#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity One of my favorite small things in this book is the little mark on the stair that Turnip steps on every time she goes up or down the stairs. And then how Shanks starts doing the same thing.

#DeckTheHalls THE EMPRESS MoLaB - Liesle (pictured) Greed Wars - Qinu (no art yet)

#DecemberWorldbuilders, tell me about a REPTILE or AMPHIBIAN that exists in your world 👀 I'm counting flightless birds and dinosaurs 😆

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity I feel like this snippet might be the perfect encapsulation of these two (Grilled and Aubergine) both as individual people and their dynamic together. Like, if I had to explain them in one scene, this is it😂

Twitter Exodus? Agin? ok I guess here's my contribution, a starter pack of folks whose content makes me like coming to this app.

#DeckTheHalls THE HANGED MAN MoLaB - Ciu Laan Greed Wars - Slipha No art of either! Ciu Laan is a minor character who'd be a nightmare to depict, and Slipha is fairly minor overall, though I'll probably get art of her eventually.

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity I feel like this snippet might be the perfect encapsulation of these two (Grilled and Aubergine) both as individual people and their dynamic together. Like, if I had to explain them in one scene, this is it😂

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to those who celebrate. Merry Thursday to those who don't! #DecemberWorldbuilders, tell me about the CUTE animals in your world, especially the furry, fluffy ones :3

Things I put in my books just because I love them: -hot villains/characters of dubious morality -revenge fantasy -fantasy religious elements (non-Christian. Just... a religion of my own making) -queer and poly relationships -EXTREME WORLDBUILDING -nonhuman characters doing things with their bodies

Repeating this now because it's especially nice to feel the community vibes on days like today when I've been so overwhelmed with work and other commitments that I haven't had much time to be a good host. I haven't been able to reply to my own prompts or read other peoples' in a few days😭

#DeckTheHalls THE HERMIT MoLaB - Nio (pictured) Greed Wars - Chiune (no art yet) Nio is Amiere's youngest daughter. She's autistic in a specific, maybe stereotypical way, but it's how I wanted her to be. She is mute by choice, and a child prodigy at the 3-person chess-like board game "troika."

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity No goblets 😭 Gotta use 'mug' instead. This may not be the case for the final product. I feel like they'd have some goblets at the inn... Anyway, here's child-Grilled's first time talking to the town's executioner, a man who eats alone, away from everyone else.

#DecemberWorldbuilders, which of your animals are gonna be up watching Santa go down the chimney tonight? Tell me about your nocturnal creatures🌙 Also, I'm leaving it up to you to decide what an 'animal' is. Is it a semi-sapient companion monster? It counts if you want it to!

#AwesomeCharacters People in general still use money in Aloutia, but Tynan is a Mind elemental, and they're forbidden by their God from using money. So, Aloutian society has shifted to accommodating them. Tynan simply never worries about money because anything they need, they will get.

I have tried twice now to start on a new art piece (of something I've never drawn before) and both times felt so overwhelmed. Absolutely zero progress made. Is this how it is for other people? With art or writing or anything else?

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity Grilled has thoughts about architecture...

When people don't understand "write what you know" and think it means you have to write about things you personally have experienced/done, and therefore fantasy/sci-fi is out. Take it from the mouth of the queen herself:

#DeckTheHalls THE HIEROPHANT MoLaB - Lungidus Pavo Greed Wars - The Lord Hierophant I hope no one who pays attention to my posts is surprised by that second one, lmao

I am so thrilled to see people engaging with others and making friends in my Monthly Worldbuilders prompts 🥹 Thank you to those of you who are making the effort to be social on social media. I hope you can forge some awesome friendships here

It's Animal Week on #DecemberWorldbuilders! Tell me about some BIG animals in your world. 👀

#AwesomeCharacters Y'all know how Tynan breaks this question 😂 As usual, the answer is 'depends on what Tynan looks like in that moment.' When Amiere first meets them, they're an amorphous black blob. For some people, they meet Tynan as a gigantic, horrifying dragon. Others, just a regular person.

Now you can add book 3 of the Orchid and the Lion series on GoodReads! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... E-book preorders will be up soon, and paperback preorders will be coming sometime in the next couple weeks. I'm so excited about this book, and I can't wait to see what readers think of it.

#MythDecember The answer is... kinda. In theory, they think it would be nice if they could use more advanced tech. In their reality, harnessing electricity makes the Lightning God mad and he's prone to throwing lightning bolts when angry... So, anything electrical is a no-go

#DeckTheHalls JUSTICE MoLaB - Cohaku (pictured) Greed Wars - Tatiana (no art yet) Cohaku is one of Amiere's daughters. She's autistic (I, uh, based on myself as an autistic child), and has a strong sense of justice and fairness. She will have an absolute meltdown if she thinks something is unfair

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity Two people going by codenames "the Surgeon" and "the Cook" came to the inn. The Surgeon took down two of the wanted posters under the guise of wanting to 'study them.' Shallot saw through their shit... But those wanted posters were the same group Aubergine's was in...

It's the fourth week of #DecemberWorldbuilders! The theme is ANIMALS. I will ask for some very specific creatures, so if you haven't done any animal-related worldbuilding, feel free to take a break! No need to tell me you haven't done it! Any magical animals in your world?

