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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I didn't intentionally make them such an even spread tactically ... but they must be able to handle, or at least adapt to, their entire world and each magic system they encounter.

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

In Green, Orange, Blue: a Stormsinger (bard/druid), a Dimensional Architect (maybe artificer or sorcerer), & a Chromoturgist (wizardish) In Rise of the Emerald Tyrantess: an elementalist paladin, an "alchemist," a worging ranger, a warding monk, a singing telekinetic & the titular cleric/lich queen

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

So, one monk, on wizard, one fighter or barbarian, and one bard/rogue? Sounds like a pretty balanced adventuring party to me. 😁

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Does this mean that there are those who attribute almirajes with the duties of psychopomps, those who ferry souls to the afterlife?

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

In Forged, there are forest, sea, sand, storm, and frost spirits. Each individual is wholly unique while embodying an aspect of their element. But they also each have a Fire Spirit form which takes over when they're enraged or provoked. So less good angel vs evil demons, more lawful vs chaotic fey.

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The Black Hand are *totally the bad guys* of our cyberpunk campaign. Why else are they wanted by the military police and blamed by the City Council for every crime & "terror attack." Why else are they hiding & smuggling in the slums. Or labeled by corpo-funded social media influencers as anarchists.

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

But to answer the question: In G.O.B., the Lion Witch beheaded herself everyday to bring back the sun and ensured that magic remained free and flowing for all witches and mortals, alike. She resurrected herself by sunset the following day for several peaceful centuries ... until the day she didn't.

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This question is always a slippery slope for me because I end up worldbuilding to the point that after a few hours of brainstorming and in-world generations, I start to think, "Should this just be a whole other freakin' book ... again?" 😅

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The readers who believe this probably also solely read for escapism and cannot dissociate the protagonist from the thematic & moral center of the story. They must have hated American Pyscho, A Christmas Carol, the Picture of Dorian Gray, Artemis Fowl, Macbeth, & When the Grinch Stole Christmas too.

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Such a good movie! If you haven't seen Summer Wars or Wolf Children but you liked this, I'd highly suggest changing that at your earliest convenience! 😁

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

One is based in sapience & creativity, having gone through multiple generations of advancement, deconstruction destruction, and reconstruction over the Eras. Another founded in mutation and the body & mind's connection to an irratiated world, w/ specializations honed into "heritages & birthright."

Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 10/04/2026

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"sex doesn't belong in YA books" Listen, I learned more about birth control, menstruation, and how to get and give consent to different acts from Tamora Pierce books than I did from my school. There's a huge difference between smut and showing teens what healthy sexuality is.

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

At the least a geek, maybe a dweeb, and either a slut or a sporto on a good day.

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

In Green, Orange, Blue most of the central narrative and several subplots (set in the past & future) take place in the Terracotta Tower Palace. The Academy for Art & Magick the three protagonist attend, including Fatimon whose family built it almost a millennium before the story's inciting incident.

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

And that pride is what makes the events of their individual stories that much more tragic and hopefully engaging.

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Yeah, he has some self-esteem issues and makes them everyone else's problem.

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Time does not heal all wounds, sometimes it just makes you more aware of others'.

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Dru wants the social skills of a normal young lady, in place of the anxiety her magick controls her with. Fatimon wants to know what this "trusting family" nonsense is. Pearl *will* be known as the greatest painter in the world, though she'll have to knock her late mother off that pedestal, first.

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

In both works, Rise of the Emerald Tyrantess and Green, Orange, Blue, the church & state are one in the same. The former, the God King rules the empire with an adamant fist, all beneath him are his children or his slaves. The latter, the Pantheist Temple promotes cultural Arts & Magicks, worldwide.

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

In Green, Orange, Blue (working title) there are three POV protags: Dru is the greatest Stormsayer of her generation, keeping a hurricane at bay by herself. Fatimon is the hottest, wealthiest, youngest architect in all Valacia. Pearl will change the future of the world with her art, it is promised.

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

How did Dante's parents treat him to make him aware that parenting doesn't have to be authoritarian What did they do to make him believe that they could be better, too? Does he hope this parenting style trickles down to the peasants or does he prefer to keep his mind on matters of the nobility?

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The POV protagonist of Red vs the Flowerkillers, Sarah McKenzie, would want everyone in their place, equal but seperate. While the antagonist and hero of the story, Jainie Davis-Brown, would set the world up so that everyone gets what they need and the accessibility to reach higher without backlash.

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No one said "give." No one said we'd be asking nicely either. That didn't work in either France or Haiti. But you know what did? Then again it's not like most people even own their property, the house maybe, but the land itself is all owned by the state. With the right legislation it can be done.

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

There is also a future where we stop saying things like, "Well what happened happened, let's all move past it," because that's the excuse of ashamed cowards. Instead we can actively work to repair bridges, mend wounds, and make sacrifices to support those who have suffered silently for generations.

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Were he in any other tax bracket, he'd have been charged with major malfeasance, corporate malpractice, and would have gotten 60 to life for the - again - thousands who have died because of him and his deathly ilk.

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Plus proving that their prices were artificially over-inflated, just so that the company can drain as much as money they can from its dying, dependent customers.

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

But to save the C-Suite's asses, just as Russian, French, and Roman elites when their subjects made it apparent that more heads would roll if substantial change wasn't made.

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Tell that to the thousands who have died due to his neglect, apathy, and particularly his greed. As soon as the bastardly was killed, the company dropped select drug prices. Not out to save face, or to do something in their CEO's name, or even to be kind.

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Yet the death penalty was just dropped, after having only been brought up because of the ridiculous claims of terrorism.

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Because his bag and his completely legal gun were searched by police before he was even arrested. Meaning they illegally seized someone's property without a warrant, which in any other case would be completely in the dependent's right to have such faulty evidence thrown out.

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Says the man siding with the government who's trying to kill an American they aren't sure did the crime and are using propaganda to make silly lil guys like yourself to bow down to the might of our corporate oligarchs ... Self-awareness is a real two-sided blade.

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Why should he face the death penalty, even if he were guilty? Of the thousand Americans who were murdered that very week, those killers only got 20 yrs, plus probation, probably less with good behavior. But just because the victim was in a particular tax bracket, the crime counts as terrorism?

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

In Lunarpunk, the City by the Sea holds the Storm Races, where young citizens with suped-up hover shuttles (think a toboggan w/ vertical jets) race across the sky in the middle of a lightning storm while scoring points according to the amount of lightning they capture in the shuttle's shock battery.

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Five jobs I've had, in no particular order: • Baker & Barista • Baby/Pet/House sitter • Lead Cook • Butler • Voice Actor Liason

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Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Hey Ginny, do you have any advice for lighting a green/bluescreen photoshoot that'll depict an outdoor setting? I would guess that a singule, harsh light would look too ... indoorsy? Multiple lights? Light grading/hue change?

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

My PC, a Minotaur Druid named Gordo, remembers most of his childhood & early adulthood when he was enslaved by Humans in Theros and forcibly taken from his home and family to Faerun. He wishes he didn't remember the feeling of his father's blood on his face, when he was shot helping Gordo to escape.

Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Have you maybe read her previous novel, An Enchantment of Ravens? It's been in my TBR list for a while and was hoping to start by the end of Spring. Thanks for the solid, concise review! ❤️