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Fable Foolery @fablefoolery.bsky.social · Sep 3
Found in a basket, raised by forms in triplicate, Thomlin Jupp enters Paradise Hall, where goblins wield clipboards and destiny requires permits.
Are you ready to digest the absurdity?
First make sure all your foolery insurance paperwork is up to date.

thomlinjupp.com
#booksky 🪐📚 #books #absurd
A Comedy Fantasy Novel What happens when Henry Fielding's Tom Jones meets absurdist fantasy in a world where dragons file tax returns and bureaucracy is the only universal constant?
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What if Henry Fielding's Tom Jones got lost in a Pratchettian bureaucracy?
Thomlin Jupp: A Foundling’s Follies is absurdist fantasy with dragons, destiny, and far too much paperwork. Now available!
thomlinjupp.com
#booksky #fantasy #fablefoolery #books #comedy #absurd
Thomlin Jupp: A Foundling's Follies - A Comedy Fantasy Novel
A comedic fantasy novel inspired by Tom Jones, set in a world where dragons file tax returns and bureaucracy rules supreme.
thomlinjupp.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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The Bureaucratic Quest Challenge
A free game
As an aspiring adventurer, you must properly file the correct magical paperwork to complete your quests. Remember: No quest is complete without the proper documentation!
thomlinjupp.com/index.html#g...
#books #booksky #fablefoolery #comedy #fantasy
Thomlin Jupp: A Foundling's Follies - A Comedy Fantasy Novel
A comedic fantasy novel inspired by Tom Jones, set in a world where dragons file tax returns and bureaucracy rules supreme.
thomlinjupp.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Had a play earlier today. Firstly I had a go at micro fiction, I then narrated the story before creating this short for my YouTube channel called Runes and Red Tape. #writers #authors #microfiction #creators #booksky #comicfantasy This is called Dragons 'R' Us! youtube.com/shorts/XvUNG...
Dragons ‘R’ Us | Hilarious 30-Second Comic Fantasy Short Story
YouTube video by Runes and Red Tape
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October 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Dragons doing taxes. Bureaucracy as destiny. Absurdist fantasy at its finest. Read the first free chapter of Thomlin Jupp and enter the wonderfully weird:
thomlinjupp.com/introduction...
#ThomlinJupp #FantasyWithForms #FableFoolery #booksky #fantasy #comedy #books #reading
Introduction Preview - Thomlin Jupp: A Foundling's Follies
Read the introduction chapter of Thomlin Jupp: A Foundling's Follies - A comedic fantasy novel.
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October 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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What if Henry Feilding's Tom Jones wandered into a world where dragons file tax returns and destiny loves paperwork? Thomlin Jupp is absurdist fantasy at its finest.
Even the mother-in-law enjoyed it!
Head here for more bureaucratic chaos thomlinjupp.com
#booksky #fantasy #comedy #reading
Thomlin Jupp: A Foundling's Follies - A Comedy Fantasy Novel
A comedic fantasy novel inspired by Tom Jones, set in a world where dragons file tax returns and bureaucracy rules supreme.
thomlinjupp.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Is this where sourdough spells rise at midnight, the muffins may be cursed, and the oven might be a portal to the jam dimension?
I can’t wait to devour spells, crumbs, and hopefully some chaos!
author-aarondick.bsky.social Aaron Dick- Author @author-aarondick.bsky.social · 29d
My next novel "A Baker's Coven" is getting closer, and here's a small glimpse at what it is! Does any of that spark your interest?

If you like friendly tabletop fantasy humour, parody, and a bunch of witches rolling their eyes, then I hope you'll keep your eyes out for this!

