Now that my daughter is toddling about, and since we have friends over for the first time in age, we finally performed an important rite of passage - seeing which OG starter #Pokemon she picks.
I am pleased to announce that my clever daughter made the wise choice of Bulbasaur, her dad's favourite!
“This doesn’t have to end in blood!” Therese called out. “The airlock still works. You can disembark onto Reader Station with a fond farewell.” “Fuck you!” Naamah spat. “This is our ship! This is our sector! You think you can do whatever you like just because your friends are here? Wake up, idiot! You’ve just signed your own death warrant!” “Bold words,” Aki intoned. “Failing to see the woods for the trees, perhaps? Take a step back and you will see that this is over, Naamah.” “Yeah, I’d be more than happy asking Sparrow to close off the blast doors and vent you all into space instead,” Therese said with a fiery grin. “Ooh, let me do it!” Sparrow’s voice was changed. The girly spaceship AI was now a seething monster, a dragon in its den begging the foolish adventurers to test their luck for her gold. Naamah quivered with rage. “Fuck… you!”
From The Runechildren, Book Six of the Lonely Ship Saga.
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Can you believe I struggled to find #vibrate? This is 'shiver', from The Runechildren, Book Six of the Lonely Ship Saga.
Former lovers Demi and Hal reunite after time in prison.
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Finally got a chance to play some Jackbox with friends tonight, and man, I was weeping with laughter. Those guys get me.
Great to see the SF-TTRPG-player-to-SF-novelist pipeline going strong! 🤜🤛
Good morning! ...I got real sick again 🤧 Going with ~vibes~ for today's #WIPSnips, from my horror short coming soon!
"I spoke with my clone through noon. It was a strange sensation—one I wasn't used to."
cw: emotional abuse, gaslighting
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@barrows.itch.io is days away from the release of the first in his sci-fi novella series, and what I've read so far is stellar. Really polished prose with a tight cast of characters.
I love sci-fi, and it's always a thrill to see others pushing my top genre!
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“Everything begins again after today,” said Lilith with a much more confident smile. “We have not lost anything, Rune. Even this ordeal is growth. It’s just in a different direction to what we were anticipating. Or… to what you were anticipating. This New Accord was my dream, not so long ago.” She sighed, and Marcus searched for words to comfort her. But he closed his mouth when Lilith turned to face the screen with a steely gaze. “It’s right that I should be here to kill it,” said the snake.
From The Runechildren, Book Six of the Lonely Ship Saga.
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#original from The Runechildren, Book Six of the Lonely Ship Saga.
Hal's prison warden has an interest in his previous mission, so interviews like this are common.
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No diverging timelines in Lonely Ship. Just the one. A lot of pressure in later books comes from testing if a dark future can be avoided through actions in the present. It's a question that (🤞) keeps readers interested up to the finale!
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#TimeTravelAuthors March 2026 1. Introduce your story (optional word: luck/lucky) 3. Are your characters protecting anything/one? 5. Apologies in your story 7. Saturday excerpt (optional word: quiet/loud) 9. Explain your story's time travel method with emojis 11. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: leaf/leaves/leave) 13. Cultures in your story 15. Does anyone have fun (or want to have fun) with time travel? 17. Patient or patience in your story 19. Servants in your story 21. Saturday excerpt (optional word: march/step) 23. Something that surprised you about your story 25. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: brief/short) 27. Alternate timelines in your story? 29. Characters' eye colors 31. Author's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn.bsky.social or @juliebihn.mastodon.social
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“Well done, Marcus. You really have come a long way from the shy first officer I fell in love with.” Now that he was shirtless, his boots off and his sword lying on the deck, Rune reached up and ran her fingers through his hair. “You ever impress me. I hope you know that.” “I know it,” he replied, holding her by her waist. His fingers teased themselves into the midriff between shirt and underwear. “I don’t understand it, but I know it.” “Some days, I don’t think you do.” Before she could elaborate, Rune shook her head. Her dynamic pink stripe brushed Marcus’ nose. “Let’s talk about VR sex now.”
From The Runechildren, Book Six of the Lonely Ship Saga.
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#royal (this is 'regal') from The Runechildren, Book Six of the Lonely Ship Saga.
It's the end of the line. Black Husk and Rune Carrier face off one last time.
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#option from The Runechildren, Book Six of the Lonely Ship Saga.
Lilith takes a hard line with the resistance to spur them to action against the New Accord.
