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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 05/09/2026

Mwahaha - I happened to look up at the perfect time snap a picture of hitting a #4thewords number today - 4,444

This picture shows CoffeeQuills as a small icon and the fact that 4,444 words were written today

CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 04/09/2026

#WIPSnips 9-3: Effective (switching to #postapocalypse poly adventure) Unstable Classifications, novella 1.5, set after Blasted Research books2read.com/blasted-rese... 🐟 fish out of water settling in ⛈️ getting used to weather ☕ slice of post-apoc life 🌈xe/xem Jules #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Unstable Classifications is a slice of life post apocalypse novella set between adventure books. (excerpt of WIPSnips for September 3rd 2026)

Jules wasn't thrilled
with the idea of galloping up the trails, but the rain was going to wash away anything else out here, so xe agreed that they needed to hurry.
"Do we split up? Will that be more effective?"
The question seemed to bother Li. He bit his lower lip very obviously, and there was concern etched with worry all along the lines of his face.
"No. We stick to the trail together. You're even worse at tracking than I am, so sending you off on your own won't be very helpful to either of us."

This book is being worked on by Coffee Quills - the cover is bright yellow-green and shows a person standing on a mossy tree branch several times bigger than xem.

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 04/09/2026

... Virginia? I'm Florida born and raised (with a sprinkling of GA). Nearest city match is Miami, so that's right at least 😂 I really want to know where the heck "gumshoes" in my vocab came from for the shoes you wear in the gym... (my partner just looked at me & shook his head)

You talk most like someone from Virginia — about 45% of your answers match a typical resident.

The map of the USA shown has a lot of red and yellow areas in the south while the mid-north is very cold in blue.

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 02/09/2026

#WIPSnips 9-2: Button *waggles eyebrows* Ooooh, could this be some found family foreshadowing for Alyce? 🤣 (It's good to point out that we don't know who adopts whom at this time) 🧬terraforming & genetic alternations 👽alien adoption ☕cozy, low stake vibes #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Dandelions & DNA a cozy sci-fi novel (excerpt of WIPSnips for September 2nd 2026)

Aylce had shoved her whole life into work, clawing and studying and applying every ounce of luck to be where she was. There wasn't a single thing she regretted about that either. Families just... weren't for her. She had the patience to slice DNA, terraform, and double check her work, but answering a child's thousands of questions through the day? Not to mention when they deliberated pressed buttons, screamed, broke things, and we complete assholes to be around.

"Absolutely not," she muttered to herself, shuddering.

This book is being worked on by Coffee Quills - the cover has several bright dandelions against a green/blue digital sci-fi background.

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 02/09/2026

#MinCup26 - I don't know either #erythrite or #skutterudite, but when I looked at their Wikipedia pages I saw this beautiful Erythrite bloom and that's 100% where my vote is going - so pretty! So shiny!

Erythrite (cobalt flower) from Morocco, as seen on the Wiki page for the mineral. A pinkish hue shines on a mineral shaped like a flower.

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 01/09/2026

Today's during what I'm calling "Week Zero" meaning I'm focused on organization and note gathering (compared to digging into the words and edits), so I'm happy with any wordy progress today ⭐ #WriterSky #4thewords #WritingCommunity

Daily recap from 4thewords - 1,849 words written, 4 monsters defeated, and 18 rewards earned!

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 01/09/2026

#WIPSnips 9-1: Garden Alyce is working on a grasshopper's DNA, making a few slight changes so it can be released onto a new world without gardeners fearing for their entire crop. 🧬terraforming & genetic alternations 👽alien adoption ☕cozy, low stake vibes #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Dandelions & DNA a cozy sci-fi novel (excerpt of WIPSnips for September 1st 2026)

She'd already thickened the little insect's hind legs to work against a slightly high gravity, and there was a single new antenna in the middle of its forehead, slightly higher than the others, to make sure raindrops popped and spread their weight over a larger area. In addition, similar in the way that it could detect wilted sunflowers an avoid them, she programmed along that sense to also detect emissions from gardens and stay away from them, the signal for "delicious all-you-can-eat buffet" chemically changing into "danger; do not approach!"

