#JKRowling #HarryPotter #Terfs #HumanRights Rowling is a pitiful, farcical, tragic case of a billionaire pick-me white feminist emotionally and intellectually stuck in her NLOG phase

#JulyWorldbuilders Equinox or solstice celebrations There are these celebrations in the Fairy Realm, but I haven't written about them yet. I should get on that. In the Exile Forest, they celebrate the Longest Day and the Longest Night. I think I've touched on the equinox.

#JulyWorldbuilders #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #Writesky #WIP Most definitely. Particularly the Winter & Summer solstices (with the holidays simply called 'Midwinter' & 'Midsummer') The Spring Equinox is more festive than the Autumn Equinox (which mourns the end of the warm days) 🧵

#JulyInterviewFic Bethany: one time I heard Blanche (the snobby school bully) telling a tale of she is best friends with an Alienist (old timey word for psychologist/psychiatrist) And I responded her with "oh, you must enjoy seeing them a lot for free" Without understanding what I meant

#QueerPrompts #WritingPrompt #Writesky #Writing #WIP Camilla & Laureline Carnrick, well-off Victorian gentlewomen. Adopted sisters who became secret, affectionate lovers. Camilla is a Byronic cynic. Laureline is a sweet-tempered Ingenue. Both modeled after Carmilla/Laura & Anne Lister/Ann Walker.

#SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #Writesky Androniki is an ancient Greek courtesan in the island of Aegilips. Since childhood, she was abused, abandoned, robbed, kidnapped, & enslaved. Yet through it all, she bears it & holds on to hope. She has a happy ending in being picked by the Great Goddess

#AwesomeCharacters #Writesky #WritingPrompt

#FantasyIndiesJuly 12 "Favorite Fictional Friendship" This warm-hearted duo, always scheming and getting up to trouble

How sad....

From Mother of Exiles. I love these moments of Spear being not quite right, but not really wrong either. She's a wonderful character to bounce scenes off. For more about me and my books go to ServantsoftheMoonandSun.com

#JulyInterviewFic 11 Bethany: the kids at school spread a rumor that I was a future serial killer.... All because I was quiet and introverted. Which is absolutely absurd because I have no killer bone in me whatsoever. I like to make babies laugh for Christ's sake.

#JulyWorldbuilders #Writesky #WritingPrompt #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Wip In half of the Nequinum world, they have a story that's told every Winter solstice about how winter tried to kill the Sun, only for it to be reborn. It's an archaic story of how hope conquers all

#QueerPrompts #Writesky #WritingCommunity #Writing #AmWriting #Wip In the story, Bethany has a dream that's quite.... Freudian/Jungian It was of a rosebud in the middle of a stillwater pond. The waters started to get choppy & rough, turning blood red & milk white, then the rose blossomed. 🧵

#AwesomeCharacters #Writersky #WritingPrompts If this were her hometown of Wemmick, Bethany would never be invited nor go willingly to a party. But after the end of her story, & as a successful writer, Beth is a wallflower who will chat with interesting people. And enjoys the food, games, etc.

#FantasyIndiesJuly Misunderstanding in your WIP. Late There is not really a misunderstanding, but a deliberate falsehood in the Rose Book. And it almost destroys Rose.

#JulyWorldbuilders #Writesky #WritingCommunity One of my vampire characters is a morning person Because he's a Katane, or a Vampire of the middle-east, who are diurnal, unlike our nocturnal European Vampires.

#FantasyIndiesJuly 10 One of WIP fantasy countries is the antagonistic nation of Magalote, headed by the elderly immortal Baalite (king) Dromb Culturally, Magalote is Ancient Rome, Biblical Philistine/Egypt/Babylon, Colonial/Antebellum/Jim Crow era & Trumpian America 🧵

If you can see this, post your comfort character!

#BluePitHype #Writesky #WritingCommunity #Writers Its a character growth, a rite of passage, a coming-of-age for Bethany Ivanoff. From stroppy, repressed, dramatic brat to self-empowered, self-accepting, determined, heroic woman.

#BluePitHype July 9 #Writers #Writesky The MC Bethany: My antagonists are the Fairy Queen & Prince of discord & destruction. They desired me to be their "shared companion" & so turned my adopted family into swans to get them out of the way. They also double as my shadow self & negative animus... 🧵

#TimeTravelAuthors 9 #WritingCommunity #TimeTravel #Writesky #WritingPrompts At her darkest & lowest moment, Alicia comes to the false conclusion that she's responsible for all the deaths/dooms of the people she comes into contact with (paternal family, her mother, her beloved, the royalist gang)

#QueerPrompts #WritingPrompts #Writesky That would be Wenda-- the flamboyant, frisky, fortitudinous, fun-loving, flirtatious, free-hearted, foward, frivolous, yet faithful and friendly, Fox Spirit (Huxian)

RIP Bonnie Tyler 😭

Either its Fembots, Pillow Dolls, AI, These guys' Pygmalion Complex is both a tragedy and a farce. But as long as this complex keeps them away from women, then hopefully all will be well. F these guys.

The new Shadows & Sorcery it OUT🫵 Dark fantasy! Horror! Troubled youths! Also, please check inside for an important announcement for S&S going forward! shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/p/shadows-an... #Writing #Fantasy #Horror #FlashFiction

#JulyWorldbuilders #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #Writesky #AmWriting #WIP The Nequinum world's Sun is said to have an extracted fiery oil that is used practically as an all-cure for wounds, illnesses, motion sickness, scars, and deep cuts (but sadly not amputations, starvation, death, etc).