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Chapter 10 of Lonely Ship 7 is now drafted, and boy, it's a long one. I feel like I've run a marathon. Hoping rereads go well in the next couple days. #writingcommunity
Valerye was used to [subspace] now, had even grown to look forward to it. The way the aberrant realm made her disconnected and untethered, free of gravity and consequence. It was a brief breath of fresh air in the otherwise stale enclosure of her double life.
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Every week at work, we have a virtual check-in where the chair has to begin with an activity.
This week was my turn again, and I've been introducing the team to cool #boardgames they might not have heard of. This time was Fog of Love. I think I got across it's not a weird pervert game.
“Also… when I think about today, I’m scared. I’m angry. I’m confused. I hurt. That might be a hard thing to understand, given my species, but I was hurt today. And I know I might be hurt tomorrow. And so might Aki. We might even die. So I see you, and I want you. I want you. Because I’d rather feel anything at all that isn’t what I’m feeling right now. Even love…” Her hands twitched around his ----. Hal put a hand against her cheek. He leaned in closer as her fingertips trailed tantalisingly against his skin. “Even shame.” He stopped, nose brushing against hers. They were still, locked together in body and heart. “Hal, what should I do?”
From The Runechildren, Book Six of the Lonely Ship Saga.
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My first HM crush, so many years ago now. I was devastated when I scraped some funds together and bought a Chocolate from the general store for her, and she told me she hated it cos Chocolate is a cooking ingredient not a present 😔
#gentle from The Runechildren, Book Six of the Lonely Ship Saga.
Husk's command team are getting ready to give a speech to the revolution, and Captain Marcus is nervous.
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I've been playing music from Frieren evening and my wife is livid that she can't figure out what it's from.
Clues so far: the track titles, it's fantasy, it's about a journey but they aren't there yet, based on an ongoing manga, main character is female, we both liked it.
Yo, same! I've made it to episode 6 and committed to finishing it this time!
#offer from The Runechildren, Book Six of the Lonely Ship Saga.
Now entrenched in a galactic war, the Rune Carrier alumni disagree over second chances for the enemy.
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“Alright.” Dera tossed back his head and downed the contents of Hal’s mug. Then, wincing across his whole body, he tossed the mug to Hal with a competent underarm. “Listen, I need to go find myself a place to sleep. Tatts says they run out quick. See you later, cousin. If not tomorrow, then… I dunno. After the war.” “After the war, then. Love you.” “Keep it in your trousers. Oh, hey.” Dera turned from where he had been walking towards the Great Hovel bunker. “One thing that’s been bothering me. When we were on the mission, Danny said that being the crew of a Mythmaker ship was complicated. What did he mean by that?” “Oh, that?” Hal smirked. If he was going to stop treating the young man as a child, he’d better go all in. “The energy we use to jump to subspace is generated by fucking.” “Oh, shit! Really? No wonder you guys are so messed up.” Dera laughed, saluting him with two fingers. “Later, mate.”
From The Runechildren, Book Six of the Lonely Ship Saga.
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This is tricky, but I think the interactions between characters. Reading back to Lonely Ship 1, I like the individual voices of the core crew. They all talk to each other differently, and I think it comes off as really natural. I could listen to them yap all day 😊
Did not think I would write today, but I got a couple hundred words out in the end. Enough to start a new section, and that's the hard part a lot of time. Now it's underway, I'll have an easier time picking up the flow next time 😊
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The very first draft of Lonely Ship was very pants-y. I had no idea where I was going, no sense of scope. So in a sense, the whole thing surprised me!
As it is now, I'm surprised I'm almost done with it. I could've moved on, but I stuck with it.
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“I knew your mother, did you know that?” Therese started at the old man’s nonchalance. Was that meant to be some sort of childish threat. “N-No, I didn’t.” “Marian Celeste,” Julianus sighed. “I was her tutor for the Economic Framework Master exam. You’ll remember she made Nautilliad planetary news for acing it on her first try. A sharper woman I have never met. Sharp as a blade, and she knew how to cut. A terrifying intelligence made ungainly by her habit of chewing out the people she disagreed with. And she disagreed with fucking everyone, Therese. I knew she’d go far.” His thin fingers rubbed at the shining chassis of the cigarette case, and his smile was warm indeed. “If you’re anything like your mother, and I can tell that you are from what you just said, then this ship cannot be in safer hands. Much better you, Therese, than the sort of stuffy academic engineering prodigy that logic dictated we should have hired for the job. Better someone who cares enough to speak her mind. Better someone who gives a shit. Thank fuck for you, eh?”
From The Runechildren, Book Six of the Lonely Ship Saga.
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#lily from The Runechildren, Book Six of the Lonely Ship Saga.
Metal ronin Corvus makes a speedy getaway towards the New Anchorage spaceport.
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