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Sparrow F. Alden
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Lover, Matriarch, StoryWeaver, Teacher, Tanister, and Everyone's Great Aunt. 💙🩶💙

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#NovemberWorldBuilders
#WritingPrompt
#RelicWorld

Catching up!
Red berries in those delicious pies
Orange feathers of the mainu-bird
Green peace of the forest of Dau
Purple lead-ropes for Matoa's sheep
White burrowing bugs
Black pups in the wolf den
November World Builders, days one through seven: something in the world that is Red, Blue, Yellow or Orange, Green, Purple, White, Black
November 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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#SFFChat
#WritingPrompts
#Writingcommunity
#RelicWorld

I can really only link. Can't writer her yet.
open.spotify.com/track/3Xfjgq...
SFF Chat for October 28 asks for a snippet of a monster/creature.
October 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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#FantasyIndiesSpooktober
#HelpDesk

??She would just walk right in and go to work, like very other day, right?
Fantasy Indies Spooktober goad for October 26: how would your MC react to a haunted house.
October 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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#SFFChat
#HelpDesk

Bijay followed Moonshine and Yorica out under the flip up counter as another wave of candy-hunters came to the Help Desk.
SFF Chat for October 21 is to post a snippet including the word Hunt.
October 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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#SPPChat
#HelpDesk

Is space inherently spooky? compared to campus? No way.
SFF Chat for October 20th: is space inherently spooky?
October 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 15
#RelicWorld

Me, I would dress as a galleon in thick fog.
FantasyIndiesSpooktober prompt for the 15th is What would you or your characters wear to a Hallowe'en ball?
October 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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#SFFChat
#RelicWorld

Oh! it definitely should! Thanks for the prompt!
SFF Chat prompt for the 15th is "Does your world have any spooky holidays or traditions?"
October 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Introducing Max to the #DogsofBluesky. He's helping me work. Really.

#Aussie
#AustralianShepherd
#MiniAussie
A black, white, and copper mini Australian shepherd on his hind feet with his forefeet in my lap stares upward asking for a walkies.
October 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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#FantasyIndiesSpooktober
#RelicWorld

Monsters? Petty New Gods and very unwell Old Gods.
Fantasy Indies Spooktober prompt fot eh 6th is Mosters in WIP.
October 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Cafe Press will do it. The font here is Boucherie Cursive.
White mug with blue insides and handle. blue text saying "Breakfast Crew" on one side.
October 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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#LGBTQWriteAThon
#RelicWorld

Two summers passed and autumn came and Bari spotted a great horned owl swooping low over her head one morning.
LGBTQWriteAThon for October 5th is Line Share: Fall
October 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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#WritingLifeMonthly

Max under the antique desk which supports some of my laptop fan (the rest is supported by the table at 90 degrees to the desk). He is next to a banker's box full of my mother-in-law's papers and the pillow where I put my feet. An open notebook can be seen on the desk.
Black, copper, and white mini-Aussie at my knee glaring up from under the antique desk which supports some of my keyboard fan (the rest of it is supported by the table at 90 degrees to the desk). He is surrounded by a banker's box full of my mother-in-law's papers and the pillow where I put my feet when I can. An open notebook can be seen on the desk.
October 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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#LGBTQWriteAThon October 3
Promo/ Something you're proud of:

#HelpDesk is still toddling along with friendly folks writing friendly intertwining stories over three years into the project!

collaboratory.signumuniversity.org/library/153
#LGBTQWriteAThon October 3 Promo/ Something you're proud of
October 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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#FantasyIndiesSpooktober for October 2:

Do you/your characters like scary things?

