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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ttmd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ttmd</span></a> 2025.08.03 <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://writing.exchange/@JulieLiddellWhitehead" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>JulieLiddellWhitehead</span></a></span> Author Talk to Me Day</p></blockquote><p>Sometimes I get the opportunity to research and sometimes I don't, like today (I'm currently unwell). I hope I'm asking a fair question here; beyond that, that it's not something I should have seen in a bio if I'd looked. </p><p>Your book collection of short stories appears to be about characters living through hard times and dealing with hard decisions made or needful. It feels like something an author would write in part to work through their own demons or to make sense of a nonsensical world. Is this the case for you? If not, what drives you and your writing? What do you wish the reader to feel they have learned when they finish the reading the last page of your story? </p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a> and <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CommentingIsCool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommentingIsCool</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a></p>
Jon Sparks<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WordWeavers</span></a> 3/8: Does your world have ships, either ocean, space or whatever? What kind?<br>There’s a horse-drawn canal-boat in Book 1. River- and sea-going ships make first appearance in Book 2, propelled by sail, with oars as a fall-back. All of these recur from time to time.<br>There may be a trial of a radical new technology in Book 7, but it’s far too soon to say more…<br><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersofmastodon</span></a></p>
Jon Sparks<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 3/8: How heroic are your protagonists?<br>Cue lengthy debate about what heroism means…<br>Lots of people see Jerya as a heroine, but she’ll always say she was just lucky to get the opportunities she has to change a few things. She’ll point instead to Railu, or Vireddi, who’ve had to overcome greater obstacles to achieve anything.<br><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersofmastodon</span></a></p>
Noel J. Penaflor<p>TOGETHER <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Review" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Review</span></a> </p><p>This Together (2025) Review Has Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga Playing Cellists! </p><p><a href="https://hubpages.com/entertainment/together-2025-movie-review" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hubpages.com/entertainment/tog</span><span class="invisible">ether-2025-movie-review</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horror</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/horrorFam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horrorFam</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/writingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Movies</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>movie</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/cinemastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinemastodon</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Film</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/films" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>films</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/filmmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>filmmastodon</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/horrorCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horrorCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/horrorMovie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horrorMovie</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/horrorMovies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horrorMovies</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/horrorFilm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horrorFilm</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/horrorFilms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horrorFilms</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/horrormastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horrormastodon</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/reviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reviews</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/filmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>filmreviews</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/moviereviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>moviereviews</span></a><br><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/article" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>article</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/listicle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>listicle</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/list" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>list</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/read" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>read</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/writersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersofmastodon</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/funny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>funny</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/together" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>together</span></a></p>
John Wilker 👨🏽‍💻<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Aug 2. What's plentiful in your writing?</p><p>Fun. <br>Witty banter. <br>Found family. <br>Rompiness (I just made that up, I think)</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/writersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersofmastodon</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/writerslife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writerslife</span></a></p>
Liminal Fiction<p>Check out Nicole Dennis<br> <br>MM Contemporary, Erotic Romance, Erotica, Fantasy, Gaylit, Holiday, Paranormal, Western, Young Adult<br> <br>Dreamy…Sensual…Forever Love</p><p>A quiet one, Nicole Dennis curled up with the latest book of a favorite author. Since the beginning, characters were in her head, worlds building themselves, and stories written. She began ...<br> <br><a href="https://www.queeromanceink.com/mbm-book-author/nicole-dennis/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">queeromanceink.com/mbm-book-au</span><span class="invisible">thor/nicole-dennis/</span></a><br> <br><a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/GayRomance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GayRomance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/WritersofMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersofMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/AuthorSpotlight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AuthorSpotlight</span></a> Bookstodon <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/MMBookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MMBookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/LGBTQBookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQBookstodon</span></a> @LGBTQBookstodon @MMbookstodon</p>
