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Mel Starkicker

@starkicker.bsky.social

👋 I'm Mel. I write character-driven wlw romance with a healthy dose of comedy and music. Usually slow burn, sometimes sloth burn.
I have 2 WIP in editing, and 2-3 WIP in my brain currently trying to escape.
#WIP #lesfic #amquerying #writesky #amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity 🌈✒️

A screen grab of a synopsis for work in progress #1 . It reads:
Julie Gatensby and Isabell Brewer have been friends since Julie saved Izzy from a mishap with some iced tea. When they start a band together, they finally start to feel like the cool kids they knew they were. After a concert at a local bar, their friendship is put to the test—and fails.
Several years later, Julie returns home in the hopes of regrouping after a disastrous breakup from her band, her job, and her boyfriend. She also hopes she can revive a friendship that had long since ended. Izzy, however, is less receptive to Julie’s overtures.
Years of hurt on both sides make relationships strained. Thankfully, everyone else around them seems to see what the women simply cannot: they are meant to be together. If only Izzy could admit her feelings. If only Julie could get over her self-hate. If only one of them would say what they really want. If only someone would turn off the home shopping channel. And if only everyone would stop telling drummer jokes!

A screen grab of the synopsis for my 2nd work in progress. It reads:
Jacqueline Lamont likes control.
She controls her life, her career, and her emotions by one guiding principle: attachments are dangerous.
Fortunately, her career as a well-known folk singer makes that easy. Jacqueline lives out of tour buses and hotels, drifting from town to town and lover to lover, never staying long enough to belong anywhere. She’s happier that way—or so she tells herself.
Then a phone call rips her off the road, sending her back to a family she long believed had abandoned her and to a life she never meant to return to.
Back in Toronto, Jacqueline struggles to find her footing and maintain any semblance of control. Especially when she keeps running into a charming young nurse who looks oddly familiar and seems determined to insert herself into Jacqueline’s carefully contained life.
Shannon MacCartney is everything Jacqueline tries to avoid: rooted and compassionate. Worse yet, she has an unsettling ability to see past Jacqueline’s raised eyebrows, biting remarks, and relentless need for control.
Jacqueline’s tight grip on control is challenged, as the universe and an infuriatingly determined nurse show her that letting go might be the only way to get what she truly wants.

January 12, 2026 at 3:46 PM

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Adria

@adriaandthepriors.bsky.social

Why is it so dark?!

A painting of a woman looking out of a window in a room

Once the weather gets warmer, I'll be unstoppable.
Unless it gets too warm. Then I'll be stoppable again.

January 12, 2026 at 9:01 AM

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Mel Starkicker

@starkicker.bsky.social

There's going to be a lot of writing for this one because I have thoughts about what I plan and why I plan it.
I plan a lot. The photos are two small sections of what I plan for MCs or any significant SC. I start with characters, then plot, then go back to characters again (1/?)
#AwesomeCharacters

A screen grab of a character sheet I use to make my characters.

NAMES
List any names they use, nicknames, who uses those nick names, do they use different names with different people, names they hate
BIRTH / DEATH (CAUSE)

DISTINGUSHING FEATURES
Anything that will stick out on first sight/closer examination.
FASHION SENSE
Clothes they like, clothes they hate, are they comfortable in fancy/formal wear
VOICE, ACCENT / LANGUAGES
What languages do they speak, how fluent are they, do they have an accent that stands out against the setting, how will you show that accent on page, is language creep an issue, when do they use any 2nd language, and to what effect
VOCABULARY
Words they will use, words they might use wrong
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
Height, weight, physical shape, disabilities (physical), do they work out, hair colour, eye colour, glasses, makeup, jewellery, birthmarks, tattoos, etc…
FAMILY & OTHER CONNECTIONS
Family tree and how they interact with that person.
Friend tree and how they interact with that person
Work tree and how they interact with that person
EDUCATION AND WORK
Did they go to school, do they like school, what did they want to be growing up, are they now, are they happy where they are, who was their favourite teacher and why, what was their favourite subject and why
HOBBIES & INTERESTS
What hobbies do they have, how do these hobbies affect their personality/character dev/physical appearance (f.ex: a guitarist will have rough fingers, a drummer probably won’t sit still, a geocacher will have weird things in their backpack)

a screen grab of another part of the table for my character development.
WHAT ARE THEIR (GREATEST) FLAWS
According to them, according to others, according to the author
WHAT IS THEIR GREATEST FEAR
According to them, according to others, according to the author
WHAT DO THEY WANT

WHAT DO THEY ACTUALLY WANT

WHAT IS A MORAL CODE/RULE(S) THEY LIVE BY

WHAT RULE(S) WILL THEY NEVER BREAK

WHAT IS THEIR HAPPIEST MEMORY

WHAT IS THEIR SADDEST MEMORY

WHAT IS THE ONE THING THEY WILL NEVER TELL ANYONE

WHAT MOTIVATES THEM
In work, in love, in life, in character development
HOW DO THEY DEAL WITH DIFFERENT EMOTIONS
Anger, volcanic anger, annoyance, fear, amusement, neutral, curious, overwhelmed, emotionally hungover, frustrated, grateful, happy, joyous, hurt, humour/playful, intimate (sexual and non sexual), nervous, protective, sad, stressed, surprised, uncomfortable (physically), unsettled/doubtful, worried

January 12, 2026 at 7:26 AM

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Mel Starkicker

@starkicker.bsky.social

The wife and I are making eggnog because I love it and can't buy it in Norway (and homemade is better anyway).

It's going about as well as most of our kitchen adventures go.

Neither of us are bad in the kitchen (she trained as a chef, I raised myself).

We're just weirdos...
Stay tuned?🥚🤷‍♀️🫠

December 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM

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Ian Potter

@ianzpotter.bsky.social

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore.
It happens a lot 'round here.

November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM

CeciAG

@cecag.bsky.social

When someone says "Be a doll, and...", this is the doll I want to be.

July 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM

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Adam Bunch

@adambunch.bsky.social

The Toronto Circus Riot broke out on this day 170 years ago — sparked by a brawl between angry clowns and firefighters at a Victorian brothel.

Here's my annual thread about one of the strangest stories in Canadian history...

A collage of four Victorian circus performers standing in front of a circus tent, with flames rising up in the foreground.

July 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM

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TC

@tcustodis.bsky.social

Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Be gay do crow stuff

#pridemonth #pridecrows

June 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM

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Mel Starkicker

@starkicker.bsky.social

Syd er klar for Eliteserien sesongstart!!

Heia @rosenborgballklub.bsky.social ⚽👏 #eliteserien

March 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝

@sundaedivine.lol

I was feeling kinda lonely this morning so I glued a coffee cup to the top of my car so people would wave at me.

March 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝

@sundaedivine.lol

I’ll bring the hammer if you’ll bring the nails.

Truck with Donald Trump is Jesus Christ decal.

March 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM

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Mel Starkicker

@starkicker.bsky.social

A photographer, Mervyn Sequeira, took fantastic photographs of a bald eagle trying to attack a Canada goose in Burlington, Ontario. The goose fought back and the eagle backed off.

Photographer who snapped fight between a bald eagle and Canada goose calls it 'very symbolic' | CBC News

A bald eagle may have thought it spotted an easy lunch in a Canada goose sitting on an icy bay in Burlington, Ont., but according to Mervyn Sequeira — who watched and photographed a 20-minute battle b...

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March 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM

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eugene

@eugene290390.bsky.social

"Woke just means you give a damn about other people."— Jane Fonda accepting the Life Achievement Award at the SAG Awards

February 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝

@sundaedivine.lol

Donald Trump is saying if Ukraine hadn't dressed so provocatively Russia wouldn't have invaded her.

February 19, 2025 at 8:54 AM

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dillo (wiglet tuttle)

@dillo.media

her: i know a place

me: i hope it's Large Black Inflatable Nightclub 14x14x14ft Inflatable Party Tent Inflatable Night Club Tent For Adults Wedding Birthday Raves Dance Floor Business.

her:

temu add for a large inflatable cube with velvet ropes outside it like a club

February 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM

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Jonathan Slater

@jonathanslater.bsky.social

This is the face I want to be friends with

February 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝

@sundaedivine.lol

"Insane how the US grew up right next to Canada and we turned out like this - It's like when one sibling goes to Harvard and the other dies pantless in a meth lab explosion." - Emily Murnane

February 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM

CeciAG

@cecag.bsky.social

Longish but important read. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Trump claims there's only '2 genders.' Historians say that's never been true | CBC News

The Trump administration's 'two gender' policy is sparking fear and confusion among trans and non-binary people. The executive order claims it's a return to "biological facts," but experts say it igno...

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February 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM

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Sarah Cooper

@sarahcpr.bsky.social

Want to feel old? Trump was inaugurated less than 2 weeks ago

January 31, 2025 at 10:16 PM

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@carriem.co.uk

“You may be mourning the life you thought you’d be living at this point. You may be fearful about the uncertainty of your future. You aren’t alone. Many of us adults have felt those things too.”