I'm proud to be a judge who helped get this novella to the semifinals! Y'all should check it out if you want: -the chill adventure of a girl with weather magic -unique and beautiful cultures in a secondary world -characters full of love who wish to help others -episodic 'person vs. nature' stories

#AwesomeCharacters Tynan's education was their Mind elemental blood downloading a metric fuckton of information directly into their brain the moment their soul merged with their body. Then they were educated in the ways of emotional intelligence and 'how to be a kind person' by their sister Steffa

#DeckTheHalls STRENGTH MoLaB: Fionn (pictured) (Fionn in MoLaB is a bit younger than his artwork here. The art depicts him as an adult, so imagine him as a pre-teen during the events of MoLaB) Greed Wars: Halberd (no art yet)

I just think it's so cool that one of the best instances of trans rep in all of movies is ALSO the best Christmas movie AND it's a Japanese anime from 2003 Pour one out for Satoshi Kon, one of the most brilliant anime directors of all time

#DecemberWorldbuilders The Green Moon Festival is a grand and happy time all around... usually. Whenever the Green Moon gets close to Aloutia, plants/fungi proliferate. Crops that usually take months to grow will be ready at once. But that means any houseplants or seeded fruits in your house might

I had the pleasure of reading Dave's book, The Envoys of War! Here are my highlights of things I loved in it!

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity This scene is such evil yuribait 😂 I'm sorry, yurifriends, but the guest who comes to this inn is, in fact, an evil Ophidian bounty hunter who's trying to get Grilled and Garlic (kids) back to Ophidia to be sold as slaves. Shallot had her suspicions, but played along...

Day 6 of my WYVERN review for @dlawsonauthor.bsky.social's The Envoys of War! (I forgot to post yesterday, whoops). The final day, and it's N for Neurons! Where I find a particularly clever moment that brought me joy~ Because I like smart characters 😌 The plan that Cordyn came up with that I

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity This scene is such evil yuribait 😂 I'm sorry, yurifriends, but the guest who comes to this inn is, in fact, an evil Ophidian bounty hunter who's trying to get Grilled and Garlic (kids) back to Ophidia to be sold as slaves. Shallot had her suspicions, but played along...

#DecemberWorldbuilders, one of the great things about writing SFF is making a world *different* from our own. Have these differences led to a task that only *your* characters have to deal with? Any magic or monster-related chores? Anything related to world-specific festivals or seasonal changes?

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity This is from early in the book, when Garlic and Grilled are young and learning the rules. Shallot doesn't like to think about this time, back before she knew what kind of mother she wanted to be. She gave them a spanking once... and it broke her. Here, it's a threat

I confess that I'm not the biggest fan of Miyazaki's movies, despite being huge anime fan But him putting "ma" into the general consciousness will always be something I admire about him. I love ma. I inject it into all my stories and I wish it were more widespread www.rogerebert.com/interviews/h...

In some fandoms, people use emoji combinations as a shorthand for their favorite ships (romantic character pairings) For instance, I might assign Grilled the emoji 🔥 and Aubergine gets 🍆. Therefore, their shipping emoji would be 🔥🍆 What emoji combos fit YOUR romantic character pairings?👀

#AwesomeCharacters At the start of the book, compliments just confuse Tynan. Like, they have no emotions, so they can't quite comprehend gratitude. Steffa shows them how to be grateful and to accept compliments from other people. Soon, they become competent in giving and accepting praise

#DeckTheHalls THE MOON cw// scorpion I hurried to draw art of Annihilation when I saw it was her day😂 I wanted to draw Domi for Star day, but I didn't have time. Kinda fucked I have to have my art next to Sago's epicly amazing art, but that's life MoLaB - Oboro Greed Wars - Annihilation

cw// murder most foul I wrote this yesterday and I'm... okay with it. When I FIRST wrote it, it was a such a mess, I had to clean it up. I'm still not 100% satisfied. I'm trying to convey the idea that Grilled is feeling unsatisfied from killing someone he'd been terrified of for so long

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Just finished this drawing of Annihilation! She's one of the two girls the Kingeater rescued when he destroyed a eugenics facility. Two Gods blessed her with their blood so she can use magic (Wind and Fire). Her real name is something unpronounceable to most, so just call her Anni💕

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity This is from early in the book, when Garlic and Grilled are young and learning the rules. Shallot doesn't like to think about this time, back before she knew what kind of mother she wanted to be. She gave them a spanking once... and it broke her. Here, it's a threat

#DecemberWorldbuilders, tell me honestly: how dark and dystopian is your world? Do they have slavery there? Is it based on anything like race, sex, or class? Can a person be freed? How bad is it for them?

#AwesomeCharacters 🫠 I REALLY can't decide. I like most scenes, tbh. Maybe scheming? Maybe when they're deep in thought and thinking about stuff. I tend to write deeply introspective characters and some of their best moments/lines are their internal narration

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity Felli (Peaches) tells the story of how her husband grabbed her and ran away with her all of a sudden when open warfare came to their house. He didn't give her time to get her cat, who's now locked inside their house.

I got to thinking about someone I hadn't seen here on Blue Sky lately. They used to post a LOT. I was just curious how they've been Then I realized... Oh no, they're still here. They just have a new name and profile picture😂

Day 5 of my WYVERN review for @dlawsonauthor.bsky.social's The Envoys of War! I play loose with my idea of what a 'rogue' is. It can be anything from a true evil villain to a charming antihero. This book is rich in heroes with a rough exterior, but today I highlight one who stole my heart