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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A dragon and their favourite paper clip. The heart wants what the heart wants. 🤷‍♂️

A small pencil sketch of a tiny dragon perched on a branch with a paper clip gripped tightly in their mouth. The paper clip is about 1/4 the size of the dragon.

Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The second story in my fantasy rom-com series is out today! A Dragon For Tea is the continuation of Antonia and Sir Aldrydd's story, we finally get to see how her family reacts to her falling in love with a dragon!

A book ad on a green background. The image of the book has a red dragon in an early 1800s gentleman's attire, offering someone tea from a teapot. The text on the cover says, Kirsty Mackay, A Dragon For Tea. Beside the cover additional text says, Regency Romance With Dragons! Out Today!

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

If anyone is around, I will be doing some writing sprints and body doubling on Twitch from 10 am to 12 noon UK time. the name is watchedplotneverboils like on here :)

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

My goal for this week is to get the final version of my next short story all wrapped up! It's supposed to be done for an Ides of March publishing date, so I'd better get a move on!

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Are you interested in Medieval Lives? Queer history? Murder? Well, have a look at our 2 part interactive course Medieval Murder: Goth Detectives www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/9565535062...

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Medieval Murder: Goth Detectives

An interactive two part course with Medievalist Dr Melissa Julian-Jones, exploring the murder of William de Cantilupe

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

My birthday sword came today (yes my birthday is in December, no we will not comment on that)! How long did it take for me to get in trouble for fighting with it in the hallway? About four hours?

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

No writing sprints today, I'll be pleased if I just hit the minimum to keep my streak going on 4thewords, I've just got no energy at all

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

I am sleepy but I'm going to write anyway!

A row of cartoon bats across the top, then a tired-looking, cartoon bedsheet-style ghost with a coffee mug, next to a cartoon witch's cauldron with orange potion bubbling out.

WRITING SPRINTS!
10 - NOON
WatchedPlotNeverBoils on Twitch

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Going to do some writing sprints on Twitch this morning, the plan is for 10 am until noon but it's the first time so things might go completely wrong! Name on twitch is WatchedPlotNeverBoils

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

#queerwriters Saturday check in time! Well I've gone through a big chunk of my first novel, annotating it and reminding me about characters and stuff. Most importantly, it has meant I remember the rules of my LitRPG setting because I did not remember any of the mechanics! #writingcommunity

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Carmen Loup🌻🌈 Read Aliens in New Florida! @carmenloup.com · 10/10/2024

#NOVELMBER 10) Are you drawing any location maps for your own reference? Any for the final book?

#NOVELMBER
49,999 Words. 1 Month. o BS.
Hosted by CarmenLoup.com
10) Are you drawing any location maps for your own reference? Any for the final book?
Plotober Special Event runs October 21-31st

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Art Nouveau is when stuff looks like it was made by Elves. Art Deco is when stuff looks like it was made by Dwarves.

An Art Nouveau staircase decorated with curved patterns and soft colors, with a nature-themed background and rounded windows on the walls.

Art Deco staircase. An angular, grand design in dark colors.

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Stacy King @stacyking.com · 05/10/2024

On behalf of the harmless little nerds, it is indeed very funny. (and useful: something like this would have saved me a lot of hassle while trying to explain to curious cops that no, we don't really think we're werewolves, it's called *make-believe*)

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

#queerwriters Saturday: Check in Day! I got a short story finished! It's all edited and sent away so now it is someone else's problem and I don't need to think about it anymore. Only I will because anxiety demands it, of course #WritingCommunity #lgbtqwriters

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

#LGBTQWriteAThon Day 7 - How's it going? So uhh, I haven't done much if I'm being honest? And the rest of this week will likely be worse, given that I am going to a LARP this weekend and will be away from the computer from Thursday to Sunday! #queerwriters #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters #writers

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

I submit to you the latest version of my sabbatical proposal.

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

#LGBTQWriteAThon Day 6 - Random Fact In order to get a good feel for the setting, I've been working on a mood board, but it's mostly turned into a wallpaper of castles, trains, and Worth gowns! Which isn't very useful for a school story! #queerwriters #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters #writers

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

#LGBTQWriteAThon Day 5: Story research A bit late but better than never? Was worried about researching travel in the Victorian era, but then remembered my good friend Jonathan Harker! So I guess part of my research will be rereading the travel parts of Dracula. Oh no, how terrible, such a shame.

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

#LGBTQWriteAThon Day 4 - Tropes Prepare for a list! Fantasy, Alternate History, Magical Realism, School, Secret Identity, Betrayal, Fantasy of Manners, International Espionage, Steampunk, Violence, Trapped, Undercover #queerwriters #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters #writers

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

#LGBTQWriteAThon Day 3: Inspiration? Classic Chalet, boarding, finishing school style books. But tbh, the real inspiration is my deep anger about how people denigrate traditionally female art forms, so I am going to use them for murder and espionage. #queerwriters #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

#LGBTQWriteAThon Day 2 Week Goals - Finish the secret project and get properly started on the magical finishing school short story Month Goals - Short stories, short stories, short stories, and make a proper plan for my second novel #queerwriters #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters #writers

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

Hi folks, my name is Kirsty and I write SFFH! I'm procrastinating writing the sequel to my first novel, so you get something new! This story is about magical finishing schools and espionage. #LGBTWriteathon #queerwriters #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters #writers

Image of text saying - Catriona's day started with a lesson on how to embroider spells onto handkerchiefs and ended with her throat torn open, blood spilling everywhere onto the floor of the Headmistress' office.

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Mhuyo @mhuyo.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

english isn't my mother language

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

I decided to start a journalling solo RPG this morning, and immediately drew the cards for an injury and three combat encounters. I mean, I guess it can only get better for her, but this is a rough start to Josephine Pipsqueak's adventure! #ttrpg #brambletrek

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Great, now we have witch’s hair falling from the sky: “So-called 'witch's hair' - thin, sharp, glass needles that are created in volcanic eruptions – have started falling on communities across the Reykjanes peninsula as a volcano in southwest Iceland continues to erupt.”

euronews.com

Glass splinters ejected from Iceland volcano as eruption continues

The eruption, which began on 22 August following a series of earthquakes, continues to pull in the crowds with people coming to Iceland from abroad in the hope of snapping the perfect Instagram pictur...

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

Going to start imitating John Keats and call post-1822 Mary Shelley "la belle dame sans Percy" from now on.

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

IT IS MARY SHELLEY DAY Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born in London #OTD in 1797. After gallivanting about being social, her father records in his diary: 'Birth of Mary, 20 minutes after 11 at night'

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

I came this close to making a pixie say "'Til we meet once more in Valhalla" today, and I kind of want to go back and add that line in. Writing is weird.

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Listening to a seminar on digital biology and asked if there were any sci fi tropes they were sick of. Answer - "Why do people always use these things for evil? They can do such good things!" 5 mins later, "And you can design mosquitoes not to bite anyone, or just bite the people you don't like"

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

I don't know why, but I am having so much trouble keeping to a single tense in my writing today. It's going everywhere, past, present, future!

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

Realised today that I hadn't started reading the Hugo Awards Packet yet. There are 20 sections and the deadline for votes is the 20th. Can I get through one a day to finish it in time? Probably not, but I guess I'm going to have to try.

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 24/06/2024

I've just learned that the International Astronomical Union has named an asteroid after me. I'm... I'm a little overcome. It's out near Jupiter, so there's no danger of it hitting the Earth. ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_l...

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Small-Body Database Lookup

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

You can tell I'm just a sleepy little guy today, I almost grabbed a stock cube instead of the cocoa powder when I went to the cupboard. That would have been an interesting choice for my coffee.

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

I have a book coming out next week! It is a LitRPG story about a hacker escaping the end of the world by uploading her mind into a virtual reality on space ship! She finds out that there are monsters hunting people like her and has to help defeat them! The pre-order page is up now amzn.to/3UDOcVk

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Hack and Slash eBook : Mackay, Kirsty: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 06/04/2024

i’ve been giggling for the past five minutes

Éowyn killing the witch king of angmar with a sword but instead of her face its miss piggy

captions read “you fool. no man can kill me!”

“moi is no man.”

“hiiiii-yaaaaaa”

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

today is the only day you can post this

A classic Tumblr post:

Kim-Jong-Chill: "I need feminism because when Jesus does a magic trick it's a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake."

Mattheuponium: "fabulous"

Tockthewatchdog: "I mean they did also kill Jesus. That was a pretty significant thing that happened. Like, I understand where you're coming from here but they very much did kill Jesus."

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Caesar’s last words being a curse rather than an expression of betrayal would be so on brand

with his toga and let himself fall.' Suetonius adds that, according to some reports, he said in Greek: 'Kai su, teknon' (which Shakespeare turned into the Latin 'Et tu, Brute?'). It literally means 'You too, child,' but what Caesar may have intended by the words isn't clear. Tempest cites 'an important article' by James Russell (1980) 'that has often been overlooked'. Russell points out that the words kai su often appear on curse tablets, and suggests that Caesar's putative last words were not 'the emotional parting declaration of a betrayed man to one he had treated like a son' but more, along the lines of 'See you in hell, punk.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 03/03/2024

Away, you rogue, away! I am sleepy.

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 28/02/2024

Uncover your aquatic alter ego by taking our deep-sea personality quiz: www.montereybayaquarium.org/stories/deep... Don’t forget to share your results in the comments! Thank you @MBARI for the deep-sea footage!

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World Fantasy 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

We are in the process of developing a community of artists and illustrators within the UK SF/F scene and hope this will be a good source of news, illustration opportunities, exhibitions seeking artists, support and more. If you are interested contact: art@britishfantasysociety.org.

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

Please RP! Writers! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Flash Fiction submissions (750-1500 words) from February 19-26!!! www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/06/2023

the best thing about the volcano snail is that it looks EXACTLY how you’d want a volcano snail to look

Red and black volcano snail that actually lives on volcanoes - known as the scaly-foot snail (Chrysomallon squamiferum) or sea pangolin

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Reminder to new users here: The fax machine was patented in 1843, the Samurai were formally abolished in 1867 and Lincoln was assassinated in 1865. All of which means there was a 22 year window where a Samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln.

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

I swear to god if I ever meet GRR Martin I am going to bully him into writing a short story that points out how great embroidery is and how important artistic expression is for everyone just in the hope that this could stop the slander

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frankenstonk's monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Oh gosh, this embroidered piece by Narumi Takada is so so lovely. “Stepping on Fresh Snow”

A small square piece of embroidery. It is a fluffy white ground made using a punch needle and cut loop technique, and cutting across it are flattened embroidered footprints and paw prints

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Kirsty @watchedplot.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Alright, my fellow NaNoWriMo-ers, how are we feeling? Feeling disappointed in your output? If it makes you feel better, the only day I was on track for this year was the first of November! According to the stats page, I will have to write 3500 words per day to finish on time! You can do this.

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Megan Elphick @meganelphick.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Slowly trying to find people I know on here, if we were mutuals on the other one, hit me up! Enjoy this suspiciously mobile patch of field as a first offering while I find my bearings

black and white drawing of a porcupine with poppies, wheat and cornflowers growing out of its back

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