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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I'm alive!! got logged out of this account and forgot to log back in for two months oops

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

why am I at work today. I should be laying on a bed of moss, slowly letting the forest subsume me

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

my phone just autocorrected my to km/h??? physics. it haunts me.

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🜄 greybriar 🜁 @greybriar.art · 25/05/2026

I don't want to talk to gemini in a fancy hat I don't want to ask chatgpt I don't want to use Copilot at work I want to Walk Slowly Into The Ocean and Become Kelp.

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

the ig algorithm hated this for some reason, but I’m still proud of it 🥰 I think it would be fun to do more little projects like this! #writingcommunity #writesky #booksky #fantasybooks #reading #fantasymusic #music

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

why am I at work today. I should be laying on a bed of moss, slowly letting the forest subsume me

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

the sun weighs heavy on the land teeming and vibrant distant promises of life now blooming thin strands of gossamer break across my shins— the race is run and summers won the oak king rules again #writing #writesky #writingcommunity #poem #poetry #summer #nature #bloomscrolling #druidsky #obod

in the dense brush, a bee rests on a bright yellow flower reaching toward the sun

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

after one (1) day of hot weather, I would like to announce I am ready for autumn now

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

red-eye + chocolate pastry, while a delicious combination, was perhaps not the smartest move right before a 4hr training glued to a computer screen 😅

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

orange brightens the air today— it mingles with split cedar and crushed pine, with the viscera of cut grass, and the soft clean scent of springtime mist as it kisses my nose and touches my lips. #writing #writesky #writingcommunity #sensory #poem #poetry #spring #nature #druidsky #obod

drops of morning dew cling onto strands of spiderweb inside the hole of a wooden fence. faintly, in the background, a valley of mist can be seen, pooling around the base of a mountain.

photo cred: me! (full disclosure, I took this picture a number of years ago, not during my walk this morning — I couldn’t really take a picture of what I was smelling)

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

my writing routine starts, weather-dependent, with a wander in the woods and a little warm-up in the notes app on my phone. this was my warm-up this morning, after which I finished initial edits on chapter 1 of project sunheist! #amwriting #writingcommunity #writesky #poetry

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

through the forest under a veil of gentle rain my feet carry me over the stone bridge across the river, across the boundary in this new world, the wind whispers secrets to rustling leaves and birdsong bids me listen #writing #writesky #writingcommunity #poem #poetry #nature #druidsky #obod

the treetops of a forest, overshadowed by gray clouds. some trees are full of spring leaves; some are stark and bare.

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

a fine silk of wind against my skin, sun-warm and caressed by errant petals, pink and fallen. one finds it’s way beneath my collar, nestled against heartbone I inhale that wind, and seed a lungful of bubblegum spring

a muted image of pink flowers hanging down from a tree, dripping in spring rain. a gray sky and out of focus trees in the background.

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

just finished a tempest of tea by hafsah faizal — next up is on freedom by timothy snyder! #booksky #books #reading

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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The witch frog, guardian of the book of hidden swamp magic, feels happy to be working with what she loves.

painting of a frog dressed as a witch holding a book

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

my heart just wanted to be out in the sun today, but I managed to get through the 3 scenes I needed to write — now back outside I go! #amwriting #writesky #writingcommunity

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Project Sunheist will be ready for a critique partner in ~a month! An enby assassin on strike, psychically-linked Crime Husbands™️ , an anxious teen witch, and the experiment she set free must work together to prevent a powerful magic item from falling into the wrong hands. #ABCPit #F #A

Moodboard featuring imagery of the sea, canals, a key, a round-looking bird, the sun, a mask, flowers, gold, and stars surrounding a group of five silhouetted people

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

#shoutout to my new #crpshrikes cabin buddies!! you guys have been awesome during #camprevpit this year and I’m glad to have met you and your stories ♡

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I usually know the ending before I know the beginning!! I initially conceive of my projects more in terms of vibes and themes, so the first thing I figure out is how a story arc could reflect the themes I want to work with then the issue is figuring out where to begin… #camprevpit #crpshrikes

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The last Conduit is dead—and Magpie of Lornwhen, perpetual troublemaker and incurable dreamer, is thrilled about it. Two clueless lesbians. A forest full of spirits and giant mushrooms. A journey of love and ascension. #agentguide #querying #QuestPit #Q #F #NA #LGBT #ND

Text: An agent’s guide to When the Magpie Flies by M H Wottenmoss. Background of mountains, trees, and giant mushrooms. A magpie flies in the sky.

Pitch: Magpie of Lornwhen, hobbyist scholar and incurable troublemaker, refuses to believe she hasn’t been chosen as a Conduit.

Wild spiritwoods cage the human cities of Iridis, and the Conduits are humanity’s only defense against the monstrous spirits that lurk within. Magpie has always dreamed of becoming one of these elite spirit-whisperers, who never want for anything, never wonder where their next meal is coming from, never have to shelter in a half-crumbled clocktower no one else wants. When Magpie is definitely, absolutely chosen by a spirit, she finally has her chance.

Calladonna, her best friend and partner-in-survival, doesn’t want Mag to be a Conduit. There are rumors about how it changes people, how they don’t come back quite right. More than human — or less. Determined to reassure her friend and keep them together, Mag convinces Calla to follow her in secret, hidden from the other Conduits as they undertake a sacred journey into the heart of the spiritwoods. But Mag’s secrets can’t stay hidden forever, and when the consequences turn deadly, she has to make a decision: abandon her dreams or risk losing Calla forever.

Comps: A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft: clueless lesbians, murder and betrayal, journey of ascension. Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher: found family, humor and darkness, perilous quest.

Also featuring undiscovered magic, monstrous spirits, chaotic academia, ill-advised rituals, haunted forest, queer & autistic ensemble cast, giant mushrooms, original music

Opening lines: The world went dark just after she jumped off the roof. In one moment she could see the clocktower before her, the ledge beneath its defunct face familiar and inviting, and in the next there was nothing. It wasn't an uncommon occurrence, necessarily, but damn if that wasn't inconvenient timing.

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A troublemaker chosen by the spirits breaks an ancient tradition to keep her best friend (not her crush, obviously) by her side, resulting in deadly—and possibly apocalyptic—consequences feat: a looming Shadow that lives in the sky and occasionally swallows the sun #QuestPit #Q #F #NA #LGBT #ND

Moodboard featuring a mystical forest, a faint outline of a woman flying over a dark shadow, a magpie, two people holding hands, a library with stained glass windows, sheet music, outlines of leaves, mountains and a dagger, and watercolor-style flowers, clouds, mushrooms and sun

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

finished what moves the dead by t. kingfisher earlier this week; this evening I’m reading the gilded wolves by roshani chokshi

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

maybe slightly to the left of the actual prompt, but I really love developing distinct character voices—within the narrative prose specifically, but dialogue too. there’s just something so satisfying about having it all come together and reflect an individual personality #camprevpit #crpshrikes

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

please someone tell me why my gym is playing careless whisper???

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

haven’t had much time to write since I picked up some shifts last week — but tomorrow and Thursday are both dedicated writing days, so hopefully I’ll be able to get through a few more chapters on this draft by the end of the week #camprevpit #crpshrikes

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

the words are allowed to be bad in the first draft, but then I have to read them later 😩 #camprevpit #crpshrikes #gifrevisions

screenshot of a tumblr post by sjw-bot: in retrospect, yikes

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

for sunheist wip: ☀️forced proximity 🌊powerful magical artifact ☀️hidden vaults 🌊monsters in the ocean ☀️masquerade 🌊rivals forced to cooperate ☀️mysterious past #camprevpit #tropesunday #crpshrikes

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

#camprevpit #crpshrikes not fully satisfied with this moodboard for sunheist wip yet, but my brain is no longer cooperating with attempts to fix it 😅

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

#crpcabinraids! the spirits are the most prevalent “monsters” throughout the story, beings made of cold blue energy, some of which are giant & clawed, or tiny & insectoid—or humanoid, but not quite right but there’s the Shadow too, which looms over the world and narrative… #camprevpit #crpshrikes

You couldn’t always see the Shadow in the sky; most of the time it was a tiny spot of darkness marring the daytime sky like an inverse star or nestled in the blanket of night. It wasn’t something you could set your clock or your compass to, either. It changed size and shape and location with no clear pattern.

Hedgemages made a habit of trying to divine by it, to conjure some sort of meaning from its movements. What a waste of time—the Shadow simply was what it was. Sometimes it was bigger. Sometimes it was smaller.

Sometimes it swallowed the entire sky.

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Magpie’s first instinct is to run away (from danger, stress, uncomfortable conversations etc); at times it’s humorous—she spends an entire scene convincing herself not to jump out the window—but she ends up getting in her own way and causing herself a lot of problems too #camprevpit #characterflaw

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

eat snacks, take naps… and maybe cause a shenanigan or two as a treat #camprevpit #crpshrikes

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

the obvious answer is Magpie and Calla, but (same book) I also really love the morally grey middle-aged lesbian couple doing very questionable science in the background #camprevpit #crpshrikes

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

good morning! a little snippet from the manuscript I #amquerying for #camprevpit #dialoguedrop Magpie and Calla are a team and they’re definitely not in love, no sapphic yearning here 👀 happy friday everyone!

"This is a bad decision," Mag said as she packed up her things, just for the sake of it. For the record.

"Maybe," Calla admitted. "But you're good at those."

Well. It wasn't not true. Mag responded with a demonstrative gesture, snatching up Calla's pack before she could try to carry it herself.

Calla was still trembling minutely, but she walked over to Mag's side without wavering. She didn't insist on taking her own pack. "No way out but through."

"Factually incorrect. Running for the hills is still an option."

"No, it isn't. I took that card off the table and ate it." Calla’s deep brown eyes were full of mirth and unafraid. She wanted to look at them forever.

"Evil," Mag insisted, her smile growing larger and more genuine. She knocked her knuckles against Calla's, and together they set off back toward the path.

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

this is a hard one! this book doesn’t have cut-and-dry villains #camprevpit #villainvoices one would say it’s about trying to live up to the expectations of his community another would say it’s about trying to prevent the end of the world the last would say it’s a long journey toward home & love

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

queer fantasy heist wip was inspired by a) the tv show leverage and b) the summer my union was preparing to go on strike #crpshrikes #camprevpit

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

couldn’t decide btw these two: “Magpie often perched at precarious heights and was frequently accused of foolishness—qualities that clearly put her at an academic advantage.” and: “Hope, like Magpie, was a stubborn thing.” #camprevpit #onelinemc #crpshrikes

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

my current wip has 5 main povs, and although it’s like having a favorite child I will admit Jaskiran is my favorite — they’re an enby assassin (the assassin’s union is on strike) and they’re a chaos gremlin whose voice is just a delight to write in #crpshrikes

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I’m exploring! It’s not my first time in these specific woods, but I’m still working on getting to know the landscape and discovering new things 🌲🏕 #camprevpit #crpshrikes

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

very much enjoying that I got put in the bird-themed cabin for #camprevpit 😂😂 it’s just birds all the way down over here #crpshrikes

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

hi!! I’m wott (they/them) and I’ve loved fantasy basically since I learned how to read. currently working on draft 2 of a queer fantasy heist, with the goal of getting it ready for outside eyes(anyone looking for a new cp/beta? 👀) looking forward to making some new writing friends!! #crpshrikes

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

hi 👋 right now I’m querying WHEN THE MAGPIE FLIES again after doing a developmental edit over the winter. currently working on the second draft of my queer fantasy heist, project sungold! #camprevpit #campkickoff #crpshrikes

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

it’s been a reading and rainstorms kind of day; just finished a conjuring of light by v e schwab, now reading hope in the dark by rebecca solnit #books #reading #booksky

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I would like to be done sneezing now, thank you

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

#mealprep this week! breakfast burritos (hashbrown, whole eggs + egg whites, spinach, cheese) and fruit smoothie lunch: sesame tofu bowls w rice, edamame, cucumber and kimchi dinner: homemade pizza pockets (pizza sauce, mozz, turkey pepperoni, mushrooms, spinach) (79g protein, 35g fiber per day)

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wott 🌱 @wottenmoss.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

#mealprep this week! breakfast: protein waffles w peanut butter and blueberry chia jam lunch: roasted garlic protein pasta, leftover easter ham, salad dinner: mediterranean chicken sausage wraps w tzatziki, greens, pickled red onions (~82g protein, 40g fiber per day)

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