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Fox Veros, Novelist

@verosthewriter.bsky.social

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Psychologically focused, character driven, socially conscious fantasy. Literary agents, ask for details. Sorry, I'm not commissioning art. He/him/his. BLM. Pro-LGBTQ+. Anti-genocide, no matter who's doing it. Down with white patriarchy. AI is unwelcome.

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Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 15h

#AwesomeCharacters
Seff: listen to Drohim talk about the church and military tactics

Gallara: admire the local flora
Zedenko: be on constant alert for danger
Alakshi: sing dirty songs
Jorang: maintain disciplined focus

everyone in Grinks & Co.: "flirt"

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

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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Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 15h

The short rays of her crown suggest to me that her sunlight is muted, cooled by her loss.

Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 17h

I can't believe you missed
Now you can kiss my fist
Take a look
At my left hook
A beating rainbow

You say you know kung fu
That clearly isn't true
Your tactics blow
I've fools to throw
A yeeting rainbow

Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 18h

What if you bring a bucket of dry ice with you?

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Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 20h

The rabbits are an excellent touch.

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Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 21h

The closest I have are the magmaids, elementals of molten stone that swim around in underground lakes of melted rock with their dolphin-like tails in Prophecy #72. They eat rocks and assist the MCs as best they can.

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Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me about your merfolk and otherwise fishy characters! 🧜‍♀️ #WritingPrompt

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23h

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 21h

Gorgeous work! Your character designs are terrific.

Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 21h

"Oh no! They're showing that there's more than one way to tell a story, and that mine isn't inherently superior! I feel threatened!"
Trying to tear other people down just looks so insecure. Let other people world-build if that's what they like; plenty of readers are into that.

Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 21h

Terrific work! I love the way you do light and textures, and I love the clearly-capable women in your art.

Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 21h

I've seen people saying that Jesus would be pro-nuking the Middle East. It's just "That popular hero with visibility and status would do whatever I want to do, myself" with zero interest in that hero's actual messages or themes.

Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 21h

#WIPSnips
CW: mention of pet death
In Prophecy #71, Zedenko consults with a history professor to learn the ultimate fate of a line of dead rulers. The professor has been cursed with very long, semi-prehensile eyelashes, among other things.

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“Here, here, here …” she whispered to herself, her eyelashes waving side to side as they turned the pages with surprising speed. “Right. Mid-Mordraltan period. The Luteneskens were the last dynastic family on the Rookrook continent and rulers of a small nation called Trongle, and the family died out over four centuries ago. The ‘heart of kings’ bit probably refers to the Luteneskens’ lineage, since they believed it was the key to the legitimacy of their rule. But maybe there was a cousin or love child or something … Here, here, here …”
She flipped to the next page, then pointed her finger there, there, there. “The populace hailed their extinction as time to join with the rest of the region in abandoning monarchy, and Trongle got absorbed by Quisoll immediately; it makes up most of the present-day Soloban region. The Tronglian populace made a thorough search for anyone who might claim a right to rule Trongle again, but no one was found. They did execute the family pets, though, just to be sure.”
“So someone probably escaped, then,” Zedenko nodded. He groaned inwardly; how the hell was he going to find some bastard child who’d made it to another country and reproduced for the past four hundred years?
“Nope,” Ladrint snapped. “Their lineage was a disaster for at least its last five generations; there’s such a thing as keeping the royal blood too pure, you know? Along with the behavior that made the citizens glad to see them die out, it gave the family several physical characteristics that made them impossible to miss or mistake for someone else – including spinal problems that made it hard for them to even get around. If any of them had still been alive, they would have been found.”

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Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 21h

It looks good!

Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 21h

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober
14. Villain's henchmen and/or followers
In Seff's story, the Grekaan organization has puppet strings on a growing number of civil servants and industry leaders, along with numerous loyal mercenaries. Former member Kevra is a necromancer with undead soldiers at her command.

Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 21h

#FantasyIndiesOctober
My favorite season has been autumn for most of my life, but I'm beginning to wonder if it might be spring. Maybe it's because the cold hit so fast this autumn that I'm not enjoying it as much as usual. But yeah, I like the transitions and the moderate weather.

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14. What is your favorite season?

Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

I find it interesting that every culture has its own creation myths, and every one of them says, "We were the first people ever." No one says, "Yeah, we used to be another ethnicity, but then we moved over here and did our own thing."

Basically, humans have always been full of shit.

Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

Great, thanks!

Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

Sending you my very best support. Don't let them say you're accountable for things they didn't teach you; I've had several employers do that to me.

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Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't heard it, but now I'm interested. Do you think I should or should not listen to it?

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Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

When you hear the crashing sound, then realize it was your knee banging into something and you have a too-long split second to anticipate the pain that's coming before it finally hits.

Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

Good heavens, what HAVE they told you?
Is there anyone you can ask for this information?

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Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

That's unfair to you and to your kid, and you're a better parent than your mother is.

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Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

I can unfortunately relate to this, too. I once moved to a new apartment and somehow left my entire drawer of kitchen utensils in the old place.

Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

Magnificent!

Fox Veros, Novelist @verosthewriter.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Kalamata olives smell like Satan's gym bag.

Tommy Boy was surprisingly mediocre.

If you play Jingle Bell Rock in my presence, I'll be getting a lot of coal in my stocking.

Elizabeth Snow @elizabeth-snow.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Sweet potato: cannot handle the texture no matter how it's prepared

Twilight: opinions are too extreme & varied for me to discuss publicly

Hound Dog

Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Cilantro (technically a garnish, but it tastes like soap 😖)

The Dark Knight (just didn't hit w/me)

Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time (just typing it has me heated 😤)