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#WIPSnips | destroy->break
Maybe she could… ‘date’ a boy, like just go to the movies with one a couple times, and then break it off before her parents started thinking she was having sex with him?
She thought about the boys in her class. Some of them were… nice to look at? She supposed?
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New Episode! Does anybody know what it means when a horror story suddenly introduces a big group of new colorful side characters? It means they're probably safe, right?
04.03.2026 22:06 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
#WIPSnips | media
Oct. 20th, 1983
Earlier this year, an environmental activist group broke into a state branch office of ExxonMobil & leaked internal research papers to the media showing that the company had developed climate models predicting catastrophic warming.
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#WIPSnips | counter
Carinen really wished she hadn’t been right about the counter-protesters. A whole bunch of Reaganites & people acting like they had a direct mandate from God had arrived early this afternoon. The news vans & cameras had started setting up across the street ~1/2 later.
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#Grateful for a wonderful cookie season with Girl Scouts AND that it's wrapping up... eventually.
03.03.2026 01:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#WIPSnips | most
They had gotten right into the pond two days ago and stayed until lunch and trekking back home. And the day before that. Annnnnd three days before that. They came to the pond a lot. It really is the only interesting thing to do most days.
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Today on #WIPSnips: The reason why Mick let himself be dragged into adventure.
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Alexander's step-cousin/guardian/uncle-figure's first impression of him, for today's #WIPSnips.
02.03.2026 14:24 — 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
"Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us."
-- Jerry Garcia (1942-1995)
New One Shot Episode! It's been out for four years, and there's still no game quite like Fae's Anatomy by @hebanongames.bsky.social . Fantasy doctors curing fantasy diseases with the power of science, logic, and romance!
25.02.2026 18:37 — 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0The Bunker Council expelled Vought and his clique, leaving them some rations, a copy of The Art of Not Being a Self-Important Jerk by Col. Thaddeus B. Lintwhistle, and a Bible with all the inconsistencies highlighted—purely out of spite. #WIPSnips
26.02.2026 14:38 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The best worldbuilding never feels like worldbuilding.
It feels like history leaking through dialogue.
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From the still highly conceptual Wuxia-esque
NIGHTSILK:
He wanted Nightsilk.
He wanted Fallon.
He wanted neither.
He wanted both.
He wanted something he didn’t have a name for.
And somewhere behind that veil, Laethe was smiling.
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#Grateful for my wonderful partner and the good communication we've developed over the years.
(Look swipe type, while we do communicate about food a lot, that is not what I meant!)
We WILL be holding the seed share (for food garden plants) at the park across from the Wheaton Metro today! But depending on weather & seed supply, we might not stay to 12:30pm. The rain doesn't look too bad, and we have a canopy. Come say hi! If I can find my big thermos, we'll have warm tea.
22.02.2026 15:33 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
New Episode! They say the first step to recovery is accepting that you have a problem. That you caused. A thousand years ago. Actually, several of them.
18.02.2026 14:58 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0#Grateful for the above freezing weather getting rid of all that snow!
17.02.2026 01:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of a cat under a bed with a rotisserie chicken with the caption: This is Beans. Beans stole a while rotisserie chicken off the counter. Not a piece. The whole chicken. Beans dragged it under the bed and growled at us for forty minutes. Beans is 9 pounds.
Become ungovernable
14.02.2026 22:12 — 👍 5280 🔁 1423 💬 84 📌 113
#WIPSnips | never
Oh. This was what Jessie meant about boys, wasn’t it?
Oh dear.
Rebecca was not a boy.
Definitely not a boy.
She liked girls.
Well.
Yet another thing to never mention to her parents.
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#WIPSnips | sweetheart
[Maya's parents recently died in a car accident.]
“Don’t wanna go to school,” Maya whispered into Carinen’s neck, followed by several sniffles.
Carinen wiggled a tissue in to wipe Maya’s nose. “Okay sweetheart, you can stay with me today.”
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#WIPSnips | serious
Tiffany was looking at her like Carinen had proposed flying to the Moon. “You can’t be serious. We should risk our children to the witches just because there’s a labor shortage?”
“What risk?” Judith said, evenly and calmly. Too calmly. Oh dear.
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#WIPSnips | defense
The University has issued a statement that the study is in partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Accenture Federal Services.
The President has stated his opposition to the government funding what he terms magic.
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New Episode! What could be more Lovecraftian -- and more Noir -- than a single nerdy bookshop owner going up against sinister magicians and cosmic horrors!? Enjoy a special one-player adventure!
11.02.2026 18:05 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0“A local defense squad has been detected,” Victoria said, her scanners whirring as they swept over them. “Unofficial militia. Non-standard uniforms. Civilian weapons. Moderate training level. Moderate threat.” She paused. “One of them appears to be dual-wielding snow shovels.” #WIPSnips
12.02.2026 14:26 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#WIPSnips | vibe
If ever Carinen needed to remind herself that clothing was costuming, she figured recalling this interview would do it. While these folks had been stunning in drag, they were presenting an entirely different vibe in their Marine dress uniforms.
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#WIPSnips | liquid->water
“Everyone’s used the toilet?”
“Yes, Momma,” came the chorus of preteen and younger voices.
“Everyone have their snacks, water, and books?” Judith asked as she slid into the driver’s seat.
“Yes, Imā!”
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A toning hummed. Sang. Enchanting, luminous, it echoed through the mirror land of trees and sky. It was in everything, and all of nature resonated with it. Ayina and Greta harmonized with it. It was inside Niwa, too. She was singing it. Every cell of hers healed while gliding and resonating. Dreamtime fully merged with reality. Was she awake? In spirit? She felt the boat cradling her through patches of duckweed, reeds, and the liquid sky below, leaving ripples behind.
trippy swamp
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So many good options - here is one from the prologue.
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#Grateful for community and support while I search for a new job. That said, if anyone needs an editor, I'm available!
10.02.2026 01:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#WIPSnips | select->prefer
“I’d prefer to be the adult I needed growing up. Plenty of kids with worse parents than mine or who get beat or kicked out for being like us.”
Judith cocked an eyebrow. “For the gay thing or the magic thing?”
“Phfft. Either. Both.”
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