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Phi at the Long Way Down book series
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Phi (Sophie, she/her, 🇲🇽🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦) & Moma (Rose, she/they, 🇨🇦) are writing a book series! Phi runs this account :)

💀 Books about death, deities, love, & life
👻 Our hashtag: #LWDB
☠ Link list here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/123008806
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HOZIER x COCO x GOBLIN x TRESE x CONSTANTINE(2005)

👻Catch that killer!
🐈‍⬛International cast
❤️‍🔥Slow burn poly rep
✨Grumpy x Sunshine
🖤 Love across lifetimes
💀 Reincarnated Death Gods
💜 Healing grief & trauma through found family
🕯️Samhain, Día de Muertos, Fèt Gede, Undas

#QuestPit #W #A #S #F #PR
A winter inconvenience I don't hear about much is having to calculate how much time you have before you need to leave the house in order to wash your hair. Especially if you need to style it without a blow dryer. I don't want my hair to freeze okay
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Just got back from the doctor's. The bad news is that tests have revealed I have Onomatopoeia.
Naturally concerned, I asked, 'What's that?'
'I'm afraid,' he replied, looking up from his notes with a serious expression. 'It's exactly what it sounds like.'
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
We had so much momentum earlier this month, but work and illness has slowed us down :/ (I don't know what I have, but I know I slept 22 hours). I'm sad I slept through a writing opportunity yesterday, but I clearly needed it.

Generally, real life drains continue to drag us down :(

#PretendPanel
#pretendpanel, fascinating takes as always yesterday, thank you! A change of pace today...

November 15th: Halfway through the month! How's it going so far? (Whether you're in a November challenge or not, have a little reflection on your writing)

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
November 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Today's vibe: ragdoll tossed into a heap
November 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
In places without November holidays, I think it's not a bad idea, though if school is in your life in any capacity, it does add to the difficulty. January might be a better month for this kind of thing, or any month where there's no big event to prepare for.

#PretendPanel
#pretendpanel, even before the last big controversy, November challenges have had their ups and downs. Tell me...

November 14th: BIG Challenges during November - what's your take? Good/bad tradition?

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
November 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Just a warning about scammer who may like your post posing at literary agents or publishers during #CastPit.

@RowanBrightonB has written an excellent 10 point thread on the matter you can find at this link and also listed in the graphic attached.

x.com/RowanBrighto...
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Just finished drafting a write-up about a Samhain Dumb Supper we attended last year. It's always so interesting experiencing the different ways people face and deal with mortality and grief. Hope to get it up on Patreon in the next day or two! #LWDB

Have you been to a Dumb Supper before?
November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
- The Little Match Girl
- Ender's Game (fuck you, OSC)
- The Joy Luck Club
- The Little Prince

I read these between ages 9-11, and I think they reflected my sadness back at me in ways that made things feel bearable. I know JLC has detractors, but as a child of immigrants, it still spoke to me
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!

tell me about a book that changed you

for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Today I accidentally turned Moma's brain into mush by reading medical journal articles out loud, trying to figure out what kind of scar Naveena had from her death. The main takeaway was that she has a hypertrophic scar. I may put this all into a research post later... #LWDB #writing #researching
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
whoops we wrote 7k in 2 days

woohoo!
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Things we've changed in Ch1-2 from draft 2 to draft 3:

- start w/ Naveena's POV instead of Tylor's
- start just after she reaps a soul at the Royal Infirmary, instead of at the Uni of Edinburgh
- she senses Tylor using his powers and seeks him out rather than him running into her on accident

#LWDB
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
No, we write based on scene rather than word count. We lock into a particular mindset and emotion and see it through organically without worrying about length. I know we could just continue, but then you need more emotional gas in the tank and there's no guarantee we'll have it! #PretendPanel
Greetings, #pretendpanel! One week into writeathon month, I'm wondering how you feel about this notorious topic...

November 7th: X number of words per day - are you a fan of this approach or not?

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Writer face reveal!!

I'm Phi, & I write as Naveena, one of our MCs. Moma writes as Tylor, our other MC. Thanks to friends & the support of our Patrons, we've been able to get photos with our respective MCs, so here is a nice introduction to the 4 of us! #LWDB #WriterSky

📸: David R, Kristi Boulton
February 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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ADDIE LARUE x YOU'VE REACHED SAM

On the verge of death, Safa makes a desperate bargain with a mysterious jinn. Now she has 3 obscure clues, 0 memories and 1 month to win back her life.

🇵🇰-rep & folklore
💘allies to lovers
🔍amnesia with a twist
⏳ticking clock

#questpit #ya #f
November 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Did you miss our latest newsletter? Never fear, the link is here ~ Free and Allhallowtide themed!

#LWDB #newsletter

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This is Hallowe'en~ 👻💀
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November 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Reminder!!

Bluesky has a pronoun labeler you should really use!

Only those who subscribe to this will see it so you should do that. Don't worry, that's all it does.
Instructions are in the bio/first post.
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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⋆⁺₊❅.
ADESTE FIDELES
⋆⁺₊❅.

A couple in Maryland unknowingly invite the Devil to dine with them on Christmas Eve ❄️

- scottish folklore of Black Donald
- holiday horror novella
- doomed lovers
- religious shame, love over sin

#questpit #Q #A #H #HF #R
November 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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IF I HAVE TO BE HAUNTED X LIBRARY OF SHADOWS

A missing golden boy returns as a ghost 👻
and the only way to save him is to stop the resurrection of a Puritan warlock hungry for souls 🩸

#QuestPit #YA #PR #Q
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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BIANCA TORRE IS AFRAID OF EVERYTHING X CEMETERY BOYS

📝Ghostwriter to a ghost
💗Pastel paranormal
👻Vengeful spirit
🎭Haunted theater
🖤Séance-gone-awry
🌴Florida summer vibes (but spooky)
🌈F/F romance (not with the ghost!)
💕One bed

#questpit #YA #PR #LGBT #Q
November 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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The Poor Lost Souls ✨💙 had a lot of fun with this one!
#dnd #dndoc #originalcharacter #oc #illustration
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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DON'T LET THE FOREST IN x BENT NECK LADY

Simone's risking Jadriel's Life & Nina's Afterlife

🖤AWARD Best Submission SCBWI MayFest 2025
🖤WINNER WriteHive Mentorship 2025
🖤Big 5 Editor Requests

GRIEF-RAGE-POWER
Romance & Revenge
A NEW URBAN LEGEND #TheEastRiverWraith
#YA #S Feminist #H #R #QuestPit
November 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Spirited Away x Shutter Island

Reality and fantasy blur when an anonymous invitation sends a burnt-out chocolatier spiraling to hunt down a serial killer she thought she made up as a child.

🥀Found family
🥀Secrets
🥀Ghosts

🪻Mental health rep
🪻Disability rep
🪻LGBTQIA+

#QuestPit #W #A #F #T #PR
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM