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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 14h

Specifically about Science Fiction: In general, I want Science Fiction to care as much about its narrative constraints and what those constraints do for a story as Fantasy does about constraining magic so it doesn't kill the stakes of the story. 1/6 #SeptemberWorldbuilders #WriteSky

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 17h

I had many unworkable ideas about the Redwood communities when I started this month's prompt. I had vibes, but little in the way of grounding detail. My thanks to @khonri.com and everyone who showed interest and encouragement for my setting. It was very heartening. 🥰 🧵1/5 #Septopolis #WriteSky

a quickly slapped-together pretend "tourism" advertisement for the Redwoods with a longhouse within a misty redwood forest captioned: Redwoods: Come for the cloth - Stay for eternity.

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tourr'di: There are lots of other characters in this story. Why is all the drama landing in my lap? Me: You used to be a side character, and then you asked for a better part, and I agreed you should have a better part. Better parts come with lots of drama. #QueerCharChat #WriteSky

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Anti-Fascist Translator Monkey @translatormonkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I recently watched "In the Blink of an Eye". Three interwoven narratives. One happening today, one in the distant past, one in the far future. I was a little dismayed at first to see so many of my own story elements in this film, and I had to remind myself... 1/2 #SeptemberWorldbuilders #WriteSky

A montage image of scenes from the film "In the Blink of an Eye". It depicts a an anthropologist studying Neanderthal fossils, her romantic partner, a young child, a Neanderthal man, and an astronaut journeying to a distant star.

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sister CIty would be @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social 's Kingsbridge. The enclosed world of a station and the enclosing walls of the longhouse feel like spiritual kin. We unwittingly occupy the same star cluster. Once Tourr'di got things up and running, we were bound to meet. #Septopolis #WriteSky

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They certainly each have blind spots. Angie doesn't realize just how much 21st Century Western Civ Global North smugness she carries for lots of different reasons. There's a presumption that she will, of course, be the one to figure things out. 🧵 1/4 #AwesomeCharacters #WriteSky

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you're an "LGB w/o the T", I am not a safe space for you. I'm not trans. I can't pretend to know that experience. But I am gay and WELL old enough to remember people speaking to me with bone-deep assurance that they were better stewards of my personal agency than I am. THAT? That, I do know.

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tourr’di is a pot brownie. Thick, rich, and an hour later, she gives on to unexpected realms. Nikho is a bear-claw for the obvious reasons. Sayan is a bit of a traumamuffin. Angie is a serving of flan. Deceptively simple. More complex than you think. #AwesomeCharacters #WriteSky

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very. They don't even have words for specific preferences. You're simply with a particular person, or people, or no one, as the case may be. One of the many questions I'm asking with this narrative is: "How stable can innate preference be when lives are unending? #QueerPrompts #WriteSky

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The closest is with the oft-mentioned Banyan maosa to the southeast. Nikho is from there, as is Colmo. Born out of trade in clothe and foodstuffs from the Redwoods with Banyan domestic animals, it was sealed during the war when the two communities banded together. 🧵1/3 #Septopolis #WriteSky

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Someone with fewer entire years under his belt than the number of grey pubes on my ball-sack holds freedom in his sweaty little palms. #Flock #FlockCameras #SurveillanceState

A photo of Garrett Langley wearing a black tee-shirt that says "This is my airport".

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I can hear the eye-rolls now, and as pedestrian as it may seem, it's Herbert's DUNE. It came to me as a 9 y/o in 1979, and has never been the same book twice. That's my personal, individual measure of what makes it "best". YMMV. #BookishQOTD #booksky Original cover art by John Schoenherr, 1965

The original art by John Schoenherr for the 1965 paperback cover of DUNE. A large rock formation jutes directly out of desert sand and Fremen are seen walking beneath it.

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Colmo, Angie, and Kaila are in Kaila's attic nest. Angie plays Raiders with Colmo using Kaila's citrine game pieces and a board carved into the floor eons ago. Kaila watches nearby, her stylus dancing across the black hematite sand of her writing box (like a shapán). #AwesomeCharacters #WriteSky

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Village is both a miracle of Enclosure life, and also merely a vestibule, an entry to something far greater. It leads on to a Builder complex deep within the Eastern Range wherein a gestalt of 14 𝐻𝑜𝑚𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠 lives in permanent hibernation. 🧵 1/9 #SeptemberWorldbuilders #WriteSky

A screen-cap showing the location of the Village in the Eastern Range and the complex hidden beneath and behind it.

