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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 17h

A bit. It means Iofen didn’t quite get it right, and he’s running out of time and stamina to try again.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 20h

😂 I love that line! Perhaps not quite the sort of common ground the others in the room might have been thinking.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 20h

Very late to #WIPSnips. I like this moment, but I don’t think I’ve shared it before. After some…moving around…of magics between Changers, Iofen has been trying to return them to their rightful owners. Cassie gains an outsider’s perspective of what it looks like as they each check the result.

He seemed to be going through a similar ritual. His eyes scrolled from his usual green, through icy blue, dense black, and eventually yellow. Scales appeared in waves, first his red ones, then a different set I’d never seen before in a dazzling, gleaming green. When those gave way to dark, jagged lines electricity crackled around his arms. Other moving patterns took over, morphing and shifted across his skin before an icy layer or snow settled on his skin and the temperature dropped, only to melt once more as a pair of horns worked their way through his hair. On it went, dozens of his forms each making themselves known, but only momentarily. Eventually, he reached the vampirism, the silver swarming in his green eyes.
“It shouldn’t be this strong.” He grimaced as his eyes swung to me.
“I barely have a sliver of it,” I told him.

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Headless🎃Horsewoman 🪉💎🏹 @acturek.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Here it is! The very first art of Rushak by the amazing @solarisstory.bsky.social! I’m so very thrilled with it. Give Lana a follow, friends!

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I don’t speak about him much, because he usually sends his minions (which are not having a good time), but this is probably Zalroth. He very much enjoys his role and the comfortable life it gives him. Using his powers to force other fae to swear oaths to him is a bonus.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

She sounds fun to read, if not exactly fun for anyone else in the story… I do love a villain that’s clearly out there enjoying themselves.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Hi Frogbo! I imagine interesting things happen when you give fate a throw…

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Sounds like an unpleasant journey, though I guess if no one is complaining, they probably have reason not to.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It sounds neither of them are particularly happy about it being their wedding day.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Definitely agree with Fox on this one. Demon possession? No thanks.

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🐐 @wyldfaun.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

character art for @barrows.itch.io of Yana (she/her, on left) and Rook (they/them, on right) from his First Light book series 🚀

Digital art of two people standing side by side. Both are wearing smart sci-fi uniforms in dark bluish-grey with light blue trims and silver UNCA badges. On the right is Rook, a tall pale skinned person with long wavy black hair and stubble, who has their hands on their hips and is grinning at Yana. The jacket of their outfit is open for a more casual look. On the left is Yana, a shorter Black woman with warm brown skin and cropped dark brown hair, who is crossing her arms and looking at Rook with a small smile and a raised eyebrow.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aw, thank you so much! 🥹Hopefully it’ll eventually make it out there for others to read, too.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Oh I love that! Especially that “rapids” suggest things are not always calm there.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I love that different people see it differently. How does Ashrah see them (assuming she does)?

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

No problem. Yes, each light is a spirit which belongs to a person in the real world. It’s where people go when they dream. Different characters have their own descriptions of it, but they generally appear like points of light. An earlier snip, which might give more context for what is happening:

I’d never really understood how the panther could visit others as we slept, only that she did, and that sometimes she’d accept my requests to make use of it. Ordinarily, she’d go by herself, but when we were like this - her magic taking over my body - she would drag me along with her on those journeys. We’d start out in a dream of our own, but soon I would find myself being pulled through what felt something akin to a night’s sky full of shining stars. Large ones, small ones, even one as large as the moon against the backdrop of all the rest. She would pull us along in the spaces between until she reached the one we were looking for. Some, like Will, were familiar enough that I could tell from afar which one they were, though I couldn’t have said how. She went to him now. Thankfully, he was asleep, and dreaming quiet, gentle dreams. Not all of his dreams were so kind.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I love a bit of figurative language! One of the recurring ones throughout tWoM is George describing the spirits in the Spirit Realm as like stars in a night sky.

As soon as we’d arrived in that strange world of stars - the Spirit Realm, I now supposed - it was clear that things had changed drastically since the last time the panther had dragged me through. At least half of the stars had gone out, simply missing from the plane around us. The panther knew it already - she had seen them before, steadily winking out when she travelled here without me - but she paused now to let me look.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A powerful bit of dialogue from Ashrah! 🔥

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I love the artwork you have for this. Really emphasises the split between the pretty, verdant city on the surface vs what sits underneath.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I like that they all compare themselves to close family members, but for very different reasons. It’s nice that Mireia starts to understand her dad a bit more as she matures - a happy life is arguably better than a popular but unhappy one.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The Vaults - where things (people) get locked up. Water - contrasts and change. Safety, freedom, but also danger. The Granite Ballroom - elegance, extravagance, but also politics, tensions, fate. The fortress of Zaamhein - power, control, order, oppression.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

When it burns, it forms a pivotal moment in his life where much of his old beliefs, that he clung on to so desperately, are gone. He leaves with a far more open mind, ready to face the truth. Let’s not get too deep into the symbolism of other places, but in brief:

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Even just that it’s supposed to be a secret place that nobody knows about, and yet at no point does George remain alone in it for any length of time. It reflects how George has been trying to isolate himself, but he can’t really do it. He wont admit it, but he loves and cares for others too much.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

One big one is the cave which forms George’s hideout/home. It represents a lot of what is going through his mind at the various points he returns to it. It shines a light on the various lies he tells himself, and has to confront as the story goes on.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

#LitHodgePodge There’s various bits of symbolism built into the settings of my books. I do like a good cave. There are at least three in tWoM, and two in the trilogy that form the backdrop to important events. They are primarily places where secrets are shared and truths come to light.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Oh, that’s cool! Lighting the way by bugs!

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Oh no! Poor Ginny. I’m glad everything was okay.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Cool-coloured insects! Interested to know what the tithe is for?

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Blue is definitely what she needs. (There’s not really any morality linked to one kind vs another. They’re just different)

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yes. Fae is primarily blue. Earth is primarily green.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Essentially, the chance to get back to the world of Fae, to find the love she was separated from back when the doors closed. Mòrag thought it was already over - that there were no witches with the right sort of magic left - so this one is a surprise.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is beautiful! Somber, but still beautiful.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It’s been a little while since I’ve done a #WIPSnip Colour plays a big role in the magic system in my stories, so there was a lot of mentions of blue. This one is from the prologue of the trilogy, when we get a little insight into Mòrag’s motivations.

The choice wasn’t really made there, in that vault. Mòrag had already decided, from the second she had seen it - such an obnoxiously bright burst of magic for a mere witch in training, with far more blue to it than she’d seen in centuries, and the girl didn’t even break a sweat. This girl was the best chance she had ever had. A gift from the universe, and likely the last. One last, final chance, before she would have to admit to herself that it was over.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Aaahhhh 🥹 so cute! 🥰 I’m glad he sorted out his feelings eventually.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I’m sorry it’s been a tough time, but glad to hear it’s starting to get a little easier again. It’s lovely to see you back!

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Honestly, I don’t remember exactly what sparked it - I picked it up either late last year or early this year when I was looking for new books. It might have been the published feed after BluePit. In any case, I think it was the combination of the humour, plus monsters that made me pick it up.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Authors, favourite lines, go “Darkness is rest and sleep; quiet and solitude; the soft comfort of white lies; the safety to be found in secrets and in sanctuary.”

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yes, they all start with “i”. Barring a few loan-words from other languages, pronouns are are some of the very few which do.

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Possessive pronouns use the same, but they are suffixed onto the end of the noun they own. E.g. benar = home, so benaril = our home etc. For other types, I haven’t hammered out so many, but I do have ip (that/which/who)

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Tina 🫜 is Querying! @tinaduncan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

For personal pronouns, we have: ie (me), if (you), in (singular they), il (we), is (plural they) and ive (it). He/she are notably missing, because pronouns like “in” (they) can be combined with descriptors where necessary (not just gender, but all sorts of things, like alignment, or notable traits)

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