This book is being worked on by Coffee Quills - the cover has several bright dandelions against a green/blue digital sci-fi background.

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 01/09/2026

Join Sky, a human photographer in Hokkaido as she decides that romance shouldn't settle for "okay" when there's a bigger chance of happiness on the horizon. 🍭sweet 💞 #polyamorous 💙📚 #booksky Human written ⭐ Human edited ⭐ Human designed #KeepSapphicBooksHuman books2read.com/spellssnowsky

Sapphic September - #KeepSapphicBooksHuman - the book is written by Coffee Quills and tilted Spells, Snow, & Sky. The background is white and snowy.

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 01/09/2026

#MineralCup Round 1 - FIGHT! Azurite vs. Smithsonite Looked up both minerals and I think I'll have to go for the mineral that produced such a lovely shade in Lady with a Squirrel - that blue/green background is Azurite!

Painting by Hans Holbein the Younger - Woman is holding a squirrel, and the blue/green background used azurite pigment.

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 30/08/2026

Had some lovely fish for dinner and I’m now enjoying coconut ice cream while making my way (slowly) through Intuitive Editing by Tiffany Yates Martin #AmReading #BookSky

Intuitive Editing by Tiffany Yates Martin - open book to Part 2 Microedits and there is a bowl of coconut icecream with a spoon in front of the boo

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 25/08/2026

Opened my #bookmail! Got some graphic novels, nonfiction, a Save the Cat beat sheet (how that end up in Japan?) and some good looking nonfiction! Not sure which one to start with 🤔 #booksky #tbrlist

A stack of books sitting in a table, fiction and nonfiction

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 16/08/2026

Um… Merry Halloween time already? (A previous item I found didn’t say Happy, it said Merry, so I like using that expression now, haha)

Collection of Halloween decorations in Japan

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 15/08/2026

Lots of new followers & I haven't been as active as I've wanted here recently, so let's play a game! (Besides finding typos as I work) Stealing this fun #WriterComunity game from @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social There's 75 questions with 1 like = 1 question Will we make it to the end?

A Writer Ask Game!
by Theodore Snapdragon (@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social)

This graphic lists 75 writing questions; these will be reproduced in the thread as they're answered.

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 13/08/2026

I think I’m happy with the left side monitor’s desk decoration 😍

On a desk top there are several rocks and plastic hedgehogs that have “crystal” spikes

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 06/08/2026

Okay, the #BongoCats are charming and I love seeing all the #4thewords people I know popping up with their cat 😍 If anyone wants to join us, we do #4thewords Co-Op on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/coffeequills #bodydoubling #amwriting #writerlife

Many Bongo cats typing together while 4thewords is on in the background.

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 31/07/2026

When you have to write descriptions about onigiri, it’s best to get into the mood 😋 (mayo-tuna and spicy cod roe reporting for duty!)

A bite has been taken out of a tuna mayo rice ball, and it’s sitting on top of a spicy cod roe rice ball.

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 30/07/2026

Spending the night at Good Heaven’s bar waiting for Space Cafe to start - Cosmic Mirages Probing the Dark Universe (and of course I have a book with me!)

Someone is reading a book while looking at a presentation about space

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 11/07/2026

OHHOW is up and the raid writer train is running! Join us on Twitch, get writing (or editing) done, and make some new friends! #Twitch #Writing #Writer #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #WritersOfBlueSky

Weekend of Writing Wildly
there is a list of names and times starting from Friday 7/10 at 6pm UTC and going all the way to Sunday 7/12 at 6pm UTC - all on Twitch!

