Fairy tales often begin with a journey into the woods. Psychologically, forests represent the unknown. Which means half of folklore is basically: "Look, you're being an ass. Get out of the city, spend time in nature, self-reflect and deal with your problems." 🤣 #Psychology #Mythology #Folklore

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A surprising amount of mythology, history, and religion boils down to the same warning: "This was a terrible decision, and now we all have to deal with the consequences of one insane dumbass." Those who refuse to learn from their mistakes repeat them. #Mythology #History #Psychology #HumanNature

Ancient people didn't have podcasts. They had one person around a fire who knew every story, family history, warning, joke, and local scandal. Storytelling built community. What story has stuck with you and refused to leave? #ReadingCommunity #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky #Storytelling

Every culture's elders looked around the village and said: "We should probably invent a terrifying monster or forest spirit to keep the children within sight, and stop the village idiots from wandering off alone after dark and dying." #Mythology #Folklore #Evolution #History

If you are struggling to focus your mind, on writing or other tasks, I suggest listening to 40Hz Binaural Brainwave music. It calms the brain squirrels and keeps the intrusive thoughts group chat quiet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdWL... #Neurodivergent #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingTips

If your emotional support system consists of morally gray villains who would burn the world for the witchy eldest daughter, you still haven't forgiven Disney for turning the Beast back into a prince, and Supernatural is your therapy... you're my people. 🖤🌶️🐺🌹🔮📚 #DarkRomance #ParanormalRomance

No one who has ever tried to ban or burn books, or doing anything to prevent children from learning, has been on the right side of history. Shame, guilt and greed are why people do evil things.

“You don’t write for yourself or for others. You write out of a deep inner necessity. If you are a writer, you have to write, just as you have to breathe, or if you’re a singer, you have to sing. I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, of which I can only escape by writing.” -Anais Nin #WriteSky

Not enough women in America have read #Lysistrata. Written over 2,400 years ago, this short Greek play by #Aristophanes tells of women who use their sexual agency to organize political power. The themes are still relevant to today's geopolitical and social climate. www.amazon.com/dp/0393870839

Gaslighting doesn't work on someone who had to study human behavior just to survive their childhood. When you grow up raised by narcissists and sociopaths, you see through their manipulative crap as easily as blinking or breathing. That level of life experience makes you immune to brainwashing.

My search history could get me investigated by at least one government agency, the police, and one very concerned therapist. 👩‍💻😂 #WritingCommunity #DarkRomance #MysteryThriller #WIP

If you have vocabulary that exceeds a 6th grade level, use commas correctly and write with eloquence, you will be accused of using #AI by people who do not recognize classically trained writing by someone with a literary background. Professional writers don't need to use #ChatGPT to think for them.

I miss rain. I really need a big rainstorm with the loud boomy thunder and flashy lightning to go play in. I want the drenchy downpour, with the big fat, bouncy sideways rain that makes any use of umbrellas pointless. Which culture's god do I have to offer treats to, to get a little storm action?⛈️

These days I purposefully leave a few tiny errors in my writing. I see them. Even if readers *will* notice and complain. Its okay. Human art is imperfect. A few typos prove the writing is human #NotAI. There are 4 in this post. Do you see them? #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #WriteSky

Just throwing this out there #ReadingCommunity #WritingCommunity #WriteSky I purposefully let a few typos live in my writing these days. I see them. I am aware. A few tiny errors in a huge book prove the writing is human and #NotAI No human is perfect, not writers and not editors. Let it be.

#Writers and #Editors are humans, and no human is perfect. The way I see it, if a typo endures through my 12 rounds of edits, my editor and a proofreader, and survives the gauntlet of eagle eye scrutiny, that brave little mistake has earned the right to be published. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

People claim everything is #AI these days, without any evidence or proof. They just assume. The witch-hunts are damaging to #Authors and #CoverArtists who put in the work. The false accusations are not going to stop until we start suing for slander and lost wages. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Colbert could save PBS by airing his next show there: Mr. Colbert's Neighborhood. Guest line-ups: -The cast of Sesame Street -LeVar Burton -Steve Burns -President Obama -Kamala Harris -Jimmy Kimmel -Mark Hamill -Zohran Mamdani -Mary L. Trump -Rene Good's family -Epstein Island survivors

👩‍💻📚Tell me you're a writer without telling me you're a writer. Funny and weird answers only! 👇 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky “What if they kissed during the knife fight?” and sobbed for an entire weekend. I know exactly how long it takes to bleed out from a stab wound…for literary reasons.

What TV Show is your “I accidentally learned a real-world skill from S2 E14 (or whatever) and now I can’t stop thinking about it because it was actually useful IRL?” What did you learn?

@autumnwolff.bsky.social I *NEED* to know what book this is from. I want to read it. Pretty please, with a proper bookmark on top? 😍

Big Cat Cuddler and Cat Ninja Photographer were NOT career options I was told about in school, and they absolutely should be a career day topic of discussion. #Cats #HouseLions

My happiest moments are working in my kitchen, mixing herbal remedies, and realizing I could become a problem if I want to. Women don’t “suddenly become witches” at forty. They run out of patience pretending they aren’t. Nothing says divine feminine growth quite like awakening the ancient goddesses.

A weary werewolf came to Crimson Moon to escape a war. A human witch with no idea what she’s walking into. A dangerous attraction neither of them can lie to themselves about. Now the beast wants only one thing: her. 🐺🔥 www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... #ReadingCommunity #Booksky #ParanormalRomance

"Every exhausted middle-aged woman needs a little wonder, whimsy and witchery in her life." -A Touch of Magic #WIP

Men: "What do you bring to the table?" Me: "Everything you are not able to provide for yourself. Your respect, consistency, transparency and integrity is the bare minimum requirement to be invited to eat at my table. A lady does not sit at tables with disrespectful men."

A woman is raped every minute in this country. Men have absolutely no clue how much rage, self-control, emotional regulation, and patience women really have. There will come a day, when women will stop performing feminity as softness. Y'all better start acting right and respectfully. #FAFO

Witchcraft is science before it had name, its earliest language, a flickering flame. Observations before men in lab coats claimed, Wise women, midwives, who carried the flame, birthing our future so humanity came. We remain, for their fire wouldn’t be tamed. #Witchcore #WomenInSTEM #Midwifes #Poetry

I've officially reached the, "Fuck it. Whatever doesn't kill me, better fucking run." stage of perimenopausal feral and fearless rage. Come toward me correctly, with respect and integrity, or back away slowly and run like karma's bloodthirsty ghost lit your ass on fire. #FAFO

I was reading 600-page adult novels by the time I was 8 and had a college level vocabulary. There was a time when adults encouraged reading and weren't banning books. Forcing kids to only read children's books at grade level is ridiculous. Let them read whatever they are interested in.

Orange Creamsicle Lemonade is the superior lemonade. ❤️

Pretty please, go to the local library, get yourself a library card, and read a book this month. Any book. Even an old, childhood, favorite.

There is something magical about staying up late, sitting around in my soft and cozy pajamas, enjoying chocolate cake and writing fictional worlds, in total peace.

Word of the Day: Exhausterwhelmulated (adj.) The feeling of being exhausted, overwhelmed, and overstimulated at the same time, with no relief. Citizens are exhausterwhelmulated from nonstop unprecedented events, breaking news, and insane politicians not being held accountable for their crimes.

"Women are too independent!" "Women aren't feminine enough!" Men: If you've never seen a woman's softness or femininity, you haven't shown her safety, respect or trustworthiness with consistency. If you want to be seen as a man worthy of respect, build trust before demanding anything from her.

I've been secretly writing #poetry. But it's not really for the mass consumption. At least, not all of them. Not everything you write has to be published. Some things can be just for the wellbeing of your own soul. Meant for your eyes only.

Does anyone know if these mushroom are food, the fun hippie kind, or deadly poison? We bought fertilizer dirt and have mushrooms growing in pots we have in the shade but none growing in places with direct sun. #mushrooms #mushroomhunting

You can't even pry the Oxford comma from my cold, dead, rotting, and putrid corpse. I'll have one put on my gravestone out of spite. 😂

I've officially reached the age where I see a dark spot on my arm. Looks a bit like an unusual freckle. My first thought: "Is that skin cancer?" It's a spot of chocolate cake batter. Cake gave me anxiety for like 2 seconds.

The audacity of men, to explain women's periods, orgasms, and pregnancy...to a woman. Boys, if there is *anything* you don't try to mansplain, it is the various "women only" things you will never, not even once, experience because YOU. ARE. NOT. A. WOMAN. You sound stupid. For fucks sake...

I haven't laughed this hard in a while. Gave myself a small asthma attack. (I'm fine. It happens when I laugh so hard I can't breathe.) 😂 It's funnier when you study history and the etymology of words as a hobby and as a writer.

#RomanceReaders #RomanceWriters, here's a list of book conventions. Are you going to any this year? #Romancelandia www.ingramspark.com/blog/romance... #Romancelandia #WritingCommunity

Hey, you. Here's a thing you probably don't hear often enough: If you wrote some words today, made art, composed music, or danced...I'm proud of you. Your soul made the world a more beautiful place to live today, and that's important work. You are a World Changer. #Writing #Art #Music #Dance

At this point, I'm convinced adults are basically just really cranky toddlers. Earth would be a better place to exist if people around the world got a nap at noon and a cookie at 2pm. It's hard to be mean to people after a good nap and a treat. #LiveALittle #WorldPeace #Naps&Cookies

Reading books nourishes my cognitive function. 📚 Writing books nourishes my soul. 👩‍💻 Books make me a more empathetic, interesting, and happy human.❤️ #ReadingCommunity #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky

I don't know which young adult needs to hear this, but you are allowed to eat chocolate cake and ice cream as an entire meal whenever you want to. Your mom will never know as long as you don't tattle on yourself. Being an adult sucks. Live a little and have some fun whenever you can.

Nothing I *ever* write will be as awful as someone using AI to write for them. For the love, think for yourself. Use your own damn brain. #NotAI #ReadingCommunity #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky

When the ancient Mother Goddess wakes up and takes one look at modern society, and said, “Absolutely the fuck not.” 😠⚔️ Some female protagonists save the world. Mine threatens it spiritually until men start acting right. 🤷‍♀️👩‍💻 #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky

The older I get, the more I understand why so many women in history moved to the woods and started gardening and collecting pretty rocks. I firmly believe every exhausted middle-aged woman deserves a quiet forest cottage, pet crows, and a collection of questionable contents in glass jars.