Contrary to popular belief, there are only four kinds of bats.

On my way to a #DnD session and given that this is my #BookSky📚 account, I thought I share my character: Female half-orc who grew up with her human professor dad at the academy, read too many adventure novels, and now went on her own first adventure. I love her to bits.

Holy! Sorry, I haven't been here in ages but just saw that I had a random influx of people? So... hi! Nice to meet you!

I just read an article that said "Why is it taking so long for your favorite movies and tv series to air? Blame the writers and actor strikes" No I won't. I'm blaming that ✨single✨ motherfucker at the studio who makes $250 million dollars a year who's one job is supposed to make this shit happen.

New piece! I struggled with this one a lot back when I started it a year or two ago, but it finally came together nice and easy when I went back and took a second look at it. 😊

In my dreams, my heart has a voice, Sounding out all the truths I seek to forget, Reminding me that every day Is an orphan Of what once was *our* future. #whistpr

Hi! Any other writers 📚 currently in the same situation? I recently scrapped my WIP. I love its bones but I know I can do better. I know there is more to this story than this version (which was draft 12, beta and sensitivity read and fully edited). Would love to have a writer group to work with!

I feel like I'm drowning, and you are the weight. Once, I saw the surface and tried to reach up. But then, I sank deeper, Deeper, And deeper still. With darkness around me, I have lost the way. So, you keep pulling me under, and I just breathe out.

Ok, I know I was all like "I will overcome my introverted nature and be more social online" and then vanished for two months. But that's because I used all my social battery on IG and shared my fave books and my writing there. So, if you're interested, follow here: www.instagram.com/emkellreadsa...

'change the future of health and wellbeing like only S*msung can'?? What in the dystopian nightmare is that shit? (I'm not listening to it again to turn the paraphrase into a quote)

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Hey #WritingCommunity How about following the writers below. @iainaire.bsky.social @dawn30.bsky.social @carolbevitt.bsky.social @emkellwrites.bsky.social @antwancrump.bsky.social @devonellington.bsky.social @miriamhalahmy.bsky.social @caseyadamsstark.bsky.social @jumpingjulespoetry.bsky.social

We followed him, flocking to his side. We believed ourselves birds, soaring with the truth. Instead, we were sheep, grazing on his well-manured lies. #whistpr - flock

I've done this a little too much and now that our IT person has left our satellite office, the powers that be have decided that I can replace them in addition to my day job. Without extra pay. It felt good until it didn't. 😅

When she broke my heart, it was with a smile. Just a smile, full of soft sadness, a wonder for what could have been and the smell of the half drunk coffee she left behind. I had come with tickets to a show of her favourite artist in a month's time; she had come with twenty minutes to spare. #vss

Reposting to make sure my TBR is diverse. If you have recommendations, Booksky, keep them coming! 📚💙

Since I left X over a year ago, I promised myself to rebuild the feeling of community I had found there on BSKY and on IG/Threads. In recent months, I found 180 other readers and writers here and almost 100 on IG. And I'm so glad I did. I know it's not much but it means a lot to me. 1/2

New profile pic and header, who dis?

BookSKY, you've been a well of inspiration for my reading list lately. So here goes: 📚What is your favourite poetry anthology? 💙The best short story you ever read? 🖌️A brilliant graphic novel? I'm diversifying my reading and do not want to (solely) rely on "Top 10" lists.

The upside of dating a designer is free help with any rebranding/designs. The downside of dating a designer is free help with any rebranding/designs. We have been discussing colour schemes and fonts for hours and while I thought I like doing that, my motivation most certainly dropped after 4h.

I only need one more and thanks to amazing recommendations it's now hard to narrow it down 😅 I guess I'll spend my annual leave in early January reading too. 🥰 Thanks to everyone! I'll compile a list of all recommendations received!

“Let me speak plainly: It is not antisemitic to demand justice for all Palestinians living in their ancestral lands.” Love this whole article.

My little heart goes all squishy when I see how quickly people here are offering helpful replies. I am not built for social media but I can do *this*.

Y'all. I asked BookSKY and Bookstagram and y'all delivered. I've read some amazing novellas over the last few days. Five more and I'll reach my reading goal. 29h to go. If you have any last minute recommendations, let me know. I'm on a roll now 😅 💙📚

Indie Authors! I do not have enough of your 2024 releases on my spreadsheet to share! I would love to have more of your titles here so I may share them with others as release gets closer! Or perhaps do you have a book you would like reviewed? Feel free to comment below! #books 💙📚 🌈📚 #authors

"it's much easier to edit two hundred words of bad writing than it is to edit no writing at all."

She Who Became the Sun is my Roman Empire. £0.99 for an empire. Go get it.

I stopped my SSRI/DRI a few weeks back (in agreement with my doc). Now, I've returned to my saddest WIP. I'm very against the "you need to be in pain for art" myth. Very, very against it. But I'd be lying if I said writing about the end of a soul is not a lot easier when your own is drowning.

I asked for novella recommendations a few weeks ago and @annettej.bsky.social recommended Your Blood and Bones. I just finished it and I raise her "one of the best books read this year" to "one of the best books I've ever read". I can't even articulate my thoughts right now. My brain is mush.

Dogma. I said what I said.

When she fell for her, it wasn't bright and warm. It happened as rolling clouds on the horizon, rumbling in the air as much as in her chest. It was wind pulling at her soul. Rain drowning her in aching longing. It was a tempest, only tamed by her smile, when she said "I love you too." #whistpr

It wasn't the stolen kisses or late night dances. It was the coffee in the morning. The best cookies from the little shop across town. The jacket over my shoulders. The nod when I felt uncertain. The pride when I nevertheless did what I'd dreaded. It was every moment that promised more. #whistpr

Murderbot is one of my all time faves and I might scream now. Please don't be concerned. I'm having emotions. (AAAAHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhh)

I've read a ridiculous amount of smut this year. (I'd never touched that much less admitted to reading it a while ago, but here we are and I regret nothing. Life is better now. There, I said it.) Anyway, we need to talk about morally grey. Because last I checked it did not mean "irredeemably cruel".

As a German, I grew up learning about oppression from the perpetrators' perspective, learning terms like genocide, ghetto and survivor's guilt in connection with the Jewish people. Now, I am mostly using these terms in relation to a people oppressed by the Jewish state. How did we end up here?

them: oh the weather outside is frightful cloud: *making throat cut gesture*

Did you recently read an amazing novella, BookSky? Did you write one, writers? Let me know and help me get to my reading goal! 📚💙

Ok, for the first time in over a decade I am consistently reading again--and reading a lot. The wonders antidepressants can do 😅 Anyways, to achieve my reading goal, I want to read another dozen or so books. Realistically speaking, those got to be novellas. So, pls give recommendations!

Just let my critique partners read something new. For some reason, I have a certain end boss and it always wriggles its way somewhere into my writing. This time, however, there was none! Yes!

#MixTAPESTuesday - Antagonist I have a few. If anyone actually liked-liked the Duke or in general the duchies, I'd be worried. He is cruel and not in the dark romance kind of way. Now, the other antagonist is a surprise and I hope people like them. They used to be merged with the protagonist.

So my partner and I started Final Fantasy XVI and I'm bisexual-panicking by the minute.

Winter, & the ghosts are still following you about, trying to catch your eye so they can signal that they finally became the corrected and thus more complete version of you.

I have returned to the WIP that means the world to me. I set it aside while I worked on my writing. Now it is undergoing revisions. One thing never changed: I love my angry FMCs. They deserve the world. When I commissioned @ekduein.bsky.social, I was not prepared for her just 'getting' Mahisa. 🖤🖤

For those who have only recently started to follow me (Hi!!!), and see the prompt spam:

"It's not so much the end of me I fear. It's the end of all there could be." "It will all still be here. Just not for you." She did not mean to console him, but when he felt the blade in his chest, he took one last painful breath and gifted all his possibilities to her. It was her curse now. #vss365

Come, my friend. I know the shape of fear as well as you do. Its edges and its depth. I cannot save you from it but I can give you a place to rest. For this moment, allow yourself to hope. Let it grow. Water the possibilities. And when you leave this shelter of mine, let it be your shield. #whistpr

Goals!

🌊 #art