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Sal

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As a Miamian, this girl is probably from Tampa or Orlando if I had to guess.

✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Santa Clown” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · Aug 24

This is cool as hell and **mad** fascinating

Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · Aug 24

OSINT folks, the bar has been raised

August 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM

Sal

@st-artecona.bsky.social

Passed the 70,000 word mark!

August 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM

Sal

@st-artecona.bsky.social

Screenshot reading: The demons around them began to rejoice. Cries of ‘Thank you, O Great Binyababben’ filled the cave as the imps danced.
Suddenly, a deafening shrieking noise pierced the air. Skylark instinctually slapped her hands over her ears and ducked. Her head swung around wildly as she looked for the source of the ear-splitting noise.

August 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM

Sal

@st-artecona.bsky.social

It’s been a minute, but here’s another accountability post. I’m circling the airport, just two and half scenes to go!

Screenshot showing 808 words out of 69679 total.

August 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM

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Cathy G. Johnson🏴

@cathygjohn.bsky.social

Now that I've seen the printed version with my own eyes, I am very excited to share my ten illustrations for the Mountain Goats animal sticker set, new merch for their summer tour! @themountaingoats.bsky.social

I wrote about each one on my blog: www.cathygjohn.net/blog/2025/7/...

July 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM

Sal

@st-artecona.bsky.social

Screenshot reading: “It’s been less than a day, I believe,” Jason continued with a rueful expression. “My stomach is a good timekeeper. I’m hungry, but not starved. It must be near breakfast time.”
She, too, could feel the beginning pangs of hunger, but not so strongly for it to have been that long since her last meal. Strange. It felt like that supper camped by that lonesome road was weeks ago.

July 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM

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Jes Trudel 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

@jestrudel.bsky.social

#querytip: The bulk of your query letter should be your pitch. Your metadata, your bio, and any other bonus info you provide COMBINED should be half or just barely more than half of your query letter. Bare minimum 40% of your query letter should be your pitch paragraph(s). Ideally closer to 50%.

Image shows an example query letter with placeholder text where metadata represents 18%, pitch 40%, bio 28%, and extras 14%.

July 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM

Sal

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Screenshot reading: A sudden jab to her upper back. Skylark stumbled from the force of the blow, and fell over her own feet. She hit the dirt hard.
“A good stance,” Abelard repeated. “Is balanced. It’s rooted, but it’s not stuck. It leaves you ready for both movement and defense.”

July 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM

Sal

@st-artecona.bsky.social

So my beta reader suggested I end the story much sooner than I anticipated and save the rest for my sequel. If I do this I might be… done with my second draft? Idk how to feel about that lol. Kinda feels like cheating. Going to take a look at that this week.
#writesky

July 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM

Sal

@st-artecona.bsky.social

Today’s sprint.
#wordcount #accountability #writesky

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July 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM

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Mother Jones

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Women are “naturally experiencing their emotions more intensely, and those are gifts. They’re not symptoms of a disease," said Roger McFillen, a doctor on an FDA panel that largely argued against pregnant women taking antidepressants.

Is the FDA about to keep pregnant women from taking antidepressants?

A panel of experts repeated what one women's health expert called "MAHA talking points."

www.motherjones.com

July 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM

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The New Yorker

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When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.

ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field

Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....

www.newyorker.com

July 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM

Sal

@st-artecona.bsky.social

731 words since last check in. Passed the 68k mark.

#wordcount #accountability #writesky

July 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM

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A.D.🍀🦩

@adwills.bsky.social

Good morning✌️🍀

a scene from the Ghibli movie "nausicaä of the valley of the wind." a character is sitting at a desk with her head down, in a room filled with various colourful flora all lit up and giving off a calming glowing effect in a moment of solitude.

July 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM

Sal

@st-artecona.bsky.social

Did I get everything I needed done today? No.
But at least I can say I did try my best.

July 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM

Sal

@st-artecona.bsky.social

Didn’t even open my laptop this morning :/
I’m going to give myself grace. Yesterday was very hard.
#accountability #wordcount #writesky

July 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM

Sal

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Rose is going through it

Screenshot reading: "But where were you when the... the dogs attacked you?"
"Papa took me outside. It was dark and we climbed over a wall and then it was really dark and all I could see was because of the lamp Papa had. Then he fell and hurt himself and we hid in a cave for a while and then the dogs came and they were as big as Papa and had glowing red eyes. There were like, four of them. Papa told me to run so I ran deeper into the cave. There was a tunnel and it was really small so the dogs couldn't get to me and I hid but I could still see and then the dogs -" Rose broke off her rambling narrative, her face pale with the horror of the memory. She buried her face in her mother's side.
Marigold stroked her daughter's hair. "It's okay, you don't have to talk about that part. What happened next?"

July 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM

Sal

@st-artecona.bsky.social

Well, survived another day at work

July 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM

Sal

@st-artecona.bsky.social

Skylark opens up about her past!

Screenshot saying: Could you not have found another druidic sect to take you in?”
“Probably,” Skylark admitted. “I didn’t want to join another sect, though. It wouldn’t have been mine, you see. And I have to admit that after what happened to my Order, I had a… crisis of faith, you could say. One I’ve never fully recovered from.”
“What was it like, being a priestess?”
“Peaceful. Predictable. Everything in the order had its rhythm, everyone had their place.” Skylark remembered the serenity of the order’s halls, the joy of rituals with her sister priestesses.

July 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM

Sal

@st-artecona.bsky.social

With both my sister and my uncle going through it, I think, at this point, the word ‘cancer’ is going to be psychologically triggering for me, like in a clinical sense.

I feel like I’m dissociating rn.

July 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM