Listen up! 🗣📣 It's Ange's birthday today! She's an awesome person, a great friend, and a phenomenal writer. If you haven't yet picked up THE DEVOURING, now is a great time.

Ange | Author A. M. Shilling@gunsmile.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's my birthday this week! To celebrate, the eBook of THE DEVOURING is on sale for $0.99 between August 3-9. If you've been thinking of buying it but haven't had a chance yet, now's the perfect time! 💙📚 Links to buy are on my website: amshilling.com/books/the-devouring/

If AI was banned tomorrow, could I still do my work? Easily. I've never had to rely on AI, and I'll avoid it as long as I can. In return I have a question for you: What were you doing 5 years ago when you didn't have all these AI tools to do your work for you? Are you admitting you're incompetent?

#SumLuv 5 It isn't a *romance novel,* but the first novel I remember reading where I got heavily invested in the romance was Ella Enchanted. I got it from a Scholastic book fair in 6th grade & stayed up all night reading it because I had to know if Ella & Char would live HEA 😭❤️

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 15h ago

Do you remember the first romance novel you read? Where did you get it from? 🧡 #SumLuv 🧡

#MythAugust 5 Today is about hierarchy! Who ranks highest or lowest among your gods/spirits/whatever? Is there a consensus about this ranking? As usual, interpret the question as loosely as you need to to fit your specific worldbuilding, and feel free to skip if it's not relevant to you! 😊❤️

Grr? 🐻 This one is from beautiful Alaska. #photography #nature #travel

#MythAugust 1 Yay! I've been looking forward to MythAugust! ❤️ This month I will be talking about the Eleven Immortals of the Eternal Pantheon. It is a polytheistic religion that arose quite suddenly and violently when the dragons vanished roughly 1000 years ago. 🧵

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

#MythAugust 1 yay! It's polytheistic and I would describe it as an umbrella religion of sorts—everyone more or less follow the same central gods but there are many interpretations of them, and it varies regionally and by sect. The ultimate goals and how to reach them also vary just as much.

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

Hey, thank you for hosting! I'm going with my #TTRPG world, since Alchemical Green has very few religions, and they are all spoilers! The main religion of Kernheim is simply called the (world) religion of the One, which makes it the monotheistic successor of a polytheistic one before. #MythAugust

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

#MythAugust This month I'll be talking about Shadow Puppets's Eightfold Path--an antitheistic belief system constructed by a cabal of powerful mages in order to eradicate the worship of the entities known as the Firmament, powerful demons and the closest thing the setting has to not-dead gods.

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

#MythAugust Where I can (and where I can develop), I'll still be talking about the Eight. It's a global-ish, polytheistic religion centered around a bunch of unbeknownst-to-these-humans aliens that crashed on their planet millions of years ago and are shaped by living things' beliefs.

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

#MythAugust The people of the Pentagonal Dominion came up with the word "Decatheon" to describe their religion. It's not One God or Many Gods (well, *they* don't consider it to be Many), but very specifically Ten Gods. As more cores are used, they anticipate changing the word to include more Gods.

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

I said I wasn't going to participate in #MythAugust this year, but I changed my mind. I need a solid idea of the dominant religion(s) of my romantic science fantasy novel, which takes place on an alt timeline Earth. As a polytheist, my default is to write about polytheism, so let's go with that.

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

#MythAugust 1:Last time, I focused on the Vizrani religion in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), so this time I'm going to focus on the religion of the Valestrals! This is a polytheistic religion, whose creation caused the initial schism between the (monotheistic) Atmorals...

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

#MythAugust up until last night i wasn't sure i'd jump in here but if you can all bear with me while i figure things out on the fly (and possibly contradict myself at times), i do need to flesh out the spiritual nature of Swallowsaw (the major city-state in Dogwood). >>>

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

#MythAugust (1) The religion in the Trikruna Kingdom is simply known as the Trikruna Religion. It is Polytheistic, though most people only worship the gods whos domain they are in. All gods posses Ley Line intersections across Ta (the world), and its hard to deny their existence.

