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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

ODYSSEY FILME, 1st SCENE: ODYSSEUS ys wanderinge a strange lande, carryinge an oar. A place wher people knowe nothinge of the sea. A STRANGER asketh hym if he ys carryinge a winnowinge fan. RECORDE SCRATCH *FREEZE FRAME ODYSSEUS: "Yep, that ys me. You are probablye wonderinge how Ich got heere."

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

trent reznor's new hiking start-up for absolute beginners (or very small woodland creatures). nine inch trails

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

ooh, a new fun game! #summerofstories jo is a professional player of both Celtic and pedal harp, so she literally gets paid to follow her bliss (and no worries, a few ecstatic tears are par for the course with her)

"The sweet children’s ensemble’s soaring notes to close Act One wrung the same few tears from me this time as they had in the afternoon, and of course, the sublime Sugar Plum pas de deux in the second act would never fail to do likewise if I lived to play it five hundred times. Somewhere past the stage lights that occasionally caught my cheeks’ wet gleam, Beau was surely having a laugh, as if she hadn’t known her whole life what I was like."
- Undreamt (coming summer 2027)

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

yes! manifesting these readers for my work

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

honestly rate yourself (maybe today is that rare day when my taurus is showing. idc) looks: 8/10 creativity: 9/10 humor: 8/10 mental health: 6/10 (will improve When He Dies) empathy: 7/10 patience: 7/10 social skills: 6/10 memory: 8/10 rank: faerie queene courage: 6/10 firepower: 2/10 skill: 7/10

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

HOT VILLAIN SUMMER BEGINS NOW (everything i've read so far from this book is a CERTIFIED BANGER)

trope meme for "villain is in the eye of the beholder" says this anthology piece contains: selkie shenanigans, heart-twisting, lil rawrs of feminism, cool mix of poetic forms, woo this is sexy for an ashley anglin piece!

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

launching SOON! i'm excited, grateful for @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social encouraging my selkieverse poet character to contribute poems abt her dark side, & also *vulnerable* about a few pieces 😳 can y'all tell which myth she's invoking here? @miraiamell.bsky.social , ms north remembers your kindness

poem snippet: "sunk in her pale king's umber bed,/ she drifts in darkest, dreamless deep./ he smooths her wild hair, bides his time, / and knows where all the bodies sleep. // she rouses when it's time for gifts:/ her finest wines enrich his stores;/ he crowns her wistful brow with/ opal-petaled silver hellebores. // no fires burn here, save those of love / to drive the caverns' chill away./ above, her nectared sighs unfurl,/ white flames to light a diamond day."

(acknowledgments page says)

miss north wishes to thank–

the minison zine (now Wild Willow), in whose issue 16 “her note, on a caped coat hanger left empty” originally appeared online

and the lovely and talented Mirai Amell (author of the All That Matters trilogy). long ago, in the wasteland once known as twitter, she led the #vss365 poetry prompts for a magical february fortnight, inviting me to the party where i sowed the slow-growing seeds of a number of these poems (with only “my/her evil twin” springing mythically to her full, if diminutive, size in the space of a single day)

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

twenty days til the start of HOT VILLAIN SUMMER! i'm proud of my contribution to this one... & grateful for a House so indie that they're all, "yeah, everyone else is writing a short story, but we've known your selkie poet character for five years now & we need to see her verse take on villains" 🙌

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

introduce yourself w 10 artists you've seen live michael bolton (only bc friend's dad bought me a ticket haha) k d lang shawn colvin gipsy kings sting U2 aurora bomba estereo/astropical hozier 2 great openers: gigi perez, yendry actually don't do many concerts. loads of live theatre/dance, though

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Shadow Spark Publishing @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Someone stop us! (But don't though, you LOVE us) Our next anthology, V, is coming soon!! V for 5. V for Villains. We have dedicated some much needed time to the villain world and hope you come enjoy us for the ride. Coming June 21st, 2026.

Shadow Spark
Anthology
V
June 21st, 2026

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Pretty cool how one side gets to cheat and the other isn’t allowed to win fairly

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Dani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Get to know me in 4 books 📚 🧘‍♀️ The World Within, a C4T lesbian romance set in a sex shop 🪓 Jagged Shard, a cis butch4butch dungeon crawler with tender BDSM 🦢 Women & Other Creatures, a collection of hopeful trans stories 🐙 Disposable Magic, a cephalopod romance & more: danifinn.itch.io

Dani finn queer fantasy romance always hot always weird with the covers of the world within, jagged shard, women and other creatures, and disposable magic.

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

y'all, we've been swapping edits for this, and let me tell you, at least one story will BREAK YOUR BRAIN in excellent ways!! (& miss north's/my 1st reviewer praised our poetry collection as "an amazing adventure... longing, passion, loss, frustration... playful interactions &... absolute heat" ❤️‍🔥 )

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Josiah (J.D.L. Rosell) 🏹 SPFBO 9 Finalist @jdlrosell.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Last call for the biggest ebook haul of the year! 📚🏷️ Free, 99¢, and discounted books across the fantasy, sci-fi, and horror genres... What's not to like? It ends tonight, so don't wait to check it out! Find it at >> indiebook.sale #fantasy #scifi #horror #booksale

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Lorelei Matthews - River Queen 🦑🦕 - Fantasy Author @loreleimatthews.com · 13/04/2026

14 people have signed up for Desiccate ARCs, 4 of them requesting a beta copy of book 2, Cadence of Moon and Shadows. You know you want in on this. Link below! #booksky #writesky 🪐📚💙

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

if you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh (highly recommend clicking back through the thread of reskeets... who doesn't want some free comedy on a monday)

"Pikiwedia" entry about the "sam handwich" featuring briced slead, chiced sleese, hiced sooked clam etc.

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Tim Carter 🇨🇦 @tbcart.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Strongly second this. The sale is awesome. Check it out.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

orBán Voyage

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

spoiled for choice at the big indie ebook sale this weekend? helyna has curated a list of great picks... definitely have my eye on some of these! (and you'll never guess who made the list)

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a seal with its eyes closed is sitting on a blue surface .

Alt: chonky seal looking chill and pleased with itself

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

name four non-person things that make your life livable: 1) golden hour (pink in winter) 2) the moon 3) eating fruit and veg as they come into season 4) whales

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

it's the most wonderful tiiiiime of the yeeeeeear!! and guess who's big, blue, beautiful, and only 0.99 during this awesome sale? #indiebooksale #indieapril

arrow meme shows that Undiscovered contains hope and wonder, climate disaster, reluctant hero, linguistic nerdery, short king, well-read selkies, aurora borealis, fairytale mayonnaise?, steam, not spice, baby seals!, juicy lyrical prose, female focused

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Loch Ness Monster 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

ATTENTION!! the narratess #IndieApril sale returns ✨this weekend✨ so set your calendars and brace your wallet! get some fantastic sci-fi, fantasy and horror for great deals! the dragon next door will be on sale for $1.99! #booksky indiebook.sale

Banner for the Narratess Indie Book Sale. A chonky dragon reads a book at the bottom, a pile of skulls with a candle and ghost sit on the left of the text, and a space ship flies by a planet on the right of the text.

Text: Indie Book Sale

indiebook.sale

Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror

11 - 13 April

Banner designed by Arden Powell.

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Azalea Forrest 📚 A Witch in Isenshire @azaleaforrest.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Indie April Sale 2026 Happy April! Spring is here along with a slew of 300+ indie books at a discount for your reading pleasure. Tessa and her team are back at it again with an AMAZING sale for the reading community on April 11-13, 2026. My sequel, A Witch in Isenshire, will be included in the…

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Indie April Sale 2026

Happy April! Spring is here along with a slew of 300+ indie books at a discount for your reading pleasure. Tessa and her team are back at it again with an AMAZING sale for the reading community on April 11-13, 2026. My sequel, A Witch in Isenshire, will be included in the sale at $1.99. And while it won't be listed on the Narratess website, …

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Wesley Chu @wesleychu.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

The difference between the Vietnam War and the Iran War is that Donald knew how to get out of Vietnam.

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Shadow Spark Publishing @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Someone stop us! (But don't though, you LOVE us) Our next anthology, V, will be out next year. V for 5. V for Villains. We have dedicated some much needed time to the villain world and hope you come enjoy us for the ride. Coming June 21st, 2026. #booksky #writesky 🪐 📚 💙

Evil scientists abound
Poems drip with selkie sound -
A shapeshifter faces rage room difficulties,
And the Gleaner torments using awful memories.
While Jack the Ripper is walking dreams
The Lord of Demons rises & schemes
Murderers, villain marriage, tragedy & war, oh my!
So much bad within the good, you won't believe your eyes
The Shadow King seeks vengeance
While the Lord of Terror wields patience
All to be expected - we've a treat
The protagonists take a backseat
Peons rejoice, be paralyzed!
Today, at last, the villains rise

Featuring Shadow Spark Authors:

Rosa Tindall
V. north
Eric Avedissian
Kaitlyn Corvus
Amelia Gimes
Valerie Storm
JW Warner
Jade Black
Mariah Norris
Lorelei Matthews
Erika McCorkle

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

happiest love and friendship day from me and my fictional besties 🦭💕

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

the Big Blue Beautiful Book Bairn turns 3 years old today! happy birthday, my darling selkie lass. if you've enjoyed reading her, she'd love to receive reviews from you anywhere you like to post 'em! links to purchase, review, adjacent short stories, & all related things at linktr.ee/ashleyb.anglin

she's three. she just wants to sit in the sun and play with her seal plushies.

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

yesterday, as a doomscrolling antidote, i started rereading this for about the 10th time in 25 years. incredible how it only gets richer & lovelier each time. amused to note--ordinarily, i'd say i'm drawn neither to omniscient narrators nor many POVs. yet this, my favorite book of all time, has both

book cover of Little, Big by John Crowley

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

introduce yourself as what almost killed you: hello, i'm ashley's firstborn. don't let my 5-lb size and adorable huge blue eyes fool you... i've teamed up with her naturally trash blood pressure, and we're gonna try to burn this whole mutha down [we're both good haha. but in another era... yike]

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

aCtUaLLy, the V is for v. north, who'll be giving me endless side-eye because i never seem to write a real villain, whilst she contributes a villain-ish themed collection of poetry. here's her bio (and if you haven't met her yet, you can for free in the zon sample here: tinyurl.com/mr32s5x4)

v. north is the pen name of the first known published selkie poet. outside her iambic pentameter fangirlery, she is a keen forager/locavore, amateur artist and amateurish ballerina, co-creator of the oceangoing cirque-type experience Halfmey, identical twin to someone quite unlike her, and biological mother to one abyssopelagic apparition and one astonishing aerialist. she considers herself the main character of Undiscovered, “Undine Summer” (Cozyish), and Undreamt (forthcoming) by Ashley Anglin.

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

i'm a 2 or 3 to most people. but to those who can see my true form, 8 or 9.

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

new LFL in my neighborhood + few copies left over from a book fair yesterday = don't mind if i do! and no offense, but aren't my shiny lovelies *far* more intriguing than "belly fat diet for dummies"?

a LFL near ashley now includes Undiscovered + Dreamcaught anthology, featuring yours truly. swim far and true, my pretties

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

a spot of trouble in Amsterdam with the gross political movement known as Humanism... they don't want to share their bar with selkie folk. (and tangentially, now i'm going to have "black water lilies" by aurora stuck in my head all morning) #wipsnips

“Okay, gorgeous.” She tilted her shaved head toward the door. “Let’s put all that away, please, and you two are out of here.”

Oisin complied with a cheeky smile. “I’ll just settle our tab.”

But she shook her head, dead serious now. “It’s on these two. You’re in a hurry to be nowhere near this establishment, and they’ll have a moment before the police get here to have yet another talk about why hate speech and assault are both against the law.”

She clapped him on the back of the shoulder as we made our quick retreat. Still laughing, we emerged into a river of mist cold enough to make me catch a gratified breath. The relative quiet of the late weeknight street left my ears ringing as well. He called a pod straight away. My adrenaline began to ebb, and the scary thought of consequences flowed in.

“You’re not cut anywhere, are you?”

“No, I’m fine.”

“Can you—you know. Keep out of the neighborhood for a while?” I said.

He sighed out forcefully through his nose and gave me a tight little shrug. Fair enough.

