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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 14h

#Conlangity Day 8 This is gonna be a sort of loose topic day - do what you want with it! Today is about compound words & other affixes. Can you combine words in your conlang? Do you have any examples? What kind of prefixes/suffixes exist, & how are they used? More to consider in the thread! 🧵👇️

Daily prompt for the #Conlangity worldbuilding game:

DAY 8
[GRAMMAR/VOCAB] Let's talk about NOUNS - i.e. people, creatures, places, objects & concepts.
Do you have "compound nouns" in your conlang - e.g. streetlight, ice cube, wallpaper? What about prefixes & suffixes that alter meaning - e.g. "EX-wife, singER"
Try to come up with a few examples!

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Think about the rules of word compounds in your conlang:
- Is it usually just 2 words, or can it be more than that? Would the base word come first or last?
- Some languages can create almost unlimited compound words (e.g. German), and some can make whole long “sentence words” (e.g. Kalaallisut). Is your conlang that type of language?
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Prefix/suffix ideas:
- Showing chronological order (e.g. “pre-” & “post-”)
- Showing support or opposition (“anti-” & “pro-”)
- Showing a state of being (“sadness” or “brotherhood”)

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For Noah, he's a really straightforward, imaginative, kind of impatient kid, so in his first person voice I tend to go for shorter, more jagged sentences with a choppy rhythm but still a sense of creativity & poetry in the words.

“I opened a window.”
Kazuo wasn’t an easy kid to impress. He always bore himself with an air of smug indifference, as if he was too clever to really be affected by anything. But when I spoke those four weighty words, I saw his eyes widen in the dim light. He stared at me as if he couldn’t decide whether I was a hero, a madman, a monster, or all three.
At last he simply asked, “What’d you see?”
But I couldn’t answer. I realized there was no way for me to to capture in words the vastness of that horrible, empty anti-place, or the feeling of smallness I’d gotten while looking at it, or the crushing dread of seeing with my own eyes that the world really did end where the Tenement ended. And I couldn’t explain, not even to myself, why even after seeing it, there was still a small, stubborn voice deep down inside me screaming that this couldn’t be all there was. There had to be more. But where was it?
Finally I just said, “Nothing.”
“Nothing?”
“Yeah, nothing. There’s nothing outside the Tenement.”

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#LitHodgepodge 7 Ok Pam I'm gonna copy you and post 2 snips 😂 The first is from #GodsOfAtalantis Book 2, close 3rd person/Mireia's POV. Second is Noah's 1st person POV from #Tenement. When I really lock in to Mimi, I feel like I go for a strong flowy rhythm that's a little unpredictable.🧵

She’d never felt so small.
She’d never felt so fragile.
She’d never felt so—desperate.
Kena.
Desperate to reach out and touch a hand in the darkness, and find reassurance that she wasn’t alone here after all. Desperate to feel that something still meant something, that life still had something supporting it. Desperate to do something—to do everything—before she lost her chance and it was all ripped away from her forever.
Kena.
It was all so absurdly fragile—all of it. She saw that now. She’d had a glimpse of it before when her father died, but the truth of it hadn’t really flattened her back then the way it was doing now.
It had all always been fragile. Yet what had she been doing all this time? Playing silly games, procrastinating, telling herself “soon” or “maybe tomorrow.” Letting her fears and foolish pride stop her. Assuring herself that there was no need to act now because it was all inevitable anyway. Debating with herself over pointless philosophical questions about fate and free will when it didn’t really matter, did it? The only thing that mattered was that it was all going to end, one way or another, maybe sooner, maybe later. The only thing that mattered was reaching out into that abyss and finding a hand to grasp so that you knew you weren’t really alone.
Kena.

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Other sentences may not need an object because they have LINKING VERBS, which are verbs that describe a state of being instead of an action. In these sentences, instead of an object you get a predicate nominative (a noun that renames the subject) or a predicate adjective (describing the subject).

A BIT MORE TO THINK ABOUT...

INDIRECT OBJECTS
If there’s someone/something in the sentence that isn’t being directly acted on by the verb, but is still receiving the action indirectly, we call that an “indirect” object.

Jack gave Cassie a donut.
[Text box pointing to Cassie:] indirect object (getting the gift)
[Text box pointing to donut:] direct object (being given)

PREDICATE NOMINATIVES/ADJECTIVES
In some sentences, there’s no object, but instead a noun or adjective that renames/describes the subject.

Jack is a baker (nominative)
Jack is cool (adjective)

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not every sentence needs an object, because some verbs are *intransitive* - meaning they don't happen TO anything; they just happen. Meanwhile *transitive* verbs TRANSfer the action to an object. This distinction will be important to remember later when we get into noun cases & verb modifications!

A BIT MORE TO THINK ABOUT...
Not every sentence has an object, and some have multiple objects, or even indirect objects.
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TRANSITIVE & INTRANSITIVE VERBS:
If a verb has an object, we call that a “transitive” verb. You can remember it like “it transfers its action to something.”
Jack ate the donut.
If a verb has no object, it’s “intransitive.” It doesn’t happen to anything; it just happens.
Jack sneezed.

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#Conlangity Day 7 GRAMMAR TIME! 🥳😂 What's the usual order of words in a sentence? In English, it goes Subject/Verb/Object, but many languages use a different order! How does your language do it? Do descriptors (adj/adv) go before or after? For more info about sentence structure, read the 🧵👇️!

Daily prompt for the #Conlangity worldbuilding game:

DAY 7
[GRAMMAR] When forming a sentence in your conlang, what's the typical word order?
For example, is it [Subject][Verb][Object], or [Verb][Subject][Object]? Another variation?
Do descriptors like adjectives usually come before or after the words they describe?

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In grammar, the SUBJECT is the thing the sentence is about, the VERB is the action, and the OBJECT is the noun the action is happening to.

[Sub][Verb][Obj]
Steve pets the cat.

That's how we say it in English, but maybe in your conlang it might go:

[Verb][Obj][Sub]
Pets the cat Steve.
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In English, adjectives usually come before the nouns they describe:

The orange cat

But in some languages, the adjective often comes after the noun:

El gato naranja

So think about mixing it up!

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#LitHodgepodge 6 My queen Icozoue plays the archetypal role of the Mentor for Mireia & Kena in #GodsOfAtalantis. She's there to train them to become gods & push them in plot-directions when needed, & also offer emotional support (esp in the later books). She's also a grouchy alcoholic with RBF 😅

Digital drawing by me of Icozoue, a middle aged woman with viking style braids and a stylized wolf tattoo across the left side of her face. She wears black robes, is holding a goblet of wine, and has resting bitch face. A small crystal hangs around her neck. She is Shadow Mommy.

Cropped colored drawing of Icozoue by me showing just her head & shoulders. She's rolling her eyes and scowling like she's done with everyone's shit. Off to the side she has a little thought bubble with just a skull in it - either wishing for the sweet release of death or contemplating murdering a couple of teenage godlings.

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#Conlangity Day 6 Time to make some vocab! Or share, if you've already got something! How do people greet each other/say goodbye in your language? Are there different customs depending on the time & place, the familiarity or identity of the speakers, etc? (Do your best with the grammar!)

Daily prompt for the #Conlangity worldbuilding game:

DAY 6
CREATE SOME VOCAB! How do people in your conlang say hello and goodbye? Are there variations depending on the context, or who is being addressed?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is my old man Spoopy Cat. It's his birthday month and he's 18 years old this year! ❤️

Picture of an adorable old black kitty on a bed with messy blue sheets

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#Conlangity 5 We're taking a step back from the details of your conlang today to look at the big picture. What's the origin of this language? How did it evolve? What purpose did it serve? This is important to think about, because it should inform things like grammar rules & word etymology!

Daily prompt for the #Conlangity worldbuilding game:

DAY 5
[CULTURE] How did your language develop? Did it form in isolation, or through migration or colonization? What purpose did/does it serve? Is it a creole, a common tongue for trading, a language of scholars or elites, a peasant vernacular?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#Conlangity Day 4 This is our last day dealing with the sound of your language! So let's talk about pronunciation. Which syllables get stressed & when? Does it change the meaning? Is your language a tonal language? Do letters ever change based on other sounds near them or their place in a word?

Daily prompt for the #Conlangity worldbuilding game:

DAY 4
[SOUNDS] Lay down some general rules of pronunciation. Think about things like:
- Emphasis: where is the stress usually placed in words?
- Changing sounds: do any letters change depending on context?
- Tone: does the tone change the meaning?
- Exceptions: are there times the rules break?

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STRESS
The stress of a word can change its meaning - for instance, in English some words put stress on the 1st syllable when it's a noun, and on the 2nd syllable when it's a verb.
"Our schedules conFLICT" = verb
"He has a CONflict" = noun
"We need to proGRESS" = verb
"We've made PROGress" = noun
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TONE
In many languages, such as Vietnamese, Chinese, Yoruba and Navajo, the TONE changes the entire dictionary definition of a word. Consider making your conlang a tonal language!

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#LitHodgepodge 3 My goober bbs Mireia & Kena from #GodsOfAtalantis ❤️ Mimi's already good at swimming, & Kena has a few hobbies (gardening, writing, flute-playing). So what else might they be good at?

Colored digital sketch by me of Mireia & Kena, the MCs of my Atlantis trilogy, grinning mischievously at each other like they're sharing an inside joke. Mireia is a young woman with light brown skin and long dark brown wavy hair, gray eyes, and wears a blue top that clasps at her left shoulder. Kena is a young man with light brown skin, dark brown curly hair, amber eyes, freckles, and a red phoenix tattoo across his left shoulder and chest; he wears an gold/orange top clasped at his right shoulder and a gold necklace with rays like the sun.

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#Conlangity Day 3 Congratulations, you survived Phonemes Day! But we're still not done establishing the basic flavor of your conlang. Today, tell me which sounds (consonants, vowels, phoneme combos) are rare or never used in this language, or would be hard for native speakers to pronounce.

Daily prompt for the #Conlangity worldbuilding game:

DAY 3
[SOUNDS] What are some sounds & sound combos that rarely or never show up in your language? Are there any consonant clusters or vowel variations that would sound "off" or be difficult to pronounce for speakers of this language?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#Conlangity 2 I'm not gonna have time to make this in the morning, so I'll just do it now. I already made my IPA charts for Na'aqal a while back! 😁 Notable features: the glottal stop (ʔ) that shows up in words like "Mu'u," "sa'aba," & "Na'aqal." Also I borrowed the tɬ (tl) sound from Nahuatl! 🧵

Screenshot of my Na'aqal IPA consonants chart, featuring the letters:
p, b, t, d, k, g, q, ʔ (glottal stop), f, v, β (bh), ʤ (j), ð (dh), θ (th), s, z, ʒ (zh), tɬ (tl), Χ (Bach), h, m, n, r (trilled), l, w and j (y)

Screenshot of my IPA vowels chart for Na'aqal, featuring the vowels:
i (ee), e (ay), ɛ (eh), ə (away), ʊ (put), u (ooh), o (oh) and a (ah)

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#Conlangity Day 2 What does your conlang sound like? Is it heavier on vowels, or consonants? Are there any unique sounds like clicking, glottal stops, etc? What about non-phonetic methods of communication? If you want, use an IPA chart! This is the VIBE of your language. MORE HELPFUL INFO BELOW👇️🧵

Daily prompt for the #Conlangity worldbuilding game:

DAY 2
[SOUNDS] What are the basic sounds (phonemes) that are used in your language? Is the language heavy on consonants or vowels? Does your language use any non-phonetic units of speech, such as hand gestures, antennae movement, electrical signals, etc?

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Don't just think about letters, but sounds. For example, "a" in English makes many different sounds - apple, father, away.
Also, consider sounds that English uses multiple letters for: "sh," "ch," or "th," for example.
[Beside an image of an IPA chart] Link to an IPA chart in the thread!

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#LitHodgepodge 1 Good morning I'm Emily 👋 I write YA/New Adult Fantasy & Dystopia. Mostly. For now. Current WIPs are the #GodsOfAtalantis trilogy (YA fantasy), #Tenement (YA dystopia), & #Charagma (NA dark fantasy). Oscrow Wilde! 😄❤️ Ok but what if the laughter is how you get to the tears, Pam?? 🥺

Literary This or That (My Choices)

PAPERBACK – [HARDCOVER]
[SERIES] – STANDALONE
[TEARS] – LAUGHS - handwritten note says "both??"
[COFFEE] – TEA
[HERO] – VILLAIN
[CHARACTER-DRIVEN] – PLOT-DRIVEN
COMPUTER – [PEN & PAPER]
SWEET – [SALTY]
SILENCE – [SOUNDTRACK]
[BOOKMARK] – DOG-EAR
[PLOTTER] – PANTSER
[LUSH] – MINIMALIST
VOMIT DRAFT – [SLOW CRAFT]
MORNING – [MIDNIGHT]

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#Conlangity Day 1 We're starting off real simple! Don't get used to it 😂 What's the name of your conlang, and who speaks it in your world? Don't get too deep into the history or purpose of it yet; that'll be Day 5! Bonus: How much do you already have developed? What made you want to make it?

Daily prompt for the #Conlangity worldbuilding game:

DAY 1
[CULTURE] Starting with the absolute basics - what's the name of your language, and who primarily speaks it in your world?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey everyone! This October I'm hosting #Conlangity, a game about fictional languages! The goal is to help total newbies craft a conlang that is realistic & usable! It will hopefully be accessible to non-linguist people, but it won't be for the faint of heart. Prepare for a challenge! MORE INFO👇🧵

Prompt list for #Conlangity, a game for building a fictional language! Hosted by @professoremily.bsky.social. Light yellow text printed in two columns over an orange background showing a faint photo of a large open dictionary.

1. CULTURE: Name & speakers of your language
2. SOUNDS: Basic sounds or units of speech
3. SOUNDS: Rare/never used sounds
4. SOUNDS: Rules of pronunciation, emphasis & tone
5. CULTURE: How did your language develop & what is it for?
6. VOCAB: greetings/farewells

7. GRAMMAR: Word order
8. GRAMMAR: Compound words, prefixes & suffixes
9. GRAMMAR: Noun modification (number, case, gender, articles)
10. VOCAB: Words/phrases about relationships

11. GRAMMAR: Pronouns
12. GRAMMAR: Descriptive words
13. VOCAB: Words/phrases about location and direction

14. GRAMMAR: Verbs
15. GRAMMAR: Verb conjugation & other variations
16. GRAMMAR: Verbals (infinitives, gerunds, participles)
17. VOCAB: Words/phrases about time

18. GRAMMAR: Prep-/Postpositions
19. GRAMMAR: Negations & Comparisons
20. VOCAB: Words for numbers

21. GRAMMAR: Subordinate Clauses
22. GRAMMAR: Asking questions, giving commands, speaking in hypotheticals
23. VOCAB: Words/phrases about food & drinks

24. GRAMMAR: Common abbreviations & mutations
25. VOCAB: Common slang, idioms, cursing
26. VOCAB: Words/phrases about animals and plants

27. VOCAB: Words or phrases that a tourist would need to know
28. CULTURE: A word with an interesting etymology
29. CULTURE: Writing system

30. VOCAB CHALLENGE: Translate song lyrics into your language
31. FREE DAY: Something that wasn’t covered/how you plan to use the language in your work?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is one of my favorite Kena scenes. I haven't posted it in a while, and I was just thinking about it, so here ya go 😂 From GODS OF ATALANTIS Book 3. Sunshine Boys are hot 😎 Book 1 now available in paperback! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Kena dodged the attack, moving like lightning, and landed a hit on the side of Toctha’s head that sent him stumbling sideways. Mireia, who had of course trained right alongside Kena and knew his fighting capabilities inside and out, was well aware that he could have knocked Toctha unconscious in an instant if he’d chosen to. She also knew that if Toctha had any idea that Kena was deliberately holding back, he would have been even more furious.
Shaking his head, Toctha turned back to Kena and resumed an aggressive fighting stance, bracing to attack again.
“Really? You’re that determined to fight?” Kena sighed, slipping into an almost lazy defensive stance. “I was hoping that blow might have discouraged you.”
“A lucky hit!” Toctha growled, shaking his head and blinking again, still clearly a bit disoriented. “I’ll have you know I was trained by Master Jakuufet himself!”
“Who?” asked Kena.
“Of the Adza Muul Fraternity,” Mireia explained, wondering how she’d managed to remember such a useless fact.
“Adza Muul?” Kena made a face. “Well, that explains a lot.”
Seeing that Kena was distracted, Toctha attempted to charge at him again. But Kena only dodged him once more, easily evading his wide swing and catching him from underneath. An instant later Toctha was on his back in the dirt, panting and groaning and wondering what on earth had just happened.
“You left yourself open, friend,” Kena said, helpfully. “I understand, it’s easy to do. You wouldn’t believe how many times that’s happened to me.”

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#PretendPanel Sept 26th Goodbye, September! Earlier this month, I finally debuted the print version of my YA fantasy novel THE GODS OF ATALANTIS (part 1). Buy it here! bookshop.org/p/books/the-... I'm so proud of this stupid thing, I still can't believe it exists. Now... to finish parts 2 and 3! 😅

Cover of THE GODS OF ATALANTIS, designed by me. The bottom half shows a girl with long flowing hair sleeping in a fetal position, wrapped up in flowing cloths; she is painted in shades of light to dark blue, and her flowing hair and cloths are reminiscent of ocean waves. At the top, upside down, a boy with curly hair and a tattoo on his arm is also sleeping in a fetal position, wrapped up in cloths; he is painted in golds and reds, like the sun. The two of them mirror each other almost like yin & yang, with the title written between them in shining reddish-gold letters. A reddish-gold border frames the cover, and each corner features a small symbol: a marigold flower, a phoenix, an orange & blue striped fish, and a wolf. Along the left and right sides of the border, pale bluish-white crystals are growing. Along the bottom the author's name EMILY KLOTZ is written in the same reddish-gold letters.

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yayyy #AwesomeCharacters happy Bi Day! #GodsOfAtalantis: High Priestess Xa'aba, who once had a long relationship with her fellow priestess Icozoue (💔) and is currently in some kind of relationship-ish thing with [Redacted Male Character] (🤮) Both equally toxic. But surely not because of her!!! 😂

A colorful drawing of Xa'aba, aka "Claude Frollo meets Regina George," sometimes referred to as Colonizer Karen. She's a beautiful woman in her early forties wearing multicolored priestess robes, large earrings with feathers, and a large golden headdress. She is smiling smugly and probably judging you while plotting to persecute some heretics.

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#Septopolis 16 SO. Imagine the Kowloon Walled City, but inside the Grand Canyon, and you got the general idea of Capria. In terms of land space, including parts but inside the cliffs, it's only about 9.5 acres. But it houses about 37,000 people, densely packed together. bsky.app/profile/khon...

Aerial photograph of the Kowloon Walled City

Photo of a green-tinted rooftop scene in the Kowloon Walled City, showing a sloping ramshackle metal covering pressed up against a dense building facade

Photo of several tall buildings in the Kowloon Walled City all pressed tightly together and lit up with electricity

Photo of a dark alley inside the Kowloon Walled City, a narrow corridor of metal walls and pipes

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#Septopolis 14 So I'm still a little fuzzy on clothes, though my idea for Terra Tenebrae in general is "Mad Max vibes" (see my girl Serena here). In Capria specifically, I think they'd be famous for being extra over-the-top in their self-expression & exhibitionism. bsky.app/profile/khon...

Colored digital drawing by me of Serena Ryse from CHARAGMA. She is a tall trans woman with a sleeveless shirt and blue jacket showing off her muscular arms, a dark green scarf, elaborate leather belt and corset kinda thing and arm bracers, carrying a pack slung over her shoulder and a staff. She has tan skin, shoulder length dark red hair tied up in a half bun and dyed cyan blue at the tips, a wide angular chin, several piercings and glowing ice blue eyes.

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters #GodsOfAtalantis: Definitely Kena! He's very nurturing to both plants & animals. Sadly his kindness toward animals in the past caused him some pain, because his family treated it as a sign of weakness. But that didn't change Kena ❤️ He even gets a pet phoenix after saving her 🧵

Two drawings by me of Kena with his pet phoenix Aiaxi.
On the left: young Kena (13yo), a bit with light brown skin, dark brown curly hair & a phoenix tattoo on his left shoulder and chest, wearing a yellow/red skirt, kneels in a green garden & holds out his hand to baby Aiaxi, a tiny little chick with fluffy dark red & grayish-purple feathers, resting on a pile of leaves.
On the right: older Kena (17yo) stands with a serious face holding up Aiaxi on his right arm. Aiaxi is full grown, about the size of a goose with a long flowing tail & outstretched wings; her feathers are golden and red like fire.

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Exciting news everyone... IT'S HERE!! 🥳 Took way too long, but #GodsOfAtalantis (book 1) is now available to buy as a physical book! 2 kids get chosen as the new gods. Sparks fly. Crystals go boom. If you like stuff like ATLA or FMA:B, this is for you 😁❤️ www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-gods-o...

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ooh beautiful! 😍 I mean it might be obvious but I was thinking of the Grand Canyon 😅 Something like this, except throw a multi-tiered, densely-packed city onto the cliffs:

Beautiful photo of a deep river gorge in the Grand Canyon

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

COMPLETELY FORGOT TO INCLUDE THE MAP 🤦‍♀️ Also I said northeast when I meant northwest. Jfc I am a mess today, I need more sleep or something 😅

Sketchy pencil drawing of a fantasy map with 3 long canyons stretching across the north and a yellow trail following a yellow blob around the continent (Arx Lucis). On the western side of the biggest canyon is a big X

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#MythAugust 31 We've reached the end! So let's have some fun: if there was a multiverse collapse, how would your deities & their followers interact with others you've read about this month? 😁 Would they team up, with disastrous results? Destroy each other? Or would they live in relative harmony?

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 31:
Oh no! The walls between the worlds have collapsed! How do your deities & their followers interact with those of other creators?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

#MythAugust 30 You've been chatting about your fictional gods & religions all month, but how much do these things play a role in the story you're trying to tell? Is it just cool worldbuilding flavor, or is it essential to the plot & characters? Maybe all of the above?

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 30:
What role does the mythology play in your story? Is it crucial to your plot/characters, or just a cool background detail?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

#MythAugust 29 Wrapping up the month! Tell us about your inspirations. Were you influenced by any real world myths or religions when making your fantasy gods? Which ones, and how did they influence you? Feel free to talk about any other inspirations too, of course, not just religions & myths!

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 29:
Did you base your myth on any real world religions/myths?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#MythAugust 28 Today's question is about how the gods/spirits influence the lives of regular people - specifically, in mundane everyday kind of ways. Think of little things like idioms & swear words, clothing & accessories, small superstitious rituals, or locations everyone knows to avoid...

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 28:
How does the existence of gods/spirits influence peoples' everyday lives?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

#MythAugust 27 During major life milestones & rites of passage (e.g. birth, coming of age, marriage, death, etc), how do your gods/spirits play a role? Are they invoked during a ceremony? Is their imagery part of the ritual? Do they require a sacrifice? *Do they ever show up in person??* 👀

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 27:
What role do your deities play during rites of passage/life milestones? E.g. birth, coming-of-age, marriage, death...?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#MythAugust 26 For someone who wants to follow one of your deities or become one of their priests, what sort of rites are required? Is there something like a baptism? Must they perform some difficult task? Do they receive any marks on their body or special clothes? Something else?

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 26:
What sorts of initiation rites are required for someone entering the faith and/or the clergy?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#MythAugust 25 Today is the day to talk about holidays! I'd recommend just picking one, but you're free to talk about multiple if you want 😊 What's the meaning of the holiday? When does it take place? How did it start? How is it usually celebrated? What connection does it have to the god(s)?

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 25:
Tell me about a holiday associated with your deities! How did it start? What occurs during this holiday?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#MythAugust 24 For the followers of your god(s)/spirit(s), what sort of rituals do they do to invoke the protection or blessing of the deities? Prayers, songs, chants, sacrifices, etc? On the flipside, are there any rituals for calling a curse down upon someone they don't like? 👀

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 24:
What rituals for protection or blessing are associated with your deities? What about curses?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#MythAugust 23 Today is about sacred texts! Do your deities have any? Tell us about them! Who wrote them, and when? What form do they exist in? What do they contain? What's their history? Do they play a big role in the lives of the devotees?

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 23
Are there any sacred texts associated with your deities? What role do these texts play in the followers' lives?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#MythAugust 22 Tell us about your fictional places of worship. Where do your god(s)' followers usually gather for community, ceremonies, prayers, etc? Is there a formal place or informal? Public or private? Bonus: why do they gather in this place? What's the history & meaning behind it?

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 2
Where do followers gather to worship? E.g. temples or churches? Holy places out in nature? Shrines in their own homes?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#MythAugust 21 Oooh it's apocalypse day! For those who follow your fantasy religion, how do they think the world will end? Will it be a big destructive spectacle, like Ragnarok or Armageddon? Or... more of a whimper? Perhaps a cycle? Maybe they don't believe in an ending but an evolution instead?

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 21
What do the followers believe about the end of the world?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#MythAugust 20 Most religions have some sort of belief about what happens to mortals after death. So what does your fantasy religion believe? Judgment? Reincarnation? Paradise? A mix? Or something else entirely? Bonus: How right are they, actually?

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 20
What do the followers believe about the afterlife?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#MythAugust 19 For the followers of your deity(ies)/spirit(s), what sorts of values do they try to uphold in their lives? What do they consider virtuous? On the flipside, what would get you labeled as a sinner or heretic? 👀

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 19
What values do the followers embrace? Conversely, what is considered "sinful" or "blasphemous"?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#MythAugust 18 Today, tell us about different sects within your fictional religion, if there are any. What distinguishes them? Do they have different ideas about the gods/spirits, or about the doctrines? Do they ever fight with each other? What usually sets off those conflicts?

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 18:
What different sects exist within the broader religion? Do they ever have conflict? If so, why?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#MythAugust 17 Hopefully Bluesky is nice today! 😅 Who are the authority figures among your deities' followers - people who fill the role of clergy or something similar? Is their role generally benevolent, like teachers or therapists? Is it more like witchhunters? Are there prophets? 👀

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 17:
What authority figures do the followers look to? Is there a single spiritual leader (e.g. Pope or Dalai Lama)? Priests, monks, shamans, etc?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

#MythAugust 16 What's the motivation for those who worship your deities/spirits? Do they genuinely love & admire them? Is it in an effort to avoid punishment or misfortune? Does their deity give them a special power? As usual, interpret the question however makes the most sense for you!

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 16:
Why do people worship these deities? Is it out of love? Fear? Do they hope to gain something from their worship?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

#MythAugust 15 These week is less focused on your deities themselves, and more on their followers! So to start things off, tell us a bit about what kinds of followers they have! How are they organized? Are they powerful & mainstream, or small & obscure? Extremely devout, or more casual?

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 15:
What kinds of followers do your gods/spirits have? Is there an organized religion (or several)? A more casual tradition? An obscure cult?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

#MythAugust 14 Wrapping up our week of talking about one specific god or spirit, share a famous myth associated with them! Especially one that hasn't been already covered in previous posts. Feel free to just summarize or also share snips, whatever you feel like doing! 😁

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 14
Share a myth associated with this deity!

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

#MythAugust 13 How does your chosen deity usually interact with the little mortals? Do they answer prayers? Demand sacrifices? Are they protectors, teachers, cosmic terrors? All of the above? 👀 Is there something unique about their relationship with mortals compared to other gods/spirits?

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 13
How does this deity typically interact with mortals, if at all?

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

#MythAugust 12 Tell us about the symbolism of your chosen deity/spirit! Any imagery they're typically presented with in art? Animals or plants associated with them? Sacrifices they particularly like? Written symbols? Feel free to include artwork if you have any!

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 12
What symbols are typically associated with this deity?

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