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 05/07/2026

Taking a small break *coughs* Took a break between crafting & meeting a friend to read more Verb Your Enthusiasm by @sarahlkaufman.bsky.social & drink a strawberry soda float Cafe de Ginza has #WriterCommunity it’s a great craft book, easy to understand, & I recommend it 100% 🙌

Verb Your Enthusiasm book at a cafe next to a strawberry cream soda

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 03/07/2026

Bless my brain - 1st escape room is happening!

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 03/07/2026

Oooh, a good chunk of Shinjuku Statikn’s construction is done - I should come back at 3am and try to get some liminal space pics 🤔

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 02/07/2026

Every time I get something like this dumbo octopus 🐙 bread, I always think it’s too cute to eat!

Bread shaped to look like a dumbo octopus 🐙

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 25/06/2026

I love it when ideas pop up out of nowhere - I’m heading out to Space Cafe and I had to grab a snapshot of this #WritingPrompt Sci-fi? Horror? How would you write this?

A black t-shirt dates “Found a voice… It needs a body.”

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 20/06/2026

#WritersGames Event 1 has started - All’s Well (core concepts: cohesion and foreshadowing). Getting ready to write with #4thewords!

Left monitor has the Writer’s Games prompt; right monitor had 4thewords writing space

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 20/06/2026

Working the brain cells this morning with EmberStory by #writing a Fantasy prompt for #microfiction 🦄

A writing prompt appears in the background, thanks to EmberStory

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 19/06/2026

Hanging out at Nerd Nite and learning more about music 🎶 from Matt

Matt Kaemmerer talks about music at Need Nite Tokyo!
In

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 06/03/2026

#PunkMarch #Teslapunk This is admittedly a little harder to find since there's so much crossover, but... Book "Leviathan" by Scott Westerfeld has massive Tesla Cannons. Movie "The Prestige" (w/ Nikola Tesla as a character) Video Game Close to the Sun w/Tesla-designer super cruiser Any others?

#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills
What Are Your Teslapunk Recs?
What are your favorite Teslapunk books, movies, video games, etc.?

What sticks in your mind when it comes to Teslapunk? The power of cool by adding Tesla to inventions of lightning guns or a Tesla Tokyo Tower? Fighting against people/companies to make life better?
Any other good points you want to add?

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 06/03/2026

#PunkMarch Day 6 - #Teslapunk #WritingCommunity -if you've ever wanted crackling lightning arcs to do anything you can imagine, Telsapunk is for you! A micro/sub genre of Steampunk, instead of based on steam, this is based of Nikola Tesla & the power of cool with eletricty, coils & etc. inventions

#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills
Teslapunk Aesthetics
Named after Nikola Tesla - based around eletricty! Think Tesla coils, plasma lamps, violet rays, etc.!
A little bit of steam (brass & leather) with glowing white, light blues, & neon purple electric crackles.
Similar in style to Steampunk with brass, top hats, goggles, and more - this alternative history adds plentiful and cheap electricity and/or eclectic magic powers.

Teslapunk Thoughts
Like Edison vs Tesla, does your punk go up against a specific figure?
Going up against corrupt empires? Companies? Is someone performing illegal experiments on people to gain more electric powers?
If the police have lightening guns/powers, what do regular people have?

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 05/03/2026

#PunkMarch Day 5 - #Steampunk Recs! Music Prof. Elemental www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp1I... Abney Park Reginald www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCu... Books 20k Leagues Under the Sea Infernal Devices The Court of the Air Games Guns of Icarus Sunless Sea w/Eldritch Horrors What's your favorite Steampunk?

#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills
What Are Your Steampunk Recs?
What are your favorite steampunk books, movies, video games, etc.?

What sticks in your mind when it comes to steampunk? What is your gadgeteer genius up against? Do you have sky pirates? Are you fighting for or against an empire?

Any other good points you want to add?

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 05/03/2026

#PunkMarch Day 5 #writingcommunity #Steampunk! All the cogs, gears, & pipes (both for smoke & steam). There's more to steampunk than just sticking gears on things - there's adventure, heists, discoveries & so much more! Automaton fights, sky pirates, anti-teach Luddites! How is the world changed?

