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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸

@cosmocryptid.bsky.social
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Aspiring sci-fi/horror writer, currently editing my first novel! I love cats, cooking, and zombie movies! Have a great day :)

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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Wishing everyone a good day & good luck with your writing. Given everything happening, it's hard (for me at least) to find the mental energy to work on a project, or to believe that what I'm doing is "enough," even though it's all I can do, but every step forward counts. Persistence is resistance.
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Any other writers out there with aphantasia? Curious how other folks are getting good descriptions in their work despite not being able to actually visualize it. Would love to discuss strategies! #Writing #WritingCommunity
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Swirl of blackened leaves, shadows coil in silent wind, whispers gnaw the bone. #DailyHaikuPrompt (swirl)
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Great news! The more self sufficient we can be the better.
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Yea I just saw, shame. He was shambling though and needed help getting into the car. Won’t be too long, I’d give him six months tops.
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Yes - not only is the creature not golfing, it’s a beautiful weekend on the east coast. No plans on his docket schedule, no public appearance in several days, & it comes on the heels of the couchfucker saying he’s prepared to take over amid the dipshit’s visibly rapidly declining health in the news.
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Eventually it will be real even if this time it wasn’t lol
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
While we're at it, can you do something to punish Nevada/Arizona for illegally abandoning their homeless in desert cities near the borders?
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Live your life in such a way that things like "NO ONE MOURNS THE WICKED" and "PLEASE LET IT BE TRUE" don't trend on social media when you vanish for a few days.
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
The orange menace has been missing for 48 hours and death rumors have reached the international community. Social media is... abuzz. 👀
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Thank you, Governor! And thank you to Denmark as well for trusting us. The more California stands with the international community the better. We have a world tier economy, it’s time to use it. The people support you!
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Gorgeous! Any idea of the locality where it was from? Definitely want to hunt down a star that vivid someday.
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Lovely star! Is it a lab sapphire or treated? The blue is so vivid! My husband works with star rubies often so it’s nice to see some sapphires too :)
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Anxious, whale eyes, resource guarding…
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Okay, let's look further ahead if we don't do this - the right massively increase their holding in Congress and we never have a free election again. Wow! The time for clinging to what was normal before has passed. We're in uncharted territory now and we can either meet the moment or fall to ruin...
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The fascists are doing it anyway so we can either do it too and protect democracy, or roll over and let them do whatever they want. Seems like a simple choice. The time for normal politics has long passed, and clinging to what was normal before will end in ruin.
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Another grotesquely bad take from Crisp Rat, dude is one of the biggest morons still in showbusiness. #WorstChris
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
And?
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
He’s not, that’s why it’s being put to a vote instead of him doing whatever he wants like Texas is.
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Thank you, Governor! It’s a relief to have someone actually visibly fighting back for once instead of rolling over like Schumer and Jeffries.
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
…the basement stretching into a cavern of ribs and stone, the walls slick and pulsing like a living thing. Below, not darkness but a shifting reflection - my own face in countless forms, whispering choices I haven’t made. Lives I abandoned, futures that were not mine to exist in. #HorrorWritersChat
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Tough question! I think a window fits my style more - having the illusion of safety behind the pane, but it’s a border that can break and expose you to “the outside.” However, horror is often a lens with which we can examine ourselves and society as a whole, much like a mirror. #HorrorWritersChat
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I would say “domestic betrayal” - my themes are things like survival, resilience, and horror from the outside in: aliens, parasitism, collapse, starvation, uncanny biology. I don’t often delve into things like family drama, the lover who sabotages you, etc.; Something to improve! #HorrorWritersChat
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Hmm, probably traditional or hybrid when I get to that point. Not really trying to make a career out of it, just want to be “officially” published.
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
February dusk; the mirror fogs, yet I see myself still smiling. The silence grows heavier, and I forget who I was. #DailyHaikuPrompt (February)
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Working on my first, which was supposed to be a one-and-done but has morphed into a 3-5 part series, and I have three other WIP ideas to do afterwards 😅
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Please maintain this energy. We need more leaders stepping up to meet the moment, not cowering and planning parties for Dear Leader like Schumer.
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Hey can you do something that actually fucking matters as fascists take over our country? Thanks.
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Agreed, the prompts are always fun 🛸
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
We stayed up to watch the Perseids. The streaks came, brighter than ever; too bright, white hot. By dawn, every crater in the yard was still smoking, and the things inside them had already learned our names. #HorrorWritersChat
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
“Mysterious Apocalypse Scatters Humanity to the Stars; Can They Endure?” #HorrorWritersChat
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
A lobotomy perhaps? Alien abduction? I think my brain just defaults to spooky and weird, so I don’t see myself switching genres. Although I do have an idea for a parody horror/romance… 👀 #HorrorWritersChat
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Most unusual inspiration for me is definitely late 80s early 90s children’s movies lmao, some of that stuff was traumatizing! Secret of NIMH, Rockadoodle, Brave Little Toaster, Dark Crystal, Return to Oz, Neverending Story… so many films that gave me and my friends nightmares! #HorrorWritersChat
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Thanks I just noticed I forgot lol
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I’m still using placeholder names for my draft, but I’ve also thought of the characters with those names for so long I might end up keeping them 😅
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Start something new that dovetails into another of your story universes and connect them in some way!
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
This was the hardest lesson I had to learn when finishing my draft; you have to accept that it’s going to suck. Embrace the fact that your draft is gonna be shit. Making it good is part of editing, the key to finishing a draft is to just get the story out of your head and onto the page.
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I’ll take it if you don’t want it! 🤤
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
lol I went with 7:30 since I wasn’t sure about attitudes towards poultry from a century ago
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
IA IA!
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Lots of fun this week thanks for hosting!!
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
He woke up in a lounge chair, dry mouth, no ID, and no ocean in sight. Just a cornfield. This “cruise ship” is landlocked, rusted, and crawling with staff in 70s resort wear who never blink. The moon’s too close. The coughing is getting wet. Something in the pool is breathing. #HorrorWritersChat
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Beady eyes, rotting feathers. The undead hens swarm the garden, pecking holes in my fruit. I lure them with seeds and tofu scraps, guiding them into a shed with Bach on a Bluetooth speaker. Then I lock the door, nail it shut, and whisper “May your souls find peace… and compost.” #HorrorWritersChat
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
It’s not a who, it’s you. Or at least, it looks like you; same clothes, same scar on the chin, but the smile is wrong. Too wide. Too still. It, (you), knocks again, even though your fists are clenched at your sides. It wants in. Because it was never supposed to be locked out. #HorrorWritersChat
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Hello! I write sci-fi & adventure flavored horror because otherwise my brain keeps my story ideas on repeat. I need to write so I can have peace of mind! As for the 1980s creature, remember that part of The Thing where dude’s head turns into a spider with eye stalks? That one. #HorrorWritersChat
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Read a recent #archaeology article about #tattoos discovered on a 2500 y/o ice mummy and an artist reproduced one. I’m almost tempted to get something similar! The tattoo depicts tigers and a leopard hunting elk or caribou. The amount of detail from bone needles and plant ash is incredible! #history
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Way, way too late. We will never have another free election, not that the last one was either.
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I kind of wish Faro’s abomination form was a boss so I could enjoy killing him, but I also get why he’s treated more as an afterthought.
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Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Gnarliest thing about my book is probably that it opens with the end of the world, and that’s just a thematic backdrop for the more harrowing events in the story to come. #WritingPrompt
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