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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Some consistency would be nice re: the standards an expensive university has to determine what actions (or alleged actions) are deserving of expulsion, no?

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At Tales of Khayr, we believe fantasy should entertain first. Brotherhood of the Wolf is classic sword-and-sorcery inspired by Islamic history and legend: a group of flawed men from very different backgrounds fighting supernatural horrors.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Brotherhood of the Wolf Issue #3 is finished. Here's a look at the cover. Next stop: getting it onto Amazon.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Studies in memeology continue...

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Trying something new. Apparently some realities need to be spoon-fed rather than explained academically.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When we were getting this travel montage in Issue #3 ready for the printers, someone on the team suggested adding dialogue. We pushed back and our Creative Director agreed. Forcing dialogue into a journey montage is probably over-engineering things.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In comics, frames are important because they show you what you need to see, creating a sense of place, position, and focus. But frames (when done well) also anchor the perspective to reveal who a bit more info on a character.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Think Squid Game meets an R-rated Harry Potter, buried in the dark caves beneath 15th-century Granada. A group of arrogant, dangerous alchemists are dragged into a series of occult trials hidden deep underground.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I've gotten to the point where if I watch movies or TV shows, I make it a game to predict the next few story beats. When I do this with my wife, she gets annoyed because the level of accuracy ruins the enjoyment for her. But I like to flex, so I don't care.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

They say "you're a slave to what you love," and we know what this guy loves. Tech might advance, but the nafs (the lower self) wants what it wants.(Also, someone check his hard drive).

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm a millennial but I do remember living a lot of this in the 90's

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Hasan Spiker on Western Metaphysical Exhaustion, Ibn Arabi and The Lord of the Rings For those interested in metaphysics: youtu.be/msWVNu8bLVA?...

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Hasan Spiker on Western Metaphysical Exhaustion, Ibn Arabi and The Lord of the Rings

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The word "dignity" is being thrown around a lot in Muslim Twitter. People use the word for different things. From a traditional Islamic POV, a believer's true dignity rests on being Gods' voluntary slave. This is (understandably) something that might seem a bit alien to modern/post-modern people.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Despite what the online Daily Wire-adjacent culture warriors are saying, I found Nolan’s The Odyssey to be a moving, well-crafted film. Some things that jumped out at me:

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This phenomenon I'm talking about isn't new, as the Animaniacs can tell you.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Game remakes are starting to worry me a bit. Imagine you’re a junior game dev whose primary experience is working on remakes (because your bosses wanted to milk the "nostalgia cow")

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

People think building an action game means opening Unity or Unreal and dropping in assets. You haven't really built a game, though. You just built assets. A game is an engine that lets people walk away with a feeling. It's Art (capital "A"), after all.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

In fiction, truly intelligent villains play "chess not checkers" and always have more options to draw from. Because they anticipate their enemies' moves, the only way to defeat an intelligent villian is to slowly remove their options or outlast them until they run out of options.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Got isekai fatigue… but love to read classic sword and sorcery in a never-before-seen setting? Try this no-filler darkly funny comic that delivers so much narrative punch finding something like it is a rarity that must be admired and cherished.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Any game/creator/publisher that relies on traditional gatekeeping, marketing spin, or "trust the process bruv" messaging is going to get SPANKED by the audience, I think.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

If I were to develop a game, I'd want it to be difficult. If I want to bake in meaningful difficulty in single-player, I'd be deliberately "stingy"about using too many guard rails (e.g. checkpoints). Too much checkpointing can kneecap the fun of tension, route mastery, resource discipline, etc.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Games should respect themselves as a distinct art form rather than imitating film. If I want to watch a movie, I'll watch a bloody movie!

