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What is your favorite drink?

how do you organize your books?

what is your favorite dessert?

Welcome to a Special Edition Afternoon Show with Purple Dinosaur!

Canada Dry Black Cherry. No contest.

By author. I also like to spread out tall/short books so the top line of the books is varied :D

This is a hard one. Do freshly picked raspberries count? That and a spoon of chocolate icing with sprinkles. Yes, you read that right. A spoon of icing. >:)

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strongly considering getting a buzz cut :)

probably gonna happen today

Will update to see if I chicken out lol

😁

Do it.

DO IT.

You will not regret it.

Shaved head is as beautiful as any other hair length ✨

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It has come to my attention that Tumblr is responsible for the random fluctuations in my follower count the last few days.

There are at least two followers that I know for certain this has happened to.

No wonder I couldn't get past 45 followers for a while there - damn TUMBLR might have been making accounts unfollow. :/

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do you do art?

what's your favorite hair color?

What's your favorite pride flag?

Hello and welcome to another edition of The Morning Show with Purple Dinosaur!

I do! Pixel and good old pencil and paper. See my tag #ella's tavern sketches for a selection of my works!

I love black, especially if it's tinged with blue. Alas, my own is a stubborn strawberry blonde that cannot decide if it is red or brown or gold.

The original 1978 version with the pink.

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Need a fun pub name for Carillon.

Calling the place Raven Heid just seems a bit too obvious. I am also very very tempted to call it The Nightfall to be funny but even I know that is extremely cringe XD

The current description:

The bar is quiet, as bars often are in the middle of the day. No one but the regulars, and by regulars, I mean the people who get drunk at 10am. Those people just happen to include me. The place is of the usual Edinburgh fare. Small, cramped, and oddly angled because old. Stone walls, timber and plaster ceiling, a tiny bar of four taps, five bar stools, and four proper tables. The [insert name here] is down an extremely narrow set of cobblestone stairs, tucked in what can only be described as a courtyard. Surrounded by the backs of other buildings, it’s the sort of pub you have to know is there.

Pub is inspired by The Halfway House in Edinburgh.

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the Spirits of the world of Guardian

colour: grey/blue

Moodboard Layover

Welcome to the very first moodboard prompt of 2025! I hope you're ready for an amazing time this summerfest.

Let's get started!

Pick one color and use only that shade range to reflect your villain’s energy. Sinister pinks? Icy whites? Rotten greens?

@ me in your creation so I can share it!

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Always an experience when you get called "ma'am" and then twenty minutes later some chick behind you in a store says rather loudly to her friend "is that a man or a woman ahead of us in this aisle?"

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You know you have majorly fucked up when a CBC radio program covers your mistake.

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Jaye: Bare essentials. The minimum required shirts and pants. She also doesn't go anywhere without her sandalwood spice body wash.

Shaylock: One extra of everything. Guaranteed to have at least one pair of sunglasses for each day of the trip. Refuses to go anywhere without a case of CDs and cassettes. If the rental car doesn't have a player for one of these, she's not getting in.

Persephone: She doesn't travel. Not really. (She was pulled into the service of the Fates with nothing but the clothes on her back)

Bishop: His crossbow, various other sharp weapons, a ration pack, and note pages for his journal. Doesn't bother bringing a change of clothes because he doesn't see the point.

Character Asks: Airport Addition

What’s in their carry-on? Open the bag. Tell us what’s the most surprising, sentimental, or suspicious thing inside? What's the most mundane? What can't they travel without?

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The bar in Saint-Pierre

I would spend hours here. Hours.

ref pics requested by @write-with-will

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Part of the strangeness of having to film yourself because you can't figure out how the timer works on your phone camera is that you really see how you move.

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from @purple-dinosaur17

Welcome back the morning show with me, purple dinosaur!! *studio audience cheers*

our guest today is Ella Murphy!

What is your favorite place you’ve been?

what is your favorite holiday?

has it also been raining a lot lately up there? (The spring/summer here was so rainy)

Nelson, BC. It is so beautiful there. Little town of 11,000 surrounded by the mountainous foothills of the Rockies. HALLOWE'EN Not nearly enough.

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Welcome back to the morning show!

today is story time!

so I do improv and one time, we were doing a scene where we were trying to get world peace with the geese. Our solution was to fight the bears (who were fighting us and the geese) with kindergarten fight clubs.

*canned laughter*

:)

World peace? With Canadian Geese? I wish you luck with the Cobra Chickens. *canned laughter* I have done DnD one-shots with a moot a few times. And let me tell you. NOTHING ever goes as planned. *points at misunderstanding becoming a trans humanoid duck named Kale*

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yet another late-night snippet of something

I suppose this pairs with this earlier thing I wrote?

239 words

cw: vampire doing vampire things

She leers down at me, her piercing blue eyes cutting into my soul. Her pupils slit like a cat’s. Her tongue dances around the tips of her slowly lengthening canines, the end of it forked.

“You think... you think you mean anything to me, human?”

Her voice starts velvet soft and turns harsh. Growls building in her throat. A sound almost lost in the roaring of the storm outside.

The emphasis on the word human speaks volumes.

I scramble back, my fingers sliced open by all the broken glass beneath me. I should have known.

I should have known when she decided to throw me through the bar window it was over.

How.

How could this... this creature be my counterpart?

She laughs, a low hollow sound. “You humans mean nothing to me. You are food. Veins to be drained, hearts to be devoured, skin to be worn,” she pauses, noting the look on my face. She plucks the collar of her leather jacket. “Oh, darling. You didn’t think...? Ah. You truly believed this was made of bovine?”

I swear my heart stops at those words. I can’t breathe. All I can see are those fangs, those long, sharp teeth in her mouth.

She tilts her head. Her irises slowly turn red, the blue replaced with a brilliant crimson.

She lunges, and I know no more.

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I should feel something, draining the life of my counterpart.

And yet.

Nothing.

@your-reluctant-optimist - because I know how much you love your vampires

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Hello!

My pen name is Ella Murphy.

I've been writing for 20 odd years now. Mostly fantasy, with a sprinkling of more contemporary. It was always a hobby, until a big life change and the character of Jaye Avenheart came along...

I write fanfic and original works, and released my first novel, The Starsinger Chronicles, back in April!

Currently working on Guardian, a tale of fates and spirits. This is the second part of my anthology project Archive of Memory (Nightfall being the first). Also chipping away at an audiobook addition named Carillon.

Find all my stories on my pinned post, or my website, ellamurphy.carrd.co -- everything is free to read (Ellipsus share links; except my novel, which is download only)

Final call for writers looking to reconnect, get inspired, and boost one another.

Summerfest isn’t just about the playing games and taking part in writing sprints. In fact, that was never the main focus! The goal of Writeblr Summerfest is to create a place to help you build a community, meet new friends, and make new fans.

That's why, along with the games and events, we'll also have:

Reblog chains

Indie author boosts

Writing resource shares

Tag events for mutual-finding

Gift-making stations

And because community and sharing is such a huge part of what we do here, I want to give you the chance to reblog this post and tell me about your published work, your ko-fi, and your patreon! If it's writing based, share a link in the reblog of this post so I can boost it during the event.

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When you don't care that it's hot out and you just cannot wait to wear

The Trench Coat

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(sent here by a reblog from @dyrewrites)

Current WIP Guardian (Persephone's story) was originally written as a "what if."

What if playing a game was like cutting the strings of fate? Each choice, each action, "pruning" the errant threads until only the path wanted by the Fates remained?

That one thought gave rise to the Beastiary and Persephone herself.

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My novel was completed for my late mother, and the entire sixth part, Cosmic Wonder, was sparked by a single idea she had for my world. <3

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On the darker side... I drew on pieces of stranger's stories (and the stories of people I have known) to craft Jaye's past. In a way, Nightfall has become something not just for Jaye, but every single queer and different person who grew up in a crap household and overcame it. A love letter to survivors.

Every story has a shadow behind it.

On the last day of the month, I want you to share a behind-the-scenes fact from one of your stories—something odd, personal, or stitched in for reasons your barely remember.

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spin the wheel and assign an animal to prev