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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

It's the last day of voting for World Anvil's Worldbuilding Awards first round voting period! I have 8 submissions below, and would be overjoyed if you considered them for your votes. worldanvil.com/w/cathedris-... You can cast your vote on the individual article pages. You only need your email.

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Worldbuilding Awards 2025 Submissions

My submissions for this years first round of the worldbuilding awards :D

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FonsCordi Art @fonscordi.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I thought I didn't have more random doodles on trash paper, but just found these while cleaning the deeps of my bag 💀... #sketch #horrorart #doodle #weirdcore #traditionalart

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Made a fun movie poster for it, too >:D

Movie poster for a student animation. The title is "Iterational", and the title font repeats itself under the main title over and over with decreasing opacity. The poster is of a simple wooden door on a white wall, with multiple strange hand-drawn post-it-notes and diagrams messily organized around the door. In the center of the wooden door is the text that says "The Same, but Different".

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

A semester of messing around and making weird shit in #Blender has resulted in this lovely animation I made! A bit under 5 minutes long, it's an abstract visualization of what it's like to be caught in endless iterative design: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULu2...

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Iterational

YouTube video by Stormbril

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Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 05/12/2024

More #Vazdimet #worldbuilding, this time about how magic works. This is an older article, but I'm still quite proud of it. And I got to commission some @stormbril.bsky.social CSS magic to make it interactive. #SFF #SpaceFantasy #SciFantasy www.worldanvil.com/w/vazdimet/a...

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Magic

As the universe and its people changed, so too did their understanding and application of magic.

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Why is it that a damn radio jingle for a car dealership from my home town 20 years ago still gets stuck in my head on repeat 😩 Props to the song writers, they sure can make a catchy tune. I know where I'm going if I ever need to buy a KIA, if they're still open 😂

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Chris H. 🍄🌛 @sutexii.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

If you see this, post a fungi 👁️🍄

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

YOU CAN WIN AT FISHY?!? no joke I used to daydream as a kid about finally getting big enough to eat the blue fish (also, "win", cause omg that game end screen lmao)

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Throwback to my Europe trip, getting to see and experience La Sagrada Familia was an absolutely incredible highlight that I'll never forget. We went at sunset and were FLOODED with colour through those incredible stained glass windows. #architecturesaturday #architecture

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Kness @kness.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

41 Cozy Little Birbs

41 adorable cozy little birds in scarves, hats and sweaters, painted with green and reds watercolors, in a grid.

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jeremy @exmarx.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

phosphate of calcium, 2019 #pixelart

And our faces, my heart, brief as photos – John Berger

"What reconciles me to my own death more than anything else is the image of a place: a place where your bones and mine are buried, thrown, uncovered, together. They are strewn there pell-mell. One of your ribs leans against my skull. A metacarpal of my left hand lies inside your pelvis. (Against my broken ribs your breast like a flower.) The hundred bones of our feet are scattered like gravel. It is strange that this image of our proximity, concerning as it does mere phosphate of calcium, should bestow a sense of peace. Yet it does. With you I can imagine a place where to be phosphate of calcium is enough."

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

If you see this, post a knight!

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

If you're coming here for the first time or resurfacing because of the latest Twitter BS, hello! One quick way to fill your feed is to Follow All on this Canadian SF/F/H starter pack: go.bsky.app/JYsEEhU + If you're a Canadian who writes in those genres, say hi & I'll add you 1/2

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I just really love grass starter pokemon I guess :D (also I've never played gen 3 sorry D:) #pokemon

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Kati D. @absinthe-arts.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

One of my favorite personal pieces - can you tell I like warm colors? 🔥 #art #oc #illustration #horror #comic #fantasyart #tcg

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Reminds me of a certain creature I wrote and commissioned a certain artwork from a certain @nnie.bsky.social of 👀

A sketchy digital drawing of a purple elk, it has long flowing antlers that dropped backwards towards the main bulk of its body. The elks head hangs low as if in mourning, and strands of fiber hang from the antlers

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I loved you in another life, and I found you again

An illustration of 2 figures romantically clinging to one another. Their faces are missing and are instead large holes. Out of their holes are 2 entwined centipedes. In the sky hangs a red moon
Everything is in black and white except for the centipede and moon which are red

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Tree-style supports will forever be fascinating to me. Just look at how cool they are, so alien, so strange!

