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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 4h

Vladimir Putin wants a divided Europe to weaken us. We cannot let him win. For the sake of our own security, we need to rejoin the EU.

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frjosom @frjosom.bsky.social · 4h

Well, the slightly lower gravity AND the denser atmosphere, both were necessary.

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frjosom @frjosom.bsky.social · 4h

The denser atmosphere was necessary for another story point—the physics required it. But that suddenly became an issue, because the people live on a small island that is divided up by tall walls—travel by boat is needed just to get around. So: outriggers, catamarans, and trimarans, plus lower sails.

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frjosom @frjosom.bsky.social · 5h

Likely the sails would both be angled the same way at the same time, unless the wind was very much from behind.

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frjosom @frjosom.bsky.social · 5h

I need to work out how a boat would sail w/ 2 crabclaw sails set on its sides like this, but I think it could—with a crew. The issue for the inhabitants is the lack of manufacturing & metal, plus stronger wind shear & taller waves... tho there's no surf to speak of… no gradual incline up to "shore".

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frjosom @frjosom.bsky.social · 22h

#OctoberWorldbuilders There are rowing competitions for individuals and for teams, both sprints and circumnavigating The Island. Sailing competitions likewise have team and solo classifications. Remember: boats are lower and wider on Celesta due to slighly lower gravity and a denser atmosphere.

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 11/10/2026

Good morning, #OctoberWorldbuilders! This is the opposite of yesterday's Q: Are any sports/games in your world cooperative? Is your MC or any other character on a team or have companions they train with?

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#OctoberWorldbuilders
Hosted by Kira of the Wind
Week 2: Sports and Games
10: What are some sports or games in your world with a competitive element? Are there tournaments?

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Garrett MacArthur, Author @garrett-macarthur.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I want to write a story with characters named Dash and Hyphen, and their children, Emdash and Endash.

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Arthur Breur - composer, writer, creative @arthurbreur.com · 10/10/2026

It just occurred to me that all of Joshua Dagon's glamour stone short stories—now contained in the anthology "Diabolical Blessings"—share a common theme: protecting someone you care about. It isn't the primary theme in each story, but it affects every plot! Bravo, JD! books2read.com/diabolical-b...

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

AHHH, BLUESKY! DON'T YOU DARE BE SOUR! CLAP FOR YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORS! AND FEEL THE POWER!!! #Booksky It's BUY A BOOK FRIDAY, yes it is! The rules are simple, you see a book by myself or one Bluesky's talented artists, YOU BUY THAT BOOK! Help support us and enrich yourself! 🧵 BELOW, LET'S GO!!!

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frjosom @frjosom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#OctoberWorldbuilders The Island is 13km across, and each Day Festival (one every 2 months) hosts local competitions (running, wrestling, etc.) as well as rowing and sailing races--including entirely circumnavigating The Island.

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 08/10/2026

Hey there, #OctoberWorldbuilders! We're starting a new week, this one dedicated to sports and games within our fictional worlds! Do you have any characters who play a sport or game? Do they play professionally or just as a hobby?

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#OctoberWorldbuilders
Hosted by Kira of the Wind
Week 1: Deserts
8: Does your main character (or any other relevant character) play a sport or game? Are they any good at it?

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Breur Media 🏳️‍🌈📚👽☮️🦇 @breurmedia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Diaboical Blessings - all 5 glamour stone stories by Joshua Dagon - is available on Smashwords. 🤍 resisting corrupting forces 💪 justice for the helpless ☠️ dark psychological horror #BookSky #DarkFantasy #SpookySeason @smashwords.bsky.social www.smashwords.com/books/view/2...

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Diabolical Blessings

Stories that range from manic humor to menacing horror, all based around the "glamour stones" — magical artifacts that give their bearers youth, beauty, charisma, and power. These tales range from hum...

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Breur Media 🏳️‍🌈📚👽☮️🦇 @breurmedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If Lulu is your fave book source, Diabolical Blessings (all five of Joshua Dagon's glamour stone stories and novelettes) is now available there for purchase as a paperback! 👼A real Angel 👹Demons & Familiars 🔮Mysticism #BookSky #QueerHorror #DarkFantasy #HalloweenReads www.lulu.com/shop/joshua-...

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Five stories ranging from manic humor to menacing horror, all centered on the “glamour stones” — magical artifacts that grant their bearers youth, beauty, charisma, and power. Humorous, macabre, and ...

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 05/10/2026

#WIPSnips The word 'wall' appears a bunch in this story, which should be expected in a book about an inn. But while most uses of the word aren't too much about the wall itself, this one is. Here, I discuss the secrets of the inn's walls.

Welcome to the Good Thyme Inn

The Good Thyme Inn quite literally held secrets galore within its walls. The most extensive overhaul occurred during Marmalade’s tenure as the innmaster, soon after Shallot was born. Shallot had vague memories of the reconstruction, of seeing complex clockwork before they were sealed away behind wood panels, but those memories had formed her image of the inn-world within her mind.
During the reconstruction, hidden nooks had been installed throughout the inn. Small, secret places where one could stash precious items. Marmalade had been fond of hiding coins in odd places for fear of losing everything if bandits came and demanded all the money under her desk. Shallot had once believed her great-aunt was paranoid; bandits never came into town. Until she grew up and realized ‘bandits’ had always been Marmalade’s underhanded way of referring to the baron and his men.

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frjosom @frjosom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#OctoberWorldbuilders …He built like those who taught him—he, armored and safely in his sealed vestments as he watched—with stone, and with mud daub those days it rained, mixed with matweed fiber. He finished the structure himself, but payed in hides and gems to to have the finer details completed.

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frjosom @frjosom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#OctoberWorldbuilders DuMar, during his self-imposed exile, chose a nearly lifeless desert for his home — primarily so his affliction would not kill anything else, as he is cursed so no living thing may touch his skin, breathe his breath, or even smell his scent without an immediate, painful death…

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frjosom @frjosom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#OctoberWorldbuilders …Despite trading for genetics and vivaforming expertise (including centuries ago, unknowingly, with Q'Enmari herself), Greem has unstable ecologies that frequently collapse and change…

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frjosom @frjosom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#OctoberWorldbuilders I have been so focused on Celesta that I completely forgot: I have a whole galaxy of planets to choose from! On Greem, there are definitely deserts. Known for their humanite genetics expertise, Greem has had significant challenges with ecological genetics… #frjosom

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 03/10/2026

Good morning, #OctoberWorldbuilders! Let's talk about buildings in our desert societies. What is the architecture like? How do they keep their homes warm/cool as needed?

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#OctoberWorldbuilders
Hosted by Kira of the Wind
Week 1: Deserts
3: What is the architecture like in your desert town? What materials do they use to make their homes? How do they keep their homes warm/cool as needed?

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frjosom @frjosom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

More like duck, or yes, dark meat from a chicken. 🪿🍗

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frjosom @frjosom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

...So the closest thing to desert is the drier scrub climate in the rain shadow in the western Days. Even they have moist, salt tolerant zones near the ocean, so the driest zones are semi-arid at most. Still, it's not anywhere someone's going to be lost and desperate for water. #OctoberWorldBuilders

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frjosom @frjosom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#OctoberWorldBuilders The Island is over a kilometer high at its center, and 13 km across at its shore. With its position at about 30 degrees south, and with FirstDay pointing almost exactly East, The Island gets easterly winds that bring mosture mostly to FirstDay, SecondDay, and LastDay...

Diagram of a circle with 7 even segments, representing "The Island" from Garrett MacArthur's forthcoming "Secrets of the Island Planet" novel, and showing different weather placement for The Island with it positioned at approximately 30 degrees south on the ocean planet Celesta. The right side of the island has more moisture and wetter climate, and the western side has more scrub.

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 01/10/2026

Good morning! Welcome to a new month of worldbuilding prompts! Happy to be here and hosting #OctoberWorldbuilders! This first week is about DESERTS (that's the biome, not desserts the sweet treats, but feel free to talk about dessert today, too!) Tell me a little bit about a desert in your world👀

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#OctoberWorldbuilders
Hosted by Kira of the Wind
Week 1: Deserts
1: This week is about a desert! (not a dessert, though feel free to tell me your favorite dessert, too).
For today, just tell us the name of the desert in your fictional world and give us some general vibes. We'll get into specifics later this week!

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Garrett MacArthur, Author @garrett-macarthur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's fun how the mind keeps working on stories even when not actively writing. While I was having trouble falling asleep, I kept wishing that I could figure out more short stories for Ava Driver, because she's such a cool character. ... #BookSky #ShortStories #QueerSciFi books2read.com/the-danny

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Amanda Bryana @amandabryana.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Feels like a little while since I've reminded people I make really pretty jewellery and accessories that I'd very much like to sell so I can buy things like food. Look, I know it's a bit early to talk about Chr****as, but my stuff makes really good stocking fillers... 😇 folksy.com/find/shop/Oa...

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frjosom @frjosom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Love this map of the "Suspended Gardens of Marqueyssac" in France. Love the diagram of the paths in addition to the beautiful illustration by Danielle Godart. The gardens themselves are GORGEOUS.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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A.C. Harper (he/him) @harperac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No one asked who I was, what I wanted to be, how I was supposed to look. No one asked for my gender or told me what kind of clothes I should wear or how to sit or smile or speak. I just was. -Hi, My Name Is Alex #books #amwriting #booksky

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frjosom @frjosom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I like to see aliens that are not shaped just like humans, and I enjoy reading about intelligence that isn't human or is artificial -- minds that think differently than our own and where we agree and disagree on reality.

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 30/09/2026

Last day of #SeptemberWorldbuilders! Join me next month for more worldbuilding questions! What kind of character archetypes, tropes, or worldbuilding elements do you like to see in fantasy/sci fi media? What things, when you see them, immediately make you more interested in the story?

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#SeptemberWorldbuilders
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Extra Days
30: What kinds of characters, tropes, worldbuilding elements, etc. do you love to see in fantasy or sci fi media?

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frjosom @frjosom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also very excited about Brett Edward Stout's foray into fantasy, coming next year: Tales of Olta An inclusive school of magic with a dark history... and a dark present.

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Moe Neus @moeneus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New little guy, only yea tall. Hopscotch is a Kiryar, a Demon of Journeys, and he makes sure people are on the right path. #worldbuilding #dnd #ttrpg #oc #ocsky #art

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frjosom @frjosom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Joshua Dagon's five glamour stone stories, which were just re-published as a single anthology. Wicked and funny and thoughtful, and nicely full of its own lore. Demons, angels, magic, and illusion—from silly comedy to psychological horror. #SeptemberWorldbuilders books2read.com/diabolical-b...

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 29/09/2026

Good morning, #SeptemberWorldbuilders, It's the end of the month and we're on our basic/broad questions about you! What fantasy or scifi (or horror!) media have you been engaging with lately? Games, TV, books, anime, whatever ya got, tell me what you're enjoying! Or, perhaps... NOT enjoying?👀

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#SeptemberWorldbuilders
Hosted by Kira of the Wind
Extra Days
29: What fantasy or scifi media have you been playing, watching, reading, or otherwise experiencing lately?

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Breur Media 🏳️‍🌈📚👽☮️🦇 @breurmedia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"...Nash appeared to be staring out at the patio. A moment passed, and then, as Aden watched, Nash dissolved completely, swirling into a shapeless mist..." Obsidian, included in Diabolical Blessings, by Joshua Dagon books2read.com/diabolical-b...

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PJC Cahill @pjccahill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Since there's reasonable buy-in for the term in my circle, here's an OFFICIAL post for it. Traumamuffin: a character that is pleasant, gentle, kind, and/or warm, but has a tremendous amount of suffering, pain, and/or trauma in their background. Who are YOUR traumamuffins? #writingcommunity

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frjosom @frjosom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Does "vacuum-cleaner style sci-fi fanatic" count?

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Book Publishing Tools Online @epubcreator.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you could hand your book to one kind of reader today, who would it be? epubcreator.online #BookSky #WritingCommunity #books #author

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frjosom @frjosom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"What's a 'Canadian Goose?' Bigger than a kelfor? Plated skin? What? It's a 'bird?' Metal claws & beak? No… Oh, teeth on its—it's what?! Its tongue? Well, that's disturbing, but I shall ignore it til it exhausts itself on my armor & goes away. Wait, you say it's tasty when roasted over fire?" —DuMar

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Black Cat Book Nook @blackcatbooknook.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#QueerCharChat | September 27, 2026 The question is a humorous icebreaker. It is an absurd scenario meant to test a characters imagination and tactical thinking against an opponent that is small in size but seemingly packed with pure rage. #WritingCommunity #QueerWriting

#QueerCharChat
Interview your queer characters to get to know them on a deeper level. Make it more fun by answering as your characters! Remember to use #QueerCharChat when posting your responses. If you're using gifs or images, ALT text is a requirement.

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If you had to fight a Canadian Goose, what is your strategy for winning?

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Dirty Boy @dirtyboy69.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Buy an E-book, return the same E-book the day after. I bet the Amazon alghorithm totally punishes something like that. Happens far too often for my taste, so please can you stop doing that? Thanks.

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frjosom @frjosom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For various reasons, I've decided to publish my fiction writing under the pen name "Garrett MacArthur" -- and I'm proud to announce my first short story has been published as an ebook... #GarrettMacArthur #ScienceFiction #ShortStory #FemaleProtagonist books2read.com/the-danny

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Garrett MacArthur, Author @garrett-macarthur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cover design by @breurmedia.bsky.social Photo of sea oats at sunrise in North Carolina, USA, by Margie Gilmore.

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Garrett MacArthur, Author @garrett-macarthur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My sci-fi short story about an #ethologist, Ava Driver, working on the secretive DANI Project—but right when the project needs her, she finds herself hospitalized and forced to help from the sidelines. books2read.com/the-danny

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