Abducted and sold to a foreign army, Tro must learn to survive this strange land full of magic and violence. War is hell, but maybe he doesn’t have to endure it alone... #AStoryOfDainu #EpicFantasy #Book #IndieAuthor #AmQuerying #SundaySelfPromotion #OriginalMythos #ZeroDragonsOrElves

30 immortal makers, 15 peoples of Dainu, 11 magical tribes, 3 fateful lineages, and 1 heir to the throne with the Fire of the Eldest burning in his eyes... Taking Ral Palace was easy. Keeping it is another story. #WriteSky #Books #Reading #IndieAuthor #AmQuerying #EpicFantasy #SelfPromo

#AwesomeCharacters There are always one or two words that belong only to one character. For example, one character might say "Really?" while another says "For real?" It's subtle, but it's constant. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Stories #Books

Did you all know that Lord of the Rings is considered YA? Apparently, a/ya is not about the themes or "heaviness" of emotion, but about tropes and pg-R ratings. So my book maybe isn't adult after all, cause there are no sex scenes, and ONE character is 18. #writesky #writerproblems #ageappropriate

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ‘His sins were scarlet, but his books were read’” - Hilaire Belloc #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Books #Stories #Reading #Quotes #IndieAuthor #Literature #Poetry

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” — Robert Frost #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Books #Stories #Reading #Quotes #IndieAuthor Do you have a scene/book that makes you tear up or gasp out loud EVERY time you read it?

Birthday mode: ON 🎂 Wanna make me happy? Repost my stuff. That’s literally all I ask 😌 Thanks in advance, y'all! 💫

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." - Oscar Wilde #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Books #Stories #Reading #Quotes #RaiseYourProse #YALit vs #CollegeLevelReadingLevel #BookSky

A new pitch event, specifically for adult writing! June 24th is #SmutPit! A hype event for writers of spicy content! Both published and WIP! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #SmutSky #BookSky

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." - C.S. Lewis #Reader #WritingCommunity #Books #Stories #Reading #Quotes #IndieAuthor #Tea

"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!" - J.R.R. Tolkien

Here for Pride Month, we have 23 LGTBQ+ titles in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres! All for just $10! itch.io/b/3721/lgbtq... #writesky #booksky #pridemonth #lgbtqbooks #scifi #fantasy #horror

30 immortal makers, 15 peoples of Dainu, 11 magical tribes, 3 fateful lineages, and 1 heir to the throne with the Fire of the Eldest burning in his eyes... Taking Ral Palace was easy. Keeping it is another story. #WriteSky #Books #Reading #IndieAuthor #AmQuerying #EpicFantasy #SelfPromo

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

Dear @bsky.app, I love the "jump to top" button. Can we PLEASE also have a "jump to bottom" button? Please?? #features #practicality #buttons

"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean." - Robert Louis Stevenson #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Books #Literature #Stories #Reading #Quotes #IndieAuthor

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." - Cicero #WritingCommunity #Books #Stories #Reading #Quotes #Library #Garden #Greenery #Creativity #OCPictures

Sometimes I think I just...missed the boat. Ya know? Maybe if I had published these stories when I first tried 20 yrs ago it would have been better, the market would have favored them, and I wouldn't have to fear ai infringement. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #IndieAuthor #AuthorProblems #SoItGoes

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." - Charles W. Eliot #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Books #Stories #Reading #Quotes #BookFriends #Readers #ReadingCommunity #Teachers

"Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more importantly, it finds homes for us everywhere." – Jean Rhys #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Books #Stories #Reading #Quotes #IndieAuthor #Booksky

If you know a young person who needs books for any reason, come to think of it...

Happy PRIDE!!! 🏳️‍🌈🌈 🖤🤎🧡💛💚🩵💙💜❤️🩷🤍🩶

"Salvation is certainly among the reasons I read. Reading and writing have always pulled me out of the darkest experiences in my life...They have allowed me to imagine different endings and better possible worlds." – Roxane Gay #WritingCommunity #Books #Stories #Reading #Quotes #IndieAuthor

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

I...wrote? Like, actual words in a WIP?? And not just changing punctuation marks, but genuinely wrote NEW words that progressed the plot??? What's happening to me???? 😲🤯 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #IndieAuthor #AuthorProblems #writing #books

Abducted and sold to a foreign army, Tro must learn to survive this strange land full of magic and violence. War is hell, but maybe he doesn’t have to endure it alone... #AStoryOfDainu #EpicFantasy #Book #IndieAuthor #AmQuerying #SundaySelfPromotion #OriginalMythos #ZeroDragonsOrElves

#MayWorldBuilders Of all the things that could or couldn't translate into real life... I guess it'd be neat to have ai bado, but I can't imagine humans NOT warring over whose magic is better, so... 🤷‍♀️ Anyway, thanks @kiraofthewind.com for a fun month!! I had a great time participating! 💙💜💚

