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Forest 🔥🧚‍♂️⚙️ @hobbitfae.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I get a lot of surprise on this from fellow writers and creatives - but I actually don't use a super complex writing tool. I use an online word doc (shout-out to the @ellipsus.com gang) and a journal with sticky note tabs.

A mushroom covered journal has a large handwritten label reading "Like A Flame" with pink sticky notes along the right side reading "outlined, anatomy, cast, Seattle history, Gilded age"

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Forest 🔥🧚‍♂️⚙️ @hobbitfae.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

More vibes based, but went with "important." Magnolia and Aspen make their first delivery and Magnolia has to use her customer service voice! #WIPSnips

Aspen and Magnolia waited a few minutes in comfortable silence before a middle aged woman dressed in a dark green maid’s uniform to the neck and collar with a cream apron and a high bun appeared before us. “May I help you?” she asked, clearly confused why someone was on her doorstep at this hour.

Magnolia curtsied deeply to the maid. “Is the master of the house at home? It’s quite important.” she presented the pale pink envelope to the woman and spoke in an unnerving saccharine sweet voice that Aspen rarely had heard come from the girl. Aspen stood a step apace back from Magnolia, as if to appear as a driver or otherwise assisting. It wasn’t a complete lie, they thought.

The maid analyzed the envelope, looking it over, raising an eyebrow at the pair of us. “I’ll be back.” She closed the door behind her, leaving us on the doorstep.

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Forest 🔥🧚‍♂️⚙️ @hobbitfae.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Aspen, my darling mess of a genderfluid monstrosity, toggles between llight brown low laced basic boots and grey buttoned up feminine style boots. Basil wears traditional low heeled laced boots in dark browns. Oleander wears high heels that are laced up in a number of colors. #AwesomeCharacters

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Forest 🔥🧚‍♂️⚙️ @hobbitfae.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This mushroom one! It's huge, cozy, and has different textures which is really fun when I need some sensory input. I wanted a new giant monstrosity when I retired an old one. It's perfect for long writing days. 💖

A hand holds a large green and brown ceramic mug, patterned with 3 dimensional mushrooms

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Forest 🔥🧚‍♂️⚙️ @hobbitfae.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

TW Injury, bleeding. Went for "pinned" as I don't have any usages of "tack." In the middle of a rally, someone gets brutally hurt. :C #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity

The crowd halted. Pinned to the pine tree was one of our pamphlets. Basil was the first to move, flitting over to the faerie in the street. He cradled her neck, checking for any sign of life. Her wings were limp as he lifted her into his arms. “Does anyone know this faerie?” He called out loudly to the crowd. “Her chest caved from the impact. She’s bleeding out.” No one wanted to be the first to claim her, knowing she was not long for this god forsaken world. I could see shallow breaths in and out.

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Forest 🔥🧚‍♂️⚙️ @hobbitfae.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Slightly more ✨vibes✨ but some worldbuilding on "everyone is always hungry if they aren't rich." #WIPSnips

The Big Hunger is when it feels like your stomach is trying to scrape itself outside of your body. It’s when it feels as if the groans from within you could take over your very soul. With The Big Hunger, people turn into what might be generously called walking skeletons, malnourished without adequate food.

I heard something over my right shoulder as I started on my second slice of bread. Baritone Irish tones filled my long pale ears. “Mind if I pull up a slab ‘ere?”

I cleared my throat, trying to make my voice deeper than it naturally was as I turned to look at who I was to share my time with. “Not at all, go right ahead.”

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Forest 🔥🧚‍♂️⚙️ @hobbitfae.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Aspen and Magnolia make a few deliveries to the elite of the city and find out some forbidden information - where Oleander lives. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

She signed her signature below the typed letter.

“I don’t think we’re supposed to know her address.” I noted as she finished reading to me. “I-I knew she was good at her job, I just had no idea she was so-”

“Blunt?” Magnolia asked. “I’m shocked she came out and said all that. I wonder how much stayed in the actual letters. She flattened the letter as best she could and replaced it in her pocket.

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Forest 🔥🧚‍♂️⚙️ @hobbitfae.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

TW: Mention of child labor Aspen ends up in Basil's doorway, unsure what to do with some realizations. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompts

“Half a minute!” I heard the familiar Irish brogue behind the door and waited. I shuffled my feet, nervous, my wings fluttering without me even thinking about it. After what felt like forever, the door finally opened, revealing the same figure from earlier this morning.

“H-hi. I did some thinking and I-I don’t want to quit my job or anything. But there’s just-“

“No other options for faeries other than hard labor, followed by minimal sleep? I agree.”

I nodded. “I can’t rightly afford to go to Tir Na Nog, but also why should humans be the only ones to be able to have laws passed for them? We have basically the same rights as human children. Which is a whole other problem, but…I guess what I’m asking what’s your fix?”

