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#MiwwduSitsomSelkieWIP Babysitting Naomi

“You want to go back in?” the aunt asked.
“I have a husband, and a daughter,” she said. “I can’t just #leave him.”
“Dump the husband,” her mother recommended. “He’s cheating on you, look.”

(3/3)

#InReverse

A few minutes pass, and I figure the man must be gone by now. I decide to risk it and #leave my hiding spot. I need to go get help! I’ve wasted long enough as it is.

(2/3)

#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

#TimeTravelAuthors 11

#TheDragonblood

Aimetor plucks a #leaf from a plant on the ground, and holds it in their hands a good while. When they release it, there are holes throughout the #leaf with gold all along their edges.

(1/3)

#ThroughTheCracks: No beasts of burden in the ALCEFS. Except POSSIBLY recreational equestrianism, but I have a feeling they'd outlaw that too. The ALCEFS is very much against any non wholly voluntary work, and I see no reason why that shouldn't apply equally to animals. (4/4)

The horse is the symbol of Palnator and retains a symbolic meaning of strength in Nemoria, even though it's mostly obsolesced in that role. But of course, we'll revisit that tomorrow. (3/4)

The poor probably have less access to magical means and are more likely to make use of beasts of burden, though, and beasts of burden are much more common elsewhere, like Akewa. Horses, oxen and domestic mammoths might be used. (2/4)

#MarchWorldbuilders 11

#TheDragonblood: Beasts of burden? Those aren't a big thing in Nemoria; wagons and carts tend to be propelled by magic. Some might ride horses, often more for leisure than a method of transportation. (1/4)

#WIPSnips 'resident'

#EarthIslands The League of Landlords: Five days after the Armistice was signed with Germany, Warsaw kidnaps Vilnius from the Soviets who had her captive. Kaunas is less than impressed when he finds out.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

I promise you that if you give me money, I will be very confused about how you managed, because I don't currently have any public place for you to send money to (assuming that hasn't changed by then).

Really, if you want to send me money, ask me about what charities I'd like money donated to!

Wishing Av'ry all the pleasant dreams!A happy family, a host of dead gods who will never terrorise the world again, a Fox who's agreed to train in magic and is now extra badass... Whatever future Av'ry hopes for!

#ThroughTheCracks: Skylar also tends to be pretty down-to-earth, but will imagine practical ways of making the world better if they feel the world they are living in its less than perfect. Now, that would be a more noticeable part of their character if they didn't already live in the ALCEFS. (3/3)

But of course, we've talked about the characters' creativity before, and I figure some imagination is required for that. (2/3)

#AwesomeCharacters

#TheDragonblood: Felix is very prone to getting lost in his imagination, imagining fantasy worlds and dragons.

Aimetor is more down-to-earth.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts (1/3)

Michaela gives her one for her birthday, but tells her it's just a prototype and she'll have to return it afterwards. In the end, it turns out the real reason she has to return it is because [redacted]. (2/2)

#QueerPrompts 10: Almost none of my characters have explicit birthdays at the moment.

#MiwwduSitsomSelkieWIP: Cynthia is envious of Dave and Michaela's costume-based shapeshifting powers, and wants a magical costume that will work for her. (1/2)

Ooh, I don't know if you mentioned it already and I missed it, but what's the real world inspo?

Leak information about processing honey, be part of the next batch of honey?

How do they distinguish between sapienti and near-sapient animals, if not by the presence of a soul? Are there objective criteria?

Now, the process for how something gets made robotically is probably very different from the process for making that thing by hand. But for things which can reasonably be made by hand, instructions for how to do so are also freely available to anyone who wants to learn. (4/4)

People can even watch the manufacturing process live through cameras, even if they can't access those parts of the stations in person. That said, certain aspects like where everything gets distributed to may still not be public knowledge. (3/4)

#ThroughTheCracks: The ALCEFS believes in transparency and accessibility of information. There are no trade secrets, and every step of the process of making a finished product like a holoscreen is widely available knowledge that anyone has free access to. (2/4)

#Marchistics 10

#TheDragonblood: Making a carpet is probably not something that'd have super big trade secrets surrounding it. Making it with the secret magic-holding material woven in so it can hold an enchantment might be a little more secret, and require specific education in that area. (1/4)

Skin-shifters and canvas crossers technically aren't human, but look fully human (at least, in the case of skin-shifters, when they don't have a skin on – a form still usually called their human form) and tend to be mostly treated as such if they're living in human society. (3/3)

And in case you missed out on this bit of lore, by "the Soulless", I mean regular nonmagical humans like we have here on Earth.

#MiwwduSitsomSelkieWIP: I haven't really come up with the non-humanoid magical creatures for this world yet. (2/3)

#MarchWorldbuilders 10

#TheDragonblood: In Nemoria, the classification tends to be based on whether or not the entity has a soul. Those with souls are people; those without are animals.

Mages, fairies, merfolk, giants, halflings, dragons, wyverns, gods? People.

The Soulless? Animals. (1/3)

And of course,

Chapter 5: In Which Felix and Aadient Explore a Dragon Cave, and Probably Some Other Stuff Happens After That, But I Have Yet to Decide on What Those Things May Be

(3/3)

Some examples:

Chapter 3: In Which We Unfortunately Find Out What That Wolf Howl Was All About, and Also Meet Up With Some Dragons

Chapter 4: In Which Felix Stops Aadient From Killing the Merry Band of Totally Not Dungeons and Dragons Adventurers

(2/3)

I posted an actual snippet with 'chapter' in it, but for fun chapter titles… well, what I have are some chapter titles that were intended to be temporary and made extra lengthy because NaNoWriMo, which got increasingly self aware about how little idea I had of where my story was going. (1/3)

#WIPSnips 'chapter'

#AtHerOwnReflection

“Okay, I understand,” I say. “Still, I want it. Please? I’m not ready for this time travel adventure to be over. I want it to be a new #chapter, instead. I want to visit some other time than the same month I’ve been living in for the past ten months.”

It's very integral to the REASON for time travel. But I wouldn't say it's integral to the method.