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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some things I wish I had known when I was a new writer: Being accepted by traditional publishers has less to do with skill than whether they think they can sell it. Just because publishers aren’t ready for a story doesn’t mean readers aren’t. Writing the book is the easy part. 🧵

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Chase (Professional Typhlosion Enjoyer) @ott.mom · 28/09/2026

I had to drop like 1100 bucks this past week on brakes and tires, so if anyone can toss something my way, it'd be MUCH appreciated

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nobu is currently admitted to the hospital for a bad case of pneumonia. He's in great hands and slowly getting better, and I'm self-flagellating at home for picking up tumbleweeds of his fluff.

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ah, my heart! x.x It hurts me every time, but it's so satisfying when it's done.

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Shadia is busy with comics ATM @shadiaminart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

To Dance Again Cover + Page 1! If you want to read a week ahead consider supporting me on Patreon for only $3! www.patreon.com/cw/shadiamin... #art #bg3art #bg3 #baldursgate3 #astarion #rorissa #astarissa #bg3comic #bg3astarion

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Johanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If you’re tempted to use genAI to brainstorm for writing stories, please just talk abt your story to friends instead! Friends who have good story sense that you trust, writer friends who will give you honest feedback, friends who care & get excited about your ideas with you! I know it’s scary +

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🎃 Trip Ghouley 🎃 @trip.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My husband & I are working to secure our long-term future here in the UK. We’ve had some work fall through (and some health complications), so any help you can comfortably provide would be wonderfully welcome. Shares/reposts are also super helpful! He’s available for copy editing and proofreading!

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 26/07/2026

LISTEN UP, GAYS! ARMOR OF ANNWN IS OUT ON FRIDAY! This book. This fuckin' book. IT IS COMING! AMA!

Front cover of Armor of Annwn by AK Faulkner. It has a border of holly, a misty purple background, and a silver triskelion brooch with green gems embedded along each of the three limbs in the centre.

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Nobu wishes you all a happy Wednesday with a special Wednesday blep. Carry that blep with you in your heart as you go forth and create.

Nobu, an eyeless, white akita, sitting up and looking terribly handsome in his Bailey chair, except that the end of his pink tongue is sticking out.

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Ah, I love a good stingy boy! Fantastic design!

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Best of luck today! My husband fights a similar fight and it does not look fun.

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

utilized as a training simulation for all Calaioci relief fleet officers headed into possibly hostile territory. The vessel is still in service, and makes regular rounds between the Acquisition Zone and Aurum for resupply, greeted now with slightly more open arms.

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

medics actually landed on-world, declared themselves a relief fleet, and began the necessary work. There were neither Ty'gjir nor Lupinion casualties during this shaky introduction, and the restraint displayed by the crew of the *In Silence* became famous overnight. The same scenario is now

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

provision of relief. That decision was made light-years away, in the senate of a galactic nation of which those worlds were not member states. The *In Silence* met a volley of surface to orbit fire, which was futile before the carrier's countermeasures. Hostilities continued until the first Ty'gjir

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

#Juniplex 21 The MOST famous CSIC craft currently in service is the fleet's flagship, the carrier *In Silence Anointed*. When it first appeared over the Lupinion worlds of the Acquisition Zone, the war-weary inhabitants looked to the sky with dread. No world in the AZ was consulted about the

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

series of extremely commercially successful holo-films which featured Ons'erak as their hero and quickly became the defining cinematic epic of a generation. And now he's here. A king. A conqueror. A hero. And for some reason, a major.

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

throughout a decade-long civil war fraught with betrayal and outside influence, which ultimately saw the revolutionary armies pacified, the rebel kings executed, and Aras'erak coronated high king of a world at terrible peace. The entirety of the war was later memorialized (read: dramatized) in a

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

bloodiest house war in recent memory, ignited when a cabal of kings attempted revolution, opposing the rightful ascension of his younger brother, Aras'erak, to rulership over the planet. As the elder sibling to the high king, Ons'erak, a king himself, served as his champion and led his armies

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

#Juniplex 20 Major Ons'erak, currently chief of staff and head of security for CSIC's Howcha Listening Post, is a living legend. Before he was commanded to join the RAD and subsequently selected for placement in CSIC, he was a king. His homeworld, Erakila, holds the dubious honor of hosting the

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

should savable CSIC lives be in danger. Massive trauma (eg. loss of limb), blood loss, exposure to neurotoxins, or oxygen deprivation are all relatively common causes for a medic to order extraction, as reliable, mobile means of treating such injuries in the field are not often available.

