Tessera
Folgen

Zed Prospero

@zprospero.bsky.social

Goat wrangler. Accidental businessman. ADHD. Bi/Demi. #BluePit host. I post about writing and a silly collision of Hell, business, and unlikely romance. (He/Him) https://linktr.ee/zprospero

9278 Posts4553 Follower1947 Folgt
PJC Cahill@pjccahill.bsky.social · 22h ago

Kyoka: she's the Demon King 'reincarnated' (not exactly). The mixture of 10000 years of demonic experience, magical power, AND completely normal kid/teen issues makes a really compelling blend that holds attention, I think. She's also ADORABLE when she's not being scary. 🧵 #AugCharWork

DD Ward ..."Sapphic Dr. DOOM"@ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 23h ago

August Character Workshop Day 4. Flair #AugCharWork I’m calling this section Flair. What is unique about this character? Not every character needs to have something unique, but if they don’t then the audience will typically forget them as they walk off stage.

Jeb 🏳️‍⚧️ Time Paradox: Exposition@jebdarsh.bsky.social · 10h ago

For my aroace writer pals and anyone interested in exploring relationships without the focus on sex 😘

Hughes Davidson@sojourner-hughes-d.bsky.social · 2d ago

Recruiting you to submit to my zine. @schwartzwords.bsky.social @faerywhimsy.bsky.social @nicolezelniker.bsky.social @jaxdevora.bsky.social @aziossman.bsky.social @stalbergwrites.bsky.social @mdkerkhoven.bsky.social @aebrossbooks.com @andileighwrites.bsky.social @jebdarsh.bsky.social

Zeke Caliban@zekecaliban.bsky.social · 4h ago

In "Blow Me Down," this is Quartermaster Talullah. She is trans. She tells Tack this as she's afraid to tell Bo'sun, but Bo'sun is actually very flustered by her. Tack knew, as he dressed her wounds, and then he brutally murdered her fiancé. She raises cochineal beetles and mushrooms in the hold.

A tan woman holding a spider in one hand and a large crook in the other. She has boots, a skirt with netting and a netting pattern in gold and green on it. She's wearing a purple undershirt and a knitted pattern off the shoulder shirt. She's also wearing goggles and has a scarf tied in a bow around her neck. The name "Talullah" is at the bottom.
Zeke Caliban@zekecaliban.bsky.social · 13h ago

#MythAugust The Dark Dweller/Erebos is the most powerful entity. It does have Chosen among it's infected, all universally unwilling parties. Beneath them are the Dark Disciples, humans doomed to die and rise again. They carry a squirt gun that fires Dark Water. 1/3 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 14h ago

#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! 😊❤️

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 5: Let's talk hierarchy! Which of your deities are more powerful/respected? Are there minor deities who serve the big ones? Background image features a classic painting of Thor wielding his hammer with lightning, about to smote his enemies. Below the hashtag in small text it says "Presented by @professoremily.bsky.social." At the bottom of the image in small text it says "Feel free to yap about a fantasy mythology you already have, or use these prompts to create a new one! Don't forget to interact with others :-)"
Zeke Caliban@zekecaliban.bsky.social · 5h ago

#SumLuv In middle school, someone asked me if I thought a girl was hot. My first thought was "What does her temperature matter?" the second was "Should I get her a glass of water?" The first love story I "got" was Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler's platonic non-romance. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

📚 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 🧡

Romance Writers Summer of Love #SumLuv @EllieYellu Day 5: Romance Reads. What was your introduction to romantic fiction?
Zeke Caliban@zekecaliban.bsky.social · 4h ago

#Cartaugust The oceans surrounding the few living islands are largely safe (aside from weather) due to the presence of the Treasures of Rule which hold back the Dark Water. Beyond Lux Vates, to the West, the former Pacific Ocean is a quagmire of Dark Water. 1/2 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

A roughly sketched and colored map of the Gulf of Mexico in my post apocalyptic world of “Blow Me Down” All the continents are bone white deserts and large swaths of are underwater versus IRL present day. An enormous wooden structure floats between where Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama are no longer, and a heavily flooded a bone white desert of Colombia and Venezuela. Florida is gone, except for 5 small islands. Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic are broken into 5 larger islands. A much smaller Jamaica and Puerto Rico remain. 7 tiny islands are all the are left of the Lesser Antilles.
Pixies a/k/a Map Nerd@mcburnellauthor.bsky.social · 14h ago

#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

#CartAugust: a prompt game for map nerds! by mcburnellauthor.bsky.com Natural features: Day 5, Waterways Rivers, lakes, or oceans. What's the most noteworthy stretch of water here? Is it a navigable way or a death wish?
Zeke Caliban@zekecaliban.bsky.social · 16h ago

#AwesomeCharacters I'd say it's probably Wulf. As he's likely trying to stay quiet while *things* are going on. It'd be very noisy if it was Flint, as he'd be whining playfully, and Sky would be giggling. I'd, hopefully, be busy with Tack. 😳🤣 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 20h ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters You and all your characters are staying together somewhere! You hear a loud crash, then silence. Which one do you immediately suspect, and what do you think just happened? Are you worried or mad? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Zed Prospero@zprospero.bsky.social · 16h ago

#AwesomeCharacters Virgil and Lucifer are asleep. Blake & Gabby grocery shopping. Sergei's in a closet. Laz in the chest freezer. Alexia's in an attic trunk. Must be Azzi making out. I'm a little miffed it's with my namesake (The Oracle) and not me, to be honest. 😅🤣 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 20h ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters You and all your characters are staying together somewhere! You hear a loud crash, then silence. Which one do you immediately suspect, and what do you think just happened? Are you worried or mad? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

CG Stewart 🖋️ 🫜@nightoffallengods.com · yesterday

#CartAugust Okay so it’s kind of hard to see because it’s hard to draw right, but Integris’s Crossing is a city sized bridge spanning the last few miles of the Gold River before it falls into a massive waterfall (think Niagara but *bigger*) So the whole of the Alliance is actually several hundred

Bild
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?

#CartAugust: a prompt game for map nerds by @mcburnellauthor.bsky.com Natural features: Day 4, Barriers. Talk to me about elevation changes in your world. Mountains, canyons, caves. Which is most interesting and why?
𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒚 🇵🇷@wreybies.bsky.social · yesterday

#CartAugust This was the easiest way for me to explain how/why the island is the way it is. 😶😅 It's intended to be a rough terrain/biome equivalent for counterpart Eurasian zones as they were during Earth's Miocene. 🧵1/3 #WritingCommunity

Image depicting the Northern Enclosure island that contemplates the Eurasian landmass. This image includes exaggerated elevation maps of Europe and Asia in order to draw lines of equivalency from Earth-side areas to their corresponding Enclosure-side locations. There is also an inset showing that a narrow isthmus to the northwest of the island appears to have been artificially dug through to effectively disconnect a peninsula from the rest of the island.
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?

#CartAugust: a prompt game for map nerds by @mcburnellauthor.bsky.com Natural features: Day 4, Barriers. Talk to me about elevation changes in your world. Mountains, canyons, caves. Which is most interesting and why?
Minari H. Gealat@dinzmeria.bsky.social · yesterday

NATURAL FEATURES 4. Mountains, canyons, elevation or barriers MOUNTAINS😍 I just love them. They're majestic, unyielding, terrifying and gorgeous. Some of them are also full of gorges 😀 I have them in all my stories so far: + #LegendsOfAzdiera🌈🐉 #CartAugust bsky.app/profile/mcbu...

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?

#CartAugust: a prompt game for map nerds by @mcburnellauthor.bsky.com Natural features: Day 4, Barriers. Talk to me about elevation changes in your world. Mountains, canyons, caves. Which is most interesting and why?
Pixies a/k/a Map Nerd@mcburnellauthor.bsky.social · yesterday

#CartAugust Plenty of mountains in Dhashere, none of them impassable. The Na'Vontala are the largest but do have a highway through them granting Dhashereen merchants access to the Supanai and their resources. The monastery in the park at the center of the Na'Shasa is where the protag grew up! The

B&W image of a landmass called Dhashere. At its center is a large inland sea, open ocean to the west. There are 4 ranges of mountains: to the east, hemming the territory in along a north-south margin, the Na'Vontala. To the south and east, a massif within Dhashere's borders called the Na'Shasa. Centrally, just north and west of the inland sea, the Na'Sishasa. North and west of them, stretching from Dhashere across a large island-filled bay to a significant isthmus, the Na'Karr.
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?

#CartAugust: a prompt game for map nerds by @mcburnellauthor.bsky.com Natural features: Day 4, Barriers. Talk to me about elevation changes in your world. Mountains, canyons, caves. Which is most interesting and why?
Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle)@kiraofthewind.com · yesterday

#CartAugust These mountains are called the Kamblu Mountains, though I have only The Twenty Thousand Rivers labeled for clarity's sake. At the highest and most central plateau, there is a portal to Blue Home (ocean planet) where tons of water shoots out at all times. Those waters create

close up of a map of Aloutia showing the center of the Twenty-Thousand Rivers region, with the Water Temple, Takyu City, Jena, Lelth, Mirth, Macadalia Tower, and Minirya nearby
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?

#CartAugust: a prompt game for map nerds by @mcburnellauthor.bsky.com Natural features: Day 4, Barriers. Talk to me about elevation changes in your world. Mountains, canyons, caves. Which is most interesting and why?
DD Ward ..."Sapphic Dr. DOOM"@ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · yesterday

#CartAugust The north coast of Agartha is lined with the Agarthan High Mountains. The region is largely temperate to subtropical, but the mountains are high that the snow never melts.

A Mediterranean looking Sea with land to the north and south and several large islands
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?

#CartAugust: a prompt game for map nerds by @mcburnellauthor.bsky.com Natural features: Day 4, Barriers. Talk to me about elevation changes in your world. Mountains, canyons, caves. Which is most interesting and why?
L. Cyrus Whelchel@lcyruswhelchel.bsky.social · yesterday

#CartAugust 4 Hizril is cut off from its neighbors thanks to 2 mountain ranges: the Mardock Range to the west & the Dalgus Range to the south. In The Brumewalker Archives, these mountains are what keep the Brume contained inside Hizril, w/ a massive wall in the Dalgus Pass blocking the main exit.

Political map of Uzura, the eastern continent, circa AR 1026
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?

#CartAugust: a prompt game for map nerds by @mcburnellauthor.bsky.com Natural features: Day 4, Barriers. Talk to me about elevation changes in your world. Mountains, canyons, caves. Which is most interesting and why?
AdorkableSmile@adorkablesmile.bsky.social · 24h ago

#CartAugust Barriers not physical, but bureaucratic. Far-Seekers tend to move about freely... while restricting the movements of non-believers. The conquered settlers tend to become a captive workforce. #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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?

#CartAugust: a prompt game for map nerds by @mcburnellauthor.bsky.com Natural features: Day 4, Barriers. Talk to me about elevation changes in your world. Mountains, canyons, caves. Which is most interesting and why?
H.S. Kallinger (he/him)@xakana.bsky.social · 2d ago

I can't answer this! lol, No, but, really, I don't think much would change with the maps as they are now. The XXXs on the border between Xyloria and Olasa KeLen would be gone, as the war is over, but I don't think other borders really change. I DON'T know about the landscape... yet. #CartAugust

Pixies a/k/a Map Nerd@mcburnellauthor.bsky.social · 3d ago

#G'day #CartAugust crew! Today, we're living dangerously, brushing up close against the demon Spoilers. The question: if you made two maps, a prologue and an epilogue, would they be the same? And if not, how have the events of the story changed this world?

#CartAugust: a prompt game for map nerds by @mcburnell.bsky.com Intro: Day 3, A world in flux. If you were to make two maps, one true to the first chapter of your story, one true to the last, would they be different? In what ways? (how to treat potential spoilers is entirely up to you) ** Don't forget alt text. I know it's hard to know what to inlcude in images that are really info-dense, but do your best.
Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · yesterday

Ahhh!! Just 29 sales away from 100!!! I’m so, so close. 🥳 This story’s been out a year and I’d love to finally hit this milestone! If you like epic fantasy novellas with magic and romance, maybe check it out! I would love to get this book into more hands 🫶

71 sales
Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · 5d ago

🗡️ fantasy novella ⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals 🏹 gallant knights 👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom 🌲 enchanted plants and forests 🥀 romance and friendship 🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR 💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-... 📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... [ #booksky ]

Ebook cover for ‘A Light for the Dead to Follow’ by Rebecca Crunden. Cover image is of a skull surrounded by red-pink flowers. There are vines at the top beside the title. The title font is black and maroon, the name font is white.
Gabe 🏳️‍⚧️🦇 | Eden Hollow Oct 9th!@theeldervampire.bsky.social · yesterday

#SumLuv For Elias and Sterling, it’s Hate On Sight 😂 to be fair, Sterling was hired to kill Elias, and Elias has contempt for pickmes. They work on it ❤️ For Eadmund and Oleander, Eadmund finds Oleander fascinating, and Oleander is utterly confused as to why Eadmund doesn’t wanna hurt him.

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 2d ago

Meet cutes don't have to be "cute"! They are a plot device 🧡 But! Let's talk about how they DO feel about each other early on! Is it fairytale love? Is it *lust* at first sight? Hate at first sight? All?? Snips here are welcome (always welcome if you want to answer anything with a snip) 🧡 #SumLuv

Romance Writers Summer of Love #SumLuv @EllieYellu Day 3: Love at First Sight. Do they fall in love at first sight, or does it take them a little longer?
Zeke Caliban@zekecaliban.bsky.social · yesterday

#SumLuv I’m demisexual, but I have ADHD and maybe autism. It’s a deeply uncomfortable time. Lust, however? Kink is a cheat code here. Shy people look *down* and spicy tickling is a speciality of mine. Tack catches Quill ogling him and dances barefoot with him. 1/2 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 2d ago

Meet cutes don't have to be "cute"! They are a plot device 🧡 But! Let's talk about how they DO feel about each other early on! Is it fairytale love? Is it *lust* at first sight? Hate at first sight? All?? Snips here are welcome (always welcome if you want to answer anything with a snip) 🧡 #SumLuv

Romance Writers Summer of Love #SumLuv @EllieYellu Day 3: Love at First Sight. Do they fall in love at first sight, or does it take them a little longer?
Zeke Caliban@zekecaliban.bsky.social · 2d ago

#Cartaugust Well, the Deadlands (continents) are impassable due to the Razorwind. (Flying glass shards created by the static storms) The biggest unnatural barrier is Lux Vates, a massive floating city where Panama used to be. Seat of the Atenite Church and armada. 1/2 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

A roughly sketched and colored map of the Gulf of Mexico in my post apocalyptic world of “Blow Me Down” All the continents are bone white deserts and large swaths of are underwater versus IRL present day. An enormous wooden structure floats between where Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama are no longer, and a heavily flooded a bone white desert of Colombia and Venezuela. Florida is gone, except for 5 small islands. Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic are broken into 5 larger islands. A much smaller Jamaica and Puerto Rico remain. 7 tiny islands are all the are left of the Lesser Antilles
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?

#CartAugust: a prompt game for map nerds by @mcburnellauthor.bsky.com Natural features: Day 4, Barriers. Talk to me about elevation changes in your world. Mountains, canyons, caves. Which is most interesting and why?
Zeke Caliban@zekecaliban.bsky.social · 2d ago

#MythAugust The Dweller is alien (but came from humans) and the Blight is natural. They are *technically* in opposition, but the world is so destroyed that it’s actually Dark Water the Blight uses to animate itself. Blood for the Blight, the bones for the Dark Water. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

🫜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!

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 4: Are there different factions among your deities? If so, what is their relationship to each other? Background image features a classic painting of Thor wielding his hammer with lightning, about to smote his enemies. Below the hashtag in small text it says "Presented by @professoremily.bsky.social." At the bottom of the image in small text it says "Feel free to yap about a fantasy mythology you already have, or use these prompts to create a new one! Don't forget to interact with others :-)"