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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 13h

Good morning and happy #forestfriday! I love this video because these moments riding from light aspen #trees into a dark conifer cave are so atmospheric for me. #horsesky #trailhorse #forest #aspentrees #colorado #trailride Video: between the ears on a bay mare riding a trail as described above.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 14h

From BK1, a new scene I needed and struggled with all weekend. Still has a ways to go. This scene demonstrates the heart of Sheltri burial tradition. BQ: Rushak: “Emerald” b/c the green gems are on his mind a lot and it would be believable b/c of his eyes. #favelinefriday #writingcommunity

Bráthal stood transfixed; he could see nothing but the body sinking slowly into the waiting loam, the earth churning to embrace it, the roots twining over.
Redacted was drawn down, welcomed in. Absorbed in silence. Returned.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 18h

#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #dazzle Drisal is behaving himself like a champ. - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power

And now it was more than a daze his brother
was in. As much as it worried him he knew also, with some nebulous knowing, to keep his distance. Rushak drifted away, and Drisal let him go. Lyn came up
from behind and put her arms around him. He let her lead him back to where Teryl sat, let her make him eat though he could not taste the food. His eyes took in unblinking the light of the candle flames all around the honored corpse, and he
let them DAZZLE. He stayed there with her, and while she made trips with Glassa to replenish the food or
pursue other missions of ministry he waited for her. He waited without relief from the strangeness in his heart, though his mind cleared once Rushak settled
into something, maybe humming and plucking his letra, calmed by silver-blue gemlight, maybe poring over his books and writing on his parchments. Drisal lifted a hand to the pouch hanging from around his
neck, the emeralds snug inside it.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #pass All he can do is wish and watch and worry, but he’ll do those things with all his might. - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power

up. As Virgil lifted him he heard his brother gasping nearby, nearly incapacitated, and wished again he were able to spare him.

They PASSed into the tunnel and complete
darkness enfolded them. He flinched at the clang of a portcullis dropping. Torches flared, only two. The guards permitted no speech, making the muffled crashing of brick and mortar all the more frightening
as it shook the tunnel. Here and there water dripped or gushed from cracks in the walls, ceiling and floor. At a junction of connecting corridors Salde left them,
taking no torch. Rushak peered through the darkness where he had disappeared, trying to keep his bearings.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Y’all had to say Cerberus … so now you have to see his puppy photo. Sorry! 😅

Three white puppies sticking their heads out a hole in s wall together, with only two forepaws sticking out. Captioned: Cerberus as a puppy, guarding the gates to heck.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

#Lithodgepodge #writingcommunity I know I have used this before, but it remains one of my very favorites with simile & metaphor.

Snippet: On Bliss
And when the others stopped at the close of
the hymn, Rushak's little finger caught a string, a note to spark a new melody, and a broad and complex theme ignited in his soul. He shifted key and time signature, setting it loose with a whoop of abandon.
Others joined, hesitant at first, then fierce as the stars. Dancers circled in smears of color and gilt. And then—when the music crested the treetops in tongues
of bright fire; when immolation brought ecstasy and drumbeats ruled his pulse; when his letra writhed, a wanton sorceress under his fingers—he recognized it
as bliss too heightened to be real.
And it ceased then to be bliss.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #territory On a cold, dark night Cerel and company are picking up the pieces and planning their next move. POV Cerel - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power

Drisal shuddered and whimpered, biting his lip, but continued to help.

[blank space redacted thought]? Maybe it was. But he discarded
that thought. Survival took precedence for now. "How far is this secret cave of yours?" Cerel asked.

Theris and Weatherlin exchanged glances. "A half day's ride," Weatherlin rasped, "through what is now the heart of Kudrum TERRITORY.”

"But the Kudrum are dead." Cerel gestured
around.

"This company is dead," Virgil corrected. "It
may or may not have been associated with that lot your people fought in the Amarnénd. I counted five different tribes in that battle, and at least two of Murkh."

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #blue Rushak tortures Cerel with the Salmon of Wisdom. It’s … really bad. POV Drisal - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power

"Fish-bait," snickered Lia.

"So I feared. As if shot by a crossbow he
came upon me, but stopped on his tail, spread wide his fins, and smothered me with a wall of water. The very light from his scales blinded me."

"Stop, Rush, please stop," Cerel begged.

Rushak leaned in close to his face. "Such a
light. Of dazzling, iridescent hues," he enunciated. “Pink. BLUE. Green and gold." Drisal laughed helplessly at Cerel's expression. Giddiness had set in, reminding him of how close to death they both had
come. "I could grab neither rock nor root to stay my doom," Rushak went on. "Thus I went into the rock. My eyes crossed. I saw fairies in the water. That is when he spoke to me." He straightened. Cerel glared at him through a beat of awkward silence.

Finally, Fimbalyn asked. Someone had to.
"What did he say?"

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #pulse Shalhra comes for Drisal; his horse has not forgotten him. - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power

Drisal woke. Night still covered him, cold and
unforgiving. Agony danced with nothingness and each kept him fast against the ground in their turn. His eyes closed again, his cheek rested on the earth and he felt a pulse. Faint but familiar, a rhythm beneath him, vibrating his stone-hard bed of frost, knocking gently on his heart. His eyelids fluttered. A
sound came closer, a heartbeat racing in fours, in threes—ever so gently growing louder yet calming, slowing—threes, slower, now twos. Now four again, close, two twice, much closer—now silence.
Drisal lay trembling, listening, afraid to stir a muscle until a
loud, damp puff in his ear blew him over, onto his back. Thick hair dropped and tickled his face. Warm breath and nibbles on his chest and a low, soft
whicker. He lifted his hand.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Think it’s time for a little #horseposting. We’ve slogged to the barn through the rain. Sunflower (I can draw better than this picture!😂), Marla, Sun-bun again , Back 40 #horsesky #horse #barnlife #equestrian #colorado

Chestnut mare’s face with white snip right up in yer face to be booped. Nostrils flared and angle makes her nose comically large compared to the rest of her body. She is in a barn stall with a manger of hay.

Dark brown horse in a barn with her head up, ears pricked, looking over a wooden stall at the viewer. Her face is crowned with green hay.

A chubby chestnut mare stands oblique to the viewer beside the metal exterior of a barn. She has her head down, nose in a pile of hay. Her mane is adorned with burrs.

Looking outside the back of a stall from inside the barn at a bright green field behind a paddock, with a piñon-juniper forest surrounding.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #cousin Real late post for “Low-Stakes-Sunday.” I wanna show something peaceful for a change … Music in the hideout - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power

But Theris wiped his mouth and stretched. He dragged his pallet closer to Rushak's and took up his letra. As the soothing and beautiful music filled the cave, Drisal could only bury his head in his hands.

The music stopped. Quiet voices penetrated his ire and Drisal realized his brother was speaking with Theris, asking about his letra. Theris showed him the fine details of its workmanship. The two appeared not to have a care in the world beyond the instrument.

"Would you know "The Tree Shaper's Jig'?"
Rushak asked, and when the music started with a nod from Theris he relaxed at last, falling into sleep with a faint smile.

"Sleep well, little COUSIN," Theris murmured.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#lithodgepodge Welp I’m a bit short on character art. Here’s one from last NovMEMEber. 😂 How might we trap this goof?

Stick figure person sitting on a stump playing a harp. It is drawn on notebook paper. It has the word “Rush” scrawled on it.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don’t know if there will ever be a better picture of him than this I drew out of my imagination as an adolescent. I’m not drunk on petit sirah.

Framed pencil drawing of a fantasy character hanging on a wall with a pair of little two-point antlers balanced around it.
He is Rushak, eyes closed, holding a dagger, drawn back when I was an adolescent.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I really like this part of the trail overall. The atmosphere is mysterious and the creek sounds pleasant. #trailhorse #trailride #horsesky #trail #nationalforest #colorado #forest

Between the ears view riding a bay mare on a trail through spruce/fir along a creek with a tiny waterfall over a log. Light is flat.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#LitHodgePodge One trope I’m having fun with is the Chosen One and his fancy Druid mentor. Lord Shelwon starts out a happy puppy. Ra’am Chalmalch is morally gray! Rather than being the center of the plot, they are… just there doing their archetype things (for all the good it’ll do😂😂)

Picrew busts of Lord Slelwon, a smiling long golden-haired, haloed man with pale skin, pointed ears wearing holden armor and a sword on his back. And Ra’am Chalmalch, a black haired man with tan skin and golden eyes wearing a black cloak, a sword on his back, a golden disc behind his head, and a stone-faced expression. Both are standing among snowy peaks.
Character builder is by deerinspotlight. Don’t know how to include link.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today let’s do a little water crossing with my husband going first. Video: between the ears of riding a bay horse behind a man on a white leopard Appaloosa in a spruce-fir trail dropping down across a little creek. #horsesky #equestrian #trailhorse #trailride #water #forest #colorado

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(Please disregard pictures.) The headline must be mocked.