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The House of Jobón is a very large household polity that operates through distributed customary authority. Jobón sits at the top of the hierarchy and handles dealings with the other two houses and the Banyans, w/o micromanaging the internal governance of the House. 🧵 1/6 #Septopolis #WriteSky

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I do believe that one goes to Tourr'di, by definition. No single megafaunal Earthly organism has ever lived as long as her, not even close. She was alive when Archaic Sapiens were shifting to Anatomically Modern Sapiens. Nikho is next at half her age. 👀 #AwesomeCharacters #WriteSky

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Nicole "Ashrah" Hidalgo 😈🧄 @sayaashrah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#Septopolis 25. Or̉el̉īs is a beautiful, orderly prison. Think life here sucks and want to leave? Bad news, mate. You were born here, you'll live here your entire life unless you manage to escape. Alorvu may be seen as inferior, as not true citizens, yet they can't leave 🧵 #ChroniclesOfTheRealms

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

7️⃣-8️⃣ is actually too much 6️⃣ Ideal for me 5️⃣ Can still function 4️⃣ Danger zone 3️⃣ Our friendship may not survive 2️⃣ or less - I'm the topic of a messed up 3-part Netflix true crime special you watch at 2 am 😶 #QueerCharChat #WriteSky

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Citizenship as a legal concept doesn't exist. The House of Jobón houses some 1500 people, but that # waxes and wanes. There is movement between the three longhouses and some flow between the nearby Banyan community of maosa and themselves. 🧵 1/6 #Septopolis #WriteSky

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fire. Be it oil lamps or a hearth within the longhouses or the big fire in the pit at the cliff house, it's invariably fire. Elderfolk see far better at night than adaimag. It's not just the tumpa. Their eyes are 15-20% larger than ours and capture more light. #SeptemberWorldbuilders #WriteSky

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

L'il Dude & Big Fellah are my go-to romantic pair. Never the same people from one narrative to another, but the dynamic is pretty much always there. Who is more outgoing, who is more gregarious, who is more intellectual - these change all the time. But L'il Dude & Big Fellah remain. #WriteSky #OC

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If any kind soul with time on their hands wishes to draw any of my NeanderPeeps, my Citizen Sapiens, my Denisovan Demogaphic, this l'il Puerto Rican fellah right here would be nothing but overjoyed. #OCArt #OriginalCharacters #OC #WriteSky

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I feel like if The Matrix were made today, in 2026, it wouldn't be about Machines using us as a thermal energy source, but rather that the Matrix humans mentally inhabit is the only place where future A.I. can get new, original content. 😒

A screen cap from The Matrix showing humans in battery chambers to supply thermal energy to the Machines.

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

To those I wordlessly left behind in the Village. The apology is owing, not merely because I left, but because of what I took with me - Sayan. He was still a child, not full grown. No one had seen a child in many thousands of years. No one. #QueerCharChat #WriteSky

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s Angie’s defining trait as a character. It’s true of everyone in Enclosure, without exception, but for the rest it was long, long ago. Even Sayan, the next youngest person, entered almost a millennium ago. Angie was just two years ago. 1/3 #SeptemberWorldbuilders #WriteSky

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nothing formal in the Redwoods. But pastimes are many and arise mostly from activities of daily living, thus are integrated into them to one degree or another. There are: ➡️ River Games ➡️ Marksmanship ➡️ Wrestling/Grappling ➡️ Strength/Endurance ➡️ Group Output #Septopolis #WriteSky 🧵1/11

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's a Chapter-by-Chapter Serial 3rd Limited. POVs change only at chapter boundaries. Seven POVs so far: Main Ensemble - Angie, Tourr'di, Nikho, Sayan Supporting - Kaila, Hurásu, Rashiné #AwesomeCharacters #WriteSky

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Angie is starting from zero. She has lost everything. Her old life, her family, friends, her entire context is gone. Even if the Steward could do it, there is no meaningful way back to Earth. The trip to Enclosure took over 1700 years. Returning would take just as long. #WriteSky

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Them: "8K TVs on sale now!!" Me: "Mm-hm... These eyeballs of mine tap out at around 720p, even with glasses, so... have fun."

