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@patcharcana@furry.engineer · 10h ago
#ScribesAndMakers 27th Apr 2026. Reticent? I'm often reticent to engage with these single-word prompts because I'm usually concerned about over- or under-analyzing the question asked.
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@willelm@indieauthors.social · 1d ago
#ScribesAndMakers April 26. Talk to me day. #TTMD Today's featured creator is: @JessMahler@indiepocalypse.social What is a common trope you both love and hate (or hate that you love) and why?
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@JessMahler@indiepocalypse.social · 1d ago
#ScribesAndMakers April 26. #TTMD What is a common trope you both love and hate (or hate that you love) and why? ---- I’ll give you two: Omegaverse. I have such mixed feels over this. It started as a werewolf thing, and I was reading all the werewolf romances around the time it became popular, so I found it pretty quick. I’ve seen some really good and interesting things done with the trope, but so, so much of it is ‘we want to have our sexism but make it gay.’ And then people started piling ‘fated mate’ trope on top, and I just… yeah, noped out for a few years. I’ve recently started reading a bit of it again, most in platonic fanfic that emphasized the family/pack aspect without the romance. The Good King. I have a whole essay about the problems with this one: https://jessmahler.com/the-good-king-makes-a-good-fantasy/ At the same time, I admit I love the stories where the rightful heir returns or the true king faces down the great evil. I think the appeal is ultimately the same as with superhero stories – the idea of people in power doing something good with it, and the ability to project ourselves as the people with power doing the right thing. @willelm@indieauthors.social
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@saposcat@indieauthors.social · 2d ago
∆ 25. Our featured creator does "a bit of educational activism on the side." Do you do any activism through your creative work? I often work issues that are meaningful to me into the story, but I don't think of it as activism. I think of my writing as more likely to connect with people who share my views than change minds, but I'd certainly be happy if someone changed their views because of something I wrote. #ScribesAndMakers
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@nlowell@indieauthors.social · 2d ago
Do you do any activism through your creative work? Not as such, no. #ScribesAndMakers
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@adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk · 3d ago
#ScribesAndMakers 4/24. Our next featured creator has a "love/hate affair with common tropes." What's your relationship with tropes? We're just good friends. Don't listen to gossip. I have no problem with them in general, tropes make the reader comfortable and can be a shorthand around long explanations. But it's also nice to liven things up by breaking tropes. The writers of Buffy (Marti Noxon et al) loved doing this. #writing #writingCommunity
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@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · 4d ago
#ScribesAndMakers 4/23 Have fairy tales influenced any of your creative work? Not particularly - I find local legends and folklore much more interesting. They also have all sorts of fantastic elements - but they are also embedded into real world geography, as well as culture and history. "Magical realism", if you will.
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@adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk · 4d ago
#ScribesAndMakers 4/23. Have fairy tales influenced any of your creative work? Probably but in no identifiable way. #writing #writingCommunity
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@saposcat@indieauthors.social · 5d ago
Our next featured creator Jess Mahler You can join us in asking questions by tagging them @JessMahler@indiepocalypse.social and adding the hashtags #scribesAndMakers and #TTMD or follow along. You can check out their website here: https://jessmahler.com/
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@WhatACharmingHouse@mastodon.social · 5d ago
#ScribesAndMakers April 22. What fictional character (from any media) do you find the scariest? A: The evil, leering steam shovel that threatens to destroy the Little House’s peaceful environs in Virginia Lee’s “The Little House.” (Second place goes to any mob ruled by violence and arrogance)
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@grahamefleming@c.im · 5d ago
#ScribesAndMakers Apr 22 - What fictional character (from any media) do you find the scariest? Jaws (the shark of course). Loved the book and the film ...but there's no way I'm swimming anywhere where one might actually turn up. So, still scared. 🙂
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@aspeed@lgbtqia.space · 6d ago
#ScribesAndMakers 21 Apr You turn a corner on a dimly lit street and see... The problem. Oh no, it's you.
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@nlowell@indieauthors.social · Apr 20, 2026
Have you ever read or performed your work in front of an audience? Yes. It's a rare privilege and one I'm unlikely to exercise again in my current hermetic existence. #ScribesAndMakers
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@willelm@indieauthors.social · Apr 20, 2026
#ScribesAndMakers April 20. Have you ever read or performed your work in front of an audience Nope. I'm hesitant to do that even around family and friends.
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@nlowell@indieauthors.social · Apr 18, 2026
Do you ever read out loud, either to yourself or someone else? At one time, it's how I published my books. Podcasting them before ebooks really took off. When I was still able to travel, I would do readings at conventions. It was fun getting the immediate feedback from the audience. Rarely any more, since I don't travel. I had to decide whether I wanted to write more books or read the ones I wrote. Difficult choice. I chose more books and outsourced the reading. #ScribesAndMakers
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@SJHoodlet@writing.exchange · Apr 18, 2026
#ScribesAndMakers 18Apr—Do you ever read aloud, either to yourself or others? I do not. Sometimes I'll whisper, but never above that. In elementary school, we often went around the class and read aloud from textbooks. I was usually made fun of for stuttering through words I didn't know, or jumbling words because I read too fast. Since then, I don't read aloud, save the occasional quote from what I'm reading to my husband. Fortunately, I've not yet been in a position where I need to.
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@aronsilver@indieauthors.social · Apr 18, 2026
#ScribesAndMakers 18 April: Do you ever read out loud, either to yourself or someone else? Of course, though most of the times it's just my lips moving without sound. But yeah, we sometimes forget ourselves 😅 Either way, I really care about how the words come out in spoken form, and I practice their pronunciation to discover rhythm and flow, so I couldn't really do without it.
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@turtlewolfbear@universeodon.com · Apr 18, 2026
#ScribesAndMakers Do you ever read out loud, either to yourself or someone else? Most of the time no, but when I'm in the mood to read poetry, I read that out loud.
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@fairhavenguy@universeodon.com · Apr 16, 2026
#ScribesAndMakers 16 April 2026 How do you feel about illustrations in (non-comic) books? They have their place. We don't see them much in fiction outside of books for younger readers, though. Some fantasy books will have a map or two. Overall, though they are forced to work with creative people, book publishers themselves have never really been all that creative. Art ads more expense.
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@joyce@hcommons.social · Apr 16, 2026
#ScribesAndMakers 16: How do you feel about illustrations in (non-comic) books? It depends entirely on the illustrator. Good illustrations can enhance a text. But that rarely ever happens.
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