Sam Vimes

Hopefully they figure it out before it happens again! 👀😅

Aaaaand I'm listening to it right now. Love it!

These are probably the best friends one will ever have!

Love the messianic imagery, Kay! I can picture it so clearly in my mind too.

Those men are about to get microwaved, aren't they. 😅 It's always fun when the tables turn, and the Shrimp cooks *you* instead.

#WIPSnips | walk

Before Shrimp Boy had a proper name (but is weird all the same 😅).

From my post-apocalyptic #WIP featuring a misfit trio of kids.

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Mmm looks delish, Bunnypants!

#PretendPanel

I'm selfishly using this to mention that starting tomorrow, I'll be running a worldbuilding prompt game focused around a specific item's supply chain in your world called #Marchistics.

My pinned post has a better breakdown of what to expect. 😁

Happy building. ⚒️

Love the deconstruction and subsequent analysis of something we take for granted every day.

And, of course, the footnotes! 😁

It required some translation on the part of Manayka and Atosho to convey the issue: They couldn’t see how to make a gasoline engine be efficient at varying speeds. An engine that worked for walking speed would be horribly wasteful at highway velocity. How could ‘cars’ possibly be practical? I could tell they thought they’d found a genuine technical inconsistency. Atosho had gotten even more reserved. “And when you stop?” Nerugo glared. “Eh-na-gee-na must turn. All etomokeh. Or else fail.” She was nearly as good as the gynologists at dumbing down her vocabulary. I held up a hand. “Can me show-doh? Inside-doh of haikuhchee?” Saloro drew a crude picture of the guts of one of their vehicles. I finally grasped the problem–they had an electric motor for each wheel.[1] “I see. I see,” I blurted, somewhat desperately.[2] “‘Engine’ has…” Crap. I didn’t know the word. I grabbed a ‘pencil’ and sketched a couple of meshing gears. “…‘gears.’ Different size for different… fastness.” A burst of insight. “Also, ‘neutral.’” I mimed pulling my hands apart. “Not… touch. Engine just turn, not make ‘car’ go. ‘Idle.’” I moved one hand in a circle, kept the other one still. [1] In fact, the motors are built into the wheels. The ‘tire’ (which is of course not rubber, but I don’t understand what it is made of; best I can gather, it’s a flexible ceramic?) is like a half-shell around the motor, and can be replaced separately. [2] The actual word was “vabihgeewu,” ‘received.’ As in ‘I have picked up the signal.’

#WIPSnips 28: walk

Explaining internal combustion engines to a timeline where they never arose is... tough. On the face of it, they're ridiculously inefficient.

#SciFi #ScienceFiction #SFF

"And she passed out." 😂

I can picture it so vividly. So the key, it seems, is to swear up a storm and only THEN use the crystals. *Takes notes.*

#Febchantment 28

One of my favorite magic scenes from #Atlantis Book 1 is the moment Kena finally uses his crystal for the first time, after struggling for a long time to get it 🧡

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Good stuff Zeggy!

Hits hard! 😓

Yeah they always get stuck halfway when I try, and one ends up drooping. 😅

Wow Nush this is absolutely STUNNING! The attention to detail with the armour is top notch too, I love how intricate it is.

She looks like a Valkyrie!

comm of Ellia for @tieflingpaladin.bsky.social 💜💜

Awww baby Aiaxi? Someone really should draw that! 😁 Wonderful snip as always.

And that bit where he "asks in a small voice" just about broke my heart! 😭

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Mireia & Kena are learning about the Truth Spell, & while interrogating Kena under its influence, she accidentally uncovers a bit of his trauma 😢

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Keep up the good work man!

I'm enjoying your writing style very much! 👏

Good morning everyone and everyTHING! "Thing" is my most overused word in Frogbo—for today's #WIPSnips alone there's like four instances of it!!
Our humble narrator gives a hands-on example of how falling forever feels. 🌠⏱️
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It's brilliant how you conduct the tension in the scene with Lennie's straps. How it ebbs and flows until Micah evens it out eventually. 👏

#WIPSnips | thing

Micah calling out Lennie. 😅♥️

From my post-apocalyptic #WIP featuring a misfit trio of kids.

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She's one of my favourite characters of all time!

So cool!

"An assurance, a promise, a placeholder..." 🔥🔥🔥

#Febchantment prompt for Feb 28: SNIPPET: Share a scene that features your personal favorite use of magic! Text is white letters on a blue background featuring a magic book with lots of sparkles, and a yellow octopus dressed as Glinda the Good Witch sitting in the bottom right corner. Hosted by @professoremily.bsky.social

#Febchantment Day 28

We've reached the end of the month, friends! Thanks for playing 😊

For one last Snippet Share, show us a scene that features one of your favorite uses of magic in your story ❤️

Shout out other writers who inspired you with their magic this month!

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😻😻 I love them! 😭♥️

Picture of a little orange and white kitten with gray/black stripes lying belly up with her head on her mom's tummy, a pretty tabby girl with white paws lying on a blue cushion.

Pet pic!

This is Cookie (tabby) and her daughter Panda (orange) ❤️

Argentum in Aqua Finn McLellan All student magician Jonathan Fest wants is to keep his head down and finish out his first year of university without failing his exams too badly. Unfortunately for him, fate and the two secret societies warring in the shadows of the city have other plans. Enter stage left Archer, a gentleman scholar with a past a good deal more chequered than his present would suggest; Sabbat, a thief and assassin whose loyalty to the few people he counts as friends is as unshakeable as his temper is fiery; and Viola, lady’s maid, bodyguard, and surrogate big sister to the only daughter of the most famous family of magicians in Sacaan. Thrown together by a series of unexplained events, the four magicians soon find themselves facing down a cunning adversary and an escalation in the shadow war which could spell disaster not just for them, but for the city as a whole. Penny dreadfuls, it turns out, are a lot less fun when you’re in one. Wordcount? Fucked if I know - a lot and then some (over 500,000 words and counting for the serial as a whole, last I checked). Genre? Queer Gothic gaslamp fantasy. Enemies to lovers? Friends to lovers? Not actually a romance per se, but the latter in the case of a certain couple of POV characters. Also the slowest of slow burns. No, seriously, slower than that. Audience? Well, we've got a POV character who uses the word 'fuck' and its derivatives as a warning a noun's coming (hi Sabbat), so...

ARGENTUM IN AQUA

aka "look, the author likes hurt/comfort, vampires, werewolves, and a lot of imagery involving blood, fog, snow, and that very specific 'grimy Victorian-esque city' feel. If you feel the same way, you're hopefully in for a good time"

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