#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills
Steampunk Aesthetics
Retrofuturistic technology & designs inspired by Vitorian era/19th - go for brass & leather!
Cogs, gears, dials, and analog clocks! Everything runs off steam (add boilers + steam pipes!)
The world looks as if steam power was the most dominant! Inventions aren’t sleek, but untidy, cogs showing, and very much looking DIY.

Steampunk Thoughts
A good conflict in this time period is Romanticism vs. Enlightenment; does this continue for you?
How is the environment doing as you continue burning wood and coal?
Are other punks (like clockpunk or Tesla-punk) mixed with your steampunk? How are people divided? Are people fighting against your steam inventions?

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 04/03/2026

#PunkMarch Day 4 - #Clockpunk Watch the Silver Swan (an 1872 automaton performs for about 30 seconds)-links on Wikipedia! Also music by Clockwork Quartet, & the game Silksong has cogwork automatons. "Goblin Secrets" by Willian Alexander has heavy clockwork. Any others to add #WritingCommunity?

#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills
What Are Your Clockpunk Recs?
What are your favorite clockpunk books, movies, video games, etc.?

What sticks in your mind when it comes to clockpunk? Do you prefer wind up over water mills? Do you like the idea of clockpunk punching up in the future or hitting hard in fantasy settings?

Any other good points you want to add?

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 04/03/2026

#PunkMarch Day 4 - #Clockpunk! One of my favorite "~punks," I love gears coming together to make cars, monsters, or even household servants. Clock'bots using a watermill might stress about keeping enough water - or losing a winding key becomes more than a small personal problem. Plenty of plots!

#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills
Clockpunk Aesthetics
Inspired by pre-industrial work, wood, brass, and bronze are popular, along with reflective surfaces like mirrors and lenses.
Machines and devices run on highly detailed gears (powered by springs? Winding keys? Water/Air mills)
Areas are very fantasy, but can also show off renaissance and Baroque time periods with incredible detail!
Clockpunk Thoughts
Who is making all these clockwork creatures? The government’s inventors or punk inventors? Why?
Is the world/country/universe/planet a clock, and the punks are trying to stop it? Re-start it? Slow down time to prevent a dystopia from forming?
Are inventors joining forces to fight? Is your punk responsible for gathering scarce/guarded materials?

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 03/03/2026

#PunkMarch - What #Nanopunk recs do you have #writingcommunity ? Michael Crchton's "Prey" sees nanotech dooming us, but "Tech Heaven" by Linda Nagata sees nanotech helping us. There's also an episode of X-Files "Antibodies" - nanomachines developed to cure any fatal disease/trauma in their host!

#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills
What Are Your Nanopunk Recs?
What are your favorite nanopunk books, movies, video games, etc.?

What sticks in your mind when it comes to nanopunk? What do you like to see done? Are you here for longevity, the health benefits, or being able to change your looks with ease?

Any other good points you want to add?

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 03/03/2026

#PunkMarch Day 3 - #Nanopunk! Similar to Biopunk, this turns away from bio to go nanite! Small, self-replicating machines that fix your cells, change your hair color, or give you something you didn't have before. Warning! The grey goo apocalypse can happen if those nanites never turn off!

#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills
Nanopunk Aesthetics
Many neutral colors, white/silver/gray/black with all the colors society wants.
Machines and devices that are molecular assemblers - self-replicating nanites/autonomous nanoscale robots
High tech areas that look clean (too clean), places to quickly program or get pre-programmed nanites to change anything about you. Science can help... but will it?
Nanopunk Thoughts
Are we still human with these nanites changing you? Are you still you? Actually, do you have a personal identity anymore?
Warning: the grey goo apocalypse is coming! Or maybe those nanites are rewriting rival codes...
Are you fighting at the molecular level? The companies or people behind “enemy” nanites?