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

#MythAugust 1. Hey, all! After talking about the Archdevils last year, I considered a few options for MythAugust 2.0, and at last, I decided to journey away from CotR and into the universe of #ValkīforSaga! Specifically, I’ll talk about Åskivennå (literally “faith in the åskirä”), which is (1/2)

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

Hello #MythAugust! This week I'll talk about the elven religion. The elves of Tron Daurat believe themselves to be gods, but they do revere a sequence called the Sefirot, the ten conceptual phases of creation. The Sefirot were an instruction manual that gradually became idealized traits of divinity.

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

#MythAugust 1 Hi, I'm Roan, and I'm going to be waffling between 2-3 religions in my WIP series, TCC. Religion is a major theme, and all 3 interact with one another in various ways. I'm also still in a WIP phase for some of my worldbuilding, so pls excuse contradictions or vagueness. 1/6

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

Hello, #MythAugust! Looking forward to another excellent month! 8) That said, though there are many religions in Lumina and though most of them are polytheistic, I'm only talking about the zizzun (my bee people) this month. They're monotheistic and only worship the First Queen, a divine queen bee.

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

Hi! I'm Zeke Caliban (a.k.a. the FUN version of @zprospero.bsky.social) and I'm going to build out the religions in my Dark Water inspired WIP. I may develop more a coterie of demons that gods. As the "Dark Dweller" that commands the Dark Water is the core entity. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

#MythAugust SO, in my lore mortals aren't supposed to know the Gods exist. But the Gods get more powerful from worship even if mortals are unaware that they exist. So if you revere the concept, object, or behavior behind a God's power, you fortify them. (1/3)

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

There are major religions on the continent of Karshvar. 1. The Church of the Twice Dead Gods. 2. The Old Religion

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

#MythAugust 1 The humans in the Sigils books are pantheon-ish! Mother Omera, creator of humanity, was the sole deity to create humans. Her middle managers... *ahem* ...SAINTS were once humans, who she has given divine power to. Odd how a world with fossil records was creatively designed.

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

#MythAugust - #Worldbuilding In my spheres I like to think of religion and the divine as a sort of bureaucratic sitcom Big Boss, a supreme God taking the form of a floating infant baby in a suit, rules over tons of gods and goddesses who are forced to work in a giant skyscraper full of cubicles 1/2

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

#MythAugust Oh gods how to be brief… So there are two main religions in the Night of Fallen Gods, one polytheistic (The Nine) and the other monotheistic (the Redeemer’s Faith). The Nine encompasses more than just Nine gods, but the main pantheon has Nine Members. The Redeemer is considered the

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

#MythAugust 1 The Empire is polytheistic. The Sun is the most important god in the pantheon. The other main four are Mother Nature, Lady Luck, Father Sky and Gray the God of Death. Other important gods include God of War and God of Commerce and more. There's a god for everything. #Ame_NephilimWIP

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

#MythAugust For this month, I might talk about human religion a little bit, but honestly, it’s a little overwhelming, I’ll get there. So instead, I will talk about spider religion! Or Uttulu religion more accurately. They are a large species of intelligent spiders, with a culture based on craft.

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

#MythAugust 1 #ThroughTheCracks: Ignoring the prompt and talking about a sci-fi religion instead, since I talked about my main fantasy religion last year! This is a weird one, and it has no gods per se, so I will likely run into trouble with some of the questions, but let's try it anyway! (1/2)

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

The Troodontid dinosaur people of my Death Through Deep Time story believe in gods because those gods are real and present! Death is the protagonist of the story, but more significant gods include Light, Dark/Void, Dance, Hunt, Verdure, Swift, and many more. Pictured is how some of them see Death.

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

Ya know, I've had some religions in basic concepts for a while. These aren't part of any of my established settings, but I'll use this game to build them out a little more. There are three religions, competing over the same world. The power of these gods is /readily/ apparent. 🧵 #MythAugust

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️