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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you Chris, it's great to be back and wonderful to see you!!! 😭 🫶

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 22h

😭 Us fall cardigan girlies gotta stick together! 🩷

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 23h

I figured it was a special Halloween season surprise! 🤭 👻 Oh my gosh thank you so much Anna. You make a lady blush! I'll be sure to squeeze (myself into) more dresses on the timeline going forward. They make me just as pleased! 🥰 🩷

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 23h

Charlie!!! It's lovely to hear from you! I've missed you and all the lovely people I've come to know here. It's been a lot of work, but I've been doing better than ever. Thank you for always welcoming me with open arms. You're the best. 🥹 🩷

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 23h

AHHHHH thank you Khonri! It's great to see you, too! 🩷 You're too kind. I'm way too happy with the fit and it's so affirming to hear you're happy with it too. :)

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's great to see you Nicole! I've missed you and Ashrah. 🩷 I can even roll my r's a little bit now! 😂

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pamela!!! I missed youuuu 😭 I'm so glad to be back. Big smiles hearing from you and everyone 🩷🩷🩷

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

😭 It means the world to hear that from you big sis!! Waah. I feel like the belle of the ball. 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So happy to see you Ron!! It's taken everything I've had but I'm glad to be as okay. 😊 I hope you have been okay, too! I missed it here! 🩷

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is but a prelude to the dressposting I'll be doing into the future unto forever, unless physically restrained! Too happy to be back to being back. 🥰

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

😜 Marvelous to see you again, Gabe! I'm excited to catch up on your work. I missed reading it. Thank you and bless you—I missed your kindness most of all! 🩷

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Good morning, everyone! I'm sorry for worrying you. I'll be back to catch you up on everything soon! Thank you for your Patience. 🐸 🩷

A woman wearing a pink and black dress with big boots, stockings and a little crotchet purse on her shoulder. She holds her arms out with a bag in each hand. Her name is Patience and Patience is me. :3

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Queen Anna V 👑 🫜🫜 @annavernerauthor.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

My short story The Hive is now published on my Itch page. It's free to download as an e-pub. anna-verner.itch.io

anna-verner.itch.io

Anna Verner

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

😂 I thought hard on whether I should include that very final line! I was thinking it would too much of a freaky left turn for a gag... but that's never stopped my narrator before 🤭

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I sure hope so too—otherwise why else did Frogbo go through all that to save them?! 😨 Unless... There's something happening here that is being misinterpreted? 🤔 I'm sure we'll find out next week 😉

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I was too vulnerable to reply at the time—but thank you for thinking of me everyone. It really does help when I am feeling so isolated. Between doctors, writing and feeling HRT kick in and do its thing, it's been a big week. I'm tired! The hugs are so appreciated! I feel loved.

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Good morning, #WIPSnips! Good news—THE CLOCKMASTER is saved 🙌 And look: lil walkin' talkin' candles! How cute... ...AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ [Content warning: beheading] #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #AmWriting #Frogbo #QueerWriters

~An excerpt from the WIP Frogbo written by Jace—that's me :) (word of the day "root” -> “[plant]” (originally did use root; changed to a faceplant because I will NEVER pass up on a chance to alliterate all and anything)~

A hazy wave of wax rushes out the woodwork, each-every stick tipped with flamelit wicks. Could thee be… Candles? Have not we heard tell of Candles tending to bear arms or legs or faces or thoughts or any such of sort. We're not sure *why*fore these candles happened on all the extra features, though nay may be we picky; so-spent us from a nine-hundred and ninety-nine-stepped ascending re-descencion. Plus the dais.

THE CLOCKMASTER is kicking their little feets away—their first sign of life since landing face-[plant]ed and prostrate gainst marblemake tiles. Ten belly-tall Candles position themselves in tandem pon the CLOCKMASTER's dial.

As flame-tipped heads melt and wane and flicker and waft, the Candles grab THE CLOCKMASTER—

and *rip their head off*.

So THAT'S what the arms are for! Noted.