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 02/03/2026

#PunkMarch - #Biopunk Recs! I've got 2 books! 1 -"The Changeling Plague" by Syne Mitchell - loved the ending! 2 -"The Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi - also good! Films: Gattaca, of course (DNA discrimination), & many of Cronenberg's films! (win w/body horror!) Other books, #writingcommunity ?

#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills
What Are Your Biopunk Recs?
What are your favorite biopunk books, movies, video games, etc.?

What sticks in your mind when it comes to biopunk? What do you like to see done? Are you here for the bio-hacking or the engineered DNA?

Any other good points you want to add?

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 02/03/2026

#PunkMarch Day 2 - #Biopunk! Similar in color to Cyberpunk, the tone shifts toward sickly greens and yellows as well as neon. Manipulating DNA, changing what's "human" or not depending on beliefs & severity of change. Do you fight people created with no empathy? Beast-men controlled by megacorps?

#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills
Biopunk Aesthetics Bio-luminescent blues, purples, pinks + sickly greens and yellows against dark colors
Organic areas with biological architecture - your environment might be alive!
High tech areas with labs (illegal + legal), mega corporations with trademarked DNA, along with modified crops, bacteria, animals (not just for humans)
Biopunk Thoughts
Are we still human with genetic manipulation? How much is too much? When does it become failed, or body horror?
Are your punks against the system? Fighting their own bodies? What’s their purpose? Who does it help?
What/Who are you fighting? Out-of-control parasites? Corrupted beast-men? Police designed with no empathy?

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 01/03/2026

What #cyberpunk recs to you have? I truly got into #cyberpunk with "Altered Carbon," but in memories prior sits H.M. Hoover's book "This Time of Darkness" still in my soul. Blade Runner was an amazing movie, & I can't live in Japan without adding Akira to the list. What are your recs? Your favs?

#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills

What Are Your Cyberpunk Recs?
What are your favorite cyberpunk books, movies, video games, etc.?

What sticks in your mind when it comes to cyberpunk? What do you like to see done? Are you here for the gritty city or the “everything’s fine” VR system?

Any other good points you want to add?

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 01/03/2026

#PunkMarch Cyberpunk's probably the most well known of punks. Aesthetics: colorful neon on darkness Themes: "low-life and high-tech" With great tech & science achievements, we've become a decaying society. Dystopia. Corrupted companies, invasive police... Do you fight for yourself or others?

#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills
Cyberpunk Aesthetics
Explosions of neon colors (purples, reds, greens) against dark skies/buildings
Signs in multiple languages showing a multi-ethnic culture in the area
Tall buildings crammed into small areas so there’s no sky, only more buildings, exposed wires stretched across everywhere

Cyberpunk Thoughts
What makes us human? How are “non-human” people treated? (Robots, clones, AIs, people with cybernetic implants?)
Are your punks against the system for themselves or for a community? What’s their purpose?
What are you fighting? Oppressive tech? Corrupted companies? An invasive police state?

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 01/03/2026

So, 1st, what is "Punk"? Punk was a music subculture (70s-80s) against The Man. Anti-corporation, anti-capitalist, anti-authority, etc. Pro-being yourself, pro-going against what society says you should do/be. With writing, the word (usually) in front of "punk" is aesthetics or the setting.

#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills
What is "~punk"?
Punk was a subculture of music in the 1970s and 1980s - the ethos of punk primarily "being yourself and be against The Man."
Anti-corporation, anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarians, anti-corporate greed mixed with DIY-ethics, freedom, non-conformity, individual liberty.
What does this mean in writing?
Challenging the norms, looking at alternative futures, and going against the grain.
What do you get when a book is "~punk"?
Not just a variety of future/past/otherworld aesthetics. It’s a pairing: Aesthetics + Punk.
Punk isn't dead

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 01/03/2026

#WritingCommunity - #PunkMarch is with all the "punks" for the month! From Cyber to Desert to 'punkalypse, let's talk punk! And how Splatterpunk fits too 🔪 These posts won't cover everything (heck, I'm sure I'm missing some ~punks), but they're for thinking, researching, & putting Punk in "~punk"!

