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Daphne M. | incidental writer/full time student
@daphnemwrites.bsky.social
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Fun for the Summer WC: 33634

Back in school for a BA in AMES, minoring in Finnish
Writer
Aspiring polyglot and literary translator
Fan of adult coloring books
Dog lover
Human cat bed
Schizoaffective
Working on the first draft of my first novel!
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This is the design I'm going with!
A woman in a cream/grey sweater with bears and tree like designs looking off to the side.
September 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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This was the most I've ever ridden at once. One day I'll do it on my mountain bike! But electrically assisted or not, wow was I hungry at the end. #cycling #ebike
A map of Minneapolis with an orange trail in a very squiggly circle. Below it are stats for the ride: 42.72 miles, 3:49:38 moving time, 11.2 mi/h avg speed, elevation gain 900 ft, average power 70W, and calories 1072.
August 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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FUN FOR THE SUMMER

Two former friends hooking up for the summer. How could that possibly alter their life? In more ways than the realize.

❤️ Neurodivergent leads
🌶 3/5 Spice
❤️ Love sure helps, but it doesn't magically solve their problems
😍 Scizoaffective rep

#PosterPit #W #R #C #A #OwnVoices
A blue movie poster with a black and white photo of a man holding a woman up as if to kiss her. Cutting across the bottom third of the photo is the title: Fun for the Summer. Then it says below: She wants adventure. He wants stability. They need each other. Contemporary romance; former friends to lovers; #ownvoices schizoaffective rep; WIP by @daphnemwrites
August 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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FUN FOR THE SUMMER

It's important to me to tell love stories of people with schizoaffective as we're often only cast as the villains in thrillers. I want this story to be one where it influences the plot, but never the lovingness. I hope people see themselves in Mae.

#QuestPit #W #A #R #OwnVoices
A white background with a quote above a paint streak boxed in on the sides that reads: Breathe. My jaw wouldn't relax. It had been tight all day, clamped down so hard it ached almost from the minute I had woken up. It had been another day of starting with the as needed anxiety med. I had taken two of the three doses I was allotted daily by that point. Under the brackets it says: Jack Greyson @daphnemwrites A white background with a quote above a paint streak boxed in on the sides that reads: Breathe. My skin was buzzing In the past it often did that. It would buzz like wasps were trapped under my skin and desperate to get out. Every nerve would feel stretched beyond imagination. I would begin to believe something evil was trapped under my skin, begging for release. Tactile hallucinations they were called. Before I knew that term I called them demons. Under the brackets it says: Mae Carpenter @daphnemwrites A collage of four images and text in the middle. From the top left clockwise: a woman sewing with a sewing machine, rose gold balloon letters that say love, a woman in a sweater and underwear posed suggestively, and 6 light pink hearts on a lighter pink background. A white and pink background with minimal decoration. It says Fun for the Summer. Mae and Jack haven't talked in four years, but when she comes to stay with their mutual friend and Jack's roommate Will, sparks fly. Now they can't keeo their hands off of each other and are providing the chaos and stability the other needs. There's just two problems...Mae is technically married to Will for his benefits. And she returns to Seattle at the end of the summer.
August 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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FUN FOR THE SUMMER

Mae and Jack used to be very close, until something neither is talking about dissolved their friendship. But the attraction remains. When a boring summer looms over them, they find fun in one another. Will their fun lead to something real though?

#QuestPit #W #A #R #OwnVoices
A orange/pink background with wavy shapes on the sides. The the top it says Fun for the Summer, Just for the Summer X Take a Hint, Dani Brown. In the middle is a photo of a brown haired woman kissing a man's forehead. There are arrows pointing out from the photo to text. From top left clockwise they read: #ownvoices schizoaffective rep; 3/5 spice; FWBs for the summer; former friends to lovers; bi FMC X demi MMC; she needs him, but he really needs her. A pink background with a white search bar that say Who is Jack Greyson? Below is a white text box that says Jack Greyson, noun, software developer; hardheaded; easily overwhelmed; doesn't want to change; once artist; AuDHD; love of Mae's life. At the bottom is say in pink text #daphnemwrites. A pink background with a white search bar that say Who is Mae Carpenter? Below is a white text box that says Mae Carpnenter, noun, costume designer; unemployed; social butterfly; influencer; trouble maker; hopeful; schizoaffective; anxious; ADHD; love of Jack's life. At the bottom is say in pink text #daphnemwrites. A pink background with a torn page of white paper in the middle. At the top in cursive it says Fun for the Summer. On the white page, it says She wants adventure. He wants stability. When these two former friends are forced to live together one summer, sparks will fly. But how long until they realize what the other wants is what they need?
August 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Fun for the Summer

Just for the Summer X Take a Hint, Dani Brown (mental health rep)

Mae is stuck in Cedar for the summer under the same roof as Jack. The two have a lot going on, but they find fun in one another and agree to hook up for summer. Will fun turn to love or not?
#questpit #W #A #R
A pink playlist currently playing One of the Girls. There's pink and purple clouds as the song image. Below are the nest songs in the playlist with various punk and purple images. The songs are So Good (Halsey); Snooze (SZA); Flower (Johnny Stimson); Make You Mine (Madison Beer); Me Again (Sasha Alex Sloan); we can't be friends (Ariana Grande). A pink and purple background with a white box in the middle that says Jack Greyson: What did I care if she was upset she was coming back to Cedar? My therapist constantly told me other people's feelings weren't my responsibility. And Mae Carpenter was especially not mine. We weren't even friends anymore. A pink and purple background with a white box in the middle that says Mar Carpenter: I shook my head. It wasn't worth thinking about that. That was a long time ago and I was much more stable now. Jack meant nothing to me. We weren't even friends anymore. A collage with five images-the four corners and a circular one in the middle. From the top left clockwise: a freckles closed eye, the Seattle skyline, a man and woman laying on the floor shirtless with nothing revealed, a black bra with white flowers on an open book, a woman with flowers in her hair whispering to a man.
August 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Buddy reading Pachinko with @thetomatowriter.bsky.social and damn is it ripping my heart out. It's so beautiful I keep coming back for more. #Booksky📚 #readersofbluesky #reading #litfic #histlitfic
A blue cover of Pachinko by Min Jin Lee with a white/gray/black outline of a woman in a hanbok looking down at a woman with two boy on a path in front of mountainous territory.
August 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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I'm Daphne (they/them) and I write predominantly contemporary romance. I'm currently halfway thru draft 1 of Fun for the Summer, which features schizoaffective rep #ownvoices It's about former friends hooking up for the summer and falling in love along the way 🌶📚. #QueerPrompts #WriteSky #amwriting
A light yellow green background. In the center with slightly cursive handwriting it says Fun for the Summer. Five curly arrows come off it point outwards to words. From the top clockwise the arrows point to: spicy and vulnerable; former friends to FWBs to lovers; when your thirties feel just as aimless as your 20s did; stability vs adventure; mental health rep
August 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Just for the Summer X Take a Hint, Dani Brown (for mental health rep)

💫 #ownvoices schizoaffective rep
🌶️🌶️🌶️ delayed "gratification"
💔 she leaves at the end of the summer
💖 they encourage the other to dream
🛏️ his bed is nicer

#BookSky #romancelandia #WriteSky #amwriting #romance #readers #moodboard
A moodboard showing three photos on the top: a man and woman cuddling watching netflix with fairy lights, a man and woman holding hands linked by fairy lights, a closed eye with freckles. Then below it is says Fun for the Summer and in smaller print A contemporary romance WIP @daphnemwrites. Then three more photos a man with his knee up resting his arms and head on it, a sign that says Public Market Center in red, and a brown haired woman kissing the forehead of a taller man with dark hair. In typewriter font centered on a cream background it says: I wasn't yet thinking how I would go back to my normal life when summer ended, I was too singularly focused on how good she felt at that moment. -Jack Centered on a cream background is typewriter font saying: And then there was the simple fact that he didn't like me like that. We may have been good friends before, but now? Now it was just a lustful desire and a need to find something to do. -Mae In the center, in slightly cursive font, it says Fun for the Summer and there are 5 curly arrows point out from it that lead to text. The text from the top going clockwise: spicy and vulnerable; former friends to FWBs to lovers; when your 30s feel just as aimless as your 20s did; stability vs adventure
August 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I was so very confused for a moment but then remembered the rest of the world uses Celsius and it's Americans who are weird.
The Skinner meme from the Simpsons asking Should America use Celsius and then deciding in the second panel: No it's literally the rest of the world and scientific community who are wrong.
July 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Just a small moment of Mae's efforts she puts into showing off her handiwork online. I haven't included nearly enough of her chronically online nature in draft v1, but it'll definitely come up more in draft v1.5. #WIPSnips #Writing #amwriting #WriteSky #BookSky
A word doc that reads: I typed in "Maevelous" into the search bar and her profile pulled up. Whereas I hadn’t edited either of the videos I posted nor any of the photos beyond the filters present in the app, it was clear Mae did a lot of that stuff. The lighting in her photos always made everything feel so crisp. A white furry rug and accent items allowed her personal creations to pop in pictures. She also frequently posted pictures with what was clearly a green screen backdrop. Sometimes she modeled the clothing or costumes out at some location and she always made sure to set a mood with the images.
July 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Made a stupid meme about the last five days of writing. #writing #amwriting #WriteSky
Flexible guy titled writing plugs massive water leak labeled my depression with flex tape labeled one sentence a day
July 30, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Do I still need to finish Pachinko for a buddy read? Yes. Did I start yet another book that promises to be rough emotionally speaking? Yes, but I wasn't quite ready to read a new Ali Hazelwood romance (love/hate relationship there). This is starting strong though! #booksky #reading
A yellow book cover with black snakes (with green highlights) and a lover half of a womans face blacked out. It says "A Novel MEDUSA Nataly Gruender"
July 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Fun for the Summer:
❤️‍🔥Just a summer fling
❤️‍🔥Marriage of convenience subverted
❤️‍🔥 #ownvoices schizoaffective and neurodivergence
❤️‍🔥 #grumpy×sunshine
❤️‍🔥🌶🌶🌶

#romance #writing #amwriting
#Writers #booksky #contemporaryromance
Nine photos are displayed in a 3×3 pattern. From top to bottom left side: a white sewing machine and pink fabric on a desk, a woman with her hands in her hair anxious in a shower, a sign reading Departures. Middle row: a woman above a man, her hand on his head, then someone tubing over rapids, then a theatre with red curtain and two actors onstage in a white dress and suit. Last row: a shirtless man gripping his head, then legs intertwined on a couch, then a Jeep like vehicle in a temperate rainforest with two people, one on the Jeep and one next to it.
June 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM