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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Contrary to popular belief, there are only four kinds of bats.

Illustrated image divided into four panels, each showing a head of a bat with a text label. Top left: little guy, a regular looking back with a dark face and light colored fur, top right: little guy deluxe, a bat with a mask and large ears alongside a bat with a leaf shaped nose, bottom left: what is even going on here, a visored bat with a large forehead next to a bat with a large, wrinkly nose, bottom right: o hi doggie, a fruit bat with its tongue sticking out.

Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

On my way to a #DnD session and given that this is my #BookSky📚 account, I thought I share my character: Female half-orc who grew up with her human professor dad at the academy, read too many adventure novels, and now went on her own first adventure. I love her to bits.

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Holy! Sorry, I haven't been here in ages but just saw that I had a random influx of people? So... hi! Nice to meet you!

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Kim, Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @easybakedoven.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

I just read an article that said "Why is it taking so long for your favorite movies and tv series to air? Blame the writers and actor strikes" No I won't. I'm blaming that ✨single✨ motherfucker at the studio who makes $250 million dollars a year who's one job is supposed to make this shit happen.

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Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

New piece! I struggled with this one a lot back when I started it a year or two ago, but it finally came together nice and easy when I went back and took a second look at it. 😊

A minotaur with a sword sunk in his chest and several cuts on his body, but from each cut flowers and flower petals flow instead of blood. His face looks sad and pleading, and he raises a hand as if to fend off an attacker.

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

In my dreams, my heart has a voice, Sounding out all the truths I seek to forget, Reminding me that every day Is an orphan Of what once was *our* future. #whistpr

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

Hi! Any other writers 📚 currently in the same situation? I recently scrapped my WIP. I love its bones but I know I can do better. I know there is more to this story than this version (which was draft 12, beta and sensitivity read and fully edited). Would love to have a writer group to work with!

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

I feel like I'm drowning, and you are the weight. Once, I saw the surface and tried to reach up. But then, I sank deeper, Deeper, And deeper still. With darkness around me, I have lost the way. So, you keep pulling me under, and I just breathe out.

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Ok, I know I was all like "I will overcome my introverted nature and be more social online" and then vanished for two months. But that's because I used all my social battery on IG and shared my fave books and my writing there. So, if you're interested, follow here: www.instagram.com/emkellreadsa...

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

'change the future of health and wellbeing like only S*msung can'?? What in the dystopian nightmare is that shit? (I'm not listening to it again to turn the paraphrase into a quote)

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KariLikeSafari @karilikesafari.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Anyone ages 12 – 26 living in the United States can get a San Diego Public Library Books Unbanned card. With the card, the library’s online collection of banned or restricted eBooks and eAudiobooks are available for FREE, no matter where you live in the U.S. libraryfoundationsd.org/news/stories...

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San Diego's Books Unbanned protects the freedom to read

Library Foundation SD and library launch Books Unbanned in San Diego to resist book bans, promote intellectual freedom among young readers, and cement libraries as a place where everyone belongs.

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

We followed him, flocking to his side. We believed ourselves birds, soaring with the truth. Instead, we were sheep, grazing on his well-manured lies. #whistpr - flock

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

I've done this a little too much and now that our IT person has left our satellite office, the powers that be have decided that I can replace them in addition to my day job. Without extra pay. It felt good until it didn't. 😅

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

When she broke my heart, it was with a smile. Just a smile, full of soft sadness, a wonder for what could have been and the smell of the half drunk coffee she left behind. I had come with tickets to a show of her favourite artist in a month's time; she had come with twenty minutes to spare. #vss

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Reposting to make sure my TBR is diverse. If you have recommendations, Booksky, keep them coming! 📚💙

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Since I left X over a year ago, I promised myself to rebuild the feeling of community I had found there on BSKY and on IG/Threads. In recent months, I found 180 other readers and writers here and almost 100 on IG. And I'm so glad I did. I know it's not much but it means a lot to me. 1/2

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

New profile pic and header, who dis?

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

BookSKY, you've been a well of inspiration for my reading list lately. So here goes: 📚What is your favourite poetry anthology? 💙The best short story you ever read? 🖌️A brilliant graphic novel? I'm diversifying my reading and do not want to (solely) rely on "Top 10" lists.

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

The upside of dating a designer is free help with any rebranding/designs. The downside of dating a designer is free help with any rebranding/designs. We have been discussing colour schemes and fonts for hours and while I thought I like doing that, my motivation most certainly dropped after 4h.

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

I only need one more and thanks to amazing recommendations it's now hard to narrow it down 😅 I guess I'll spend my annual leave in early January reading too. 🥰 Thanks to everyone! I'll compile a list of all recommendations received!

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

“Let me speak plainly: It is not antisemitic to demand justice for all Palestinians living in their ancestral lands.” Love this whole article.

“Be boldly critical of Israel — not despite being Jewish, but because you are. There is no tradition more central to Judaism than prophetic truth-telling, no Jewish imperative more urgent than bravely criticizing corrupt leadership, starting with our own.”

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

My little heart goes all squishy when I see how quickly people here are offering helpful replies. I am not built for social media but I can do *this*.

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

Y'all. I asked BookSKY and Bookstagram and y'all delivered. I've read some amazing novellas over the last few days. Five more and I'll reach my reading goal. 29h to go. If you have any last minute recommendations, let me know. I'm on a roll now 😅 💙📚

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Kayotic Reads @kayoticreads.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

Indie Authors! I do not have enough of your 2024 releases on my spreadsheet to share! I would love to have more of your titles here so I may share them with others as release gets closer! Or perhaps do you have a book you would like reviewed? Feel free to comment below! #books 💙📚 🌈📚 #authors

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Indie Books 2024 Releases

This form is for general use to collect Indie Author book releases to be featured and Promo'd on my Blog and to be shared with other bloggers and reviewers. Thank you in Advance!

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 29/12/2023

"it's much easier to edit two hundred words of bad writing than it is to edit no writing at all."

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I saw a post talking about how Terry Pratchett only wrote 400 words a day, how that goal helped him write literally dozens of books before he died. So l reduced my own daily word goal. I went down from 1,000 to 200. With that
800-word wall taken down, I've been writing more. "I won't get on tumblr/watch TV/draw/read until I hit my word goal" used to be something l said as self-restraint. And when I inevitably couldn't cough up four pages in one sitting. I felt like garbage, and the pleasurable hobbies I had planned on felt like I was cheating myself when I just gave up. Now it's something I say because I just have to finish this scene, just have to round out this conversation, can't stop now, because I'm enjoying myself, I'm having an amazing time writing. Something that hasn't been true of my original works since middle school.
And sometimes I think, "Well, two hundred is technically less than four hundred." And I have to stop myself,

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

She Who Became the Sun is my Roman Empire. £0.99 for an empire. Go get it.

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

I stopped my SSRI/DRI a few weeks back (in agreement with my doc). Now, I've returned to my saddest WIP. I'm very against the "you need to be in pain for art" myth. Very, very against it. But I'd be lying if I said writing about the end of a soul is not a lot easier when your own is drowning.

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

I asked for novella recommendations a few weeks ago and @annettej.bsky.social recommended Your Blood and Bones. I just finished it and I raise her "one of the best books read this year" to "one of the best books I've ever read". I can't even articulate my thoughts right now. My brain is mush.

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

When she fell for her, it wasn't bright and warm. It happened as rolling clouds on the horizon, rumbling in the air as much as in her chest. It was wind pulling at her soul. Rain drowning her in aching longing. It was a tempest, only tamed by her smile, when she said "I love you too." #whistpr

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

It wasn't the stolen kisses or late night dances. It was the coffee in the morning. The best cookies from the little shop across town. The jacket over my shoulders. The nod when I felt uncertain. The pride when I nevertheless did what I'd dreaded. It was every moment that promised more. #whistpr

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Murderbot is one of my all time faves and I might scream now. Please don't be concerned. I'm having emotions. (AAAAHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhh)

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

I've read a ridiculous amount of smut this year. (I'd never touched that much less admitted to reading it a while ago, but here we are and I regret nothing. Life is better now. There, I said it.) Anyway, we need to talk about morally grey. Because last I checked it did not mean "irredeemably cruel".

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

As a German, I grew up learning about oppression from the perpetrators' perspective, learning terms like genocide, ghetto and survivor's guilt in connection with the Jewish people. Now, I am mostly using these terms in relation to a people oppressed by the Jewish state. How did we end up here?

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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

them: oh the weather outside is frightful cloud: *making throat cut gesture*

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Did you recently read an amazing novella, BookSky? Did you write one, writers? Let me know and help me get to my reading goal! 📚💙

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Ok, for the first time in over a decade I am consistently reading again--and reading a lot. The wonders antidepressants can do 😅 Anyways, to achieve my reading goal, I want to read another dozen or so books. Realistically speaking, those got to be novellas. So, pls give recommendations!

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Just let my critique partners read something new. For some reason, I have a certain end boss and it always wriggles its way somewhere into my writing. This time, however, there was none! Yes!

Success kid (little boy standing on the beach, looking at the camera with a determined grumpy face and a fist raised in victory) with the caption "no comma splice"

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

#MixTAPESTuesday - Antagonist I have a few. If anyone actually liked-liked the Duke or in general the duchies, I'd be worried. He is cruel and not in the dark romance kind of way. Now, the other antagonist is a surprise and I hope people like them. They used to be merged with the protagonist.

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

So my partner and I started Final Fantasy XVI and I'm bisexual-panicking by the minute.

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

I have returned to the WIP that means the world to me. I set it aside while I worked on my writing. Now it is undergoing revisions. One thing never changed: I love my angry FMCs. They deserve the world. When I commissioned @ekduein.bsky.social, I was not prepared for her just 'getting' Mahisa. 🖤🖤

It's a painting of a young woman. She looks directly at the observer. She looks bored, her eyes hold contempt. She projects strength. Her skin is dark, her eyes brown. She wears a grey-brown headscarf with a headdress made of metal and red beads, coin shaped pendants hanging of it.

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

For those who have only recently started to follow me (Hi!!!), and see the prompt spam:

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

"It's not so much the end of me I fear. It's the end of all there could be." "It will all still be here. Just not for you." She did not mean to console him, but when he felt the blade in his chest, he took one last painful breath and gifted all his possibilities to her. It was her curse now. #vss365

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Em Kell 💙 @emkellwrites.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Come, my friend. I know the shape of fear as well as you do. Its edges and its depth. I cannot save you from it but I can give you a place to rest. For this moment, allow yourself to hope. Let it grow. Water the possibilities. And when you leave this shelter of mine, let it be your shield. #whistpr

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