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The Arcadian Isles 🦋 (dark romantasy)
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A new dark romantasy series by Kriss Nordstrom & A.L. Ramsdell
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The Arcadian Isles 🦋 (dark romantasy) @arcadianisles.ink · Oct 9
S H E

(Chapter 1 Cliodhna)

#FMC #booksky 🎨by @alluvial.ink
A sketch of a faerie woman with shoulder length curly hair smiling mildly at the viewer. She has petite pointed ears, and her eyes have black sclerae and solid bright irises without pupils. She wears a circlet crown.
arcadianisles.ink
S H E

(Chapter 1 Cliodhna)

#FMC #booksky 🎨by @alluvial.ink
A sketch of a faerie woman with shoulder length curly hair smiling mildly at the viewer. She has petite pointed ears, and her eyes have black sclerae and solid bright irises without pupils. She wears a circlet crown.
October 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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What's everyone working on today?? Gimme a WIP snippet.
October 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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We exist, I swear. I'm just bad at keeping up with social media. Currently gearing up to shave down our word count for beta. 😤📖
October 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Beta for my novel is almost upon us, so I wanted to ask if anyone has some advice about beta reading best practices. I am completely brand new to this process. Please give me your wisdom, o' experienced authors out there. 🙏📖

#booksky #beta #betareading
June 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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I am and always will be a…
Pigeon person
June 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Goodnight ❤️
June 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Good morning✌️🍀
Gandalf from the animated lord of the rings, wearing a grey robe, and a blue wizard's hat while he raises his hands in conjuring something up and the image is captioned "ooooooo self-doubt and self-loathing are over oooooo you're capable and worthy and sexy ooooooo"
June 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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We're a few polished chapters away from being in beta, and I am SO jazzed about it. Like, holy crap, we wrote a whole ass novel! 150k in less than a year (though we're gonna shave that down for querying)! Feels so great. 📖
June 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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I'm going live at 11am EST for a Twitch subscriber giveaway for emotes! Just show up with a SFW head ref, pick an expression, and be actively chatting when drawings happen.

I have a follower emote giveaway coming up on 5/31 as well!

twitch.tv/alluvialink

#giveaway #pngtuber #twitch #emotes
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May 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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what do you mean i can’t go to the seaside for a week? what about my melancholy??
January 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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My Carmilla x FMC x Countess Erzsébet Báthory vampire horror romance. 🦇🖤 Cover by Alex Patrascu.
Unholy With Eyes Like Wolves cover, illustrated and designed by Alex Patrascu. It is set on a black, white, and red background with skeletons and roses.
April 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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hand slipped
A red sketch of a woman from the bust up. She has small pointed ears and short, curly hair.
April 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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I needed to play with his hair and accidentally made him hotter (feat. the MMC of our novel WIP, Winter's Shadow) 📖

#conceptart #booksky #wip
A blue-lined sketch of a man from the bust-up. He has gauged elf ears, lip piercings, and a mohawk worn swept back.
April 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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I needed to play with his hair and accidentally made him hotter (feat. the MMC of our novel WIP, Winter's Shadow) 📖

#conceptart #booksky #wip
A blue-lined sketch of a man from the bust-up. He has gauged elf ears, lip piercings, and a mohawk worn swept back.
April 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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He only needs $270 to meet his goal and put his mother to rest. Every little donation and every share makes a tremendous difference. Thank you to folks who've helped out!
corvibae.bsky.social Corvus magicus @corvibae.bsky.social · Apr 17
gofund.me/8da0097f

Derek has been one of my besties for 17 years and he literally saved my life in 2009. If you've met me, or gotten art from me, or have good memories with me in the years since, you have him to thank for it. Every little bit and every share helps. His situation is awful.
Donate to Brenda Williams cremation fund, organized by Derek Williams
My mother has passed. I was her in-home caregiver for the last seven years. There has be… Derek Williams needs your support for Brenda Williams cremation fund
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April 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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gofund.me/8da0097f

Derek has been one of my besties for 17 years and he literally saved my life in 2009. If you've met me, or gotten art from me, or have good memories with me in the years since, you have him to thank for it. Every little bit and every share helps. His situation is awful.
Donate to Brenda Williams cremation fund, organized by Derek Williams
My mother has passed. I was her in-home caregiver for the last seven years. There has be… Derek Williams needs your support for Brenda Williams cremation fund
gofund.me
April 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Sorry for gently shilling my twitch channel on booksky, but I gotta cast a wide net. I'm still a broke artist until royalties start trickling in. 😩✨
April 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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I'm also hosting a FREE animated emote giveaway this Saturday 4/19 starting at 11am EST. All you have to do is follow me, show up with SFW refs, actively participate in chat, and make your selection from the poses I'm offering.

twitch.tv/alluvialink

#giveaway #freeart #emotes #pngtuber #vsky
April 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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March 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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I had not heard of this book but now I am going to read it tonight.
jenszalai.bsky.social Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · Mar 14
WaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People":

"In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."
Last Friday afternoon, I got my first message from Ryan Daniels, public affairs manager of strategic response at Meta. When I declined his invitation to talk by phone, he wrote back again: “I was wondering if the Washington Post was going to write a review about a book that’s coming out this upcoming week on Meta. Do you have a couple minutes to chat?” So, I called. Daniels said, “We don’t have the book,” but the company had prepared “preliminary statements” about it. Although he didn’t share those with me, he wrote to me again on Saturday and again on Monday trying to get information about our review plans. (In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me.) Yesterday, when I reached out to Daniels for a response from Meta, he wrote back: “Do you plan to write something about it, or are you just curious how we’re responding?” It’s always about controlling the narrative. But apparently, that’s not going so well. This morning, “Careless People” is No. 3 on Amazon. I know this is a long item, the longest I’ve ever written for the Book Club newsletter. But when one of the world’s most powerful media companies tries to snuff out a book — amid other alarming attacks on free speech in America like this — it’s time to pull out all the stops.
March 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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I'm not superstitious per se, but Sleep Token has basically been the OST for this novel (The Arcadian Isles: Winter's Shadow) and the new album is Even in Arcadia. The new offering is a banger addition to the novel's playlist, also.

I'm gonna worship so hard. 🙏🙌💤
March 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Love to get art but hate to wait for it? I'm doing on the spot commissions for flat color icons and emotes!

twitch.tv/alluvialink

#pngtuber #twitchstreamer #commissions
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March 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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If you see this, quote with a game with a 10/10 soundtrack 🎶
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March 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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The book is nearly half editeddddd 📖🦋✨
March 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Currently LIVE with an emote giveaway for subscribers. I'm also sitting at 90 followers, and if I can hit 100, I'll be scheduling an animated emote giveaway.

Come on down and getchu some art! 🎨🖌️

twitch.tv/alluvialink

#pngtuber #emotes #giveaway #twitchstreamer
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