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 27/06/2026

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity A very easy snippet for me, when most of my characters are named after root or bulb vegetables 😆 Here, Grilled (one of the few NOT named after such a veggie) gives dinner to a customer who mentions the Good Thyme Inn's signature meal.

Welcome to the Good Thyme Inn

“Don’t change your plans just for my sake. Tomorrow, give me your signature stew—Good Thyme Inn Stew. Wait, no, first tell me what meat you’re using this week.”
Grilled puffed up his chest with pride, as he’d been the one to cut up pieces of the meat to put in the stew earlier that morning. “It’s lamb!”
“I suppose it’s too early to be slaughtering cotzas or aurochsen. Lamb is good eating, though. Very well, lad. Tomorrow, bring me some Good Thyme Inn Stew instead.”
Everyone outside the inn called it by the name of the inn. Grilled had heard Parsnips and Shallot call it ‘Family Stew’ since the ingredients were primarily the root and bulb vegetable namesakes of the family members, including garlic which they’d used long before Garlic had arrived and claimed that name. Grilled wondered if it would be weird to add zucchinis to it…

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

#WIPSnips Blake is rather stunned by Mammon's generosity. He has expected less of the demon Lord of Greed. But the Wolf of Wealth is actually a pretty chill guy. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

“Medical debt.” He sneered. He tapped the concept hard, like swatting a mosquito.
“Blake, I didn’t know you had hospital bills.” Sergei said, helping him to his feet.
“Not me. My mom’s.”
“I cannot expunge this vile debt, but I can lessen the burden.” Mammon explained. “Several collection agencies have just lost your files. I’m sorry I cannot do more.”
Blake rubbed his wrists, relieved of the icy clasp of debt.
“I must admit, I’m surprised at your kindness, sir.” Blake said. “Thank you.”
“Blake, you humans say money is not the root of evil. It is not.” The Wolf sat back at his desk. “The root of evil is treating people as things. We didn’t come up with that.”

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Alyssa Lauseng 🖕🏻🧊 @5feetofredfury.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #writingprompt Dance of Demons (throwback to one of Daisuke’s first poisonmaking lessons 🤭)

The tray held an odd, inky flower, prompting an inquisitive gaze at Master Yujin. Daisuke asked quietly, “What’s wrong with it?”

“This is a black lotus flower,” Master Yujin explained. “They grow along the eastern seaboard and create an incredibly toxic poison. No known antidote exists. Pink lotuses, on the other hand, have several health benefits—their roots and hearts are used in foods and medicines, and you can eat the seeds right from the pod. I don’t recommend confusing the two.”

Daisuke wrinkled his nose at the tiers of greasy-looking petals. “You mean this one’s meant to look that way?”

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DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen" @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

No root. Using source instead.

“First, put out the word to our sources. Is anyone searching for our little hunter? Second, send spies to the nearby villages. Somebody must have said something that sent her our way. Somebody must know something.”

Tristan nodded.

“I’ve never fought the great Lady Battle Ax. If I had, one of us would be dead. And she has killed immortals older than myself. I wonder at the skill of her granddaughter. A hungry part of me wants to see how dangerous this little hunter might be. But I do not wish to risk an immortal life on such frivolities. I need more information. Still, the little hunter seemed caught off guard when I left her last. Perhaps she is not as skilled as I am fearing.”

Tristan nodded again. He shivered and looked at the open window.

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Dahlia (is on vacation) 🐈‍⬛🎃 @dahliazhenwrites.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

A werewolf lad learns about soap. (yucca and some other kinds of plants can be used 🙂) #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

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“Do you have soap?”

“Soap? What’s that?”

Oh dear. Stealing more things from Home seemed like it would make a bad idea even worse. Leaving him to fend for himself was no better.

She scratched her chin and muttered, “I read that if you break certain plant roots and mix them with water, you can make soap. It helps with cleaning. If only I had a picture of one…”

Wesley’s mouth fell open. The gloom vanished from his voice. “Is that magic?”