🪐📚💙 #FunnyFantasy
Take a sneak peek at the blurb for"A Baker's Coven" my upcoming satirical fantasy rom-com A blurb with many pieces cut out Mira enjoyed learning witchcraft... until... Then she spent a year rebuilding her bakery business in Senoonheim, a city absolutely crawling with... Despite her encounters with..., she has decided to...; it's time to start a coven of her own. Orcs drink with ant folk, while... Mira is thrown together with..., and all of them muddle along under the watchful but mostly uninterested gaze of Lord Stanley Cornucervin... Will Mira's coven... the nerve to ask Mira out? ...
October 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Achoo!
And thus, Blorptangle the Unspellable was born.
Foretold by prophecy, sneezed into existence, and now legally married to a sentient marshmallow/
(it's the silent p that always causes the slip-up)
janolanwrites.bsky.social Author J.A. Nolan @janolanwrites.bsky.social · Oct 13
The problem with #CharacterNames: It's unique enough to be memorable, but not so weird that it's unpronounceable to #readers. Scour the web for hours or making something up that sounds believable as a name, and not that you sneezed while typing and didn't bother to fix the typo.
#WritersLife
October 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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For readers of fantasy, Ants Waking by R.J. Huneke is a thrilling, visceral magical realism tale about an autistic college freshman in the magical city of Cambridge racing for the means to thwart their friend’s premature death rjhuneke.com/ants-waking/ #Booksky #fantasy #SFF #ADHD #autistic #trans
Ants Waking - The Official Website Of R.J. Huneke Author
For readers of fantasy, Ants Waking by R.J. Huneke is a thrilling, visceral magical realism tale about an autistic college freshman in the
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October 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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I'm delighted that @terrypratchett.bsky.social and I are still helping to protect these wonderful creatures!
September 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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A foundling’s fate, a foolish quest,
The first free chapter is quite the test.
Meet Thomlin Jupp (well… sort of). Read!
Adventure sprouts from nonsense seed.
thomlinjupp.com/introduction...
#fantasy #books #booksky #comedy #follies
Introduction Preview - Thomlin Jupp: A Foundling's Follies
Read the introduction chapter of Thomlin Jupp: A Foundling's Follies - A comedic fantasy novel.
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September 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Free Now
Read the introduction chapter to Thomlin Jupp: A Foundling's Follies.
Introduction: In Which We Meet Our Hero (Sort Of)
A comedy fantasy novel
thomlinjupp.com/introduction...
#books #booksky #writing #fantasy #comedy #authors #bureaucracy
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Introduction Preview - Thomlin Jupp: A Foundling's Follies
Read the introduction chapter of Thomlin Jupp: A Foundling's Follies - A comedic fantasy novel.
thomlinjupp.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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A toast to Bilbo, bold and small,
Who vanished from his party hall.
With riddles, rings, and dragon gold,
His adventures have been well told.
So raise your mug and sing with cheer
To hobbit hearts and good Shire beer!

Happy Birthday Bilbo and Frodo Baggins
#hobbitday #hobbit #tolkien #LOTR
September 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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#WIPSnips word is "obvious"
From Thomlin Jupp thomlinjupp.com
You can also play The Bureaucratic Quest Challenge on the website
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
"The problem is obvious," Thomlin said after studying the machine for several minutes. "Someone installed the entire system upside down. We just need to convince it that it's oriented correctly." "Convince it?" Professor Thwackmore asked, employing the tone adults use when children suggest solutions that violate basic mechanical principles.
September 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Embark on a whimsical quest! 📜 Play the new Thomlin Jupp game and challenge your wits, logic, and maybe your sanity. Ready to lose track of time? Dive in now at thomlinjupp.com#game
Disclaimer: if this feels too much like real life we are sorry. A tiny bit.
#GameOn #writing #writers #books #comedy
Thomlin Jupp: A Foundling's Follies - A Comedy Fantasy Novel
A comedic fantasy novel inspired by Tom Jones, set in a world where dragons file tax returns and bureaucracy rules supreme.
thomlinjupp.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
fablefoolery.bsky.social
The Flying Buffalo legend will take to the air once more. Of all the unpredictable things that I did not expect to see, and yet with glee I am happy to share.
rebellionunplugged.bsky.social Rebellion Unplugged 🎲 @rebellionunplugged.bsky.social · Sep 11
This is a world of trolls🧌

Strange creatures made of earth and rock, that can grow to enormous size. While trolls fall fast asleep when touched by sunlight, if they are sheltered in darkness for long enough, they may awaken again...

Explore deeper... https://reb.to/followtunnels
September 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Quippy, squiggly, brain-tickling nonsense wordsmithery
Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Roald Dahl
#WOLqotd #writing #authors #books
lilyswake.bsky.social ☽ ⋆ Ill Met by Moonlight ⋆ ☾ @lilyswake.bsky.social · Sep 12
Hey! two-step #WOLqotd for XIV Writers.

In six (6) words or less, how would you describe your writing style?
And what are three (3) Literary inspirations for your writing?

❌ NO SELF-DEGRADATION please! ❌
September 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
fablefoolery.bsky.social
Watched the Tolkien movie last night
Was not expecting much from it, anticipating turning it off early on.
However, it surprised me, even though some of the story line is overly contrived to reflect LOTR plot, it was well made and kept me engaged to the end.
#tolkien
www.imdb.com/title/tt3361...
Tolkien (2019) ⭐ 6.8 | Biography, Drama, Romance
1h 52m | PG-13
www.imdb.com
September 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Today the #WIPSnips word is `award`
From chapter 8 of the now (almost) complete first draft of Scales To Scrolls scalestoscrolls.managedpublishing.com
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #ScalesToScrolls
“The Foundational Excellence Awards,” he announced during what had become daily Institute planning updates, “will recognise the pioneering contributions that made the Institute possible. The breakthrough insights, the revolutionary methodologies, the transformational leader ship innovations that created the knowledge foundation upon which future education will be built.” The awards categories that emerged from these planning sessions suggested either remarkable achievements in self-recognition or unprecedented innovations in ceremonial self-celebration.
September 14, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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A preview of Chapter 1 from Scales to Scrolls is now available on the website.
In Which the Fundamental Principles of Arcane Programming Are Explained.
scalestoscrolls.managedpublishing.com/chapter1.html
#writing #booksky #fantasy #comedy ❤️🧙‍♂️⚔️
#books #scales2scrolls
Chapter 1: The Nature of Magical Software - Scales to Scrolls
Read Chapter 1 of Scales to Scrolls: Chronicles of the ArcGate Empire - exploring the fundamental principles of arcane programming and magical software development.
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September 14, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Physics isn’t a fixed law but a politely negotiated framework: runes, intent and compliant paperwork can locally amend gravity, causality or entropy, until the administrative resonance reasserts baseline reality.
So pretty much the same as it is here. #authors
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September 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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I think I might have found a soul-sibling. What a lot of extraordinary foolishness, with a light dusting of freshly grated cheddar. ❤️🧙‍♂️📚🧀
September 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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today the word is `half`, another snip from an early chapter in the forthcoming Boar Four
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#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips
Smiling with her broad, disarming eyes, Suze said "well lads, either you are plotting to steal all the ale or something else is happening." Then with a laughter in her voice, "spill it now, before I'm forced to torture it out of you." They all knew Suze was only half joking. The torture might not be physical, but Suze controlled the ale tap, and that control could be used to dole out the harshest of punishments in Boar. Harr broke the awkward silence, "Wald and Frano think there are ghosts in the woods."
September 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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“Revels End” - Chapter 6 is posted!

In which the difference between fairies and faeries is discussed, little sandwiches, and a bard runs for his life …

Continuing the Discworld inspired story.

www.wattpad.com/story/394952...
Revels End - Jan Karlsson - Wattpad
Wilmuh Tremblerod knew from a young age that she would become the world's greatest playwright. Unfortunately, the world, and her talent (or lack of it) disagre...
www.wattpad.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.” ― Terry Pratchett

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #DailyPratchett #SirTerry
September 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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#WIPSnips from my upcoming epic fantasy novel "The Calamity"
Book 2 of The Clanlands Saga

Aldyn leads the clans against the last dregs of his brother's loyalists

"Outside"

#WritingPrompts #booksky 💙📚 #indieauthor #writingcommunity #WIPWednesday
September 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM