Gods trade magic intervention for prayers and sacrifices, which give the gods more power. The most direct version is a god choosing a human as a Host to wield their power. The actual RELATIONSHIPS vary from a boss who approves expense reports once a month to beloved pet & owner. Common people...

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 2h ago

#MythAugust 6 Some of the previous posts may have touched on this a bit already, but what kind of relationship do your deities have with the mortals of this world? Are they benefactors? Distant & aloof? Capricious & cruel? A mix? Bonus question: is the mortals' understanding of them accurate?? 👀

Just in case anyone wants to learn more about that reference guide, AN AUTHOR'S GUIDE TO SETTING DESIGN: WORLDBUILDING & CARTOGRAPHY is out now in digital formats, coming soon in print. www.adamcbassett.com/setting-map-...

”Transgender for everyone“

The Independent@the-independent.com · 20h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

WAIT FOR IT WAIT. FOR. IT! 🪶 🐣

I am an: 🔘 Advanced Hole Seeking a: 🔘 Hole Wizard

FYAD flags@fyadflags.bsky.social · last wk.

Consider: if you don't want the humble smut peddlers to have to advocate for their rights, you can advocate for their rights for them so we can continue peddling our smut in peace. In fact, we will probably peddle even more smut!

Hypno-Scream (Comms Open)❤️🩷💜@hypnoscream.bsky.social · last mo.

Saw a post saying "I don't want NSFW accounts to talk about voting, just let me jack off" Buddy, NSFW artists and sex workers are being constantly attacked by a government of nonces trying to distract from their own crimes by pinning the blame on porn. They have the right to speak up about this.

Welp, finally gave into peer pressure and made a webbed site to try and seem more like a real writer, so I also changed my display name bc i guess the nom de plume is official now. So thats a thing lol Not changing my handle tho. That's been me longer than my government name's been me.

Today is a "im so glad im not in charge" day. Somewhere along the line there was a messup in a brief to the tune of multiple thousands of dollars. Not my circuis, though I suspect I may be required to foster some of those monkeys soon.

The SCREEN Act just failed to pass in the Senate Commerce Committee! 🎉 Enormous thanks to the thousands (!!) of you who told your Senators to vote no! Your voice matters and you should feel good that you made a difference. Obviously, the fight isn't over, but this was an important victory.

So uhhhh because I am a fool who does things out of order, there are already two sequels for the book I'm pitching 🙈 My fav part is getting to see the characters' arcs through completion, watching them learn and grow. My least favorite part is the waiting to share. (Obviously lol)

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @ Megaplex C9@cometkins.bsky.social · 16h ago

Have you written a sequel before? If you haven't, what's stopped you? If you have, what were your most and least favorite parts about doing it? #WritingPrompt

"What would you do if AI suddenly disappeared?" Nothing in my life would change for the worse. On the contrary, I'd make more money because readers wouldn't have to dig through Kindle AI slop to find my books. And I could build a high-end gaming PC again without paying out the ass for RAM and SSDs.

First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.

Nothing wrong with that... or with the rest of us drivers being able to find a quick and decent Punjabi restaurant meal at every fourth truck stop.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 18h ago

the funny thing about people in the western world being angry at sikhs for taking all the trucking jobs is that people in India are also angry with them for taking all the trucking jobs. It's not you. It's what we do. We are the Truck Guys.

Being a whole continent, there's a lot of rivers and the ocean! The Archneans view the ocean as inhospitable because they're under blockade by the sea goddess's chosen people, and ships that go a mile or more from shore sink. Most Archneans would say the Nima in the east is the most important 🧵

Pixies a/k/a Map Nerd@mcburnellauthor.bsky.social · yesterday

#CartAugust Still talking about the features of the terrain. Today: water! Where is it, and can we use it to get around! Is it fresh and life-giving or poisonous? If you don't have water, talk to me about navigable ways

Animation for Kval on Artfight of their magpie gryphon, Temperance! #gryphon #griffon #magpie #artfight #animated #2d_animation

The heirarchy is very strict, at least in official Archenean religion: 1) sol, the sun 2) the gods of the other planets 3) major earthly gods (1 of each element, worshiped empire-wide) 4) minor earthly gods, which are local or regional deities who swear allegiance to Sol's order.

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · yesterday

#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! 😊❤️

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

Libraries and archives were just ahead of the curve!

Marcy🏳️‍⚧️ 🔞 (commissions open)@endblock.bsky.social · 2d ago

In general, the entire job market has moved away from training employees in favor of only hiring the aging demographic of people who already know the job.

concepts i am utterly uninterested in in any context even though i have to Engage with them for work: a) sex is/isn't changeable b) sex is/isn't different from gender i simply do not care. they are proxies for arguments on top of being proxies, like, ontologically. boring. pointless. no thank you.

Nor do we want to be on Truth Social. I would hate to find a welcome home there. I would hate to be somebody who would be palatable to such a place. We don't go on Truth, because nobody needs bullies. They *do* try to come on Bluesky, because bullies need the rest of us.

Ruth Zakarin@ruthz.bsky.social · 2d ago

The burden is always on us lefties to welcome them, debate them, compromise with them, find middle ground, and generally make them comfortable. It’s totally one directional. No one is calling for Truth Social to make any room for us.

The Spine bisecting the continent is both the highest point and the biggest terrestrial obstacle. It's heavily inspired by the Sierra Nevada/Cascades, so it's a young, volcanic mountain range. (Mt. Bahor, marked near the center, was the highest point until it exploded 60 years ago). Due to the...

Pixies a/k/a Map Nerd@mcburnellauthor.bsky.social · 2d ago

You shall not pass! Hey #CartAugust crew, time to dive in and really start looking at your maps. Today, we're talking elevation: highs, lows, and if you have neither, barriers to movement. Tell me about the geology, the history, famous explorers who lost their lives there... What do I need to know?

Britain's only Roseate Tern colony has had its most successful season for more than 50 years, with 156 breeding pairs counted on Coquet Island, Northumberland:

Roseate Terns reach 50-year high on Coquet Island

Britain's only Roseate Tern colony is bouncing back after bird flu, with 156 breeding pairs noted in 2026.

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I’m gonna say virtually all authors need to get serious about textiles. Who is weaving them? Out of what? Who’s turning them into clothes and how much does it cost and do you have any idea how HARD all of that was before modern mills

David J Prokopetz@prokopetz.bsky.social · last wk.

To write in the classic high fantasy mould, you need not be hung up on food specifically, but there must be SOME very mundane thing you're sincerely interested in and prepared to describe in excruciating detail every time it comes up. Clothing. Furniture. Architecture. It doesn't work without it.

Look, it's the driving force of my series after about 1/3 of the way through book 1! Since the dawn of humanity, gods have struggled for power. In the Archnean empire, the sun god, Sol, and his allies (who is an ally has shifted and continies to shift) have enough of a hold on the population to...

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 2d ago

#MythAugust 4 Today, tell me about the different factions among your gods/spirits. Think like the Æsir & Vanir in Norse mythology, or angels & demons in Christianity. What's their relationship? Are they sworn enemies? Sometimes allies? Interpret the question however makes sense for your story!