, falling apart and rotten. It was never supposed to be a long-term settlement, but the people were hardy.” Lionel paused to take a sip of his drink. “I’d never seen Ada afraid of anything. Not when The Father dropped half our team, not when she almost died herself, but as she stood in front of her father’s door, holding her hand out to knock without moving…”

“She almost died?” Alistair’s brow pinched together as he stirred his own sugar in with a touch of the cream from the tray.

“We all did.” The mayor’s gaze hardened and raised to the wall. “I’m still not sure how we made it. Some nights I still expect to find this is all a dream I’ve woven for myself before I breathe my last.” His eyes fluttered rapidly for a moment before he looked at Alistair again. “But I never wake up.”

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · Jun 16

Quick writing accountability post before midnight! I've been struggling with migraines and a bunch of other stuff going on, but I wrote today! Yay!

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · Jun 14

She's such a fun character, but she's definitely a strange one haha

Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · Jun 14

I'm half way (ish) through a trilogy and I have about six other things lined up, and YET I'm rotating this other completely unrelated project around all of that 🙃 Can we focus on the WIP we're in the middle of? PLEASE???

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · Jun 14

I hate when that happens! Brain PLEASE let me finish what I'm working on first!! (It never does)

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · Jun 12

She was born to the goddess of luck and her favored temple sentinel, kept secret from all the other gods and raised by her father in service to her mother. She's also a pansexual menace and she collects creatures and oddities.

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · Jun 12

Serena of Broken Hearts for sure! She's a demi-god turned Actual God under strange circumstances and she's constantly getting tangled up in mortal affairs. She's the only god who isn't hunted down to prevent the father of dragons from coming to power again.

She's the goddess of Vengeance/Revenge.

Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · Jun 12

Who is one of your strangest characters? I like to include creepy fortune tellers who really do predict the future, from time to time #writingq #WritingCommunity

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · Jun 12

I accidentally left @bookspotlight.bsky.social's linktree when I copy pasted 🤦‍♂️I haven't had caffeine yet.

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