Rev.Hans :mstdnca:<p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/selfPromoSaturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfPromoSaturday</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/writersofMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersofMastodon</span></a></p>
Orion (he/him)<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PennedPossibilities</span></a> 743 — (Courtesy of @QuasiTemporal) Tell us what your MC last put in their refrigerator or the food you can always find in their cupboards.</p><p>She grabs food she can eat on the move, lots of hand fruit. </p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Scriberspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scriberspace</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Scriberspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scriberspace</span></a></p>
Orion (he/him)<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Aug 2. What's plentiful in your writing?</p><p>Mental health issues. :)</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Scriberspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scriberspace</span></a></p>
Orion (he/him)<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 2 Aug—Do you have artwork on your walls? If so, describe one of the pieces.</p><p>Years and years ago, my mom and I made a painting. I came up with the design, and she did ALL the work. It's painted white to look like a piece of paper, and she handed painted Courier font letters saying, "A word is worth a thousand pictures." </p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Scriberspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scriberspace</span></a></p>
Jon Sparks<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WordWeavers</span></a> 8/2. SC POV: If you could master one skill you don't have, what would it be?<br>Railu: I can ride; it’s essential for getting around and my practice demands that. But I sometimes wish I was truly at ease in the saddle like Jerya is, that I could find pleasure in a long journey on horseback rather than a sense of resignation.<br>Also, music. It would be nice if I could sing. (Ironic for a former Dawnsinger, no?)<br><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersofmastodon</span></a></p>
Jon Sparks<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 2/8: What's plentiful in your writing?<br>This is another question that might be better put to readers; I may be too close to recognise recurrent elements.<br>One thing that occurs to me is journeys on foot, especially crossing the mountains which divide the two lands. The only book (including WIP) that doesn’t include this directly is The Skilthorn Congress. Sailing journeys also appear in 2 &amp; 6, and will be a major part of 7.<br><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersofmastodon</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PennedPossibilities</span></a> 742 — Out of all of your characters, who talks the most, and who hates it the most?</p></blockquote><p>I've got no motor mouths in dialogue, however, Thorn Rose is <em>described</em> as being so into all the things she is studying and all her research, that she can talk people's ears off. She probably has a trophy case full of them!</p><p>Streak refers to it as "arcane daemonic thauma-babble" since she's often talking about warping reality (she's good at it), and that's not simply because you can get lost and dizzy as she talks and talks and talks about things you can't understand, and she doesn't realize it. I can't say her boyfriend Streak really hates it—he knows she means well, even when she's trying to fix or change him—but he <em>does</em> tune it out and she <em>doesn't</em> notice. To be clear, she does a lot of mansplaining (gender reversal).</p><p>Her classmates at school, of course think her arrogant and stuck up, and use her academic prowess—her being fawned over by teachers, and her less-than-diplomatic often very correct opinions—as excuses to make fun of her immigrant accent and thus denigrate her. Do they hate her for it? Her prowess (she's the number 1 student) and always talking about what she knows? No. It's more like envy. Her being the daughter of an immigrant? Yes.</p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thriller</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/romance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>romance</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sf</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sff</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSstory</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSReluctanceStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSReluctanceStory</span></a></p>
Howard Aiken<p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 2. What's plentiful in your writing?</p><p>References to actual historical events. My characters live in a historical context that shapes their lives, just as our context shapes us.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/histfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histfic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/writersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersofmastodon</span></a></p>
JacquiG<p>This month, I share the ways I measure my success as a non-best-selling author. Clickety click to read on...</p><p><a href="https://www.jacquigreaves-author.com/blog/measuring-success?fbclid=IwY2xjawL6axRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrXusvCWoRkmKzuLJalN5Nef7_w9XJQzOvkai6YJQZWIbDh_lovGqO-52Axc_aem_rLu6XdiDteJyWJgAAvRPcQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jacquigreaves-author.com/blog/</span><span class="invisible">measuring-success?fbclid=IwY2xjawL6axRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrXusvCWoRkmKzuLJalN5Nef7_w9XJQzOvkai6YJQZWIbDh_lovGqO-52Axc_aem_rLu6XdiDteJyWJgAAvRPcQ</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/AuthorsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AuthorsOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/AuthorCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AuthorCommunity</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PennedPossibilities</span></a> 742.001 How can you connect your work to a [certain] Panda (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mindly.social/@floofpaldi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>floofpaldi</span></a></span>)?</p></blockquote><p>In this future world, to mitigate against starvation and people being forced to work to eat, I needed a number of species of plants that grow like weeds, and in some cases are decorative. This allows them to grow everywhere, and by law they must be allowed to grow in greenbelts, parks, and along roads.</p><p>I named one <em>Floof</em> as I got the idea from Spooky Panda's account name. It grows like daisy plant, which the flowers and vegetation resembles, is weedy, is resistant to drought, has bitter edible leaves most herbivores avoid, and after blooming, has enormous cotton candy-like heads that are directly edible, but if snapped off the plant and allowed to dry for a day (and the weather is almost always terribly hot), it breaks into powder that can be baked into bread. It's conveniently self-rising as the nectar in the flowers breed yeast. Since wheat is extinct, it's also farmed.</p><p>The devil-girl—who doesn't care if someone sees her grazing in a park (it's considered déclassé), in her homeless days and sometimes when she's visiting a park and forgets herself—can be seen grazing on floof.</p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PennedPossibilities</span></a> 743 — (Courtesy of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@QuasiTemporal" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>QuasiTemporal</span></a></span>) Tell us what your MC last put in their refrigerator or describe the food you can always find in their cupboards (if fridges don’t exist). CW: Cat</p></blockquote><p>Icebox then cupboard, from <em>Inklings</em>:</p><p>1) This came out of a magical icebox, so I'm using it: Soup.</p><blockquote><p>He shook his head slightly. Soon he placed a green-striped earthenware bowl of chicken vegetable stew before me, which smelled of cabbage, carrots, squash, and parsnips, and of chicken. The fatty broth glistened in the deep spoon. He raised it and blew on it, before presenting it to me.</p><p>… I smiled as I shut my eyes and opened my mouth. It forced him to put his other hand under my chin as I slurped, touching me again. </p><p>"Oh, that's nice!" I said, leaving it vague as to whether it was the soup or his actions I referred to. I liked the velvety broth and the savory pepperiness of it, recognizing, sage, sweet forest herbs, and woody mushrooms mixed in—but human beasts flavored things with too much salt, I thought. </p></blockquote><p>2) This cupboard excerpt follows the first one. FYI, the MC in 1st person POV can suddenly understand Cat Speak; worse, perhaps, is that the cat is also more <em>intelligent</em>, which is kind of scary if you think about it.</p><blockquote><p>"Always hungry, you," he told the cat to his nose. The cat jerked his head back. </p><p>I said, "No. Something wrapped in metal. Up there." I pointed to upper cabinets filigreed with fern fronds.</p><p>He brought down a flat food tin. It was painted yellow, with striped silver blue fish on the label. Fish "shimmy" through the water, or as a keen feline observer of pet carp might put it, shiver. "My Crab Island mackerel stash. How?"</p><p>"Merrowl!" Flash explained.</p><p>"He seems smarter, somehow," he said if put upon.</p><p>I didn't answer, instead saying, "Food from your homeland? May I taste?"</p><p>The tin pull popped and he forked over a little grilled fillet, changing his trajectory when the cat made a tea kettle sound. I got the second forkful of smokey oil-drenched fish. Savory! 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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 2025.08.01 — Alt: Word.</p></blockquote><p>This word comes from <em><u>Mars Needed Women</u></em>, which is in beta. The <em>Decath Crown</em>, as it is referred to, is one of a number of antagonistic organizations the book's MC ends up dealing with, but it is also the most insidious. I don't expect anyone to read about this out-of-context, but I will admit that I invented the religion for a fascist state instead of using a real one to diffuse my fear of needlessly picking on one religion and likely upsetting part of my potential audience. After the fact, it feels a bit like I am picking on all religions, only kind of passive-aggressively. I'm okay with that. Everybody needs their nose tweaked now and again. What follows is a slightly [annotated] excerpt from the glossary in the book.</p><blockquote><p><strong>Decath</strong> - A religious organization which was a successor to the various Christian nationalist faiths that created NADS [North American Decath States] from its predecessor state [the United States], consolidated into a theocratic state-supported ministry. The religion is now world-wide, except where banned in five catholic countries. Adherents say it is not a successor to Catholicism, but a rejection of it. It comes from <em>Dissenting Catholicism</em>, and teaches that the <em>liberal interpretations</em> promulgated by the various orthodox and protestant churches regarding Christ's word was unfounded, and furthermore <em>misrepresented</em> God's will based on improper readings of both the new and old testaments. Their catholicism is a new orthodoxy that properly interprets an apostolic church structure while supporting a protestant ideal of a priesthood of believers that is guided by ministers. It is accurately spelled <em>De</em>-cath not <em>Dis</em>-cath. This because the members of the initial <em>Synod of Alabama</em>—which drew together the leaders or designates of various nationalistic churches, their largest corporate sponsors, and hundreds of US congressmen and sixty-nine senators—thought having the word sound like <em>decaf</em> would <em>sell</em> better amongst the disparate flocks they shepherded. </p></blockquote><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a> and <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CommentingIsCool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommentingIsCool</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sf</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sff</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSstory</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSMarsNeededWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSMarsNeededWomen</span></a></p>
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Citron is a cute gangly teenage guy who is both seriously dangerous and seriously loyal. His hair has been described a being like lemon meringue pie, that is, various shades of yellow swirled with very light blond. It's a stand-out feature.

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