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[blind-the-winds]

Indefinite Hiatus

Hey, all! Sorry to do this, but yeeeeep, still no movement on the account borking. As such, I've decided to go on hiatus for the time being. If you're interested in following progress on TNS or just keeping in touch, you'll be able to find me at the following:

Active Accounts:

Public Discord (Hosts daily snippets, chatter, word sprints, VCs, and more. Also the only place where alpha reader calls are posted. Members get first dibs on beta reader calls as well. This invite will not expire.)

Bluesky (Where I'm most active, alongside Twitter. Hosts snippets, updates, and random talk, including media chatter.)

Twitter (Hosts pitch event posts and crossposts of updates and snippets. Will also feature industry talk, eventually.)

Instagram (Currently hosts photos/videos of writing adventures. Will soon also host snippets and other writing things.)

Cohost (Least active. Not sure what I'll do with this one, tbh. Might host longer personal posts.)

Ko-Fi (Future home of PDF versions of my shorts, as I'm moving my content off Wordpress soon—see next section.)

Set Up but Coming Soon: (Still followable, if you'd like!)

Substack (Monthly updates starting in June. Will include progress updates, exclusive snippets, worldbuilding talk, and more.)

Neocities (Upcoming author site. See Bluesky/Twitter/Substack for progress updates.)

Note: If you have accounts on any of these, feel free to give me a follow, and I will 100% follow you back. b)'')b

Otherwise, for more info about future plans and the Great Borking, click the read more!

Have you seen this post already and want to avoid seeing it again? Block the tag the great hiatus 2024. You're welcome. ;)

So what happened? Tl;dr, account is borked and basically cannot interact with posts, cannot see/send asks, cannot see/send tags, cannot be viewed in the notes (meaning no reblogs with tags or replies), basically cannot do anything except post and reblog a whole lot and hope people just happen across what I have to say.

Unfortunately, because I've slowed down with posting excerpts (because I'm aiming to query later this year) and because a lot of the rest of the content here hinges on the ability to do any of the things mentioned in the paragraph above, I can't really do anything with this account. I've notified support a couple weeks ago, buuuuut . . . it might take a while to get word back.

Until then, I've decided to take an indefinite hiatus. I've technically already been on it, but I've come back every week to update y'all on where to find me. Sad to say, this will be the last time I do so until the account gets fixed.

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Have you thought about remaking? I have, but I'm not really interested in doing so, tbh, especially with an open support ticket. I mean, yes, I do miss interacting with people, and that would be the easiest way to stay in touch with all the friends I've made on Tumblr, but at the same time, it'd be a lot of work to rebuild what I've made here, on the same platform I've had problems with, you know? So right now, I'd rather wait to see if the account I already have gets fixed, and if so, I'd stay right here where it's basically stable.

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What about the meetups? They're still being hosted! If you're not a member of the NYC meetup Discord, send me a note (on one of the other platforms), and I'll send you a link to get you set up. Announcements for future meetups, as well as sign-up sheets, will be posted to Bluesky and Instagram starting next week.

As for @writeblrmeetups, I'm open to finding a co-moderator to take care of it for now. If you're interested, message me (again, on one of the other platforms).

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What if your account never gets fixed? Would you remake then?¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On a serious note, leaning towards no, but if that changes, you'll be the first to know (with an intro post—though for sure, keep an eye on Twitter/Bluesky for any word that I've remade).

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If your account gets fixed, could I be notified? Sure! If my account gets fixed, I'm planning on making a new intro post. If you'd like to be tagged in it, leave a reaction (like, reblog with tags, replies) to this post, and I'll see it when I get back.

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Anything else? Nah, that's pretty much it. That all said, thanks so much to everyone who's voiced support throughout the Great Borking, but also, thank you to everyone who's supported me throughout my time in writeblr before then. I genuinely hope this isn't the last we'll see from each other on Tumblr, but if it is, I also hope y'all consider following me on the platforms mentioned at the top of this post.

Until sometime soon, catch y'all on the flipside!

[blind-the-winds]

Indefinite Hiatus

Hey, all! Sorry to do this, but yeeeeep, still no movement on the account borking. As such, I've decided to go on hiatus for the time being. If you're interested in following progress on TNS or just keeping in touch, you'll be able to find me at the following:

Active Accounts:

Public Discord (Hosts daily snippets, chatter, word sprints, VCs, and more. Also the only place where alpha reader calls are posted. Members get first dibs on beta reader calls as well. This invite will not expire.)

Bluesky (Where I'm most active, alongside Twitter. Hosts snippets, updates, and random talk, including media chatter.)

Twitter (Hosts pitch event posts and crossposts of updates and snippets. Will also feature industry talk, eventually.)

Instagram (Currently hosts photos/videos of writing adventures. Will soon also host snippets and other writing things.)

Cohost (Least active. Not sure what I'll do with this one, tbh. Might host longer personal posts.)

Ko-Fi (Future home of PDF versions of my shorts, as I'm moving my content off Wordpress soon—see next section.)

Set Up but Coming Soon: (Still followable, if you'd like!)

Substack (Monthly updates starting in June. Will include progress updates, exclusive snippets, worldbuilding talk, and more.)

Neocities (Upcoming author site. See Bluesky/Twitter/Substack for progress updates.)

Note: If you have accounts on any of these, feel free to give me a follow, and I will 100% follow you back. b)'')b

Otherwise, for more info about future plans and the Great Borking, click the read more!

Have you seen this post already and want to avoid seeing it again? Block the tag the great hiatus 2024. You're welcome. ;)

So what happened? Tl;dr, account is borked and basically cannot interact with posts, cannot see/send asks, cannot see/send tags, cannot be viewed in the notes (meaning no reblogs with tags or replies), basically cannot do anything except post and reblog a whole lot and hope people just happen across what I have to say.

Unfortunately, because I've slowed down with posting excerpts (because I'm aiming to query later this year) and because a lot of the rest of the content here hinges on the ability to do any of the things mentioned in the paragraph above, I can't really do anything with this account. I've notified support a couple weeks ago, buuuuut . . . it might take a while to get word back.

Until then, I've decided to take an indefinite hiatus. I've technically already been on it, but I've come back every week to update y'all on where to find me. Sad to say, this will be the last time I do so until the account gets fixed.

-

Have you thought about remaking? I have, but I'm not really interested in doing so, tbh, especially with an open support ticket. I mean, yes, I do miss interacting with people, and that would be the easiest way to stay in touch with all the friends I've made on Tumblr, but at the same time, it'd be a lot of work to rebuild what I've made here, on the same platform I've had problems with, you know? So right now, I'd rather wait to see if the account I already have gets fixed, and if so, I'd stay right here where it's basically stable.

-

What about the meetups? They're still being hosted! If you're not a member of the NYC meetup Discord, send me a note (on one of the other platforms), and I'll send you a link to get you set up. Announcements for future meetups, as well as sign-up sheets, will be posted to Bluesky and Instagram starting next week.

As for @writeblrmeetups, I'm open to finding a co-moderator to take care of it for now. If you're interested, message me (again, on one of the other platforms).

-

What if your account never gets fixed? Would you remake then?¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On a serious note, leaning towards no, but if that changes, you'll be the first to know (with an intro post—though for sure, keep an eye on Twitter/Bluesky for any word that I've remade).

-

If your account gets fixed, could I be notified? Sure! If my account gets fixed, I'm planning on making a new intro post. If you'd like to be tagged in it, leave a reaction (like, reblog with tags, replies) to this post, and I'll see it when I get back.

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Anything else? Nah, that's pretty much it. That all said, thanks so much to everyone who's voiced support throughout the Great Borking, but also, thank you to everyone who's supported me throughout my time in writeblr before then. I genuinely hope this isn't the last we'll see from each other on Tumblr, but if it is, I also hope y'all consider following me on the platforms mentioned at the top of this post.

Until sometime soon, catch y'all on the flipside!

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Oh, eff me, I forgot to mention! Twitter is now a thing, but Bluesky and Insta are still the best places to find me (besides Discord).

Also also, the plan is that at the end of the week, if the blog still isn't fixed, I'll just open up a permanent invitation to the Discord, post a link list of where to find me, and kinda . . . go on hiatus.

This isn't to say boo staff or anything because there are like 35 people behind the scenes, I know, but at the same time, I feel like the main reason why I come to Tumblr is to interact with other writers and to get my writing out there. I've recently come to the realization that if I want to query, doing the second thing isn't something I can do very publicly, and with the borking, I can't do much of the first thing.

So! Yes, this is going to be a bit of a heads-up, but weekly updates on the borking situation will kinda just. End next week. So if you want to find me on The Great Hiatus, now is a really good time to look at the other socials.

[blind-the-winds]

Also also, the plan is that at the end of the week, if the blog still isn't fixed, I'll just open up a permanent invitation to the Discord, post a link list of where to find me, and kinda . . . go on hiatus.

This isn't to say boo staff or anything because there are like 35 people behind the scenes, I know, but at the same time, I feel like the main reason why I come to Tumblr is to interact with other writers and to get my writing out there. I've recently come to the realization that if I want to query, doing the second thing isn't something I can do very publicly, and with the borking, I can't do much of the first thing.

So! Yes, this is going to be a bit of a heads-up, but weekly updates on the borking situation will kinda just. End next week. So if you want to find me on The Great Hiatus, now is a really good time to look at the other socials.

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Caught up with boops on this post, but please take a look at my pinned too, my peeps. D:

As a side point, I literally do not know if anyone can see me when I boop them. It would be hilarious if that was the only other thing besides showing up on people's dashes that this account is capable of doing. As a test, I'll boop anyone who reacts to this post, and then my next week-long hiatus will be a thing.

Otherwise, the new borking post with a fresh Discord link is a pin now (if/when the whole borking gets resolved, I'll make a new intro nbd), so if you want to help a nebulous blob out be ironic a day after TDOV, consider checking it out. :D

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As an example, I have sent out boops to everyone who's sent me boops in the past half-hour, including the people who reacted to this post. Please tell me you could see me booping, because that would be funny af.

As a side point, I literally do not know if anyone can see me when I boop them. It would be hilarious if that was the only other thing besides showing up on people's dashes that this account is capable of doing. As a test, I'll boop anyone who reacts to this post, and then my next week-long hiatus will be a thing.

Otherwise, the new borking post with a fresh Discord link is a pin now (if/when the whole borking gets resolved, I'll make a new intro nbd), so if you want to help a nebulous blob out be ironic a day after TDOV, consider checking it out. :D

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As a side point, I literally do not know if anyone can see me when I boop them. It would be hilarious if that was the only other thing besides showing up on people's dashes that this account is capable of doing. As a test, I'll boop anyone who reacts to this post, and then my next week-long hiatus will be a thing.

Otherwise, the new borking post with a fresh Discord link is a pin now (if/when the whole borking gets resolved, I'll make a new intro nbd), so if you want to help a nebulous blob out be ironic a day after TDOV, consider checking it out. :D

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So yeah, in case you hadn't caught what happened last night (see here), my account got borked hard, so basically, most of the functionality got wiped. The tl;dr of it is that I cannot:

Send asks

Receive asks

Message people

Reply to posts

Tag people

Be visible in notifications (my own or yours)

Be visible in tags (probably not related but also on the list)

Basically do anything except toss posts onto people's dashes and hope I'm seen, as literally the only thing that's visible are my posts on your dashboard.

Needless to say, that makes interacting with people—responding to your posts, doing tag games, etc—a teensy bit difficult. I've reached out to support, but it might take a bit before things get resolved. Hopefully less than a week, as Lich said. :')

UNTIL THEN, I'm taking a week off Tumblr to go work on the other socials. If you'd like to keep up with daily TNS snippets, literally the last thing I did before my account broke was put together the Discord, but I'm hoping to work on other sites too.

Here's a full list of places where you can find me for the rest of the week:

The shiny new Discord (Most likely place to catch word if I end up leaving Tumblr or remaking.)

Bluesky (Second most likely place to catch word if I end up leaving Tumblr or remaking.)

Instagram

Cohost

Because of the way my account got borked, this message will repeat every couple of hours. Apologies, all! If you've seen this post and do not want to see it again, blacklist the tag the great borking of 2024.

Thanks for your patience! See you in a week!

[blind-the-winds]

[ID in ALT]

Hey, folks! Would you like access to snippets for things I intend on publishing? First dibs on beta reading? Alpha reading?

I have a Discord server for this! :tada:

To keep things under wraps (read: because I intend on querying at least some of my novels), I've moved a good chunk of chatter to a private Discord server that is now open.

What you'll find in this Discord server:

Daily snippets

The only place to apply to be an alpha reader

First dibs on beta reader applications

Announcements and author posts all in one place

A place to post your snippets

A word sprint bot for word sprints

And generally a spot where I might actually be hanging out, lol

Is this a writeblr server? Not in the sense that this is for the community. You are free to hang out here and post your stuff, but it was originally created to give me a space to share snippets.

Still, I feel weird about creating a Discord server for myself, so who knows if that's what it actually ends up being? :V

I'm interested in alpha/beta reading for [WIP]. Do I have to be in this server to do it? Beta reading: Nope! It's just that beta reader calls will go up on the Discord server a day before they go up anywhere else.

Alpha reading: Yep, sorry.

Does this mean you won't be making any announcements on this blog anymore? Nope, announcements will still happen on this blog and all the socials! However, the Discord will also have a channel dedicated to aggregating news in one place. Catch meetup announcements, book announcements, and more!

Will you be posting AtB/Midsummer Knights/The Arcadia content? Eventually! Just note that it will be TNS 24/7 until that manuscript is done. :V

How do I get an invite? Like this post, reblog it with tags specifying that you want an invite, or leave a reply on this post. Make sure your DMs are open, and I'll drop you an invite within a day or so.

Tumblr just disabled my messages for attempting to send out the link, lmao. So for the next seven days, just click here.

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And finally, tagging the TNS people to let y'all know where you can find snippets from here on out:

TNS taglist: @linaket @kittytikara @philosophika @aquadestinyswriting @thebejeweledwatercat @cljordan-imperium @inkovert @captain-kraken @ceph-the-ghost-writer @sarandipitywrites @kaylinalexanderbooks @isherwoodj @sharkblizzardblogs

And a side @drippingmoon, just for fun!

[blind-the-winds]

So yeah, in case you hadn't caught what happened last night (see here), my account got borked hard, so basically, most of the functionality got wiped. The tl;dr of it is that I cannot:

Send asks

Receive asks

Message people

Reply to posts

Tag people

Be visible in notifications (my own or yours)

Be visible in tags (probably not related but also on the list)

Basically do anything except toss posts onto people's dashes and hope I'm seen, as literally the only thing that's visible are my posts on your dashboard.

Needless to say, that makes interacting with people—responding to your posts, doing tag games, etc—a teensy bit difficult. I've reached out to support, but it might take a bit before things get resolved. Hopefully less than a week, as Lich said. :')

UNTIL THEN, I'm taking a week off Tumblr to go work on the other socials. If you'd like to keep up with daily TNS snippets, literally the last thing I did before my account broke was put together the Discord, but I'm hoping to work on other sites too.

Here's a full list of places where you can find me for the rest of the week:

The shiny new Discord (Most likely place to catch word if I end up leaving Tumblr or remaking.)

Bluesky (Second most likely place to catch word if I end up leaving Tumblr or remaking.)

Instagram

Cohost

Because of the way my account got borked, this message will repeat every couple of hours. Apologies, all! If you've seen this post and do not want to see it again, blacklist the tag the great borking of 2024.

Thanks for your patience! See you in a week!

[blind-the-winds]

Or reblogging, I take it, given that my reblogs don't show up in the notes for this post, and people seem to be finding my posts on their dash instead of any other means. :')

So basically, not shadowbanned because I show up on people's dashes, but I cannot:

Message people

Read my asks

Potentially send other people asks?

Tag people (possibly? @kaylinalexanderbooks, you're the first person I've thought of to test this out D: )

Reply to posts (my own or otherwise—doesn't seem to work with sideblogs either)

Reblog visibly (i.e., show up in people's notifications . . . or the notes of my own posts)

Show up in tags (e.g., if you search for wip: the nameless song, none of my posts show up). But then again, that might just be a Tumblr thing and not actually related to whatever tf happened to my blog tonight.

On that note, yanno, just gonna. Close the askbox for now.

So yeah, message sent to support. Idk if anyone can actually see this post, but like. If I am straight-up shadowbanned, Ig this is what gets me to finally jump ship to Cohort and Bluesky, lmao. Like, I'd hate to leave, but tbh, if y'all literally can't see me (I can't tell—I just know that I can't see any of the asks in my inbox and can't message people on my main), then there really is no point in staying.

Still, not going to do the whole doom-and-gloom stuff just yet. I'll be back for tags next week, and if it's still a thing, I'll let y'all know where to find me next. b)'')b

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It's weirdly good to hear that this is a known problem that crops up from time to time. :') Because, like, at the very least, it wasn't just me this has happened to, which means fingers crossed it does get fixed eventually. I mean, hopefully sooner than six months, but I'm cool with at all, haha.

Thanks so much for the heads-up!

(And thanks to the people in the replies who've said they can see this thread. :'D)

So yeah, message sent to support. Idk if anyone can actually see this post, but like. If I am straight-up shadowbanned, Ig this is what gets me to finally jump ship to Cohort and Bluesky, lmao. Like, I'd hate to leave, but tbh, if y'all literally can't see me (I can't tell—I just know that I can't see any of the asks in my inbox and can't message people on my main), then there really is no point in staying.

Still, not going to do the whole doom-and-gloom stuff just yet. I'll be back for tags next week, and if it's still a thing, I'll let y'all know where to find me next. b)'')b

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Apparently, whatever's going on with my blog's messages also means I can no longer reply to posts, so therefore . . .

@crypticcodexcreations Actually is a consolation! If that's the case and my blog is still largely visible when it comes to reblogs, posts, and tags (on that note hey what's up hope this works), then I can live without asks, replies, and messages. It'll be sad to say goodbye to the askbox (comma anon, I will miss you :( ), but at the very least, the bigger bits of the account still work?

So yeah, message sent to support. Idk if anyone can actually see this post, but like. If I am straight-up shadowbanned, Ig this is what gets me to finally jump ship to Cohort and Bluesky, lmao. Like, I'd hate to leave, but tbh, if y'all literally can't see me (I can't tell—I just know that I can't see any of the asks in my inbox and can't message people on my main), then there really is no point in staying.

Still, not going to do the whole doom-and-gloom stuff just yet. I'll be back for tags next week, and if it's still a thing, I'll let y'all know where to find me next. b)'')b

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So yeah, message sent to support. Idk if anyone can actually see this post, but like. If I am straight-up shadowbanned, Ig this is what gets me to finally jump ship to Cohort and Bluesky, lmao. Like, I'd hate to leave, but tbh, if y'all literally can't see me (I can't tell—I just know that I can't see any of the asks in my inbox and can't message people on my main), then there really is no point in staying.

Still, not going to do the whole doom-and-gloom stuff just yet. I'll be back for tags next week, and if it's still a thing, I'll let y'all know where to find me next. b)'')b

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I just tried to send invites to everyone who liked the other post, only to get a "Could Not Send" error message on several mutuals' DMs, and also, I'm pretty sure I just got shadowbanned because I can no longer send messages from my main or links through asks.

I mean. Understandable, but still gdi, Tumblr.

So you know what? Fuck it.

A seven-day open invite can be found through this link.

[ID in ALT]

Hey, folks! Would you like access to snippets for things I intend on publishing? First dibs on beta reading? Alpha reading?

I have a Discord server for this! :tada:

To keep things under wraps (read: because I intend on querying at least some of my novels), I've moved a good chunk of chatter to a private Discord server that is now open.

What you'll find in this Discord server:

Daily snippets

The only place to apply to be an alpha reader

First dibs on beta reader applications

Announcements and author posts all in one place

A place to post your snippets

A word sprint bot for word sprints

And generally a spot where I might actually be hanging out, lol

Is this a writeblr server? Not in the sense that this is for the community. You are free to hang out here and post your stuff, but it was originally created to give me a space to share snippets.

Still, I feel weird about creating a Discord server for myself, so who knows if that's what it actually ends up being? :V

I'm interested in alpha/beta reading for [WIP]. Do I have to be in this server to do it? Beta reading: Nope! It's just that beta reader calls will go up on the Discord server a day before they go up anywhere else.

Alpha reading: Yep, sorry.

Does this mean you won't be making any announcements on this blog anymore? Nope, announcements will still happen on this blog and all the socials! However, the Discord will also have a channel dedicated to aggregating news in one place. Catch meetup announcements, book announcements, and more!

Will you be posting AtB/Midsummer Knights/The Arcadia content? Eventually! Just note that it will be TNS 24/7 until that manuscript is done. :V

How do I get an invite? Like this post, reblog it with tags specifying that you want an invite, or leave a reply on this post. Make sure your DMs are open, and I'll drop you an invite within a day or so.

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And finally, tagging the TNS people to let y'all know where you can find snippets from here on out:

TNS taglist: @linaket @kittytikara @philosophika @aquadestinyswriting @thebejeweledwatercat @cljordan-imperium @inkovert @captain-kraken @ceph-the-ghost-writer @sarandipitywrites @kaylinalexanderbooks @isherwoodj @sharkblizzardblogs

And a side @drippingmoon, just for fun!

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Aaaand finally alive, after another eight hours of work, followed by a treat and a four-hour nap. :')

Invites will be shipped out shortly!

Some days, all you can manage is a line, and honestly, a line is still good.

That said, I've been working basically all day, and I have to get on early again tomorrow, so sadly, I don't have much energy left for anything else. I have actually finished the Discord server for snippets and daily progress, though, so there's that.

Downside is I don't have the energy to properly advertise, so here's the deal. I'll do the formal announcement when I can, BUT if you want an invite, feel free to react to this post (likes, reblogs with tags, replies, and so on all count), and I'll send you an invite via DM tomorrow when I'm awake. b)'')b

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[ID in ALT]

Hey, folks! Would you like access to snippets for things I intend on publishing? First dibs on beta reading? Alpha reading?

I have a Discord server for this! :tada:

To keep things under wraps (read: because I intend on querying at least some of my novels), I've moved a good chunk of chatter to a private Discord server that is now open.

What you'll find in this Discord server:

Daily snippets

The only place to apply to be an alpha reader

First dibs on beta reader applications

Announcements and author posts all in one place

A place to post your snippets

A word sprint bot for word sprints

And generally a spot where I might actually be hanging out, lol

Is this a writeblr server? Not in the sense that this is for the community. You are free to hang out here and post your stuff, but it was originally created to give me a space to share snippets.

Still, I feel weird about creating a Discord server for myself, so who knows if that's what it actually ends up being? :V

I'm interested in alpha/beta reading for [WIP]. Do I have to be in this server to do it? Beta reading: Nope! It's just that beta reader calls will go up on the Discord server a day before they go up anywhere else.

Alpha reading: Yep, sorry.

Does this mean you won't be making any announcements on this blog anymore? Nope, announcements will still happen on this blog and all the socials! However, the Discord will also have a channel dedicated to aggregating news in one place. Catch meetup announcements, book announcements, and more!

Will you be posting AtB/Midsummer Knights/The Arcadia content? Eventually! Just note that it will be TNS 24/7 until that manuscript is done. :V

How do I get an invite? Like this post, reblog it with tags specifying that you want an invite, or leave a reply on this post. Make sure your DMs are open, and I'll drop you an invite within a day or so.

Tumblr just disabled my messages for attempting to send out the link, lmao. So for the next seven days, just click here.

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And finally, tagging the TNS people to let y'all know where you can find snippets from here on out:

TNS taglist: @linaket @kittytikara @philosophika @aquadestinyswriting @thebejeweledwatercat @cljordan-imperium @inkovert @captain-kraken @ceph-the-ghost-writer @sarandipitywrites @kaylinalexanderbooks @isherwoodj @sharkblizzardblogs

And a side @drippingmoon, just for fun!