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Forest 🔥🧚‍♂️⚙️ @hobbitfae.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Here's my favorite mug as well as a little tea conversation between Basil and Aspen. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

I headed inside and found a room about as simple as the one I had back at the shipyard, though a little nicer, with some amenities the shipyard couldn’t afford. The inside was wallpapered a pastel pale yellow. I wondered if that was natural or the cause of sun bleaching as it was a darker shade in some spots. I took a seat on a bright yellow couch. Basil poured a cup of hot water into a porcelain mug, plopping a tea bag of ready made tea into the water and handed it to me. I set it down on a nearby surface.

“Let ‘er steep a bit. Whatcha thinking, Aspen?” He seemed intrigued.

“I can’t afford to go back to Tir Na Nog. Home isn’t…isn’t an option.”

“I suspected as much. Most folks have more than a few choice words to say about the tenements the factories and similar have provided unless they’ve been on the street.”

I nodded. “I made it through this past winter, but I never want to have to do that again. Where do you work anyway?”

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Forest 🔥🧚‍♂️⚙️ @hobbitfae.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

TW Drugs, Drug Use This is my first pass of a list of faerie drugs! Also a little snippet about how faeries are treated in the workplace. The 1800s was about Survival, so I made drugs for enduring and Ignoring Reality. #SnippetShare #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #LikeAFlame

When their wings are out, they are treated like second class citizens that don’t deserve nice things. They frequently get the jobs that no one wants (window washer, ship builder, construction worker) or jobs that require elevation, which is a non-issue because they can fly.

Drug Creation
- Pixie Dust - makes you levitate without effort, if you already fly, you can't go down until it wears off (6 hours)
- Treebark - from pine trees specifically, Creates/Amplifies anxiety but gives you a little bit of prophecy. More likely to come true.
- Queen Mab/Titania - hallucinogen - makes you see the emerald Isle of Irish forests, used in alcohol
- Poppy Sauce - used in alcohol, mild hallucinogen, makes your vision wonky but uncovers glamours
- Winter's Touch - makes you icy white/blue, plant, also makes you cold, great in summer
- Moss - literally just local moss from trees, loss of feeling in body, used for surgery. Too much and it will leech the color out of you.
- Goblin Weed/Hobgoblin - lettuce-like plant that you munch on. Gives you the munchies for non-food desires. “I NEED to look at a painting/train etc right now.”
- Glubbleshucks Beer- Makes you vomit, but causes you to also get stuff off your chest you’ve been holding for a while. You feel lighter afterwards.
- Wrinklestinks - injectable only, makes you able to taste sounds

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Forest 🔥🧚‍♂️⚙️ @hobbitfae.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity "Option" leaves Aspen wondering if they will be working 12 hour days forever or if there is more out there.

$2.50. I kept repeating it to myself. Housing was paid automatically before I even saw my paycheck. I had heard some factories and workplaces had free housing for their workers, but I had no idea where those were or if they would even hire a faerie. I wondered if other places treated the fae better than…well anywhere I had been so far. Tacoma didn’t take fae labor and had been a waste of good money. Snohomish held nothing but painful memories. But where else could I even turn to? I didn’t have enough money to go to Tir Na Nog, mother’s home country, never mind that they didn’t open until December. The portals only opened on the Winter Solstice. It was free to leave the faerie motherland, but the capitalists had learned plenty of people wanted to escape Earth, so they began charging us an inordinate amount.

There had to be a third option. “Hemlock.” I said aloud to the empty room. I doused and cleaned out the fire after finishing my potatoes and bacon, cleaned the dishes and resetting the apartment for the second time today. I put my waistcoat and overcoat on and faced the mid-50s weather outdoors, grabbing my change purse and key as I left and locked the apartment, headed back towards the Thyme Hotel.

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Forest 🔥🧚‍♂️⚙️ @hobbitfae.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I'm so excited for this dumb campaign based in my world. Victorian age London! Bug faeries! Mysteries! And maybe a serial killer or two. 👉👈 (If you're in my game, you never saw this post 😂) #Pennyfarthings

Statistics for Lizzie Borden in kids on bikes. Fight d8, flight d6, tenacity d4, lore d20, strength d12, charm d10

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Forest 🔥🧚‍♂️⚙️ @hobbitfae.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

This is the best I've got - an artist's rendition of downtown Seattle from 1889. It's surprisingly hard to find maps from this era, so I have to make do with Googling if an establishment was around then and Google Maps. Then again, I also make up plenty of places myself. 😉 #FebruaryWorldbuilders

Image by Llewellyn, Dodge and Co - Mining & Real Estate Brokers and Auctioneers. Picture of downtown Seattle in 1889.

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