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Rin Santana #amwriting

@villainwave.stedeco.re
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@stedeco.re's account for original writing! Mid-30s, rolling my head around on the keyboard, current project Season of the Witch (YA), Arab/Latine, brain and body out of warranty, they/them 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Ai? BEGONE THOT 🚫

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Jess Mahler @jessmahler.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Hi all, I'm Jess, queer, Jewish, weirdo. My WIP, Elisabeti, is about a werewolf pretending to be human in order to raise her cub in safety. It's loosely inspired by the experiences of the crypto-Jews of Spain during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Planning if off to a slow start but going well
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 16/10/2026
"Well everyone else is using it!" would you jump off a bridge if all your friends did etc etc
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 16/10/2026
this post is bad and you should feel bad
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 11/10/2026
Been catching up on this account and I want to make so many of these into memes featuring my characters because so, so many of them have chronic illness or pain. They say write what you know, right? 😅 anyway this one is Alec
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If Bilbo had ChatGPT 🤣
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threegoodwords @threegoodwords.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's something seen in passing, showing the Auditors' methodical zeal and fundamental incomprehension of what it means to be human. And every time GenAI enthusiasts go on about LLMs being equal to human creativity, I'm reminded of Pratchett's Auditors piling up pigments to find art. #writing
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threegoodwords @threegoodwords.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There's this scene in Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett where the Auditors (dedicated humanity haters) take apart oil paintings to find the art in them. They break the canvases and colours down to their molecules, separating and cataloguing everything in neat piles, all in pursuit of finding art.
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 09/10/2026
the md-11 is just if they made a dc-10 into a stretch limo (bad) (especially if you know how they make stretch limos) (which i found out from an episode of well there's your problem) (which that shirt is from) (oh yeah it's all comin together)
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 09/10/2026
we do a little aviation humor and if i'm not hating on the dc-10 you need to check my pulse
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PLS DON'T SUE US EITHER | Bonfire
wait can a company that doesn't exist any more sue. From the jungles of Vietnam to the skies of [Category:Accidents and incidents involving the McDonnell Douglas MD-11...
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 09/10/2026
A funny little joke for me: a place where a disastrous confrontation happens is at the corner of douglas and mcdonnell
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A writer's stories do not exist to be turned to our whims. They exist to show us possibilities not our own. Use the longing you feel for a different ending, different character, different plot AND WRITE YOUR OWN. But expecting to be catered to as if that's somehow satisfying is antithetical to art.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Something that I've noticed across all mediums in recent years is that everyone wants everything catered TO them, rather than broadening their minds to other directions or possibilities in fiction. From plot to characters to ships. I see people one-star books because it's ~not what they would do~ 🧵⬇️
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 09/10/2026
what's wrong with me (undiagnosable)
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 09/10/2026
Queer liberation? Check. Disability justice? Check. Stuff for big ol' STEM nerds? Checky checky boom boom.
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 09/10/2026
maybe i will
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 09/10/2026
you know you're a nerd when a plot point in your book relies on Legally Distinct ArXiv
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 07/10/2026
NOT COFFEE AND RED BULL COMBINED I'M NOT A MANIAC
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 07/10/2026
save me red bull and coffee in my color changing hatsune miku mug. red bull and coffee in my color changing hatsune miku mug save me
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 07/10/2026
in the editing mines like
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Cat Typing on Laptop: Bills Ugh
Alt: A grey cat in a blue shirt (yes, a real cat) bapping its paws aggressively on a laptop keyboard. Go, cat, go!
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 01/10/2026
the adhd has ruined me i fear. i have to get back to using my planner
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 01/10/2026
DID I GET IT IN UNDER THE WIRE FJSLFLS I FORGET EVERY PITCH EVENT EVER
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 01/10/2026
#DVPit: Season of the Witch ARTEMIS FOWL x THE BOURNE IDENTITY: A magic student's attempted murder sent her into witness protection. The man who saved her took a terrible curse. Now someone's murdering more agents, & they need to figure out who. #YA #CF #CI #Latine #MENA #TV #DIS #POC #ND #LGBT
Season of the Witch

ARTEMIS FOWL x THE BOURNE IDENTITY: A magic student's attempted assassination sent her into witness protection. The agent who saved her took a terrible curse. Now someone's assassinating more agents, & they need to figure out who.

#YA #W #PN #M #T #DIS #POC #ND #LGBT #TR
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 30/09/2026
query package submitted i'm gonna vibrate into the next century
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 30/09/2026
I'm gonna have to chug several red bulls in quick succession to get this book the way I really want it. And be merciless about the edits.
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 20/09/2026
Characters with chronic illness? In MY writing? It's more likely than you'd think. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips
 
There was a clang and everyone looked towards the source. The hatch on one of the maintenance tubes had popped open, and Kami was crawling out of it. “There we go, Roro, that little bug should be fixed now. Well, not so little, I guess – you would not believe the size of the thing I had to shoo out of the conduits.” She looked up, grinning behind her mask. “Oh, hey, you two!”
 
“Get out of my lab in that dirty jumpsuit!” Rowan screeched as she got to her feet. “You’re going to get particles and filth on everything!”
 
“‘Thank you, Kami, you’re the best, Kami, I owe you my life and a double-double animal style with animal fries, Kami’,” the roboticist said sarcastically, sauntering towards the door. “‘You’re the best of all time, Kami, I couldn’t do any of this without your beautiful face and incredible expertise, Kami’.”
 
“Just get back in here once you put on a jumpsuit that isn’t covered in conduit oil and filth,” Rowan said.
 
“Callahan, stay,” Alec said, following Kami.
 
“Stay? ‘Stay’. Like I’m a dog, or something,” Kitty grumbled, but remained behind, still curiously examining the hologram of their brain activity. She was probably going to talk the faun’s ear off with questions. Good.
 
The both of them went through the airlock, and when they reached the antechamber, Kami pulled the heating charm off, followed by her hood. “Gah. My hair’s always a mess in these things. Gets into my mouth.” She pushed her goggles up. “Hello, gorgeous.”
 
“You look good in anything, even one of these stupid bunny suits,” Alec said. “Why were you crawling around in there?”
 
“Well, Rowan can’t do it with their legs how they are – not like they’d ever admit it.”
 
“You have joint problems,” Alec said.“I took pain medication and had a cushioning charm to reduce the impact on my knees, honey, I’m fine. I just shouldn’t be doing that every day, that’s all. Besides, I like crawling through duct work. Makes me feel like I’m on a starship.”
 
I want to do this until I can’t do it anymore, was what she didn’t have to say. I want to do this until my body won’t let me. Alec knew what she meant all too well. He knew that he had so much he wanted to do until his body finally gave out from the damn curse eating him alive. He certainly wouldn’t begrudge her a little bit of crawl time.
 
“You know yourself best,” he said, and she smiled.
 
“I’d give you a hug, but I think Rowan would have a fit,” she said, gesturing to her bunny suit. There was oil smeared on it, and the knees were scuffed up. The nitrile gloves had some grime on them, which only made sense given that she’d been doing repairs.
 
“I think Rowan would have a fit either way,” said Alec, “but point taken. They showed us the brain mapping from the data they were able to compile.”
 
“Oh? They finished that? I was crawling around in there for hours.”
 
“Mm. It’s…interesting.”
 
“Alec,” Kami said, removing her nitrile gloves before sitting down and unbuckling the clean room boots. “You’re a terrible liar.”
 
“I’m actually a fantastic liar,” he said. “It’s part of my job.”
 
“Fine – then you’re a terrible liar when it comes to me. I know it was more than ‘interesting’, don’t tell me something so neutral. Did they figure out what’s wrong?”
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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 19/09/2026
going for a sort of maximalist style in the next draft by introducing every new thing as fast as possible, which will either lead to incredible breakthroughs in pacing technology or be straight up unreadable
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 18/09/2026
Leaned over the banister to ask my roommate downstairs "HEY WHAT'S SOMETHING INTERESTING ABOUT ME I CAN PUT IN MY AUTHOR BIO"
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
yeah I didn't get into this initially because I think it's something people often misunderstand but library (and school) sales are actually a super important chunk of sales, especially for YA/kidlit (because that's what gets books into the hands of their target audience--kids don't have money)
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 18/09/2026
Working on a query package and I'm beyond nervous, l-lol. At least I'm trimming a lot of fat from my book!
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Lee Melillo (they/she) @leemelillobooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
in honor of my first week with speilburg, i'm opening up for queries through the end of the month! consider hitting me up - and check out my #mswl to see what genres i'm open to: querytracker.net/query/leemel...
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Query Lee Melillo at Speilburg Literary Agency
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 07/09/2026
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Kim Sherrell @web.kim · 06/09/2026
A fiction writer named Maria has arrived here from twitter. Let's make @mjhyland.bsky.social feel welcome. 🤍
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 21/08/2026
✨ Season of the Witch 🧙🏽 "Alcohol" instead, and the only instance not referring to isopropanol (so far). This bit'll probably get cut during this revision (it's pure NaNoWriMo wordcount inflation), but it makes me laugh. #WriteSky #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity
Rowan nodded stiffly. “Tiburon.”
 
“No, not ‘Tiburon’,” Kami said slyly. “What was your cute little nickname for him earlier? ‘Meathead Senior’?”
 
Rowan blanched, and Baz laughed, thumping his cane on the floor. “I’ve been called far worse, Fizzbin, but thank you for the nickname all the same.”
 
“So, Baz, I heard tell that you sing,” said Kami. “Care to serenade us after all this is through? The acoustics in this place are second-to-none.”
 
“Perhaps, but you may have to get me a little tipsy first,” he said.
 
“Okay, bet,” said Kitty. “Alec, use my allowance to buy Uncle Baz some alcohol.”
 
“You don’t get an allowance,” Alec said wearily.
 
“What? Why not? I perform labor! I should be able to be paid for my tasks!”
 
Alec looked at Kami. “You never should have introduced her to Marx.”
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 21/08/2026
You don't want to know the kind of gymnastics I had to do to get Winamp working on Windows 11.
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 21/08/2026
It's about that time. (Midnight thirty, or, writing o'clock.)
A partial screenshot of Rin's computer, showing a word document and winamp.

Chapter 1:

It was 4:52 in the morning, and two CIA agents were sitting outside the home of a dangerous man.

[Winamp window showing a playlist that is very long and currently is only the soundtrack for The Bourne Identity]

“What’s he doing?”
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 20/08/2026
one of our books has an entire subplot where folks are trying to find a zip drive so they can read a zip disk they found, and hilariously I wrote it during the 7 months where netbooks were a thing before iPads killed them, so they're all making fun of zip drives while using their netbooks. 🤣
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Pythonmelon (Comms open) @pythonmelon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I am deeply southern, and I want to fill my work with respect for small towns and the people who live there as complex individuals who aren't stupid or inherently backwards, and the land is gorgeous and worthy of respect
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 21/08/2026
i wear these every day 😎
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Spooky Rin Stedecore 👻🎃 🔪 @stedeco.re · 22/07/2026
✨ Season of the Witch 🧙‍♀️ Rowan's bedside manner is atrocious, so it's probably a good thing that they're not a doctor, huh? ("Gasoline and grapefruit" derives from a description of Malort I saw once. Figured that'd do for gross experimental magic medicine.) #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
“Don’t get cute, meathead.”
 
“I don’t know how else to be.”
 
“Ha.” Rowan turned back to him. “My data’s still compiling. I won’t be able to tell you anything useful yet. Except that you need to keep using your wand.”
 
“Right hand?”
 
“Please. To keep the magic flowing strongly on that side of your body.”
 
Alec sighed and looked at his hands. “Not likely I’m going to be shooting lightning bolts from my fingertips anytime soon, huh?”
 
“Not unless you want the cure to be worse than the disease,” Rowan said. “I can make something for you that’ll do that, but you’d be able to do it a grand total of once before, I assume, the curse marks spread and engulf your entire body.”
 
“Yeah, I’m good, thanks.”
 
“Your choice. Now. You said you don’t like the taste of your potion?”
 
“Gasoline and grapefruit, Rowan. It’s not my preferred palate.”
 
“I think I’ll need to rework it based on what I’m gathering from this rudimentary data. I should have something for you next week. You’ll be fine to continue taking your current medication until it runs out.”
 
“No chance of a little shot of mint or something in the meantime?”
 
“I’m afraid that I can’t wrap your medicine in cheese like I’d have to do for a dog, Alec, until the new potion is complete I can’t in good conscience let you potentially make what you have left into a dud.”
 
“I thought you were a mad scientist.”
 
Rowan scoffed. “I’m no mad scientist. I’m perfectly sane.”
 
“Mm, and that’s what worries me.”
 
Rowan swatted him on the back of the head. “If you’re quite done being fresh? We can head back out to the front now. I believe we’ve someone to see.”
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crocs @caribbeancrocs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
hi pirate friends!!! a super cool new author you all know is asking for title advice in their latest substack. you can vote and leave your feedback here 🌈
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July Re-cap + August Activities!
Nursing a constant state of Jet Lag and basking in celebrations!
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 20/08/2026
[wakes up after 19 days] What'd I miss
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 01/08/2026
Phew. Okay. Grad school is officially Done! 🎉 Creative energy will soon return. But first, a nap.
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AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers @amaralynn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
#QueerWritersChat 5: You can follow along for updates on Fire and Feathers at Backerkit! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a... I'm also available for commissions! Cute art, design, and cover work! I'm barely getting by so anything helps! ko-fi.com/amarajlynn
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Fire and Feathers
Get notified when Fire and Feathers launches on BackerKit!
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 30/07/2026
41. Do you intentionally write in foreshadowing? Despite my pantsing, sometimes I do in fact do it on purpose!
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 30/07/2026
21. Do you have a specific kind of reader in mind? Related to earlier, I want to write books I wish I had as a kid. And I write for me. I think it was Vonnegut who said you need to write for yourself first and foremost.
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 30/07/2026
13. What drives you to write? The words itch my brain and I have to get them out. I want to write stories that I want to read. It's a "fine, I'll do it myself" thing.
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 30/07/2026
We love Renee don't we folks!!!
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 30/07/2026
42. How much do you plan your writing beforehand? I am almost entirely a pantser. The most I do is come in with a general idea, set the little Sims up, and watch them go. More than once a theme or plot thread has developed organically from this!
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 30/07/2026
39. Do you have a favorite genre to write in? Somehow almost everything I write ends up with mystery/thriller elements in it, even when I'm not intending to, so, that, I guess!
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Rin Santana #amwriting @villainwave.stedeco.re · 30/07/2026
12. Do you have a favorite character? Well, Alec and Kitty have been knockin' around my head since, what, 2000? 2001? So they're very dear to me. Otherwise, probably Daniel, because I put a lot of my own experience with untreated bipolar disorder in there.
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