*I* sure don't! And, I mean, the Scooby Gang likes a good movie, but *real* scary things are *real!*
Fantasy Indies Spooktober for October 2: Do you/your characters like scary things?
October 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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#QueerPrompts

Monthly Wrap-up

#HelpDesk - wrote November, final-edited September

#RelicWorld - tonne of worldbuilding, progress on HawkSworn
the Prompt for September 30 is "Monthly Wrap Up"
September 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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#Septopolis
#RelicWorld

Movers & Shakers? Let us invent a Merchant Queen... She's powerful, political, and everyone consults her quietly so no one knows that it is she making all the decisions of the oligarchy.
#Septopolis prompts for the 27th is Movers & shakers
September 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#SeptemberWorldbuilders
#HelpDesk

Hmm. Perhaps the legend of Keewakw, who is grey — the color of beech tree trunks.
The #SeptemberWorldbuilders prompt for today is myths and legends about light or darkness.
September 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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#Septopolis
#RelicWorld

OK, this prompt is asking me to invent excuses for a Grand Masquerade.

The Grand Masquerade annually marks the... the beginning of Storm Season, when trade slows/shuts down for a few months.
The Septopolis prompt for the 25th asks about Festivals and Public holidays.
September 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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#QueerPrompts
#RelicWorld

Sure. Especially those who listen to the wind.
The Queer Prompts prompt for the 24th is (quote) Multilingual characters?
September 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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#SeptemberWorldBuilders 25
#RelicWorld
#WritingPrompt

One yellow star/sun and two reflecting moons and a whole sky full of stars!

(sometimes Vealua gives advice. Sometimes gLua — the small moon! — recites her own poetry)
The September Worldbuilders' List prompt for the 25th is: what are the sources of light?
September 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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#Septopolis
#RelicWorld

Is there a political science word for "the merchant class has governing and power locked in"? I'm thinking this place could go full-scale Borgia if i let it.
the #Septopolis list is writing prompts per day (quote) a month-ling prompt game focused on micro-world building (end of quote) over a purplish fuzzy picture of a city building scape.
September 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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#FantasyIndiesAugust

Catching up!

1. Hi, I'm Sparrow and my WIPs are The #HelpDesk and #RelicWorld

2. "I would take your Saturday night and provide snacks."

3. See image

4. Moonshine accepted the accolade.

5. Morning

6. House of Night series by P.C. and Kristin Cast

7. Emotional Support Dog.
A blue and green rugged planet with two moons, plenty of stars dancing in the swirly night sky. the artist who made this for me — Sharon Hoff — made it from a photo of the papier mâché globe I made.
August 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Umbrella protest sign: keep off the sun, keep off the rain, folds easily. Hydrate, be safe.
A purple umbrella with slogans on most wedges: Love All They Neighbors; Diversity is Strength; Equity is Justice; Inclusion is Community; With Freedom and Justice; United We Stand; and We the People
August 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Speaking of #Pride:
A handknit shawl displays the creator's personal pride flag. The shape of the new Polyamory pride flag has been altered for the central stripe to be the proportions of the demisexual pride center stripe. The colors have been altered to reflect the colors of the demisexual pride flag in the tri-color and the chevron, though the chevron and the top white stripe are truncated for the Polyamory Pride flag. The Polyamory Pride heart is colored in the tricolor of the Bisexual Pride flag, with the purple central stripe lining up with and matching the central stripe of the tri-color. Let's see. Upon a tri-color 25% white, 10% purple, and 65% grey, a chevron black, bearing a stylized heart, it's point in alignment with the point of the chevron, itself tri-color in even proportions pink, purple, blue. Yes, it's six feet by three so it can double as a blankie, yes, it's all wool, but very soft and mooshy. It's in my Ravelry projects. Yes, I'm considering writing it up as a Rav pattern. Happy Pride, my good folk.
June 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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#LGBTQWriteAThon
#HelpDesk

This is the Book 1 image - Books 2 and 3 will have different color filters.

Enjoy _The Help Desk_ in the Signum Collaboratory!
collaboratory.signumuniversity.org/library/153
A scuffed wooden desk with a leather book bag, a cup of hand-sharpened pencils, and an open composition book with a bottle of bright blue ink and a dip pen on top, and beautiful copperplate handwriting on the pages.
June 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM