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Alex Riven
@alexriven201.bsky.social
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26 | 🔞 🇺🇸 ♾️ ⚧️ | She/They | Author | Finalizing book 1 of 3 of The Emergence Chronicles

Human creativity will never be surpassed by gen-AI content farming!

Emergence Word Count: ~107,000
Publication Status: Manuscript Under Revision
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Alex Riven @alexriven201.bsky.social · 4d
So. The patreon is up. I wrote a pinned post that's basically my manifesto. It's about the book, the road map, and why I'm doing things this way. If you've been curious about The Emergence Chronicles, here's the place to start. #BookSky #WriteSky #WriterSky

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A Welcome and A Manifesto | Alex Riven
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I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt, but this screams "AI hallucination" so blatantly I feel the need to call this out. I can understand thinking AI is a cool toy, but getting AI to generate beta-reading summaries for you is bad conduct. I will not endorse your Fiver
Suspected AI-Generated content, sent to me by a beta reader. Screenshot from the copy of the manuscript, proving this chapter is NOT in Rudy's point of view.
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Taking a day. Too depressed to write. Might just sleep it off. Y'all be safe!
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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The wait is over…
My new book [Magic Spells Delivery Service] has just launched on Kickstarter. I have lots of awesome perks!
Be a part of the magic!
Kickstarter is all or nothing.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/msd...
👀
We can do this! Who can I shout out today?

#Kickstarter #Booksky #Witchsky
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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philosophika.bsky.social
Nobel prize-winning #HumanActs by #HanKang portrays a defining moment in Korean history—the pro-democracy Gwangju Uprising of May 1980—through and around the fictional story of Dong-ho, a young boy killed in the government-sanctioned massacre that ensued. A difficult, eye-opening book! #Bookvember
Cover of Human Acts by Han Kang, featuring a bird perched on a ribcage.
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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My situation room
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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charliedeltawrites.bsky.social
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Are there any characters that are important to your story but who haven't appeared in person on the page?

Someone historical? Or who died before the events of the story? Or someone absent for other reasons?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
November 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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ellielieberman.bsky.social Ellie Lieberman @ellielieberman.bsky.social · Jun 10
Now that I have a title and a decent amount written, starting a new WIP thread for this one!!!

A Dance of Bow & Blade:
Sapphic all women combination Robin Hood and King Arthur retelling
(and some other Celtic myths scattered throughout)!
November 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Big shout out to Eileen and Lisa for backing my kickstarter campaign!! You are awesome!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/msd...
two women are standing next to each other and one of them is saying totally awesome
ALT: two women are standing next to each other and one of them is saying totally awesome
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November 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Victims and survivors of rape/sexual assault are going to be really going through it as the Epstein files are examined and discussed. If you know someone who might be impacted, show up for them. If you are someone who will be impacted, take care of yourself. We'll get through this.
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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sophianyx.bsky.social
*does a silly dance*
November 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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ddwardiswriting.bsky.social
If you've been craving queer women led fantasy adventures, and want stories where the girl gets the girl, then you should sign up for my Patreon.

Even a free sign up gets you access to all my writing. Take a look and see.

www.patreon.com/ddwardiswrit...
An androgynous anime person with blue eyes and shoulder length brown hair with blonde highlights.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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30 hours into a 60 hour work week and 3 more days till I can have a full day off lessgo
a man is laughing with the words not dead yet written below him
Alt: a man is laughing to stave off the agony, shouting the words not dead yet written below him
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November 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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vriccithode.bsky.social
my sapphic ace romantasy has two disaster queers (and powerful wizards) raising their accidental dragon daughter amidst growing threats. cozy adjacent, queer af, anti-colonial adventure 🌈📚
art by @leeshahannigan.bsky.social
books2read.com/u/bpVEQ6
vriccithode.itch.io/the-dragon-n...
An Asian-coded woman with short brown hair doing fire magic and standing next to a black woman with a long braid and wearing armour doing water magic. Behind them stands a black and purple dragon with wings outstretched and her tail wrapping around in front against a blue night sky background. Silvery white text reads: The Dragon Next Door. Nebula Award-winning author, Vanessa Ricci-Thode. art by Leesha Hannigan
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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bikinhog.bsky.social ⛦Biki⛧Nhog⛥🔞 @bikinhog.bsky.social · Aug 28
Okay, I'm determined to return to my love of #worldbuilding in these horrible times, and since all of my previous projects have failed--I can lovingly commit to reusing the work done on them.

And using what I've learned from various world building/writing games, feel the high ground's favor...
November 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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This is a big one. Every member of my family had a hand in shaping my current mindset. Whether or not they were good or bad influences, I always took their words and tried to understand it myself. Some taught me what to do. Some taught me what not to do. But I always tried to think for myself.
November 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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That you have to look to someone else to find it.
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6. What is the biggest lie society tells about love?
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Grateful. I always misspell it as "greatful" lmao
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9. What is a word you always forget how to spell?
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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vriccithode.bsky.social
Do you love the Mandalorian? Think HTTYD is awesome? Want more dragon-riding sapphics? Even better if they’re aroace? Check out my ace romantasy, The Dragon Next Door #QueerAdultSFF #Romancelandia 🌈📚
books2read.com/u/bpVEQ6
vriccithode.itch.io/the-dragon-n...
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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ddwardiswriting.bsky.social
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence.

Hunted in the Wolf Wood ⤵️
A werewolf can kill you with a single scratch. Nine of every ten people wounded by a werewolf will contract lycanthrope. Of those, all but one in one hundred people infected will die of it rather than become a werewolf. Lycanthropy gestates in the body for roughly four weeks, give or take. Then symptoms manifest. It’s like rabies with extra teeth. Amber stared at the claw wounds on her calf and her forearm. Ugly red gashes across pale flesh, open and leaking blood. Then she stared at the dead werewolf ten feet to her right. Smoke drifted from a cavernous wound in its chest. Her bodyguard had unloaded silver grapeshot into the beast. The wound should hurt. Instead she felt numb. Twenty eight days, give or take, and then she would know if she would live or die. Then she would know if she was going to howl at the moon or curl up into a ball of pain as her body stopped working.
November 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Self-sovereignty.
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19. What does freedom mean to you?
November 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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ddwardiswriting.bsky.social
They ability to make decisions without outside coercion.
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19. What does freedom mean to you?
November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
alexriven201.bsky.social
I was told I wrote a lot of redundant lines. Especially in the early chapters of the manuscript. I agree, actually. Remember, kids! Always practice writing before cranking out your first project in ten years! Don't make the same mistake I did!
nsonic79.bsky.social NSonic79 @nsonic79.bsky.social · 1d
None actually. But that’s mostly because my plans to share some of “Sherlock Homeboi” during #octoberween fell though, thus those willing to read it being able to offering advice if wanting/willing/able. #writingcommunity

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#WritingCommunity, tell me about advice you've recieved lately that helped you in your work on your current writing project. | Minds
...ately that helped you in your work on your current writing project..
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November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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September 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Thank you so much again for the comm. This one was such a fun piece to work on Ryan’s expression says it all 😂
notsocreativegamer.bsky.social Tyson J. Braun @notsocreativegamer.bsky.social · Sep 17
Shoutout again to @itsanahere.bsky.social for this Commission! Just like me, Ryan is not a big fan of "Chrysler Dodge Cheap Ram" Radio Ads.

#Comic
#Meme
#Humor
#Commission
#Art
#SPOOF
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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eliseswritings.bsky.social
There's no such thing as #1 Pinned Post🧵 to rule them all, but I shall post it nonetheless. It'll be gay, neurodiverse & beyond the binary.

For those who wander but are not lost & ponder "what if"?

It'll contain my books of the above, Final Fantasy +Narnia inspired, &invite All Writers to Discord👇
Left: Walking the Knife's Edges cover. Rarkin stands in foreground, wearing leather jacket and jeans, holding a stun gun raised to shoot to the left. Miona stands on the right, smiling and with boxing gloved fists raised, ready to fight. They both stand on a grassy slope, a patchwork of Farm Zone paddocks, fields and tree lined streams behind them, to a cloud covered horizon through which the yellow glow of the sun shines. Text below cover: Make or break. Friends or fail. Monster containment. Right: Ruarnon Trilogy Graphic with map background and a box of key points for each book. Book 1, Manipulator's War: red glyph archway frames a smoky night sky, with fire arrows raining down on battlements on which a few torches burn. Ruarnon leans on a spear (left foreground), wearing fitted bronze armour and holding a bronze helmet. Book 1 Text: Mystery, aro-arces, autism & ADHD, friendship. Book 2, Secrets of the Sorcery War: blue glyph arch frames two extremely tall cliffs, through which a sailing ship sails across bright blue waters into sunlight. Book 2 Text: monsters, forgotten weapons, adventure. Book 3, War in Sorcery's Shadow: purple glyph arch frames a black cloudy sky, down from which a bolt of lightening strikes a shield around brown, crystaline towers of a castle. Castle sits atop barren plains of dead trees, a skull lying in foreground. Book 3 text: resistance, secret organisations, save a mind & the world. Text below: Direct from author & non-Amazon stores.
August 17, 2025 at 7:23 AM