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

One can argue that games are more similar to music than movies. So, a bit more abstract and meant for repetition.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The Ellison family has done to TikTok what those rednecks from “Deliverance” did to that fat guy. But there is an alternative: UpScrolled So far, it seems pretty user-friendly. I say this as a guy with extremely high standards for the platforms I use to shitpost.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

In Islamic law, it is a requirement to use water to clean oneself after answering the call of nature. Using toilet paper alone is generally insufficient. Fox News Boomers and ZOGbots will claim this is an example of “creeping sharia”.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Good fiction entertains you. The best fiction entertains you AND makes you think something you didn't beforehand. Brotherhood of the Wolf (crusaders, Janissaries, blood magic, "thin places") did both to me. Might do the same for you: talesofkhayr.com/blood-tax/

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Calling an influencer's followers idiots doesn’t solve any problem. You must understand the appeal.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The battle fury of the Janissaries is terrifying to behold. Their discipline, devotion, and prowess a manifestation of unstoppable force. #BrotherhoodoftheWolf #swordandsorcery

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Goblin Slayer is one of my guilty-pleasure anime. Might lack the narrative density and pathos of something like AoT, but it scratches the itch for tactical RTS autists like me.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

My amusing sh*tposting aside, we at Tales of Khayr care about the product, experience, and story. That's why you won't get any trauma dumping here.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Your manga villains get sympathy. In my world, they get their throats opened. talesofkhayr.com/blood-tax/ -Cem Demirci , Brotherhood of the Wolf

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

For everyone who ordered copies of Brotherhood of the Wolf (Issues#1 and#2), thanks so much for your patience. Books are finishing up at the press now and heading into fulfillment. Most readers can expect their copies to arrive in early January. Appreciate you all being part of this world.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Muslim fiction usually collapses into two camps: preachy moralism or total nihilism. But we deserve a third lane: stories that face the darkness honestly without surrendering to it. This is the world I’m building, inshaAllah.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Most Muslims struggle with their deen not because they lack knowledge (although that is certainly a big factor, if Muslim Twitter is any indication!), but because they're fighting an enemy they can't see.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Brotherhood of the Wolf has a lot of things (including a dwarf). But it doesn't have this, I'm afraid....

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

In the dying light of the Byzantine Empire, a cowardly Janissary is sent to collect the Sultan’s blood tax. But the villages are empty. Something else has come to claim the children first. Brotherhood of the Wolf: Blood Tax:https://talesofkhayr.com/blood-tax/

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Brotherhood of the Wolf respects its readers enough to have some romance amidst the swashbuckling adventures without bogging down the action with 🌽. (Excerpt below from our upcoming False Light novella. Something might be blossoming between Tahsin and Jelena, a Serbian tavern owner.)

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

For years, fantasy readers were told what they wanted: brooding immortals, mortal girls with destiny issues, prophecies of love and doom, etc. Logic said this was right, of course. You write what sells.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

You can never have too much Brotherhood of the Wolf in your life, so here’s a little more...on us! Check out the link for exclusive FREE trailer for newsletter subscribers, giving you a first glimpse of the Blood Tax arc and the dark world behind the Veil: talesofkhayr.com

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Writers love to dream up worlds and type “The End.” Few like pruning tropes. I cut Koja, my iron-masked giant as the main character; it hurt but the story bloomed with Tahsin, a coward made hero. Sanderson warns: clichés choke books. Fantasy thrives only when we pull weeds. Sharpen your shears.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

My business, independent fantasy publishing (graphic novels, prose, video games) revolves around the public’s stubborn belief that originality must lie in the avoidance of “tropes,” that if purged of enemies-to-lovers, fated mates, or fae courts, the genre would suddenly feel fresh again.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The Challah Speaks: A Haiku August heat thickens— her courtroom scent: rising dough. The jury gags, laughs.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Laura's Yeast: A Haiku Summer kitchen war— her sword of wet bread rises… a throne of toast crumbs.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

They said I’d need to crowdfund—I bankrolled it myself. No ads. No distributor. Just a story worth reading and enough skin in the game to make it dangerous. Showed up with physical copies. Didn’t pitch to suits—pitched to readers.

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Wes Al-Dhaher @wesaldhaher.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

They tell you the main character has to be likable. Relatable. Morally clean. Easy to root for. But likable isn’t unforgettable.

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