White PLA plastic 3D printing supports, they look like strange and spindly trees reaching up to support the geometric beam above them

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Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 24/11/2024

Thank you, Inky! Here's an excerpt from my current WIP, a queer polyam romance I haven't named yet. I love Zeke and Lorcan's interactions. (Who am I kidding, I love all my characters' interactions). But with Zeke and Lorcan I get to play with the infatuated apprentice and his exhausted mentor.

“You got it, Zeke.” Returning to lean over the desk without sitting down, Lorcan verified all the doors and wards had locked successfully. He hit the button to summon one of the techs, glancing over his shoulder at Zeke. “You okay if I ask one of your guards to stay behind to wait for our relief?”

“Please.” Zeke shuddered. “The fewer I have following me around, the better. I don’t care what they say. I still feel trapped.”

“Then let’s go. Get some good food down before your curfew.” Lorcan spun, and marched for the door.

He didn’t want to say it out loud, but lately Lorcan was beginning to understand Zeke’s laments about feeling confined. That was his whole reasoning for turning down Zeke’s advances in the first place. Every time he began to wonder if maybe he was exaggerating his fears, Zeke would say something that reminded Lorcan just how broken he’d feel beneath Zeke’s aggressive possessiveness.

But that didn’t stop him from dreaming about it.

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A. Dani, Author of Luridity @luridity.com · 24/11/2024

Draft from my upcoming mm cyberpunk romance, Illicit Frequencies: intro of Dred and the bustle of the place he calls home. #romancelandia #writing #BookSky 💙📚

Except from Illicit Frequencies, by A. Dani:
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During the day, goods and food vendors vied for attention with booming voices and noisemakers, people ferried between the few paying jobs or bartered with their peers, children squealed and chased each other around conversing adults and personal transport vehicles, and industrious creators seemed to swap melodies of varying whirrs and hisses of grinders, blowtorches, and impact wrenches.

It was a song of living, a soundtrack of and for folk who had learned to reuse and reshape what little they owned as needed, every one of whom relied on the goodwill of their neighbors to survive. Dred wouldn’t have it any other way, and the corps had another thing coming if they thought they’d crush this community’s spirit.

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Both men stepped to a railing that overlooked the maker’s market and Dred leaned his elbows on the wrought iron and hardsteel. “Pass the word ‘round a bit, Xan. If they’re keeping more eyes open, we will too.”

“On it,” the young spy said. “Want Lin to pound circuits?”

“Ahead of you; she’s plugged in with her hacker protocols, been the better part of the week. Not much luck yet, but if we can see what their drones are seeing, that’ll make a big difference.” Dred sent him a sideways grin. “I suspect it’ll be a nice view of wide shoulders in desperate need of a massage and a butt that looks great in tight denim.”

Xandal snorted. “Ain’t always about you, Dred.”

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AdamK @fghostwriting.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

From “Being Human” chapter 2… [Also, I hope the “no AI” thing was about not writing using AI and not about sci-fi stories involving AI 🤣] #amwriting #writingshare

The image features the following text:

“At my present rate of decay, I have less than three months until the ceasing of my life functions. That was the delicate way my situation was described to me. Payment for my years of service, I suppose.”

Michelle put her hand on Alice’s. The feeling of being consoled swept over Alice. It made her angry. She pulled her hand away.

“Please eat and drink. It will make things far more pleasant for you.”

“I don’t need to. I’m not one of you.”

Perhaps Ms. Collins—First names are for friends. Machines don’t have friends.—felt a pang of guilt over her deception as she silently rose from her seat, turned her back on Alice, and walked out of the room.

Maybe that’s why she suggested the surgery to shut down Alice’s pain sensors.

The science team complied. They wanted to make the rest of Alice’s time as comfortable as possible. At least, that was the official reason.

Unofficially, they just wanted to see if they could do it.

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Anne @inkythoughts.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I got so many authors as new followers, so to celebrate 2.4k let's have another 🪷 WRITING SHARE 🪷 • share this post for visibility • share snippets of your writing in the comments (NO QRPs!) • remember to use ALT text • share & comment on others' writing • no AI #writing #writeshare

Digital illustration of willow branches floating on top of a water lily pond. Two goldfish are swimming underneath the surface. The text "Writing Share" is written on top of the image.