#FantasyIndiesJuly 8 #Writesky #WritingPrompt #WIP In my wip of The Wild Family, Bethany (the MC) while taking her vow of absolute silence, is framed as an arsonist who burned down a children's home and nearly killed all the children inside.

#QueerPrompts 8 Definitely RPG I like RPG Games better than others

Martin Scorsese's Little Women

#FantasyIndiesJuly 7 #WritingPrompt #Writesky #AmWriting In my wip of Ther Chronobasis Chronicles, time-traveling heroine, Alicia, meets a fellow time traveler, Julia, and they have a sweet friendship. What Alicia doesn't remember is that Julia is her former bully who disappeared in modern times

#AwesomeCharacters That would be the vile, antagonistic Cartaphilus-- an immortal hedonist was once a Roman doorman who cruelly taunted & tripped Jesus at his trial. Cursed by God with immortality & inability to ever feel happy. He wanders aimlessly indulging in every vice, but remains ever joyless.

#JulyWorldbuilders #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WritingPrompt #Writesky #Writing In the land of Neony, its customary to wear white at births/baby showers, red (for both bride & groom) at weddings, and black (or dark blue, optional) at funerals.

As a Greek (Greek American) I can understand how upsetting that no Greeks were cast in this movie But I'm not gonna let criticism be hijacked by racist white supremacist scumbags (who have historically hated us Greeks for being "mixed-breed swarthy dogs" but love our stories only to steal them)

#JulyWorldbuilders #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #Writesky In Magalote, the all-male religious clergy wear light-purple cassocks, silver preaching bands, pardalide wrappings, jewelled belts, rings, cufflinks, & necklaces. They keep their hair short & their faces clean-shaven. Pt. 1

#JulyInterviewFic Bethany: Mama, I have to confess to you something Mrs. Ivanoff: What is it? sweetie Bethany: When I was little... I stole cash from Daddy. All because I wanted to buy chips and soda. It fills me with shame and disgust looking back. I vowed to myself never, ever to do that again.

#AwesomeCharacters I think it was in Kindergarten that I created a character named Rebecca. She lived in a cabin in the woods, with her woodcutter father. She got lost in the woods but was rescued & cared for by friendly wild animals, even a bear. They guided her back home & she never forgot them.

#TimeTravelAuthors 5 #Writesky #WritingPrompt (Sorry I'm late on this) The Anglo-Irish heroine, Alicia Caldwell, time travels for the first time in 2016, on her birthday on Feb 2nd (Imbolc Day). She travels to the 1650s, England under Cromwell.

#SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #Writesky #Writersky Honestly... as an AuDHD writer, its trying to stay focus on the writing that can be challenging for me. As well as getting the grammar correct (can't believe I forgot some of my grammar lessons 😞). My writing is mostly on/off.

#QueerPrompts #WritingPrompt #Writesky #AmWriting Let me just say that the setting of Otherworld is very queernormative. Monosexuality, & Monogender, isn't a thing in Otherworld. Sure, some people & Fae could have preferences, but no one is entirely mono-anything.

#FantasyIndiesJuly Sports Not being a sports person, I don't have any sports in my books. But I should. Maybe aerial soccer or hockey for the Fairies. In the Exile Forest, maybe something that focus on running and dodging, both skills very useful in the thorn forest.

#JulyInterviewFic 5 Ah, that's a difficult one to answer. Frankly I don't know how to describe my personal style, except that sometimes I like to use alliteratives and archaic words. I would say my writing has evolved a lot, especially since my teen years. I look back at my teen writing with shame

#AwesomeCharacters #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #Writesky Bethany loves spending time indoors and alone, much to her mother's worry. Beth is a neurodivergent child escaping the troubles of the world, & of her condescending, judgy small town. Pt 1

#FantasyIndiesJuly 5 #writesky #writingprompts #writingprompt In the WIP of The Nequinum Gests, their most universal sport is Football (soccer in America). The sport dates back to the rl middle ages. When the countries of Nequinum are not at war, they play football as a substitute... Pt 1

#QueerPrompts #WritingPrompt #Writesky #WritingCommunity #WritersofBluesky In one of my WIPs (The Nequinum Gests), the Kaliban tribe of Turtleshell Island have an old wives tale that those born with curly hair is a sign that they're stubborn, obstinate.

#JulyWorldbuilders. What materials are used to make clothing? Fairysilk is a strong, soft, comfortable, and breathable fabric made in the Elen towns and sold to the Fairies and the rich in the Human Realm. Fairies use it everywhere, from sleeping robes to under their armor.

Day 4 of #FantasyIndiesJuly Another unedited snippet from Book 8 of my Oracle of Delphi series WIP. This is from about 66 CE. #WritingCommunity

I wonder how much they can make Margaret White even more monstrous? Cause her character archetype is still relevant: the self-misogynistic, unhinged, rabid religious maniac Think of her as an extremely violent Serena Joy/Tradwife

#QueerPrompts #Writesky #WritingPrompt #AmWriting The MC, Bethany, learns to be independent and self-empowered. Part of her coming-of-age rite of passage. She also learns that even presidents can be tyrants (she lives to see Trump's presidency & is appalled)

We fucked up God forgive us