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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#WIPSnips In which Sol is a sigher, on account of being the morose half of this two-headed hydra. But is talked into some rebellion anyhow. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "sighed" in sentence "Then, Sol sighed and went, I...I'm gonna cry again..."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#WIPSnips In which I synonym again, and we meet the Goblin Queen. Who happens to serve plates that could look like panels. Hope our trio likes a nice, yummy rock. And a lot of parties. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "plates" in synonym "She'd always wanted to find more people to serve plates of fresh stone and talk about things like architecture techniques, ethical mining practices, or to play fun goblin customary party games like Guess the Number in My Head, or Dancing Chairs or Guess the Murderer."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#WIPSnips In which the strength it takes to magically restrain one Lydia really takes it out of a few Exalted Ones. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "collapsed" in sentence "Tenth collapsed into a sweaty puddle, right as Lydia lunged for the Fair Demiurge on all fours."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#WIPSnips In which Lydia makes a trade with a two-headed hydra. And my word is in the footnotes. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "effectively" in sentence "It is worth noting that the river was too polluted with unicorn and human remains to wash clothes effectively, the hydrae nation was the first place this group had encountered with water that they didn't have to boil for hours before drinking it."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#WIPSnips In which Loveday is getting a tunic with buttons, and Ister admires the clothes Todros makes–with some wistfulness. #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "button" in sentence "The tunic was one you could button and unbutton at the neck, so Loveday could slip it on and off, yet it'd stay up."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#WIPSnips Back on my synonym grind. And in which Ister's mask has been splintered into fragments, found by her grandfather. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "fragments" in sentence "Aberlyn went into a little nook of the house and reemerged with two cups of tea on a tray, along with the fragments of Ister's mask."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

#WIPSnips In which I am back from 'yatus and Lydia finds magic to feel like warm soup. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "soup" in sentence "the sensation of my magic, Lydia told me, was like eating hot soup."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

#WIPSnips In which moth can be added in front of mother. And in which Ister resembles her MOTHer, enough for her grandfather to recognize her (and deescalate a scrap). #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "moth" in "mother" in sentence "She's-she was my mother, Ister muttered."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#WIPSnips In which Ister overcomes some panic and Loveday does not, and she realizes they both left Lydia in a 3 v1 versus the Hydra Mayor. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "panicking" in sentence "Ister saw Lydia being grabbed by Him, and her feet finally moved while her brain was still panicking."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#WIPSnips In which the narrator declares, within footnotes, that Lydia should have a medallion for ripping a man's arm off. And well, the narrator isn't wrong. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "medallion" in sentence "Really, Lydia ought to get a medallion and her own statue for what she did."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#WIPSnips Let me take you to synonym land...and footnotes land. As in a low-tech world, archives are our albums. And in which the narrator includes reference to an archive that contains an entry about a woman who may or may not be related to Loveday. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "archives" in the footnote of the page within the sentence "...though upon posthumous examination of The Order of the Pointed Horn Southern Temple Archives this was found to be the name of a female junior acolyte who was active during 1522-1531."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#WIPSnips In which the trio sees a science experiment that exposes that humans have no business huffing unicorn horn. And I have the exact word, we all cheered. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "fresh" in sentence "One was very new-looking, with fresh human blood inside."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#WIPSnips In which Loveday helps Lydia with her diet via catching mice for midnight snacks. And I have an egregious cheat this time... #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "whine" in sentence "Loveday, though, liked to sneak her drops of The Soft Quiet to settle her stomach, hating to see it when Lydia would roll in on herself and whine."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#WIPSnips My streak of having the exact word comes to an end and I revert back to my old disastrous ways of cheating like I've never cheated before. Anyway, have Loveday taking and L and Lydia taking a W (oh, and some footwork). #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "foot" in word "footwork" in sentence "Using Ister's footwork, Lydia dodged it with ease and swiped at his arm, causing Ursell to cry out and drop his spear."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#WIPSnips In which Lydia no longer has a tail anymore, and mourns that. Also I finally have the actual word #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "anymore" in sentence "I don't have a tail anymore!"

Also highlighted word "anymore" in sentence "I'm sorry you don't have a tail anymore."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#WIPSnips In which there are cultural differences around wings in The Order versus the Nation Hydrae. But either way, wings are useful. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "pressed" in sentences "Sol and Tol shared a look, but pressed on."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#WIPSnips In which goblins are known to live in darkness. And there's a stakeout. AND I use the actual word verbatim. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "dark" in sentence "Goblins were said to come from darkness, and the cavern was dark."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

#WIPSnips In which Lydia makes a trade with a hydra and has a bag for her new carving. And in which Loveday may not approve. AND in which I use a synonym again, let's all just forget when I promised to use the actual word. #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "bag" in sentence "Loveday did raise their brow at Lydia, who explained a mile-a-minute about trading with Sol and Tol, though Lydia lied and said they'd given her a necklace instead of the Shepherd Statue now tucked into her bag."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

#WIPSnips In which the narrator thinks human love is "hot" and not in the fun way, but in the uncomfortable way. And in which ONE of these days I'll have the actual word in here. Not today, though. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "hot" in sentence "Apparently human love makes one feel hot and prickly?"

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

#WIPSnips In which Pearlt's ears are not HORIZONtal. And Gideon really pushes their luck on this one. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

$Screenshot of text. Highlighted fraction "horizon" in word "horizontal" in sentence "The only point of similarity between this boy and a theoretical goblin was his pointy ears, though they were long and pointed upward and thin instead of wide and horizontal."$

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

#WIPSnips In which Loveday is mourning what's left of Greg the Exalted One and happens to make some sniffling sounds. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "sniffled" in sentence "Loveday shuddered and sniffled, cradling dead Greg the Exalted One in their arms, and did not look at her."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Between Twitch and Discord the AI bs being shoved down our throats quietly and involuntarily is so disgusting. Platforms that should prioritize sharing thoughts, community, and creativity are being sold out to foster AI slop. But creativity won't be stopped. Ban the bots and create on.

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

#WIPSnips In which Lydia feels sorrow (heartbreak adjacent okay) over the loss of her pointed ears and tail and well, early childhood. And she howls into the sky with Fiore and Gena about it. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "sorrow" in sentence "The three girls let out shrieks of triumph, of fury, of sorrow, for what had happened to both Fiore and Gena's home and Lydia's person."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

#WIPSnips Previously on, Gideon's most egregious cheats in this category...hey the word "test" is in the word okay. And Lydia's hardheadedness is an asset when it comes to resisting cult doctrines. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "test" in word "greatest" in sentence "Despite what some say about youth being misguided, helpless, even, Lydia's youth was one of her greatest strengths."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

#WIPSnips In which Lydia and Ister don't want to admit to a burgeoning mutual respect after fighting a three-headed hydra together. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "admit" in sentence "Ister didn't want to admit she started to feign sleepiness earlier just so Lydia and Loveday could eat at a reasonable hour."

Also has highlighted word "admit" in sentence "Lydia didn't want to admit that she now watched Ister with intent as she walked, admiring how precise she was on her feet and how she handled her flail."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#WIPSnips In which I synonym again and Sol and Tol have two very different outlooks on two-headed life in a three-headed world. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "might" in sentence "She wanted to fight Wim, Him, and Dim to show that they weren't the end-all-be-all in might."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

#WIPSnips In which Ister named herself after after a song (and the author used a synonym again I'M SORRY). #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "song" in sentence "Ister hugged the doll close to her chest, as Aberlyn sang the little song that'd inspired the doll's name."

Second highlighted word "song" in sentence "The doll was named for an old folk song of the Mishem called (in translation) "The Boy Who Loved a Star" (1335)."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Gotham is an in-depth, fascinating portrait of the genesis and development of the city that never sleeps (and great for historical fiction research). Review here: gideonglassman.wordpress.com/gideons-book... #booksky #nonfiction #historical #newyork

Image with caption August 2026 Book of the Month with the book cover for Gotham: A History of New York City by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace with the Statue of Liberty graphic next to it.

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

#WIPSnips The author is going for a synonym again, and using "border". And Lydia happens to like going to the border of her home and looking at the wild forest. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "border" in sentence "Lydia's favorite activity was to run up to the border of Cludes, mere inches from the start of the Shepherd's Realm, the name for the mire of untamed wilderness beyond the scope of The Order."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

#WIPSnips Well "carry" is in carriage and this carriage is carrying people and if you take a shot every time I say carry I am not liable to carry the bill for your hospital visit #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "carriage" in sentence "The trip to the Central Temple took approximately two days, with Lydia and Loveday thrown in cages and stuffed at opposite ends of the carriage."

Also has sentence in footnote with highlighted word "carriage" in sentence "In an effort to move her cage closer to Loveday's, Lydia threw her body with so much force that it nearly toppled the carriage."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

#WIPSnips In which the triad sees the remnants of the slaughter of unicorns in person, and not just in a box. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "box" in sentence "it was easier to divorce one's mind from that reality when just seeing a box of severed horns that occasionally had bits of sinew and bone still on it."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

#WIPSnips In which Loveday gets a thrill out of a dapper new look. And actually lets themselves revel in it. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "thrill" in sentence "They couldn't smother the thrill they felt at the idea that they looked handsome and everyone would see."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#WIPSnips In which some embraces hurt more than they comfort. And the author adds a y suffix to today's word. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "thorny" in sentence "They wanted to race back into the Fair Demiurge's arms and hide, because while his embrace was thorny, it was the only one they'd ever known."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#WIPSnips Synonym time, and in which Ister has a very expressive face under the mask with clear emotions. And Loveday happens to like that. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "clear" in sentence "It was becoming clear to them that without the mask, Ister was very easy read, and Loveday liked that."

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Kris Madigan @krismadigan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

If you like fantasy and you like lesbians/sapphics/wlws, catch my work on itch! kris-madigan.itch.io Or check out the interview I did with @wsbookclub.bsky.social (baby's first interview!) wittyandsarcasticbookclub.home.blog/2026/07/25/s... #QueerWritersChat

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Sadie Hepworth @sadiehepworth.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Will Cole and Ezra’s secret romance turn into a second chance at love? Or will their steamy affair break both of their hearts — again? BUY NOW: a.co/d/05oC7XA8 Sam’s got a crush. Max just got dumped. And they’re about to spend three weeks in a tour van. PREORDER: a.co/d/03qbe4ly

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#QueerWritersChat #QueerWriters #WriteSky Here's my IG: www.instagram.com/giddygideong... My tumblr: www.tumblr.com/blog/giddygi... My website: gideonglassman.wordpress.com/home/ Figured now is a great time to just repost my TCaU pitch graphics, seeing as fantasy is the theme this week!

Graphic saying: An Agent's Guide to To Catch a Unicorn.

A pastiche fantasy where The Last Unicorn meets The Princess Bride meets escaping a magical cult.

Background is blue gradient with white and pink stars.

Graphic with same blue gradient with stars.

Text says "Pitch: Three acolytes of The Order of the Pointed Horn who’ve been societally outcast have to hunt down a winged unicorn as repentance for crimes they’ve committed against The Order, and they learn the truth behind the so-called divinity and righteousness of their leader and their cause."

Blue gradient with pink and white stars.

Text says "Found Family (but you found them in a cult)
T4T Enemies to Lovers
Soft magic system
The Hidden World (who knew the world outside this cult is so beautiful?)
The Hero’s Journey (but wait...are we the heroes, or are we the villains?)
Mysterious Narrator (who is telling this story...and why do they love footnotes so much?)"

Also has a graphic with the To Catch a Unicorn cover with tropes like: found family, footnotes galore, fantasy, feral girls, t4t enemies to lovers, themes of repression/breaking cycles of abuse, unicorns, hydra, goblins, and wait are we the baddies?

Blue gradient with pink and white stars.

Text says "Comps" with book covers from The Last Unicorn, The Princess Bride, Dreadful, This Princess Kills Monsters, and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#QueerWritersChat #queerwriters I really like the theme of finding one's self in fantasy. With the worlds and/or people being so fantastical, it's so cool to see this sort of inward journey reflected in so many different universes with different rules/among different fantasy creatures etc.

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#QueerWritersChat Yeah, I love it! Both To Catch a Unicorn and Night Creatures are in the fantasy genre, though TCaU is pure fantasy and NC is fantasy/western. Write it, enjoy it, all of the above! I love a genre that is so flexible in the worlds one can make. #QueerWriters #writesky #writers

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#QueerWritersChat #writesky #QueerWriters For me, fantasy is like a sort of world where something that is divorced from reality is taking place. Like if I'm in fantasyland SOMETHING is happening that really isn't/can't be (but I want it to), like instead of being at work I'm on a pirate ship.

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#QueerWritersChat #QueerWriters #WriteSky Hi, I'm Gideon, I'm a debut author finding their way. Current WIPS: Night Creatures (Fantasy/Western) To Catch a Unicorn (Fantasy/Parody) WIP IN PROGRESS (Historical Mystery) Excited to chat with everyone!

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#WIPSnips In which Ister resents Lydia's brand of "twisted" femininity and maybe projects a little. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "twisted" in sentence "She was a reminder that this was also what people saw Ister as, a twisted little thing trying to play a girl, looking horridly out of place in these soft clothes."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

#WIPSnips In which we get a snippet from the narrator directly, and they happen to relax with Lydia and Pearlt. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "relax" in sentence "I rather liked the times we got to relax."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

#WIPSnips In which I synonym again, and Loveday has a good cry that lasts for eons (according to our narrator, at least). #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "eons" in sentence "For what felt like eons, Loveday sat and cried with their silent screams."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Watched The Odyssey without a bathroom break now I think I know what they felt like in that Trojan Horse for those 3 days

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

#WIPSnips In which we are so back and Greg the Exalted One requests assistance. Because his fucking arm gets ripped off. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "assistance" in sentence "She lunged again, this time tearing a chunk out of his shoulder, while Greg the Exalted One screamed again, this time for assistance, looking right at Loveday."

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Gideon Glassman (they/them) @gideonglassman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

#WIPSnips In which I use the word hallway because I have no other ideas. And Lydia interrupts. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Screenshot of text. Highlighted word "hallway" in sentence "When they parted, it was because Lydia burst into the hallway, citing that she'd heard from Commander Agnette they were in here."

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