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

post a you from a different era. here's me in the 1920s, when i was 40. haha/sighhh

long-ago ashley in a 1920s look for a halloween party

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

only a bunch of words that rhyme with "ink" so far in Undreamt, so here's one from Undiscovered. just yesterday, though, i was thinking about how this character's future partner (he's like two pages from meeting her here) might end up with a little ink of her own. stay tuned... #wipsnips

I watched him pay the blue-haired faerie, who scanned his ring with wide eyes and an entranced hint of smile.

As he took the glasses, I noticed intricate tattoos circling his wrists. Not
just fun doodles like Lachlan and Karima had. I glimpsed more blue ink at his open collar. Normally I didn’t care for that more extensive turn-of-the-century look, but on him, I found them fascinating. Then again, his might well have been from the turn of some other century than ours.

He set both drinks down. Without a word, he reached one hand still
cold from holding a glass to tilt my chin up so he could study my face. As intensely clear as any impression I'd ever had from Brynja, the consuming curiosity I provoked in him nearly flattened me back against the bar stool.

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

always, always, plans to improve it, right up until the second before it leaves my hands for good. have i mentioned i do edits for SSP sometimes? hahaha, and please enjoy this favorite related quote

A uniformed guy on his way out of the spacious, sunlit lobby held the door for us.

“Oh. Spec Craig?” he called after us. I turned back. His virtual badge read TS Ventura. The name rang a distant bell, but my brain wouldn’t process it just now. My own new title still took significant adjusting to.

“And Ms. Araujo,” he added. I noted the American accent. “And—Ms. North. Wow. This is an honor.”

“Please,” Mami said. “Just Arden. As far as UFE’s ever been concerned, you totally outrank me.”

“Ando,” he said as he shook her hand. He turned to me next with a charming smile, boyish in a face that was round without softness. Just the effect of broad cheekbones for days, and hair spiked evenly up across the top and lit with a few untimely silver strands. I thought he’d be Filipino, maybe, with that surname, the vaguely Asian features, and the golden tan skin…

“Oh, shit,” I blurted as his full name finally registered. “Wait, you’re--”

Even printed, on pages that are bound, sentences remain unsettled organisms. Years later, I can always reach out to smooth a stray hair. And yet, at a certain point, I must walk away, trusting them to do their work. I am left looking over my shoulder, wondering if I might have structured one more effectively.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

wellp, jo has really been through it at this point #wipsnips and i would be remiss not to point out that the future cover of Undreamt will also have a lot of leaves on it

“Ooh. Big stretch,” he said softly, tousling back my hair to press a gentle smooch to my forehead.

I angled up for a real kiss. “Mm… I dream Beau was here?” I mumbled, when I’d opened my mouth expecting just to speak the normal way he did; my voice felt wildly drunk and lazy, though all I’d done last night was sleep. “Be nice… go back… proper…hearsals. Even if… prob… laugh at me…” I cleared my throat, the best guess I had to get the rest of the sounds to come out next time.

The back of his hand quickly caught a fat tear that spilled inexplicably over with his smile. “No, of course Ysabeau wasn’t going to leave your side,” he said. “And she’d better not laugh at you. We’ll ring her.”

“...Crying?” I whispered, tracing a fingertip over the temple and cheekbone he’d left still damp.

His eyes shone saltwater bright as he caressed my hair again, my cheek, but no more tears fell. “Och, not really. It’s just nice to hear your voice again.”

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

hot off the presses... i just wrote this scene yesterday (and no one aurora's ever met has more *skills* than mr. O D, believe you her) #wipsnips

She seemed mainly to be an impressionistic sort of painter, but one of her nodes showed stained glass artworks, and another a portfolio of jewelry she’d made. Gorgeous, nature-inspired things in a mix of different metals and stones. It was the glass rings and pendants, the shapeshifting images inside them, that finally reminded me where I’d seen her work before. Sometimes one of the Halfmey shops sold these pieces; the sign on the display case bore the pretty photo I’d recognised. It was my sister, a massive fan, who’d insisted on showing them to me at some point.