Screenshot of a clickbait article with random unimportant pictures beneath which the following headline reads:

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Time for more golden forest spam! #forest #colorado #autumn #aspens #trailride #trailhorse #horsesky #betweentheears video alt: between the ears view riding a bay horse on a mountain trail through conifers and golden aspen trees and green grass

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Buckle up it’s happy #maremonday time! Here’s another video from yesterday’s color ride. Video: between the ears of a bay mare on a mountain trail through golden aspen-conifer woods. Camera pans to show the bright trees #colorado #trailride #horsesky #forest #landscape #autumn #aspens #trees

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rushak’s birthday is October 8th! 🎂🥰Since his is more important than my own, I’m burning PTO this week! He & I are the left side right now & we need to get back right. I’m gonna participate less for a bit to try to write more & regain positivity. I know you’ll understand. ❤️ #writingcommunity

Picrew bust of Rushak, a pale-skinned, pointed-eared young man with long white hair, closed eyes and scars all over his face. Wearing a black shirt and black cloak. In a forest.
Character builder is by deerinspotlight, IDK how to do the link.

Picrew bust of Rushak, a pale young man with bright green eyes, pointed ears and long white hair. He looks happy and mischievous and is closemouthed grinning at a raven on his shoulder. He is wearing a red shirt under a white cloak and standing high in the mountains with snowy peaks and blue sky.
Character builder by deerinspotlight. IDK how to do the link.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Good afternoon lovelies! Nothing like a little color ride to stave off despair for a time. Enjoy! (Will probs be spamming these videos) Video: between the ears of a bay horse on a mountain trail among radiant golden aspens. #forest #autumn #colorado #aspentrees #trailride #horsesky

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #contract -> agreement On the nature of heartstone - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power

to try. Could he? His eyes narrowed, an idea forming. “It will take more work than I can judge beforehand, atop our original AGREEMENT. I'll need suitable incentive."

"Of course. Gems, coin, or if you prefer,
precious metal..."

Drisal cleared his throat. "Heartstone."

It was the rarest, most precious gem of all,
that one, found only beneath the River-source itself in the mountain's heart, as clear and pure in itself as the living Water bubbling up through it. He'd heard it said that heartstone was the Water in an ancient form,
and that Water was itself flowing, liquid heartstone; that the stone was Maledin and the Water was Iryla; that heartstone had been touched by only a handful of
mortals who were changed forever by the experience.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#LitHodgepodge Okay I have no character art yet besides Picrews and really bad drawings of my own. So … here’s Rushak … What hobby could this haunted individual have

Uncoordinated pencil sketch of Rushak’s face. A long-haired man looking off to the side with an apprehensive or skeptical expression.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #petal Rushak is daydreaming. Lara interrupts him. - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power

random smattering of pink blossoms on a lacy vine. A pattern of branches took on the shape of antlers to his fancy. Behind them, deep shadows seemed to gather a
mantle of form, almost that of ...

"Do they always argue about you as if you're
not standing right there?"

He blinked and looked at her. Her auburn hair
cascaded in waves past her shoulders, framing her face like PETALS around the center of a rare lily, her white throat the stem. *A moonish thought,* he thought. “What?"

"Cerel and your brother."

"I do not know what you mean."

"That's what is so pitiful."

"Thank you for helping him."

She nodded. "Why couldn't he breathe?"

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #dent -> pocked Rushak makes a discovery. Every step is harder than the last. - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power

Halfway to the pit he paused, his heart
hammering. Ashes and blackened sticks lay all around, and they pressured him. He drew breath, driving back a shudder. He made another step; the charred tree glittered. Drums pounded in his head. He
almost faltered as he took the last steps to all that remained of the fire.
The tree leaned in its ruin over a
black-streaked, POCKED gray orb. Its empty eye sockets yearned up at him. Its two rows of fleshless teeth would gape and beseech forever. Rushak felt his
own mouth working, in some inarticulate plea. Blood filled his eyes. The dreams were becoming real.
He turned back to the forest, back toward his
friends. The wind slammed into him.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#LitHodgepodge 1 Hi I’m Amanda. Character-driven epic/dark fantasy is primarily what I write. My WIP is Brother’s Keeper. Glad to meet you all. #fantasy #writingprompt #writingcommunity

