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Avery Aldan

@averyaldan.bsky.social

Writer of books, drinker of caffeine, listener of music. She/They. Doing my best when the world is doing its worst. Short stories - Here and There Series - Juniper Wharf (& side-stories) https://averyaldan.carrd.co/

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Latest posts by averyaldan.bsky.social on Bluesky

I DNF'd this book so hard, and I usually give these a shot.

But the second chapter also had so much fucking infodumping. What happened to "show, don't tell"?

09.11.2025 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'd love snow more if even just a single snowflake didn't shut down the whole town like

09.11.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

[apologises and posts inappropriate gif]

09.11.2025 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Big things on the Toxelola side of things, we love to see this!

08.11.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

[responds with appropriate gif response]

08.11.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I started a book but I swear the first chapter could have been a text message, there was so much infodumping

06.11.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The realest Insta story I've seen ever

02.11.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

November 16th...

31.10.2025 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm currently writing a series of books

Why? Because fitting the entire story into one book just isn't feasible

25.10.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Writers, if you're making videos with advice and tips on writing, please stop using the terf wizard series as examples.

There are plenty of other literary works by people that aren't actively funding and campaigning for the erasure of trans existence.

15.07.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is legit one of my characters, except she doesn't exactly come across as a nice person initially!

19.10.2025 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Granted I actually have enough to hit 80 if not for level up requirements

13.10.2025 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'll go straight to 70 what the heck

13.10.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You can ask me 728million music questions, I'm here all day!

Yeah I totally don't intend on making a stream comeback next year at twitch.tv/toxelola, absolutely not

#LateNightWrite

12.10.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Considering I used a song for both plot and main character's personality in the last one, here's another one

We got Longview for that iconic bass (Ruby is a bass player)

open.spotify.com/track/3LRJbF...

#LateNightWrite

12.10.2025 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We're going for one from Ruby's personal playlist

*oh look, Avery's using a Poets of the Fall song, how original eye roll*

open.spotify.com/track/2HWo8S...

#LateNightWrite

12.10.2025 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ooooh a music themed one, let's do this!

All of my main characters have playlists in progress. Garrot has one song on his. Of course it's Soda Pop. What else would it be?

I also have a nightclub and radio show playlist for the Juniper Wharf universe.

#LateNightWrite

12.10.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi, it's been a while! I got caught up in life stuff!

I'm Avery, and I'm writing a modern fantasy as well as a book of short stories!

And even though it's a #LateNightWrite it's almost noon for me lmao

12.10.2025 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I will make sure to!

11.10.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yes nobody gets notified for when I totally don't stream, yes yes

11.10.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What if I started streaming again, but I totally don't stream anymore, and if people ask, no I don't stream, but streams happen

11.10.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I didn't disappear, I have been busy

Unfortunately not in a good way

I have found a new workplace hellhole

More on this story at 6

06.10.2025 07:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lmao I'm actually geo-blocked from this

Cheers UK government, burn in hell

22.09.2025 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Nobody is rocking down to Electric Avenue anymore and that's sad

21.09.2025 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I've done all of the map outlines, still need to plot the countries and stuff

Ow

19.09.2025 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps maps

no updates on flags though, that'll be a much later project I fear

19.09.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I've been exhausted all day and I've spent the past five hours (on and off) drawing maps.

My hand hurts, and I haven't even gotten around to flags yet.

I used to enjoy looking at flags and maps as a kid, this'll be fun.

(also I almost wrote "flaps" instead of "flags" in the last sentence)

18.09.2025 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Me: I should go to bed soon

Also me: MAPS! I MUST MAKE MAPS!

17.09.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To make things easier for myself I split the master draft into three main segments, to make it easier instead of perpetually scrolling to find the right part to put things in

16.09.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's hard to make a cohesive timeline when literally everything feels scrambled

Like I have the timeline somewhat written down, and now I have to go into the master draft and arrange everything as it should without it being total ass

16.09.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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