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

medical staff successfully treated AZ patients numbering in the hundreds of millions. Medical staff are thus viewed--appropriately--as indispensable to the RAD's efforts, and are generally quite well-regarded among their crewmates. Even a superior officer will cede to a medic's order to withdraw,

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

the sarcaglyptists of CSIC developed new means of non-traumatic foreign body extraction to supplement their technical repertoire, and the technology quickly became the envy of the galaxy. Even faced with alien, Lupinion biology, official records from the post-Unification years assert that CSIC

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

recovery fleets put this equipment to now famous use when the organization was first founded and deployed to the war-torn worlds of what is now the Acquisition Zone. Initially stymied by the volume of injuries produced by conventional projectile rounds (the use of which is currently a war crime),

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

second to none. DNA-syncing antiseptics and aerosolized stem cells are standard issue for medics of the Calaioci, and even in the field, most injuries with the exception of massive skeletal trauma or internal organ damage are a problem for the medics of yesteryear. The medical staff of CSIC's

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

#Juniplex 19 CSIC, along with the rest of the RAD, employs the latest in convalescence technology. Developed by the empire's finest sarcaglyptists, hailing of course from Aurum's Ducal Academy of Evolutionary Arts right in the heart of the Calaioci, the healing tech provided to RAD medical staff is

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

encrypted, but remain vulnerable to sufficiently skilled or technologically advanced hackers, unlike slip transmission, for which the technology to listen in simply does not exist. And hey, you signed up for the RAD? Here's your personal comm unit/planner. It is never to leave your side, recruit.

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

infantry squads, recovery teams, fighter squadrons, relief units and other discrete operating teams can expect to be connected with planetary comm units linked to a shared server to allow for instantaneous communication between teammates at the scope of most terrestrial worlds. Official comms are

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

spacecraft from the Slip and back into conventional reality, but similar efforts to intercept transmissions have succeeded only in scattering the data. Due to this reliability, Slip transmission was quickly adopted as the de facto avenue for CSIC and RAD naval command. On a more local level,

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

to send a message from one border to the opposite in matter of minutes. At this point in history, it's also considered extremely secure. Through the use of interdiction fields and frigate-sized vessels equipped exclusively with spectacularly bulky interdiction projectors, the means exist to drag

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

#Juniplex 18 Whoops. I answered this in the last one. Let's expound! "The Slip" is the most broadly employed means of FTL travel in my setting, and is also used heavily for communications, both state and private. Within the bounds of the Calaioci itself, Slip transmission is extremely rapid, able

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

the Acquisition Zone while quietly indexing every instance of misguided sentiment they may hear among their new, Lupinion neighbors.

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

in fact, *uniquely* qualified for her position, she can expect to hold exactly that position indefinitely, until/unless something unexpected necessitates she be moved. Those CSIC operatives who do not wake up among their comrades are very likely undercover, living apparently normal lives within

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Officer Hikari'ro, for example, is the Calaioci's foremost expert on the staggeringly vast and varied catalogue of Lupinion languages, and her unique skills meant that for some time, she was the sole officer assigned to surveillance of the annexed Lupinion Acquisition Zone. And because she is,

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

orders follow what one might expect of typical military protocol, traveling down ranks as the specificity of what's required to carry out the high command increases. It is the extraordinarily rare CSIC operative who acts alone. Instead, often, an individual is tapped for their expertise. Petty

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"The Slip" is the most broadly employed means of FTL travel in my setting, and can also convey complex data packets or simple recorded messages. Slip transmission is also considered extremely secure at this point in history, and is the de facto avenue for CSIC and RAD naval command. From there,

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

#Juniplex 17 Ultimately, in CSIC as in all fleets of the RAD, the buck stops at Prince Sir'dal. Theoretically, all orders given and carried out in the military of the Dal Calaioci can be traced to its ruler. Those orders most often reach the admiralty as projection via encrypted slip transmission.

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

for Silhouette season. Attn: Porti and Rhos volunteered. 2800 - Decontamination. 2830 - Sec-team morale meeting, dusk shift. 2845 - Sec-team shift change. Day shift debrief. Attn: Silhouette season begins today. 3000 - Meeting with commandant re: seska rematch 3200 - Lights out. Job well done.

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

his role in seska club dispute. 1700 - Rounds. 1800 - Dawn shift weekly range training. 2000 - Dinner. 2300 - Collect recruit from galley, escort to brig. 2330 - Meeting with Du'majna re: anonymous complaints of harassment. 2500 - Space walk. Re-outfit station exterior surfaces with Mute

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

1200 - Comms center burn drill. Attn: Report of faulty scanner, door 3. 1400 - Collect recruit. Lunch. 1500 - New recruit galley orientation. Attn: Check freezers for Yada. 1630 - Sec-team morale meeting, day shift. 1645 - Sec-team shift change. Dawn shift debrief. Attn: Reprimand Soe for

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Feun is elbow-deep in lore @feuncarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

0800 - Breakfast. Attn: Commandant expects to be 5 minutes late. Prepare invocation in her stead. 0900 - New recruit orientation. Escort to comms center. 1000 - New recruit belongings screen, background check, character report. 1045 - Meeting with commandant re: next cycle threat projections

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