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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Deep in the forest, by the light of a full moon, a hart appears at the stroke of midnight and leads me to a gnarled oak tree carved with ancient runes. Buried 12 feet beneath its roots is a rusted iron box. In that box is a scroll. And on that scroll is a pretty cool plot for a time travel story.

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Happy Let's Colonize Mars Day to all who celebrate! (Me. I'm the one who celebrates, because it's a holiday I made up. But if anyone wants to have a party - or just eat a Mars bar - feel free to do so. Someday I'm going to remember soon enough to have actual Mars-related festivities.)

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Repost with 4 random facts about me. -I've done impromptu photo shoots in two different airports, in two different countries. -I'm a great singer but a terrible dancer. -I used to be a poll inspector, running a local polling place during elections. -I own a globe of the moon.

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I used to like the Buffy Season 8 comics, but it's been forever since I've read them...

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I do get the logic. I just also think that if I can't vote for the person I want, even in the primary, then the system has failed and we're already doomed. Then again, that's been clear for the last several elections now...

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I've been told that if we vote for someone in the primary who inspires us, or who we belive in, or who we think might do a good job, then we're being selfish and dooming California to a MAGA governor.

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

As a lifelong theater guy - who also loves archiving and finding old ,archived stuff - I related to so much of this. It's something I've been thinking about quite a bit myself recently. I may have to write my own article about it...

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

And if you use the app at a UC school in Northern California, you and your potential match try to mount a stage show and engage in a series of super elaborate dance numbers together. It will be called BuzzBee Berkeley. (But seriously, Bumble has just shot itself in every available foot.)

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The show was a hit! It was hugely stressful - but it was a hit! And a lot of fun! Even though my #TimeTravelAuthors friends were all too far away to attend, you'll be pleased to know, you were still represented, as I donated a copy of The Accidental Time Travelers Collective Vol. 3 to our raffle!

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Yeah, I wish I could have made it to Wonka Jr. Maybe someday, when we're all rich and successful...

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Ooh, I will be! Oh, wait... (Thanks for the shout out!)

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I totally get that. Gas prices being what they are, I can barely afford to drive around L.A. at the moment.

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Day 31: My show is coming up! Less than three weeks! There's food, there's songs, there's sketches, there's puppets... Seriously, it's going to be so much fun. I don't know if any of my fellow #TimeTravelAuthors are local to L.A., but I wish you could all join. I'm super excited.

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Plus, saying it in relation to Star Trek... It's a level of cluelessness that I cannot comprehend.

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Good point. Which makes me wonder if our current dystopia is the product of a rogue time traveler messing with the timeline...

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Oh, you should hear the jingle that we sing about it!

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Day 27: Depending on your point of view, within the lore of the story, we may all be living in an alternate timeline right now. But our heroes are working to prevent a much worse timeline, wherein the villain takes over the world. #TimeTravelAuthors

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Oh, I had no idea that that was the origin of Coney Island's name! That's cool! I discovered it when I Googled "names of taverns in medieval England." The Cony was one of them, and apparently Conyhooplane means rabbit in Middle English.

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Day 25: JINGLE WRITER: What sets the Cony apart? What is it that you do better than anyone else? PROPRIETOR: Well, that’s easy. Our rabbit stew is second to none. That’s where the name comes from. Cony. Short for Conyhooplane. Means rabbit. #TimeTravelAuthors

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Catching up, Day 23: The way the villain is ultimately defeated surprised me, because I struggled to figure it out for a long time, and it turned out to be super simple. Obviously that's a bit of a spoiler, so I can't go into too much detail. But it involves the robot. #TimeTravelAuthors

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Day 21, a day late. Interestingly enough, the only time the word "step" appears in my script is the same scene that I described in the previous prompt. #TimeTravelAuthors

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Day 19: I think the closest thing to a servant we have in the show is a robot who does dishes. He's supposed to be part of an "Automatic Dishwasher" demonstration, but he finds the whole thing quite demeaning. #TimeTravelAuthors

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Day 17, a day late: I've got one group of characters on a spaceship together, on an 18-month voyage to Mars, which tests all of their patience. And another group of characters who open a 5,000-year-old time capsule, which also takes a fair amount of patience. #TimeTravelAuthors

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I know I certainly would. The elusive "Love's Labour's Won" has intrigued me since even before Doctor Who did an episode about it...

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Day 15: Most of the time travel is in order to track down the villain and thwart his evil plan. But our heroes do take a brief, recreational detour to the Globe Theatre to see a lost Shakespeare play. #TimeTravelAuthors

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Catching up, Day 13: At the beginning of the show, we get a glimpse of the canting language of the 19th century London underworld. Then later, we explore the day-to-day lives of a group of colonists on a spaceship headed for Mars. #TimeTravelAuthors

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Someone just recommended this one to me a few days ago. If I hadn't already been sold at "time travel," I would definitely have been sold at "Sam Rockwell." Either way, I desperately want to see it.

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

"OK... Some of THEM are going home."

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

A League of Their Own is definitely up there.

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Day 11: From the stage directions... "Betty sprinkles a few chopped leaves of some unfamiliar herb over her bowl of stew, then offers some to Nick and Justin, who gratefully accept." #TimeTravelAuthors

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Catching up, Day 9: 🕰️📱🔘💨🕳️⚔️🤖 #TimeTravelAuthors

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Thanks! I'm having a lot of fun with this show.

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Day 7, a day late. Somehow, in 50 pages, the words "quiet" and "loud" don't appear in the script at all. However, here's an excerpt of announcements over a loudspeaker. From the song "200 Million Miles to Mars," about the first Martian colony's voyage to their new home. #TimeTravelAuthors

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

"They just saved John Howland's life! The storm blew him overboard!" "Oh no!" Umm... Not the reaction I was expecting from Charlie Brown upon learning that a life was saved. (Also, that's really cool!)

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

At what point in the journey were they? Was he able to get back on?

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Day 5: The story is full of apologies - mainly because things keep going wrong. The first one is when the cast tries to time jump back to the beginning of the show to fix something and end up accidentally taking the entire audience with them. #TimeTravelAuthors

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Day 3: They're not so much protecting things as trying to get them back, because they didn't realize the things needed protecting until they were already gone. Things that may or may not include a cookbook, some paper masks, and an assortment of campaign buttons. #TimeTravelAuthors

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Well, the madman will be a fun role to play, at least...

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Thanks! Was watching a documentary last night about the Harlem Music Festival of 1969, and she made an appearance. So she was the first one I thought of...

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Steve Alloway @ingrediments.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

With a new stage project I'm working on, seems a good month to return to #TimeTravelAuthors. In "All the Time in the World," a ragtag theater troupe performs shows across time. If you're lucky, you might win a raffle prize. If you're unlucky, a madman from the future may try to take over the world.

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