#Caturday #NOTabondedpair Usually Gilly (gray and white) steals Sweet-Jared (orange)'s spot by biting his toes. RARELY do they actually snuggle. You can see the utter distrust in his eyes as she gets closer. 😹

LLtQ: 💛,💙 TiI: 💚 HWaLW: 💙🖤 OWaT: 💙🤍🩶 AWS: 💙💙💙 SLS: 🤍 WaS: 💙♥️,🧡🖤 tDoaS: 🤎💜,💙🩶 IBS: 💜 tR: 🖤💛 Also I just realized It Burns Slowly has a terrible acronym. Lol 😂

#MayWorldbuilders In the words of Ambea, "A thousand times yes!" But the question is where, and when? Ilimak *during* the war? Yikes. No. Ilimak elsewhen: probably. Brachao? 100%. Nizook? Ha! Not a chance. I love Dainu...just some spots more than others. Lol

#MayWorldBuilders @tamarasharker.com and I would get along irl very well! @pjccahill.bsky.social and @nectar-vam77.bsky.social always like my posts, and I feel so seen by them! I'm cheering hard for @dmyoungblood.bsky.social, @servantand.bsky.social, @harperac.bsky.social, and so many others! 💖🤩💪

Absolute LIES. I won't even use autocorrect software! This is straight up lying to normalize the bs they're desperately trying to push. Miss me with that shit.

#MayWorldbuilders Tchao come to mind first. They have tree sakes, planted when a child is born. When they die, they're buried under these A "legoa" is a designated area within or near a city for "sake plots"- gardens full of the trees and graves Some folk lay flowers at the trunk on the anniversary

Some heartbreaking animation news today from people who have been some of my animation heroes. It’s up to us to hold the line and build a better future for animation.

#MayWorldbuilders Zol battle *constantly*, so I won't mention theirs, except- Bash have the most war after them. The Civil war of the Jahus was the most devastating at its time- until the war with the Zol happened. Two days, and the South was almost entirely obliterated. Then Dokiro's Army came...

“Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.” —Allegra Goodman #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Books #Stories #Reading #Quotes #IndieAuthor #ClassicLiterature #Creativity #OldWaysWereOnceNew

#MayWorldbuilders Oops. I already answered this one kinda. Every Dainutara has a different idea of the afterlife bc they were made by different Kataloy. Only ONE has confirmed 'afterlife', and that's reincarnation for Wupi- cause Rhav forgot to make extra souls/personalities when creating them.

me trying to write: accidental identity crisis #amwriting #writerslift #writingcommunity

1. You don't have to share every thought with everyone. Do NOT share your joys/victories, even the small ones, with ppl who don't want to hear it. 2. Two things worth spending good, real money on: a bed, and a pair of shoes. Cause if you're not in one, you're in the other. 3. It gets better.

#MayWorldBuilders Ty, from book 8, has the most interesting experiences with Death. He has even had dreams of people he loved dying before it happened. Tro, from book 2, has met both his Maker and The Stars. They're not death-entities, but they're still immortals, and therefore related in a way.

Three hundred years after the rightful lineage is exiled, the heir comes to reclaim what is his. Taking Ral Palace is easy- keeping it is another story. #AStoryOfDainu #EpicFantasy #Book #IndieAuthor #AmQuerying #SundaySelfPromotion #OriginalMythos #ZeroDragonsOrElves

Three hundred years after the rightful lineage is exiled, the heir comes to reclaim what is his. Taking Ral Palace is easy- keeping it is another story. #AStoryOfDainu #EpicFantasy #Book #IndieAuthor #AmQuerying #SundaySelfPromotion #OriginalMythos #ZeroDragonsOrElves

#MayWorldbuilders Funeral rites. Bash cremate their dead on giant public pyres. Tchao bury their dead under the tree-sakes to "feed the roots". The favorite Zol child will eat a piece of their parent, and throw the rest of the body onto the roof to support both child and house even in death.

#MayWorldbuilders Well, "Death's Own Lover" is what the Siil call Lisgrovama. His official title is the Keeper of the Veil. But Death's other subordinates are C'inawudo and Borgalutra: the Keeper of the Generations and the Keeper of Adventure. Death's other name is Life, which is what they call her.

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#MayWorldbuilders Death Bash believe that the afterlife is spent flying on the back of the wind (I wasn't inspired by that book as a child, whatareyoutalkingabout??) And so while death is tragic, there is a sort of peace and joy in it too. 1/4

And furthermore, the audacity of promoting AI bullocks under the guide of "accessibility" is an absurd slippery slope! This isn't an aide or a tool to help a blind student read the texts. It too quickly becomes "To ask me to remember the info for a quiz is ableist, and I need AI accommodations."

#MayWorldbuilders For Bash- Jahus and Pilko live with immediate family. The groom's friends and family will build their new house during the engagement, unless there's an open one within the extended family at the time. Miku, as nomads, travel with clans. Tents are shared by family or friends. 🪡