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky Ooh I actually have one! Kena is talking with the archives priest, who plants (heh) an interesting idea in his head unintentionally. From #GodsOfAtalantis Book 2

“That’s true,” Ba’oti agreed, impressed by the boy’s insight—though he supposed he shouldn’t have been. Seeing the world with clear eyes, bringing to light that which for others was shrouded in darkness: these had always been gifts of the Sun Father. “It almost seems you’d have to dig up the whole tree by the roots, ona? Go back to the foundation of things, if you wanted to see real change.”
“Hm—the foundation of things,” Kena murmured. His honey-colored eyes suddenly sparked with an idea. He frowned, gazing inward, and began debating with himself under his breath. “Could we—? No, that would be ... ! But would it?”
“Sun Father?”
“Ba’oti.” Kena sat up a little straighter, more animated than he’d been before. “When was the last time someone added a new law to the Pillar of Na’aqa?”
“The Pillar of Na’aqa?” Ba’oti’s eyebrows shot up in surprise. “Oh, young Raa, those are the deepest, most foundational laws of Atalantis! It’s been well over a thousand years since anything new was added to it.”
“Then maybe,” Kena said, beginning to smile, “it’s overdue for a change.”

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Joel Flanagan-Grannemann @servantand.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

#WIPSnips From Fairy Court in Exile. Obsidian is nonverbal but does communicate somewhat with telepathy. She wants to know the full story about how the Fairy soldier who rescued her died. Shatter is having none of it. Everybody is a child to Merry-Weather. 😁

Obsidian frowned. “I know it’s hard for you, too. But she was my Sister. And you didn’t know her as long I as I did. You must earn this.” Obsidian narrowed her eyes and frowned more deeply. “Then find another place,” Shatter said harshly. “Merry‑Weather can take you elsewhere. Forget about her. Do you think I walked into the garrison, and they handed me a Captain’s badge? You have potential, but you must earn your place. Especially now.” Shatter took another roll from Obsidian’s tray and walked off. Obsidian remained rooted to the spot, radiating frustration. Her hands clenched on the sides of the tray, denting the metal. “There you are, child,” Merry‑Weather said. “Where’s all your food?” She paused. “Well, you know soldiers. Go, get some more. Titania and Conwenne want to start soon. And they can’t do that if people are still hungry.” Obsidian didn’t move. “Go. Shatter is right: you need to earn your place.” Obsidian finally strode away. “Children,” Merry-Weather swore, taking in the whole of the room.

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I can't NOT include the dais—it's everyone's favourite character! It keeps popping up lately 😂 Shorter is certain, Jade... in many ways! Just a chip off the old CLOCK 😉 *cringes deeply at own pun*

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

🥺 Lovely tribute to both Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and the character he played. They deserve their flowers 💐 Awesome he was cast as Shang Tsung across the games and films. Truly eternal!

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Nicole "Ashrah" Hidalgo 😈🧄👻 @sayaashrah.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

#WIPSnips 27. “Root” Not a WIP, but I had to share this snippet from the short story I wrote as a homage to Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (eternal Shang Tsung) after his passing. #ChroniclesOfTheRealms #ShangTsung #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

The Day of Roots. A day when seedlings all over the kingdom honoured their parents with gifts, songs and, of course, flowers. A day when families gathered under the sun or the shade of an old tree to tell stories coursing through their lineages.

And then there was Shang Tsung, alone in his lab, trying and failing to formulate an antidote against this new virus brought from beyond the seas that caused blisters to bloom on the skin rather than flowers. Why could he not solve this equation?

Flashes of the gloomy looks he had attracted that day interrupted his train of thought. They pitied him, of course: for dĩn'huei, families meant everything. More branches to their trees, the extension of the cycle, and all that gibberish. What did Shang Tsung care that he had no parents, no siblings?

No children.

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

😂😂😂 What will become of TIME now??? I think Frogbo's all tuckered out after trying for that hail mary to save the Artist Formerly Known as THE CLOCKMASTER... it kinda worked! At first! Sorta 😅

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"A flicker of light caught her eye like a ripple on the River's surface." 🤩 Absolute music, Amanda! Poetic and just lovely. I can see why this is one of your favourites!

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💎🪉💎RUSHAK💎🪉💎 @acturek.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #root Well, he found her! One of my absolute favorite snips. Rushak and Lara. - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power.