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Chronicles. Typically found in titles. I know perfectly well what it means, but it 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒔 like something for which you are attended by specialist podiatrist. "Dude, my chronicles have gotten so bad, I haven't worn sandals in public in years." 😶 #booksky #WriteSky

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Puerto Rico doesn't disappoint for dramatic morning skies. Moca, Puerto Rico #PuertoRico #Sunrise

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Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Day 18 of #Septopolis! An interesting technical urban question that I'll partly leave in the vibes section, as it is something I won't particularly focus on with Land of Gold. However! There IS something uniquely Bohemian about potable water in village/peasant communities that I could use..

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Angie: Yeah, I live in a cliff dwelling with a Neanderlady, a Denisodude, and Sayan the Deer Hunter. I would do unspeakable things for a night of A.C., a clean cotton sheet, an actual pillow, and a bar of plain old Ivory Soap. 😶 #QueerCharChat #WriteSky

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The low level of technology makes for rather autonomous communities. 𝑁𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 from other places are few. But 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 are many and diverse. Copper from the plains, a bewildering variety of wicker from the Lake, textiles from the Redwoods and draft animals from the Banyans. 1/4 #Septopolis #WriteSky

Screen-cap from Enclosure map showing the southern trade loop between the Lake, the Plains, the Redwoods, and the Banyans.

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Angie misses is dearly. Enclosure seas are universally avoided, and for good reason, but Angie remembers a very different seaside experience. For her, the waves, water, and sand are culturally iconic. She's a Puerto Rican, after all. #SeptemberWorldbuilders #WriteSky

Fishing launches hauled up on the sand at Crash Boat beach in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Long story as short as I can make it: Redwood Tukhé Communities are a contemplation on a more pure form of communism than we have ever managed here on Earth. But not 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 pure. That would be smug. 🧵1/5 #Septopolis #WriteSky (Frida Kahlo by Magda Pach, 1933. Reason in alt text.)

A portrait of Kahlo by Magda Pach, 1933. Kahlo was famously a member of the Mexican Communist Party.

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Enclosure is, above all things, an artificial water world. The gargantuan walls served both to keep life sealed within their given Enclosures, and also to attenuate the extreme tides and rogue waves that can form on a world with no proper continents. 🧵 1/4 #SeptemberWorldbuilders #WriteSky

A digital rendering of the Enclosure planet created in GIMP.

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Angie: The 2nd person I dated at UF told me that the 1st person I dated called me "the spreadsheet", and that that was why she dumped me. Fair. I'm not a Vulcan. I'm not T'Pal. But I do need things to make sense, and for raw emotion not to overpower empirical facts. #QueerCharChat #WriteSky

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The absolute only silver lining to all this shit is that we get MUCH better music. How the fuck is spineless Sheeran swimming in money and this kid is still on the margins??

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

⚠️Trigger⚠️ Elderfolk associate the sea with death. "He/She went to the sea/sand" is a euphemism for someone ending their personal eternity, no matter the means. "May the waves take you" is a tukhé telling you to fuck off in the ugliest manner they have. 🧵 1/4 #SeptemberWorldbuilder #WriteSky

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

💧 is simply collected as needed from the river. ⚡ is firewood, collected from the forest. The real ⁉️ is waste, and the answer is trifold: 1️⃣ Distributed dry composting latrine system (the river is NOT a sewer) 2️⃣ Diverted/Collected Urine paradigm 3️⃣ Separate Wash Area #Septopolis #WriteSky 🧵1/7

Image of outhouse provided for thematic value concerning the paradigm of waste management in a primitive setting.

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Angie: As a trained, working accountant, none of the provided choices apply. A human is - in all cases, without exception - an economic paradigm. We will be precisely as shitty as we are permitted to be / can afford to be / can get away with being. 🧵 1/2 #QueerCharChat #WriteSky

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𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷 🏳️‍🌈✍️🤖🚀 @wreybies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dunkleosteus has changed a lot over the years. This photo of my Schliech® model has the older, outdated exposed armor look. We only have the head and body armor, so they've been subject to much speculation. But, they've had 370 million years in my setting... 🧵 #SeptemberWorldbuilders #WriteSky

A photo of my Dunkleosteus toy showing the now-out-date "exposed armor" appearance, which is basically the shrink-wrap phenomenon applied to a fish.

Reconstructed skull and trunk armor of a Dunkleosteus placoderm fish

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