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Line 🌻 Realmcrafting Owl @strixxline.com · 23/11/2024

Behold, a collection of Anvilites whose lovely faces and/or avatars you can see live on Twitch! ✨ I don't know who all is on Bluesky yet, so #WorldAnvil fam, please let me know who I'm missing, and send more streamers my way if they're here! 💜 #Worldbuilding #Coworking go.bsky.app/6iiVqyk

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Today was a good day. I got to delve into my box of random cables and actually grab one out that I needed!

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Architecture @architecture.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Hochöfen - Blast Furnaces (1969-95) #Photo: Hilla & Bernd Becher German conceptual artists & photographers Hilla and Bernd Becher worked as a collaborative duo, building up a huge collection of images depicting industrial buildings such as cooling towers, gas tanks and coal bunkers. #architecture

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

minecraft art share! these are from a small arrows mod a friend and I were working on years ago :D

8 low poly blockbench models of custom minecraft arrows. One is covered in slime, one has an eyeball wrapped around it, one is an ice cube, one has an eye of ender, one is red and gold, one has two torches attached to it, one is an arrow stuck in a bucket, and one is covered in shards of flint

A snippet of a minecraft inventory full of 16 custom arrows. 8 of them are of various bundles of arrows. Then, one is covered in slime, one has an eyeball wrapped around it, one is an ice cube, one has an eye of ender, one is red and gold, one has two torches attached to it, one is an arrow stuck in a bucket, and one is covered in shards of flint

An example inventory GUI of the modded "Fletching Table", with 9 inventory spaces surrounding an arrow where you can put in arrow modifiers to create the modded arrows.

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

One upside of having no internet today: my apartment is now, mysteriously, with no apparant discernable reason, magically clean now We'll probably never know why it might have suddenly become clean during this dreadful absence of internet access 😔

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

5 favs, 5 tags! Food: 🐔Spicy Fried Chicken Sandwich Season: ☃️Winter Drink: 🍹Dark and Stormy Colour: 💎Cyan Anime: 🦾Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood @leashea.bsky.social @incaseofgrace.bsky.social @shadowphoenix.bsky.social @worldbuilding.bsky.social @julianrrj.bsky.social

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Just put in an order for a bunch of new 3D printing filament >:D

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Introduce yourself with four video games

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Line 🌻 Realmcrafting Owl @strixxline.com · 22/11/2024

From the Arcane to the Elements, magic comes in many forms in #worldbuilding! I've created a starter pack for those who create worlds and endeavor to make them truly magical. 🧙 If you'd like to be added, please tell us a bit about your world's magic system! ✨ #MagicSystem #TTRPG go.bsky.app/V2fXNoG

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TJ Trewin @tjtrewin.com · 21/11/2024

What art software / app have you been using lately? Art share! Show me something you made with it :D

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Ollie @ordheist.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

magma wraith from early this year

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Feeling slightly stuck with a redesign on one of my God-husks (I got Farad all the way to the rendering and shading stage but have paused because it's not feeling RIGHT), so instead I'm going back to look at some of my favourite designs. These all have a strong sense of weird to them that I crave!

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Gato @gatoiberico.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Twilight Princess is living rent-free in my head after I recently got to play it for the first time, so ofc I had to make something instead of just gushing and screaming about it into the abyss

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Lots of cool people in this one, including me! (Which I am excited about, honored to be among the cool people :D)

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Taliesin West was INCREDIBLE

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Going to see a famous house today and I am so excited :D Taliesin West by Frank Lloyd Wright!

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

One of these days I reaaaaaaaaaally gotta start going through all my images from my study abroad trip this summer. Would be kinda fun to dump some neat #architecture photos here, I think! If people would be interested, that is :D

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

photo dump of some sketches of Calgary I've done this week [Saddledome and Contemporary Calgary]

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Not my professor emailing us an hour after our meeting was supposed to start saying "oh right dunno if I mentioned it but no meeting today, let's talk thursday" 🙃 welp, more time to get other homework done! wooooo!

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Really proud of what I've been learning to do in Blender this semester! #blender

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Stormbril @stormbril.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

How did you pick your username? Mine wasn't super exciting lol. I'd always used my last name or descriptive names for mmos before, but for this game (I think it was Combat Arms, a Call of Duty-esque clone) my friends challenged me to make a NAME name, and so Stormbril was born!

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