Graphic: LITERARY This or That
paperback - HARDCOVER
SERIES - standalone
TEARS -laughs
COFFEE - tea
HERO - villain
CHARACTER-DRIVEN-plot driven
Computer - PEN AND PAPER
sweet - SALTY
Silence - SOUNDTRACK
BOOKMARK - dog ear
plotter -PANTSER
LUSH - minimalist
Vomit draft - SLOW CRAFT
morning - MIDNIGHT

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #injury -> injured Drisal’s having an awesome time being an army medic. Cerel finds Drisal in his tent after a long shift. - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power

and scavenged linens than a pallet. Cerel swallowed back his pain, and shook off the feeling that he was intruding. "Why?" he demanded.

Drisal did not look up.

"Why?" Cerel demanded again. As his eyes adjusted, details came into focus. Rush was so still. Like a dead thing, the only sign of life his faint but labored breathing. His head rested on one upflung arm; his half-lidded, colorless eyes stared at nothing.
Absolute fatigue had carved Drisal's face into a mask of sharp shadows and deep caverns. He smelled of festering wounds and the blood of the INJURED, which
had stiffened in his hair and ripened upon him as if he had not washed in days, a dying thing himself.

Cerel's anger welled up, staving off his emotions and saving him again. "Because it's your duty? Because you owe them?"

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Still AMANDA 💎 Writing Rushak but dressed up for Halloween! #fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #guard While seeking their companion Virgil, Cerel and Rushak discover a hidden tower. - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power

Their two mares stood close together, ears
pricked, watching from a prudent distance. Cerel smiled at their GUARDED curiosity. He turned again and let Rush lead him around the structure. Both were
chilled from the wet that was everywhere, in their sodden clothes, dripping from moss and vines, pooling beneath their feet.

"It must have been greatcycles since anyone's been here, possibly more than a dozen ... Karth!" A twig slapped his face with a sharp sting.

"Sorry," Rush coughed.

"You know, we won't even get in," Cerel said, struggling through briars. "There's no chance Virge is here." Rush shoved his way ahead as if he had not heard.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Still AMANDA 💎 Writing Rushak but dressed up for Halloween! #fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #well Aaran’s vision - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power

He splintered into pieces of flashing steel.
About him, cacophony and chaos spiraled and he within it, not steel bits himself, he now saw, but surrounded by them, and all else smeared with blood.
Above the battle, a black shadow heaved itself upward on heavy, articulated wings. Its neck snaked
forward, sinews bulging like Silverbark roots from a body armored with volcanic boulders. Its mouth opened, vast and fiery. The earth cracked under its appalling screech, and a deeper, still more dreadful wailing arced from elsewhere across a dark sky
ribboned with crimson rents. He knew that scream, or would know it, issuing from a WELL of anguish as deep as the Nethernight itself: his own voice, or that of some other. He dropped his longsword.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Still AMANDA 💎 Writing Rushak but dressed up for Halloween! #fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #prime -> spring Lara gets a warning from her father - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power

"It is your love for him—I see it in your
eyes—that gives me pause. As you say, the war is close to him, perhaps too close, and he is no warrior. He has not even the temperament of a hunter, though
I suspect he kills well and mercifully.
I’ve had a disturbing dream, my daughter,
and I fear he will not return from Gibil the same lad who left the Forest in the spring of young manhood." He stroked his chin. "Observe this fire. See how cheerfully the flames dance, but without soul."

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #delay -> postpone The brothers are about to hear Virgil and Cerel’s cockamamie plan. POV Drisal - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power

Rushak watched him a moment. "How does
the homelonging with you?"

The cave was whirling. Yes. The vertigo.
None of this had helped it, certainly. Nor had it helped him help his brother. He had no answer.

Rushak began to shudder and wheeze. Drisal
gasped with alarm. Then he realized his brother was laughing. "Never mind," he gasped. "This whole argument presupposes we are going to get out of here alive. Perhaps... we should POSTPONE it."

