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Courteney

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Writing, drawing, gardening, and being a general chaotic menace in TTRPGs
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No genAI, please

Author of Death of a Timeline, the first book of the Dythoids series.

Website: https://courteneylevet.weebly.com/

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Courteney

@courteneywrites.bsky.social

Thank you!

Last I was paying attention, I thought book folks were having mixed feelings about Itchio? Again, it's been a number of months since I was really in these spaces, so I don't know where we're at with stuff haha

October 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM

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It takes a degree of stubbornness to survive in a post-apocalyptic world, but at what point does stubbornness itself become a hurdle to survival?

#Dythoids #booksky #SciFi #SpecFic #IndieBookSky #SelfPublished

The background is a dimly lit cave with rails to keep people from falling over a ledge. There are two notes on torn paper. The first says "Leave if there are more than you can fight on your own." The second note says "Cross my heart, I will run away if I have to, but only [underlined] as a last resort. Make sure no one follows me." In a bolder font "Dythoids: Death of a Timeline". There are also three drawing on the second note: a farm windmill, a crescent moon, and a head of garlic surrounded by three cloves.

April 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM

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Courteney

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Apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic, & dystopian stories often hold up a mirror to the dark corners of the world around us. But that doesn't mean they, like our world, can't also have moments of peace & connectedness.

How do you find a balance in your day-to-day?
#Booksky #specfic #indiebook #SFF #scifi

The background is a street drain with plants growing up out of it. There are three scraps of paper taped together, and three drawings: peaches, a meal in a pot, and a pickup truck. On the largest scrap of paper, there is a note that reads "Whole world’s a wreck. Blown up, picked apart. Most of it is pretty boring and ugly. Most of it. Way I see it, it isn’t so much about the space itself as much as the what—or who—is occupying the space. Where we are now isn’t so bad in my eyes." In bolder font "Dythoids: Death of a Timeline".

March 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM

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Courteney

@courteneywrites.bsky.social

Fear of the future, the unknown. Worse, fear of the known. Fear of a world where harshness is the standard, where one wrong move could leave you scarred from an attack by acid-spitting beetles.

It takes luck, knowledge, & a strong will to venture out & survive...

Would you do it?

#booksky #scifi

The background is a desert with two large archery arrows sculptures. The focus of the graphic is a note that reads: "How are we supposed to survive out here? How am I [underlined] supposed to survive out here? People go through months [underlined] of training before they’re allowed to leave the compound. I can count on two hands [previous two underlined] the number of times I’ve left the silos, let alone the fences of the compound!" In a bolder font, "Dythoids: Death of a Timeline". There are two doodles on the note: barbed wire at the top, and a cactus and tumbleweed on the bottom left.

March 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM

Courteney

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This song and Actually Romantic are going to be like how I kept messing up TTPD as "The Tortured Poets Society" and "The Dead Poets Department" because of "The Dead Poets Society" lol

October 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM