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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 20h

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 30: I am a huge fan of lovable rogues, heists, grimdark/crapsack worlds, and other elements of stories related to fantasy-style thieves' and assassins' guilds, especially. I will say, that while these will inevitably suck me into a story, I wouldn't necessarily call them a...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#Septopolis 29: Hoping better late than never! I think that as @sayaashrah.bsky.social mentioned, Freeport would absolutely welcome Or̉el̉īs’s refugees (and I get the sense that Atmoriel and Or̉el̉īs would be sister cities from an “authoritarian elven hell hike perspective, though that might actually…

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 29: I recently finished Beyond Redemption by @michaelrfletcher.bsky.social and absolutely loved it. Very dark and very fascinating worldbuilding ideas. I recommend it, though I wouldn't say that it's for the faint of heart.

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 28/09/2026

Good morning, Worldbuilder friends! Here is your #OctoberWorldbuilders megacard for the month! I've been taking a small break from social media lately, so I might be a bit absent this month, too. But I'll try to find time to hang out with you all on occasion! I wanna hear about your worlds!

OCTOBER WORLDBUILDERS
Hosted by Kira of the Wind

WEEK 1: DESERTS
1: Name of a desert in your world
2: What’s your desert society like?
3: Desert town architecture
4: Desert animals/plants
5: Myth/legend/religion about
desert
6: How do they survive?
7: Geology and archaeology

WEEK 2: SPORTS AND GAMES
8: Does your MC play a sport?
9: Board games in your book’s world?
10: Competitive game/sport
11: Cooperative game/sport
12: Equipment/pieces
13: History/famous figure involved in a sport/game
14: Strategy for winning

WEEK 3: WORK AND JOBS
15: Common jobs in your setting
16: Food and water production
17: Emergency services
18: How are people paid?
19: Shady/illegal work
20: Government employees
21: Jobs unique to your setting

WEEK 4: AESTHETCS/VIBES
22: Share a moodboard or art
23: Aesthetics of a town/city
24: Overall vibe of your story/book/wip
25: Religious/cultural vibes/influences
26: Clothing and accessories
27: What feeling or thoughts do you hope your readers come away with after reading your story?
28: Something special about your world

Extra days:
29: Plans for next month
30: Recent character you’ve created
31: Happy Halloween! Which of your characters would you like to see someone cosplay? (Or who would you cosplay yourself?)

The background image display trees in a peaceful forest during autumn, with lots of yellows and oranges. It feels very much like October and has a serene vibe

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#Septopolis 28: Freeport's relationship with other cities in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social) is defined by trade at this point, with significant trade flowing into and out of the city. The closest settlements are one of to types: settlements on nearby islands in Freeport...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#Septopolis 27: In Freeport like in much of Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), the laws of the land are enforced by a local guard that is overwhelmingly a position for retired members of the military. The relationship between the average citizen and law enforcement has...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 27: In Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), there is a strange overlap in the myths of the Valestrals and Hrothians that darkness was what existed before the emergency of the gods, both having a somewhat overlapping view that in the beginning, there was..

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#Septopolis 26: Freeport is one of the few representative democracies in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), and the only one with widespread suffrage. The government of Freeport is predominantly a unicameral Senate composed of fifty elected members and a judicial branch of...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 26: In Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), the caves under the desert of Avenad and the surrounding Erias and Velas-gav mountain ranges are the big dark, secretive places of Karnassia. While the top layers of these caves and tunnels are fairly well...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#Septopolis 25: Compared to other nations in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), Freeport has an incredibly easy process for immigration and citizenship. They accept people from all over the continent, with a particular emphasis on welcoming refugees, provide brief education...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 25: In Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), a unique light source that is predominantly used in Valestra and Avenad is essentially highly ground coal that is flammable and is lit to provide a source of light (this is particularly popular in the former...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#Septopolis 24: Much like in other parts of Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), the available "third space" depends on your economic class and social memberships. There are multiple taverns in the city, with the Cloverleaf having a reputation for being better if there are...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#SeptemberWoldbuilders 24: The Nation of Avenad is unique in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social) as darkness has a more multifaceted symbol than other cultures. The ability to escape the heat of the sun is critical for the Avendrals, who have mostly built their cities in caves..

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#Septopolis 23: In Freeport in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), the theater and arena stand next to each other relatively near the Senate and as such in one of the wealthier areas of town. The former is predominantly used for staging historical plays and for live music...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 23: As with all things symbolism in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), there is some cultural variation on this, but one of the most clear cut is the Atmoral symbolism for the Sun. The sun plays a central role in the culture of the Atmorals, as Atmor...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#Septopolis 22: In Freeport in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), racing is the most common form of sports for entertainment, particularly by boat for people, though horse and dog racing are also fairly common. While these have their place (and are often one of many excuses...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 22: In If Lies Could Travel, the second book in the Rise of Villainy in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), Zri'Denn, Riv'Kala, Kasira, Rashad, Swindles, and Val'Sai spend the better part of a month navigating through the tunnels beneath the desert of...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#Septopolis 21: Compared to the rest of Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), the largest employers in Freeport are the University (not just for scholars and researchers but also for administrative faculty and support staff), the Bank of Freeport, and the bureaucratic and...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 21: In Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), sailors and fishermen play critical roles in the most of the seafaring cultures (Hroth, Cyra, and Atmoriel especially, but also in Freeport and parts of the Vizrani Empire). Across cultures, sailors and...

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don’t usually meddle on the writing side of Jeopardy!, but tonight I called in a favor for our Bluesky viewers.

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 20: Characters in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social) have varying relationships with the sea, and I mentioned before that I always try to write roughly one character per story who hates boats. A large number of stories are set in port cities, as these...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#Septopolis 20: Freeport has three big contributions to the economy of Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social): distilled spirits (which I talked about in another thread), medicine, and tourism (or at least what tourism exists for the continent)... bsky.app/profile/rtje...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#Septopolis 19: In Freeport, compared to the rest of Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), the University of Freeport has a constitutional directive to assist in basic literacy education for the population, ensuring a citizenry that can at the very least speak and understand...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 19: The oceans in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social) are largely unexplored and wildly unpredictable to its inhabitants, though as an aside, one reason we decided that Andos (the planet that the continent of Karnassia is on) only has one moon is...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#Septopolis 18: Freeport is one of several places in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social) that has a more extensive sewer system (the others being Vizrala and Atmoriel) that is beneath the city that manages biological waste. Water is predominantly from rivers and streams that...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 18: In Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), the Valestrals will make offerings to Alaes both before doing any trips across the ocean (making additional offerings to Stratil for good winds to sail) and during times of a drought (where a deer will be...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#Septopolis 17: Public transportation within cities is fairly unknown in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), and Freeport is no exception. The main way that people get around is by walking around on city streets, and though carts (drawn by horses or people) are technically...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 17: The oceans of Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social) are teaming with life, including all varieties of fish, cephalopods, aquatic mammals, and other creatures. Sailors, especially, are prone to thinking that there are even massive sea monsters, whose...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 16: In Karnassia, there are three sea deities: Alaes in Valestra (associated with water, the sea, the moon, winter, and tides) (though Stratil also plays a role as god of sailing), Ular the Allfather in Hroth (god of time, the sea, fire, wind, the soil, and knowledge), and...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#Septopolis 16: Oh her, this is one of the spots for a Karnassia map (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social). Freeport has predominantly grown from two points: the central ring of businesses and the dock, with additional housing arising along the edges as the population has increased. The...

A poor quality scan of a handdrawn map, showing the city of Freeport that is predominantly built around the docks and a ring area, with north once again confusingly in the upper left of the map (because of how we aren't very good at planning orientation), showing a number of homes and businesses all fairly tightly crammed in.

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#Septopolis 15: For Freeport, the various people maintain their religious celebration from their own native parts of Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), but unique to Freeport is the Founder's Day festival, held in the mid-spring anniversary of the most recent revolution for...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 15: Most Karnassia stories (co-authored with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social) have at least one seaside scene and at least one character who hates traveling by boat for a variety of reasons: whether that's fear of drowning, seasickness, claustrophobia, or some other reason.

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#Septopolis 14: Fashion in Freeport in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social) is in an odd place at the time of the Karnassia stand alones and Rise of Villainy series. While Freeport's fashion has previously favored simple styles, with the clothing of the wealthy primarily being...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 14: As in all things Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), there is a lot of variation in this. When it comes to hot drinks, coffee is a staple of the Nation of Avenad, while tea is more common in the Vizrani Empire, and cocoa is the hot drink of choice...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#Septopolis 13: The food and drink of Freeport stands out from the rest of Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social) for two reasons: one if the culinary fusion of multiple cultures and the other is the creation of distilled spirits reflecting the different communities that make...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 13: In the southern marshes and swamps of the Vizrani Empire in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), vast plantations are used to grow the rice which sustains the empire, typically connected to an Etai managed by a member of the royal family, usually...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#Septopolis 12: When compared with the other nations of Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), Freeport is less defined by any one religion and instead is more defined by religious tolerance and the co-existence of numerous religions, both those practiced in other parts of the...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 12: In Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), the honeyed noniel is a key featured of the cuisine of Atmoriel. It is a large green fruit that grows on trees in the archipelago that resembles a breadfruit on its exterior, while the inside of the fruit...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#Septopolis 11: In Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), two pieces of technology come to mind: 1) Freeport has a relative monopoly on distilled spirits (being the only nation that has both mastered distillation and engaged in trade), and 2) they invented the printing press...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 11: The most obvious answer in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social) is the prohibitions on eating plants in the Kingdom of Valestra. Their diet consists of meat, animal products (dairy, eggs, honey) and mushrooms due to strict prohibition on eating any...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#Septopolis 10: So, this seems like a time to potentially talk through the various political parties of Freeport, which are a unique feature of the country in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), as most other nations have either repressive governments that ban parties (such...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 10: Meat, eggs, dairy, and honey are commonly eaten by the various people of Karnassia (co-creates with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social). Which animal varies by culture, with chicken and fish being common among nearly all cultures, while beef and pork are common in Hroth and...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#Septopolis 9: The collective consciousness in Freeport is heavily influenced by its unique place in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social) as a multicultural representative democracy. There is a certain degree of Freeport exceptionalism that is common among the academics of the...

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 9: In Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), mushrooms make up a significant component of the cuisines of the Valestrals and the Avendrals. For the former, this is one of the few allowances of their religious animal-based diet that is not just meat, eggs...

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AdorkableSmile @adorkablesmile.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#Septopolis languages! There are three primary languages in Amperion: the main one is Venatan, the language of Venatas, the home country. The elves primarily speak a Western dialect of Old Elvish. Both sides use a trade language to facilitate communication. #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#Septopolis 8: In Freeport, the Constitution specifically does NOT establish an official language, but it does note that the University has an obligation to ensure all citizens are able to read the Karnassian Common Tongue. In Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), this language..

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R. T. Jenkins @rtjenkinsauthor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 8: In the Vizrani Empire in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), the Emperor's Pork is a specialty dish that is made by the rich in the Empire for the celebration, consisting of a baked breaded pork in a sweet and spicy sauce with bell peppers, onions...

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Luigi Corgione @dukeofnothingham.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“Girl, everything is corrupt.” -Tiger King, from prison

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Veronica Lewis, M.Ed. 👩‍🦯 @veron4ica.com · 29/11/2024

I’m glad so many people have found my “capybara method” for how to write alt text and image descriptions helpful! However, I know conflicting access needs exist and not everyone can write their own #AltText, so here’s an ongoing thread of tools that can help. Inclusion in thread ≠ endorsement

An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.” Credit to Puzzle agency, original information from Veronica With Four Eyes and veroniiiica dot com

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