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Dylan Freeman @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

For context, the Prerogative they're talking about here is basically "Adventurers get to do what they want as long as it's in the name of 'justice'."

Kathryn drank from the mug and sighed, letting the alcohol loosen her tongue a little. “I’m wondering why the guards don’t do something about Carlisle, considering he’s literally robbing us blind,” she said. “Or why someone with the Prerogative doesn’t get him.”
Rachel shook her head. “Provincial Court has essentially ruled that ‘high-value citizens’ are exempted from bein’ persecuted by adventurers with the Prerogative unless said citizen takes up arms against the people first.”
“High-value citizens?” Kathryn squinted. “What, like magistrates and governors?”
“Among others, but most of ‘em are small potatoes compared to oligarchs,” Rachel said. “They can buy and sell most of the province and we’d never have a say in it.”
“How rich are we talking?” Kathryn asked.
“The word ‘oligarch’ comes from an old Heptradic word meaning ‘recipient of a dragon’s hoard’. I’ll let you connect the dots.”

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Dylan Freeman @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Not called photographs in this world, but I have *phanto*graphs. Here's some exposition about them!

Like several technologies in the Seven Provinces, phantography had been invented— or rather, rediscovered— through dungeoneering. The Temple of Light and Dreams, discovered in the Province of Poud, had lifelike recreations of scenes from ancient history on the walls, which thaumo-archaeologists determined were retrieved from the minds and dreams of the ancient people of that province. While the magical processes were long since lost, the alchemical processes used to develop the images had been reverse-engineered by Harol Mafell. While phantographs were only capable of capturing light instead of mental images, but retained their name, due to the fact that, with the correct processes, they could detect magical auras.

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Dylan Freeman @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Fix-up I'm attempting is going *very* well. Just have to find someone willing to read it once it's done. #writingcommunity

A scrivener window for a project titled Corpus, with approximately 22,000 words out of a 40,000 word goal achieved under "Manuscript Target", and a session target showing a total of 3840 words have been written this session.

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Dylan Freeman @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Hey writing conferences/workshops: can we *not* normalize using AI to do... fucking *anything* with our craft? This is gross.

Block of text from the schedule for a writer's conference which reads:
"Meeting Room A/B/C
Discover how to leverage Artificial Intelligence tools to streamline your publishing journey and boost productivity. Learn how to train AI to assist with essential tasks such as creating sticky marketing copy, creating a publishing strategy, analyzing market trends, and even generating creative writing prompts to assist with those edge-of-your-seat plot twists."

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Dylan Freeman @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Let it never be said I am good at subtext. Yes this is still from a scifi/fantasy work.

The national anthem claimed that United States was the Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave. As the daughter of an Egyptian migrant, Yasmine had never understood why Americans bought into this particular load of horseshit—it was a marketing slogan, nothing more, nothing less. Another circus to attend, another piece of stale bread to feed people with, another piece of comfort to quell the urges of revolution.

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Dylan Freeman @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Genuinely surprised I had one for this. From a sign describing my protagonist's first meeting with the goddess Sekhmet appearing before her in a way that doesn't cause fatal holiness overdose. #wipsnips #writingcommunity

Then, the being stood before Yasmine in a different form that her human mind could more easily process. She had the head of a lioness still and skin that was covered in golden fur. She wore a red linen t-shirt, black jeans, and sandals, with a black and red baseball cap on her head that seemed to be a variant of the long misappropriated “Don’t tread on me” design, but with a coiling cobra instead of a rattlesnake.

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Dylan Freeman @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

More stuff from my current project, this time expositing on what reality is like. Subtle as a brick, but subtlety is for cowards.

The strangest thing was how free people were, despite the cage that had been built. You could vote for whoever you wanted to, eat what you wanted, pray to whoever you liked, could save up for a vacation, or try to get a better job. You could live your life however and with whoever you wanted, but it was like a video game. The choices mankind made, on a macroscopic scale, didn’t matter. The average person had full control over their actions and lives, but those actions felt empty when, even after the Wage Wars, one had to work for twenty years to afford their own vehicle. It was little wonder that houses had largely been abolished in favor of the concrete and steel flats, or sub-basement apartments, like the one Yasmine lived in.

