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I’m reading this now and really enjoying it. Combines two things I love (unusual narrative structures and punishingly intricate board games)

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@bleakhousing.bsky.social Ship of Death is awesome, enjoying it soooo much

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Since I switched to writing full time I’ve been observing weekends (yay) but not really taking time off otherwise? So I am boldly declaring that I’m taking THE REST OF THE MONTH (see note) OFF WORK TO READ AND PLAY VIDEOGAMES note: yes I know that’s only two days. Baby steps

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i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 28/09/2026

I've encountered the word "apotropaic" twice in different contexts in the past two days and I assume this is a sign that I should Take Measures

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wow! though my brain immediately goes: with the tiniest little twist in one direction this could be a queer romance and with a tiny little twist in another it could be survival horror

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 28/09/2026

Today is my birthday! Please buy my books, I'm so broke

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 28/09/2026

hmm. gonna make muffins. but I'm torn. could do corn muffins and whip up some honey butter to go with them. or I could do banana chocolate chip again, always a classic. or I could get real wild and make pineapple upside down cake muffins

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 28/09/2026

I had a wonderful time reading and babbling and signing at Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego this weekend! Then I went to the gayborhood and made friends with some queer girls and we drank and chatted into the night A successful journey!

The storefront of Mysterious Galaxy bookshop

The author smiling with a tiara and a rainbow unicorn dress, sitting behind a table next to a copy of her book. The front of the table has a hobbit hole door on it. So cute!

A sign in the shape of a rainbow heart that says “welcome to Hillcrest, established 1907”

The leaf covered wall of a lesbian bar in San Diego, with a neon sign that says “welcome home beautiful”

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 27/09/2026

After my reading I walked to a nice park and then got a car over to the lesbian bar for dinner and a drink but it’s a Saturday night so soon it was jumping and I got to chatting with two wonderful thirtyish bi girls who love fantasy novels and we got DRUNK

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 26/09/2026

She’s royalty but in a cool relatable way

The author smiling in the sunshine wearing a tiara and shades

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Have I played “Control Resonant”? Sorry…I’m too busy reading the story of a man who “Controls Rocinante”…that’s right, Miguel Cervantes’ immortal tale “Don Quixote de La Mancha”. So you enjoy your strange “Federal Bureau”…I’ll be delighting in the adventures of Sancho Panza and his “Friendly Burro”

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Mirrors mirrors on the wall

The author taking a mirror selfie in several circular mirrors of different size. She wears a rainbow unicorn print dress and a tiara

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Fuckdy Fuckt, kind of pretty really

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This is today! It’ll be great, I even know what I’m doing

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 25/09/2026

Finally saw the Odyssey The cyclops is very Large Adult Son huh Spider-Man and Punisher had more chemistry than Telly and Melly More like the PTSDyssey am I right That sea WAS pretty wine-dark Nice to be reminded my studio apartment is WAY nicer than an ancient palace I enjoyed the show!

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We saw you from across the bar. My god. Can you see us too. It’s been so long. We never even bother screaming anymore

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 25/09/2026

I am about to get on a PLANE to go to SAN DIEGO so I can EAT TACOS and GET A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP before my event tomorrow (which you should all attend)

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 25/09/2026

"Where You Lead, I Will Follow: An Oral History of the Denver Incident" by Erica L. Satifka (2020)

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 24/09/2026

how dare you have a “dropping our son off at college” scene, random TV show, now I’m crying

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/09/2026

Excited to reflect, absorb, and emit light EXTRA WELL today ✨💃⚡️ #BiVisibilityDay

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 23/09/2026

Went out for drinks last night and debuted the new dressssss

The author smiling in a zip-up sleeveless dress patterned with ferns and snakes and moths, with a crescent moon zipper pull

A shot of the dress from the neck down revealing a cute black belt with studs

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 23/09/2026

PEOPLE OF SAN DIEGO! I will be reading and talking and signing at the wonderful Mysterious Galaxy bookshop on Saturday the 26th at 2 pm! Please come and tell all your friends! mystgalaxy.com/92626Pratt

A poster promoting my upcoming reading at Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego on Saturday, September 26, 2026 at 2 PM, featuring me in a jeweled necklace and tiara

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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just an occasional reminder especially on Bi Visibility Day that my novel OKPsyche is ALSO incredibly bi-focused along with being very trans-femme focused bookshop.org/p/books/okps...

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★ "DeNiro's novel is a lyrical, emotionally powerful story . . . of queer parenthood, of the reality of the sharp fear of trans lives, and of complicated self-discovery." - Booklist (starred review)In...

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've launched a GoFundMe to help me get my cats to a safer home in Scotland, and you can pay-what-you-want using the GFM system and get 15 of my books as eBooks as a Thank You every Friday as an update! www.gofundme.com/f/help-autho... That's almost 700,000 words of fiction, pay what you want!

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Donate to Help Author Tobias Buckell and His Cats Move to Scotland, organized by Tobias Buckell

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 22/09/2026

*stares in noir literature*

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 22/09/2026

First day of autumn, drinking my french pressed coffee on my balcony, the hills all fogged in, eating an apple cider muffin dusted with cinnamon and sugar and pumpkin pie spice, thinking about the cute skirt and leggings I'm going to wear on a coffee date later, ahhhh, it's good to be basic

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 22/09/2026

I wrote a synopsis for my novel that's going on submission, using my usual technique, which is "write it like you're slightly drunk at a party and someone made the mistake of asking you what you're working on and you need them to understand that it is SO COOL"

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3600 words on my horror novel this morning! The setup is mostly done and we're about to launch into the main business of the plot

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In Skyrim my favorite thing was to go into a dirty hole in the ground and kill a lich demigod or whatever In Elden Ring when I have to go into a dirty hole in the ground I’m like “well, I’m about to get my shit rocked by, like, some rats”

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in my current novel I have some women and nonbinary people on a roller derby team so I get to give them derby names and so far my favorites are Catherine Wheels and The Public Universal Fiend

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Ha ha, the joys of having multiple library cards, instead of a 22 week wait for the Rouse at the San Francisco Library I have a mere 18 week wait at the Berkeley Library!

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In honor of autumn I made those apple cider donut flavored muffins and they are sooooo good

A cooling rack with 15 muffins topped with cinnamon and sugar and apple pie spice

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 20/09/2026

Chrono Trigger of course I played games before that (loved Mega Man 2) but that’s the one where I was like “oh, this is art, like films or novels”

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I Thought I Was An Introvert For My Entire Life But It Turns Out I Just Had Gender Dysphoria Lol: The Melody Pratt Story

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 20/09/2026

Making muffins and singing Ashnikko’s “Working Bitch” except I changed it to “I’m a baking bitch”

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Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 19/09/2026

I just thought “god I love big salad for dinner” so I take it back, my 20 year old self would be horrified by me

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I started reading Wife Shaped Bodies the same day I got the mushroom armor set in Elden Ring Coincidence, or a sign of some kind?!?!

Image of an Elden Ring character covered in fungal growths

Cover of Laura Cranehill’s WIFE SHAPED BODIES featuring a woman covered in fungal growths

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well, I wrote a scene that basically accomplished the thing that the scene was supposed to accomplish, but that's about the best I can say for it some days it just ain't flowing, so time to pivot to some of the non-writing-new-words parts of the job I guess

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I am sipping fresh-ground french press coffee from a fiesta pedestal mug while gazing at the misty hills from the balcony of my upper-storey apartment and I am reminded that when I played that “screenshot the gif to get the word to define your year” new year’s game I got “bougie”

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