He wiped dripping water from his eyes and
perceived she sat comfortably, cradled by a twist of questing Silverbark ROOT, one leg tucked, the other with its boot, now sodden and black, perfectly posed to have kicked him in the head. A flicker of light
caught her eye like a ripple on the River's surface. The tip of her ear swept up in a gentle peak, and a wet, reddish tendril of her hair shifted like a vine with a bird in it.

Brother's Keeper
A.C. Turek

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

🕯️💢 We'll see what these little candles have to say for themselves! If *someone* is to shed light (pun intended) on the situation, why not a league of seemingly blood-thirsty candles 😂

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Gabe 🏳️‍⚧️🦇 Eden Hollow OUT NOW!! @theeldervampire.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

#WipSnips | Root #👑🗡️ Artan is one of Seamus’ closest friends (and Seamus doesn’t realize that he’s also in love with them yet lol). Artan doesn’t like that he’s constantly risking his life at his mercenary job. And after making them cry, Seamus tries to make things right 🥺

Artan moved so that they could meet his eye. They glared at him, their face severe. “Your life has value, Seamus, whether you think it or not. And I can’t stand seeing you squander it.”

He sighed. “Look, if there was another way, I would’ve found it by now.”

Their anger faltered. Their brows creased, but they just shrugged. “Fine. Get yourself killed, for all I care. I won’t be here to patch up what remains of your corpse.”

Seamus looked away to let them work. But even with the medicine and the stitching at his side, they didn’t hurt nearly as much as hearing Artan’s soft sniffling did. Grigor offered to hold his hand, perhaps thinking that he was in that much pain, but he shrugged him off.

“…You really think I’m getting too old for this?” he asked, filling the silence.

“Oh, I *know* you are,” was the response. “Your roots are silver. You complain over aches in your legs. You never settled down. What are you waiting for? Hm?”

He shrugged. “I haven’t felt the need.”

“Do you need permission? Is that it?”

Seamus winced. “How about this. I’ll take on one more job.”

Artan paused. “Don’t placate me, Seamus. You should not say anything you don’t intend to follow through on.”

“No, I’m serious.” He shifted so that they could face each other. “One more job.”

They watched his face once more. “…You’re serious?”

“Talia’s more than ready to take my place. You’re right. I’ve been doing this for too long.” Seamus managed a smile. “Perhaps, then you won’t be spending all your share of the pool on dressing my wounds.”

Their shoulders relaxed, tears in their eyes.

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

NOOOOOOOO I BEEFED IT 😭😭😭 What a horrid way to pay tribute to the Artist Formerly Known as THE CLOCKMASTER...

A snippet (of a snippet) of Jace highlighting in red pen an error from today's snip she finds upsetting: "THE CLOCKMASTER" ✅ is incorrectly written in mixed lower and uppercase as "the CLOCKMASTER" ❌

>:c

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L.M. du Plessis 📚💙 ‪✨Writing TLC Sequel✨ @smoking-gnu.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

G'morning #Wipsnips! Back to ATB for today again, and a small, tiny bit of body horror here. Not sure if a spoiler label is needed here, gonna chance it. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

The nails withdraw back into my hand, and I feel the heat inside raise up as a specific and unique biological process occurs. The pain lances up my arm as more carbon is extracted from the surrounding flesh and bone, just a tiny amount from every part and put through the torture that is needed here and now.
Minutes pass, and the torture ends. Now a new one begins as I extend my nails out once again. Instead of the shiny black obsidian, they now emerge as sparkly clear constructs of incredible hardness and unforgiving edges that cut my fingers apart from the inside as they emerge.
This is not the most pain I’ve felt, but it’s pretty up there.
Well I’ll be…
I look from the bloodstained diamond to the whirling display of bending physics, to back to the nails, and I make my final decision.
In one fluid movement I stab the nails right into the heart of the machine, then twist and break them off right at the roots before the machine can pull me in. Gears and energy grind against pure diamond, louder than any alarm. The noise puts my teeth on edge and nearly makes me gag. Somewhere behind the wall, a series of distressing glonks and snaps can be heard, ones that progress deeper into the structure of the Spire.