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Dylan Freeman @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Bit too long for alt text, but some exposition on the way the cities of Incorporated Gods work in my setting, and some introduction to a deuteragonist.

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Dylan Freeman @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The protagonist researches their new high school.

Text reading: The way the school was built reminded me of a wheel with half of the spokes broken off. The hub was where the main entrance was, but the primary spoke off of that led to a ‘Meifert Performing Arts Center’, which is where I assumed the auditorium was. That name again… it felt like it was going to be unfortunately very important in the near future.
The other four spokes were each two floors tall, and the school orientation video I’d been sent explained that every single spoke (or ‘wing’ as they insisted) contained a different educational discipline, along with rows of locker on both floors. The red, western wing was social sciences like economics, history, and art. The walls in this wing were painted red. Just north of that was a purple wing dedicated to math and ‘hard’ sciences. Next to that was a yellow-colored wing that was dedicated to the various ‘language arts’ classes— English literature, foreign languages, grammar classes. Finally, along the northern, blue spoke was the gym, weight room, and locker rooms for the various athletic teams. The last time I could find any member of the Vidal Memorial Hodags (which sounded like a slur at first, before I met one of them in the flesh) got beyond local competitions since the 1960s. The football team was the Wisconsite secondary school equivalent of the Cleveland Browns; I hadn’t seen so many goose eggs on a team’s record… ever. Even my high school team back in Portland had a championship season under their belt."

The word "other" is highlighted in Yellow.

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Dylan Freeman @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The Seattle Worldcon 2025 Experience for a remote viewer.

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Dylan Freeman @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

At this point I think I'd sell at least part of my soul to get Nick Lowe off of the Spider-Man books. If fucking *Moon Knight* can be happy, so can Peter Parker. Seeing panels like this constantly is fucking exhausting.

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Dylan Freeman @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Decided to spend some money on a few books. Already devoured Legends & Lattes; Camp Damascus is next I think.

An image of four books with their spines visible to the camera: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree, Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle, The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones.

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Dylan Freeman @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Covering the pain with rejection with hypergraphia. #writing

Scrivener window showing a manuscript target of 80,000 words and a session target of 3,000. The total words written this session is 7,287 words.

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Dylan Freeman @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

My family's cat, a senior we adopted two months ago. Goes by "Raghu".

Photograph of a tuxedo cat on the highest level of a cat tree.

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Dylan Freeman @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Me, whose first ever short story has a publisher that has flaked on royalty payments for almost two years now:

Screencap from the film "We're the Millers", where the character of Kenny asks "You guys are getting paid?" often widely used as a meme or image macro.

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Dylan Freeman @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

This is why it's important to keep track of stuff on platforms like the Submission Grinder. I highly down that @interzone.press has a .1% acceptance rate and a year-and-two-thirds turnaround for acceptances, but that's what the Grinder claims, and it nearly scared me off of submitting. #writing

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Dylan Freeman @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I don't normally post politics on here, but in case anyone is wondering what the #Ohio state legislature is doing in the face of rampant discrimination and inflation... they're legislating 'unsportsmanlike conduct' because not only are our sports teams losers, they're SORE losers.

A tweet from Ohio State Representative Josh Williams which reads "I am proud to introduce the O.H.I.O. Sportsmanship Act to make flag planting at midfield a felony in the state of Ohio. Behavior that incites violent brawls and puts our law enforcement officers in danger has no place on the football field." above a video of the brawl at the 2024 Ohio State-Michigan Game.

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Dylan Freeman @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Posting this as an image because it's too long

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Dylan Freeman @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

#writingcommunity 5) I want to properly write a scene where the protagonists lose all hope and have to crawl out of a (metaphorical) hole. 6) Takes place over the course of a year or so. 7) "Can't Go To Hell" by Sin Shake Sin. 8) What the world was like when Dragons first emerged a century ago:

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Dylan Freeman @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Well, I realize it's a bit late in the month, but I guess I'll try this out. 1) Any pronouns are okay, don't feel comfortable giving my name yet. Probably sorting Magic cards. 2) Jumping between about ten different WIPs, primarily working on my second novel, "Slay the Rich".

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