"We are going to get out of here alive," Virgil
said, coming to join them. "But we have to work together." Drisal said nothing. "Now, the Kudrum will return tomorrow sometime, if they behave as their signals told Weatherlin. Cerel heard one of them say they want you." He nodded at Rushak. "So we've devised a plan. It will be dangerous, but we want

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #observe Drisal is coming apart. This from the scene preceding yesterday’s snip. - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power

He could say it. This failure was his father's
failure: his failure to accept the truth, his fear. *You're a coward.* The need bubbled within him, a geyser ready to erupt. The confrontation. *It has to be.*

In the frigid stillness, no one dared speak.
Drisal rubbed his fingers against his sweating palm. Lord Shelwon shuddered as if throwing off a nightmare, and stepped up. "What is the matter?" He looked from one of their drawn faces to the other. Lord Deran fingered the rock in his hand. "Why," Lord Shelwon OBSERVED, "that stone is dead. What
happened?"

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Edited in BK this week: After Cerel confronted Rushak, provoking a physical altercation which proved very satisfying for Rush. BQ: Rush’s anti-talent is behaving in a romantic way. He just can’t pull it off without painful awkwardness! #favelinefriday #writingcommunity #writingprompts #fantasy

Virgil stood over him and extended his hand.
"Are you finished?"

Grinning, Rushak waved off the hand and retied his boot lace before rising to his feet.

"This is not over," Cerel mouthed behind his
hand. Rushak kept his grin up, but now it felt
mechanical.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #nation Cerel is a little bit done with Drisal. Or, just … done. - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power

"Not that way." Cerel rubbed his temples.
"Look. Lord Shelwon reprimanded me and Jer in front of your father, Lady Jannia and all the antler chiefs. Jer is furious. Now that we're confined to camp, he can't go on patrol. I guess he was planning to meet Virge and Weatherlin somewhere, and it's my
fault it won't happen. Jedhrath won't even speak to me. It hasn't been a good day, and I don't need you to be an idiot. I'm trying to help."

"Talamorë."

"Lord Shelwon was already frustrated enough to [redacted]. If you had pulled your vengeful, stupid stunt-"

"Vengeful? Stupid?" Drisal set the jar down.

"Apologies." He dodged the dizzying smell of
Drisal's breath. "I meant to say spiteful and moronic. The fate of NATIONS, including ours, rests in the balance here and all you can think about is revenge against your father!"

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #meddle -> interfere Ra’am Chalmalch ordered Lord Shelwon to disengage & retreat in the midst of a battle. One troop is left trapped. POV Shelwon’s herald, Jedhrath - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power

He never stopped blowing his horn. The
sound of the warriors cries floated up to him,
desperate and angry. They tried to turn and flee back up the hill, but were hemmed in the deep snow, forced to fight. Their cries and the squeals of the horses made a cacophony of bloody death that resonated like pain in the Shining One's eyes, until, driven by desperation, Lord Shelwon raised the
Shammeth-stone.

"No!" Ra'am Chalmalch thundered.

"I weary of your INTERFERENCE!"

Watching them, Jedhrath clenched his fist.

"You know not what you are fighting! This is
not the time!"

Lord Shelwon's eyes blazed bright with rage.
"Three hundred lives wasted! How are you going to explain to the Edin, to their families?" The Ra'am did not answer, only stared at his protége with eyes of cold fire. The Sheltri were surrounded. The cries of
the dying wrung Jedhrath's heart.

Brother's Keeper
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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #tumble CW: hurt child Drisal remembers. - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power

Sunlight made his eyes water. He remembered sitting beside the River in high summer, long ago. How many generations of youth had sipped the nectar of their first kiss on its banks? The taste of it, the girl in his arms—the first of many redheads—and the thick-smelling pink blossoms bobbing over their heads. And as he bent his head to sip again, the frenetic nagging of his other awareness pushed far, far back—he heard a voice, felt a gentle tugging at his sleeve.

"Drie!" And the boy TUMBLED into his arms;
the girl gave a little gasp. His wispy hair was muddied and the bruise swelling around his eye throbbed and stung on Drisal's own face, but far worse than that was the heart-wound. The girl's white hands cupped River Water, dripped it with care over the bruises until they began to fade, but the little boy's trembling silence carved a scar in Drisal's soul, and the taste of the nectar was gone.

Brother's Keeper
A.C. Turek

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So we cut up the pineapple and it is delicious! As you can see there isn’t much left. 😁

Plastic container of cut-up pineapple pieces

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