Elsewhere on the same node, I found the striking pendant her selkie artist partner had worn the second time we met. I sighed a little. This piece, too, was a shapeshifter. An impressionistic rendering of an elephant’s face on one side, a skate or ray on the other. She sold them in the silver version he’d had on, as well as gold and a dark grey tungsten.

I switched to image searches, social nodes, looking for her with anyone bearing a resemblance to the man who must be O D. Little joy, and I’d need to get to defensive skills class soon. I breathed a bigger sigh and prepared to give up for now. Then I spotted a familiar face, though not at all the one I’d expected. Lady Muirgen Grey, the Irish matriarch.

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

i think i posted the #wipsnips directly before this bit not too long ago. (one of many things B and i have in common is disliking our given first names, both starting with B. she happens to be working on a "what the B stands for" poem right now & yes, bitch makes the list. but it's really Berenys)

“Cross my heart and hope to die,” she said, muffling a giggle. Then I heard only her wee high-heeled footsteps and my bedroom door closing from the outside.

“What sort of guest am I meant to dress for, then?” I sighed aloud to no one, and I shut the water off. Ugh. Everyone round here knew what the B stood for, at least during moments like this one, didn’t they.

As I diffused my hair, I checked the time. The reception started in all of twenty more minutes. So I’d let my curls do their own thing from here, and my mystery guest wouldn’t get a great deal in the way of makeup from me. A practised flurry of sparkly highlighter and a good swipe of mascara covered a multitude of halfheartedness.

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

nobody wants to rule the world anymore and that's sad

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

this #wipsnip is from Undreamt. but i would be remiss not to mention that for more about the North family's unusual dynamic, you can read my short story "Undine Summer" for free---it's in the book sample www.amazon.com/Cozyish-Sale...

My surely unsettled expression provoked her new, slight smile. “As he reminded me, he’s had two true loves all this time, hasn’t he, and both the fairest of them all. One of them just happens to be the actual definition of platonic. Seemed to me like it stings less when the other person’s not a man. And Wren in particular, he considers the worthiest rival… he says how could he deprive them of the different kind of soulmates they are to each other, or the rest of the world of everything they’re creating together?”

Then she laughed again. “That’s also when he said sex needn’t be the main thing in life, for him. Or in love. We agreed to disagree on that bit.”

“Och.” It felt nice to giggle along, with the weight mostly off my chest now. “Maybe in a million years when we’re his age, we’ll get there as well?”

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

happy feast day, hildegard von bingen! one of my favorite badass medieval ladies. i studied her as an undergrad for history (her relative political power) & in grad school (her mystical writings & music, unusual for their time--as if truly insired by divine visions) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GFs...

youtube.com

Hymn "Veni creator spiritus"

YouTube video by Anonymous 4 - Topic

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ashley bevilacqua anglin @dalyashleydrh2o.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

i didn't set out to make Undreamt eVen WoKeR gArBaGe than Undiscovered, but... here's one visible bit of that iceberg #wipsnips

Still, I tried to keep my voice even. “The rich nations who haven’t historically given two shits about the environment, then turning away people who were made refugees by the rich ones’ choices? And even if you somehow rationalise doing that. Literal children?” I shook my head. “Off Malta, the most beautiful little boy took his last breath in my arms. My stupid tech was glitching and we couldn’t understand each other’s words… his last words. I kind of…” Yeah, so much for my calm and professional tone of voice. I swallowed hard. “That was when I found myself needing to swim the long way home.”

“Sorry,” Dr. M murmured. “That was the first last straw for me, too. The kids we couldn’t save. Back in the days of the North Sea tsunami.”

“Yet here you are, doing so much good decades later. How did you get beyond it?”

His expressive eyes glinted with grief and peace, all the years of wounds and healing behind them, as he smiled a bit. “I retreated into the brainier side of things, because that’s always been the best of me. The gift I have to offer. Your solution may be less straightforward, but we’ll find one.”

“Thanks,” I breathed. “Any… immediate guesses, though, or…?”

“Well, in the short term, I’d like to see you try biting off smaller pieces of this thing we’re all collectively hoping to achieve. Not having to be The Hero to be a hero, to make a real difference.”

“I don’t give a toss for being a hero,” I said. “I just… I still need to help, only without getting hurt so much.”

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