#PunkMarch hosted by @CoffeeQuills
1 Cyberpunk
2 Biopunk
3 Nanopunk
4 Clockpunk
5 Steampunk
6 Teslapunk
7 Disealpunk
8 Decopunk
9 Raypunk
10 Atom(ic)punk
11 Aetherpunk
12 Dreampunk
13 Mythpunk
14 Elfpunk
15 Bugpunk
16 Solarpunk
17 Lunarpunk
18 Seapunk
19 Forestpunk
20 Hydropunk
21 Desertpunk
22 Stonepunk
23 Sandalpunk
24 Silkpunk
25 Junkpunk/Salvagepunk
26 Cattlepunk
27 Mannerspunk
28 Dreadpunk
29 Hopepunk
30 Capepunk
31 Apunkalypse
Bonus: Splatterpunk

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 18/01/2026

#WIPSnips 1-17 "gold" Still working on my Cosmic Caretaker, and this is the moment that Ann-Marie realizes that everything might be a little... odd. Just a bit. Because *human* babies don't have an antenna. #alienromance #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

A white women in a blue dress stands in front of a blue alien man. The title is Cosmic Caretaker written by Coffee Quills, and the blurb goes: Ann-Marie jiggled Salek. "You look like you're nice and warm in your blanket? Just snug as a bug in a rug I bet!"
The baby wriggled in the blanket cocoon, and something weirdly shiny-gold slipped out. An antenna?! The baby had antenna?!

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 16/01/2026

I was thinking it would pair well with this book 😄

The Darkness Manifesto by Johan Eklof, why the world needs the night.

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 15/01/2026

#WIPSnips 1-14 current Crossed Circuits has an old space station suddenly seeing a lot of action - and between a reluctant hacker-thief, pirate raiders, a weaponless space ranger, and the original cyborg guardian of the station... it's getting crowded! #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

A white space ship is approaching a space station against a purple planet. The title is Crossed Circuits written by Coffee Quills, and the blurb goes: "Why hasn't
anyone scavenged the place? For the building material, if not the scientific research.”
Files, videos, private folders, research papers. None of it helped with the current questions he had bubbling.

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 15/01/2026

Form a four Pokémon team using Pokemon whose names begin with the first letter of your name Now, do I go old school with Caterpie...? Nah. Chansey for a bit of luck. Chandelure to haunt my enemies. Chimecho to ward off evil/bad luck And a fiery hedgehog, Cyndaquil, to round out the team.

Pokemon Chansey (big, pink, and with a white egg)

Chandelrure Pokemon - looks like a spooky gothic chandelier

Chimecho Pokemon - looks like a wind chime

Cyndaquil Pokemon - a small creature with fire spikes (like a hedgehog)

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 13/01/2026

It's a little hard to swing from screaming frustrations out in the park to being the caretaker for a baby alien, but Ann-Marie's doing her best! Not like she can do anything else with Dinell (her alien abductor) watching her every move... #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity From Cosmic Caretaker

A white women in a blue dress stands in front of a blue alien man. The title is Cosmic Caretaker written by Coffee Quills, and the blurb goes: "We need to go, now!" The emotional reflex at the sound was fear and the alien man moved fast; he held the baby closer, snagged her purse, snatched his backpack, and pulled her after him. Ann-Marie dug her heels into the ground.

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CoffeeQuills | ✏️ Sci-Fi @coffeequillsauthor.itch.io · 12/01/2026

Crystal River, Florida. I remember going down the river as a child (with family), passing a few basking gators, and then happily jumping into the river to swim 😁

Crystal River with plenty of green trees and a sandy bottom

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