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Gosh! Thank you so much, kind sir. 🥰 Frogbo is happy to be missed and returning to your eyeballs, absurdities and all. Not to worry Sam—Frogbo continues on, as bizarre as ever. Possibly even more bizarre than before! 🤭

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Okay, I have been informed that roots are nature's wires so it's WIRES from me! Ben and Elara in a deleted scene: #WIPSnips #sff #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #StatuesErode

He crossed the bay as quietly as boots on metal would allow. He was halfway to the door when a bang cured him of caution.
A few lengthy strides and a “Who’s there?” later and he was ducking his head under the hatch door.
He blew out a breath as he saw the Captain emerge from the cockpit.
She looked startled, blue eyes wide open. “Oh, Ben! I didn’t hear you.”
Glancing past her, he saw a tangle of wires hanging loose under a console. “You okay Captain?”
She looked back, pointed to the mess: “Somewhere behind all that is the Black Box. I told Alex to keep his comm on before he left. If he did, maybe the box logged it. I’m going to get some cutters.”
He laughed out loud. She looked serious, maybe offended. “You’re not actually going to cut through the wires?”
She placed her hands on her hips. “Got a better idea?”
He rubbed his chin, only catching the action as a slight stubble scratched his finger. He smiled as he asked, “Maybe I can help? Save you scuttling the shuttle?”
The Captain’s stern look faded, she smiled back at him, arms relaxing. “You’ve been spending too much time with Toren, Mr George. Come on then, I’ll let you save me from myself.”
“Happy to, Captain.”

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Sam Vimes 🫜 @reaper-man.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Undead doesn't mean Unperson. We all have hearts, even if not all of them still beat. 🧟👻🧛🧑‍🎤 From a novel about the adventures of a girl, a robot, and the heist crew they call family. 🫜🫜 #WIPSnips #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Sister Elbo-Rüme had always said that blood carried with it a memory of the past. It was history’s ink, she’d explained one day as they walked the grounds of the orphanage. Seldom used with mercy.

Sophie wasn’t sure how she felt about it all. She had no deep-rooted hatred or generational grudges. No relatives in dark rooms, whispering stories of great-great-granduncles being carried off by vampires in the night. It could have happened. She’d never know.

What she did know was this: trying to make a life for yourself didn’t seem unreasonable. And in the case of the Undead, neither did trying to make an afterlife.

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Iris Juniper Verblenk @iris-j-verblenk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

June 27th: "Root" Sergej Galkin is the root of all this shit. #SteepedInShadow #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #Novel #NovelWriting #Writer #FemaleWriter #AmWriting #UrbanFantasy

It was no coincidence that most of the labs were found here, in Siberia. This was Sergej Galkin's homeland, and it was that insufferably curious bastard who had started it all, who continued to slip their grasp whenever they got close enough to kill him. These days, most of the labs were hidden beneath layers of snow and permafrost, buried deep in the icy terrain.

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

It'll make finally getting her hands on Myrith all the sweeter later 😈

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

So heartbreakingly potent. This is such powerful work, Kayleigh.

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Kamikaye @kamikaye.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Vela and Nori go shopping on the Consortium homeworld Euphonia. In 'Cloudgazer' #WIPSnips #WriteSky

They took a long elevator ride to the buildings' base layer, where streets and walkways connected to the other buildings like a wild maze of cobwebs and roots. Some actually reaching into depths unknown for water and nutrients to supply the buildings bio-components. Lower levels were filled with street stalls, shops and food places as Nori had eluded. It was a colorful jumble and pretty lively after the last few days. Vela kind of stuck to the path's side whenever she could. Avoiding the open busy plaza. Her initial enthusiasm had melted quickly in the crowd.

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Jace Patience van Kaathoven 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐸 🫜 🐰 @jacevk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Lots better!! It for sure helped getting it off my chest, and everyone's support has me all warm and smiley. Yourself included! It's a tall order to feel down with all the hugs I'm being bestowed. I will take them ALL 🫂🫂🫂

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