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Steve Trower
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👽 Sci-fi | 🕹️ 80s Nostalgia | ✝️ Accidental Theology
📚 Author of 👾 The Ambivalence Chronicles; 🚀 Countless as the Stars; and 📺 Where Do All The Calculators Go?
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Day 16

🎬 Mulan
👨‍🎤 The Flaming Lips
🎵 Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt 1 (2002)
💿 Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Like Mulan, Yoshimi is criminally overlooked in my opinion.
February 16, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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Today in #WIPSnips, things that have never happened before:
first contact with an alien, and how not to do it.

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'Is that an alien?' 'I… I don't know, I've never seen an alien before.' 'It is, it's a freaking alien!' 'Oh my god, you know what this means?' 'Yes, we had a chance at a first contact situation and you contacted it with the front of an Austin Ambassador!' - THE ROTHWELL INCIDENT
February 15, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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Day 15

🎬 Hercules
👨‍🎤 Warmduscher
🎵 Love Strong (2023)

Not relevant, but Warmduscher's third album was called Tainted Lunch, which I think is pretty close to genius.
February 15, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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Day 14

🎬 Toy Story
👩‍🎤 audiobooks
🎵 The Doll (2021)
💿 Astro Tough

Literally the plot of Toy Story 6 in a (slightly dark) pop song.
February 14, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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Day 13

🎬 The Lion King
👨‍🎤 King
🎵 Love and Pride (1984)
💿 Steps In Time

Works on multiple levels: it's by King, and it's about a pride.
February 13, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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Today on #WIPSnips, Charlotte strikes a pose.

That's all. That's the snip.

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Standing in a deserted London suburb, gripping a katana defensively, as her black dress and blacker hair gently fluttered in the breeze, Charlotte could have stepped straight out of a Tim Burton movie. From Bit#4: The Dragon Download
February 12, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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Day 12

🎬 Aladdin
👩‍🎤 Daisy Chainsaw
🎵 Hope Your Dreams Come True (1992)
💿 Eleventeen

From the little known gender flipped version starring KatieJane Garside as a noise rock Aladdin, and Crispin Gray as the Djin who appears when she strums his guitar.
February 12, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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For today's #WIPSnips vibes, a quick one-liner from Bit#4 of The Ambivalence Chronicles, The Dragon Download.

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‘Well that explains the pound shop Mario Kart vibe.' from Bit#4: The Dragon Download
February 11, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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Day 11

🎬 Beauty and the Beast
👨‍🎤 Daikaiju
🎵 The Daikaiju Who Loved Me (2005)
💿 Daikaiju

Main theme from the surf rock monster movie reimagining, in which a bikini clad surf champion is held captive in the Pacific volcano lair of a massive dinosaur.
February 11, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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Spoilt for choice on today's #WIPSnips as one of the protagonists in The Rothwell Incident is a literal soft drinks salesman.

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Harry grabbed another crate and lugged it outside, loading it onto the back of his Popscene wagon next to the Dandelion and Burdock which had consistently failed to sell despite his best efforts to rebrand (Dangerlion, followed by the copyright tickling Howlin’ Mad Burdock, which despite a few initial sales to excited pre-pubescent boys who pitied the fool who didn't try it, ultimately weren't gettin’ on no plane, sucker).
February 10, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Day 10

🎬 The Little Mermaid
👨‍🎤 Morcheeba
🎵 The Sea (1998)
💿 Big Calm

Because all Disney classics deserve a chilled downtempo electronic version.
February 10, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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WIPs eh? One of them is a sort of X-Files meets Midsomer Murders anthology, called The Village Green Preservation Society. I figure the VGPS is a secret society involved in the paranormal and aliens as they affect rural England. That one's a way down the list...

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zprospero.bsky.social Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 7d
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Monday’s suck. So, I thought I’d try a Monday prompt game. What WIPs or ideas do you not talk about as much? Or random ideas you’ve had that have added to you WIP pile lately? What are you excited to work on?

No rules. Just blab! 😁

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#WIPLash Monday’s suck. So, share a something about one of your older, more obscure, or still just an idea on a napkin state WIPs. No rules. Just share stuff you’re excited about. @zprospero.bsky.social
February 9, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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Day 9

🎬 The Jungle Book
👨‍🎤 Subwoolfer
🎵 Give That Wolf a Banana (2022)

Because all Disney classics deserve a Eurovision novelty song version.
February 9, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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Day 8

🎬 The Sword in the Stone
👨‍🎤 Hey Champ
🎵 Steampunk Camelot (2010)
💿 Star

From the steampunk remake, The Clockwork Chainsaw in the Stone.
February 8, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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At the moment Neurotypocalypse isn't so much a WIP as a collection of abandoned drafts. But as airports are a key feature in all of them, here's a snip.

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In hindsight, we should have known breaking into an airport when we were supposed to be in a strict lockdown due to the dolphin flu would have ended badly.
February 8, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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Day 7

🎬 Sleeping Beauty
👨🏻‍🎤 The Velvet Underground
🎵 Venus in Furs (1967)
💿 The Velvet Underground & Nico

I could sleep for a thousand years...
February 7, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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Day 6

🎬 Peter Pan
👨‍🎤 Supergrass
🎵 Alright (1995)
💿 I Should Coco

It's in everything else, it might as well be in Peter Pan.

Heck, maybe it was.
February 6, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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Introduce yourself with:

One book 📚 — The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
One movie 🎥 — The Italian Job (1969)
One album 💿 — The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society
One TV show 📺 — Doctor Who
mioalexander.bsky.social Mio Alexander @mioalexander.bsky.social · 11d
Introduce yourself with:

One book 📚 — Stranger in a strange land
One movie 🎥 — All of us strangers
One album 💿 — LOTL - Blood and Glitter
One TV show 📺 — Dark Crystal: the age of resistance
bookspotlight.bsky.social Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · Nov 15
Introduce yourself with:

One book 📚 — The Silmarillion
One movie 🎥 — Ever After
One album 💿 — The Killers - Hot Fuss
One TV show 📺 — Buffy the Vampire Slayer
February 5, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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Day 5

🎬 Alice in Wonderland
👩‍🎤 Caravan Palace
🎵 Wonderland (2015)
💿

So many directions this prompt could have taken...
February 5, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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Alan Moore's BBC Maestro course on Storytelling is free on Spotify throughout February. (It was also free during January and December, make of that what you will.) Well worth a watch/listen at that price!

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February 4, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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Today on #WIPSnips, a potentially compromising position in The Rothwell Incident.

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'What are you doing here at this time?' Anthea said when they got there. 'We need your help,' Leighton said. She glanced at the car, where Harry's arse was hanging out of the window in what could easily have been misconstrued as a compromising position. 'Whatever he's doing, I don't think I want to help,' sge said. 'No, wait,' Leighton shouted. 'We need your professional services,' he explained. 'Then call me during office hours,' she replied. 'Please,' Leighton said. 'At least come down and take a look.' Anthea closed her eyes, despair crossing her face, the sighed a resigned sigh. 'OK,' she said. 'But if it turns out you hit another pigeon, I will bang your heads together.'
February 4, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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Day 4

🎬 Cinderella
👩🏾‍🎤 Salt n Pepa
🎵 Spinderella's Not a Fella (But a Girl DJ) (1988)
💿 A Salt With a Deadly Pepa

In the hip-hop version of Cinderella, the wicked stepmom won't let Cindy become a girl DJ, favouring her less fly sisters and...
February 4, 2026 at 7:24 AM
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Today on #WIPSnips, an unusually confident Phil Grundy prepares to joust for his daughter's freedom.

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'Don't worry about me.' Phil's determination was unshakeable; knowing his daughter Charlie was trapped somewhere within the castle walls, his personal headcanon had immediately equated her with the fair Lady Rosmar. CAN YOU EVEN RIDE A HORSE? Phil had once owned a Hyundai Pony, but chose to keep that to himself. 'Just get those training protocols updated,' he said. 'And try to skip the part where I get skewered by a lance, ok?' ADJUSTING RISK PARAMETERS TO 'SHAKE IT OFF', Dexy agreed. IN THE MEANTIME, MAY I SUGGEST THAT YOU VISIT THE STABLES, AND AT LEAST BE SURE YOU KNOW ONE END OF A HORSE FROM THE OTHER. 'Your confidence is inspiring as ever,' Phil said, striding off toward the stables with as much knightliness as is possible while carrying a pink designer handbag. He had faced far worse than this, he told himself. It's not like he disliked horses anyway; he was merely apathetic towards them. But this was for Charlie, and for her he would overcome this mutual indifference and learn to joust. For her, he would become a human shish kebab if that's what it took. from Bit#5: The Knight Errors
February 3, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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Day 3

🎬 Dumbo
👨‍🎤 Toy Dolls
🎵 Nellie the Elephant (1982)
💿 Dig That Groove Baby

Nellie was envisaged as a 'girl elephant from the wrong side of the tracks' and controversial love interest for the punk rock version of Dumbo.

It never *ahem* took off.
February 3, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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Day 2

🎬 Pinocchio
👩‍🎤 Belly
🎵 Gepetto (1992)
💿 Star

The woodcarver's theme from the early 90s janglepop reimagining of Pinocchio.
February 2, 2026 at 9:13 AM