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Septimus Brown

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Senior editor at the DarlingAxe.com. Blogging at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Author of WHEN THE SKY BREAKS. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️‍🌈

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 4d

On Oct 23, a small sassy dragon is coming to brain-theatres everywhere!

Join Glimm as he manages a band of blowhards set on breaking into Frostvale and toppling the government in this satire about the US-Canada trade war.

Kindle pre-orders are live 🐲
mybook.to/dragoneggs

We've Come For Your Eggs book cover (dragon flying across the sun)

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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 11h

The word "puzzle" comes from the Old French word "pusle," which meant "bewilderment."

#etymology

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 12h

Thanks! A lovely hike on Shuswap Lake :)

Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 12h

Timeline cleanse!

Here's a waterfall :)

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 12h

You'll be taking that pizza to go 😄

Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 12h

Good morning!

Today I am thankful for... pizza.

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 1d

New post up on the Chopping Blog 🪓🪓

Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 1d

Tragedy and Comedy: The Two Faces of Story Structure

If the protagonist is going to succeed, then you want to bring them closer and closer to failure. If they are going to fail, you want to bring them closer and closer to victory.

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#writingcommunity #booksky

Tragedy and Comedy: The Two Faces of Story Structure

If the protagonist is going to succeed, then you want to bring them closer and closer to failure. If they are going to fail, you want to bring them closer and closer to victory.

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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 1d

Tragedy and Comedy: The Two Faces of Story Structure

If the protagonist is going to succeed, then you want to bring them closer and closer to failure. If they are going to fail, you want to bring them closer and closer to victory.

darlingaxe.com

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 1d

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

Respect to those who got here first.

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 1d

Timeline cleanse!

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

In addition to my writing and editing work, I'm honoured to be a board member and treasurer for Oodenaw.com, an urban Indigenous consulting cooperative. We support education initiatives, cultural resurgence, and language revitalization.

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Oodenaw: Urban Indigenous Consulting Cooperative

aanii, tanisi, ʔəy̓ sweyəl! We are the people who make up the Urban Indigenous Consulting Cooperative known as Oodenaw. We do our heart-centred work together in hopes that we will impact good change i...

Oodenaw.com

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 1d

Arthur just couldn’t quite get used to working from home.

A black and white dog stares at the image of a flock of sheep on a computer monitor.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

It's time again as a notable Italian-American to note Christopher Columbus was an absolute piece of shit human who didn't land anywhere near this actual country so why the fuck should he stop the mail for the whole day

Anyway, Happy Indigenous People's Day, y'all

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants.

Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.

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