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2026-10-18

#PennedPossibilities 1159: If you told your characters about our Halloween, what would they think?

Since I would be telling the "characters" about Halloween, I could avoid the triggers that could get me pegged as mentally ill—for instance, the supernatural. Halloween, if presented as the Day of the Dead, would resonate since the dead are important technologically and bureaucratically—and, no, I won't explain; spoilers. Most people who had lost someone or deal with the dead would enjoy the commemorative aspects of the day, as well as the zany irreverence of costumes and pretend, kids begging for sweets, and adults partying like crazy people later on, including bobbing for pommel fruit (something like apples). They'd happily implement the idea of jump-scare creepy houses as well since there are plenty of scary things in real life to fill auditoriums with, especially for anyone who has visited the forests of the Wild, without invoking the supernatural or paranormal, and, of course, the whole thing being totally safe. Pumpkin spices would be a people pleaser, a sweet variant of normally savory flavors associated with squash. I'm sure Rainy Days, the main series antagonist, would rush to make it at least a one-time novelty day globally. She would definitely find a way to bring in sex into the equation.

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2026-10-18

CW: EroticMusings 2026.10.18 (2 of 2) — Week 73 (October 18-24) Setting: Does your setting include sex magic, lustful rituals, or horny technology? Share an example! CW: Sex heavily implied.

(2/2) #Excerpt, sort of first draft.

…Lightning Bolt named herself that because she can fly fast, and finds new meaning in her name:

Blue was a good man. He judged when I reached my limit of control. He thrust me far beyond that and he—as an expert at tandem now—did what he knew would make it better. And he did. And he held me. And stabilized his flight, ours. And, as I hollered into the sky and spun in my body, I felt the multiple meanings in my name.
Lightning Bolt. Thoroughly. Us becoming the storm.
Struck. I was…
Struck.
Reluctantly, I returned to myself, breathing again, crackling, sparks fading, able to ponder the appropriateness of my name once again, all the while Blue doing all the work, a furious living magneto throwing all the sparks, trying to re-ignite me as we glided lower and lower because I'd been rendered unable to handle my portion of the necessary lift, but was maintaining attitude (of all kinds), by repeatedly-trained repeatedly-practiced reflex. But. I was nearly thirty. And. Experienced.
I wanted to be selfish, but for Blue I didn't want to be.
I broke our rhythm without warning at what I suspected would be the critically perfect instant. For him…
It was…

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2026-10-18

#EroticMusings 2026.10.18 (1 of 2) — Week 73 (October 18-24) Setting: Does your setting include sex magic, lustful rituals, or horny technology? Share an example!

(1/2) Though it is science fiction fantasy, and thus not technically magic, I will point out there are day angels in the Reluctance Series. They have wings with feathers and can fly, and, since they are human, flight presents to the reader as magic mixed with technology. Regardless of it being spoilers, it is not to the point to explain how it works here. Being as the angelic are very human—there are night angels, too—of course they bring new meaning to the term "mile-high club." Very few are capable, though, because the skill required to fly tandem is very hard.

Share? Okay. Part 2 is a CW'd excerpt. Lightning Bolt, a day angel MC, who named herself that because she can fly fast, finds new meaning in her name…

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2026-10-18

#PennedPossibilities 1158. MC POV: Where is a place you never want to go, see, or visit again?

Do you know what it feels like to become conscious in the middle of something, like walking to who knows what destination, slurping bonito broth ramen noodles at a restaurant you've never flown to, or at home enjoying a beautiful man you've never met? Not a blackout from a drunk. Something far scarier, seemingly random but maybe stress-related, that I've become accustomed enough to that I'm no longer surprised, compensating deftly for in the moment, and definitely dreading. I think it's because I want to forget my disastrous blackmailed life. Nevertheless, it's a dark place I never want to go to again, but inevitably will do just that…

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2026-10-17

#WordWeavers 2026.10.17 — What is the worst possible first impression someone could get of your MC?

That she's a dangerous punk gangster who would as soon pull a knife on you as smile.

Would it be accurate?

Actually, that would be the best impression she could make. It's a persona she projects for self-protection. She is a courier for the mob (involuntarily) and as such she has found that it is true that they do try to kill the messenger. Her attempts at fighting end up comedic, so she knows better.

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2026-10-17

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.10.16 — How do you feel about people reading your works without buying a personal copy?

This question asks how I would feel.

Assuming we are talking about a for-sale book here. With the exceptions of a brick and mortar library loaning out copies they have purchased, or friends and family reading a purchased or resold-as-used copy, I would feel violated. It is theft.

It is different if I post free-to-read on services, like Mastodon, which I do for small works, but I retain the copyright and note that in posts. Were something or somebody to package and sell such work in whatever form—or train an LLM with my content—it is theft. I don't intend to profit materially from free-to-read, but someone else doing it? I would hate that.

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2026-10-17

#WordWeavers 2026.10.16 — What is one choice your MC made for the right reasons that ended up having terrible consequences?

In Reluctant Moon, Streak, the MMC, acts to be supportive of a stressed-out woman who in his eyes has reached the limits of her endurance. His actions lead directly to a war in which Thorn Rose, the FMC and his LI, becomes involved in its opening salvos. There is a loss of innocence all around.

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