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JS Groves @satyrmagos.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you!

It's one of my favorite ideas for the world that I have not managed to fit more than obliquely into any of the stories I've yet written.

Tomorrow I should dig through my archives and share some of the blade dancer drawings I've done over the years.

JS Groves @satyrmagos.bsky.social · 7h

Foot races, short and long are also popular. So are wrestling and archery.

Horse racing was invented not long after the introduction of horses, about 100 years ago, but is considered obscenely expensive and wasteful.

Wizard’s duels are too dangerous to be considered sport.

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JS Groves @satyrmagos.bsky.social · 7h

Blade dancers are usually among the best duelists from whatever school they were trained in, but they must also be accomplished dancers, capable of fighting for their lives while both following the arcane rules of the blade-dancing duel AND keeping to the beet provided by the drummers and musicians.

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JS Groves @satyrmagos.bsky.social · 7h

#OctoberWorldbuilders 10: Competitive game/sport
The chief competitive sport in the Compact of Nations is dueling. Each country has its own schools, leagues, rules, and traditions, but the most famous and prestigious is Vencari blade dancing.

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#Dathl'lyr

Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 12d

Here are the #OctoberWorldbuilders prompts!

Assuming I'm not doing other peoples prompts (I haven't seen any yet that I really want to do?) I might actually stay on top of these, this time around 🤣

I just realized I can actually fit all the text in the alt text, woo hoo!

October Worldbuilders prompt list

WEEK 1: DESERTS
1: Name of a desert in your world
2: What’s your desert society like?
3: Desert town architecture
4: Desert animals/plants
5: Myth/legend/religion about
desert
6: How do they survive?
7: Clothes/dance/music from
desert society

WEEK 2: SPORTS AND GAMES
8: Does your MC play a sport?
9: Board games in your book’s world?
10: Competitive game/sport
11: Cooperative game/sport
12: Equipment/pieces
13: History/famous figure involved in a sport/game
14: Strategy for winning

WEEK 3: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CITIES
15: Trade routes
16: Fire/police/hospital services
17: Where does their food come from?
18: Tech: Electricity? Steam power? Mills?
19: Sanitation, sewer system, hygiene
20: Who developed the infrastructure? Government employees? Soldiers? Private business? Are taxes or slaves involved?
21: Housing (Style? Architecture? Amenities available in your world?)

WEEK 4: AESTHETCS/VIBES
22: Share a moodboard or art
23: Aesthetics of a town/city
24: Overall vibe of your story/book/wip
25: Religious/cultural vibes/influences
26: Clothing and accessories
27: What feeling or thoughts do you hope your readers come away with after reading your story?
28: Something special about your world

Extra days:
29: Plans for next month
30: Recent character you’ve created
31: Which of your characters would you like to see someone cosplay? (Or who would you cosplay yourself?)

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JS Groves @satyrmagos.bsky.social · 7h

Are you caught up on The Prince's Fighters? Chapter 32 drops tomorrow morning!

princesfighters.jsgroves.com

🌈🚀💫 💙📚

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JS Groves @satyrmagos.bsky.social · 12h

“The image of Saturn … is the shape of a man with a crow-like face and the feet of a camel, sitting upon a throne, with a spear in his right hand and a lance or dart in his left.” Picatrix Bk II, Ch 10 Para 11 (Attrell & Porecca, 2019)

www.etsy.com/listing/1081...

#OccultSky #QueerArtist #Art

saturn talisman with rosary fixtures in lead

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JS Groves @satyrmagos.bsky.social · 12h

An oval saint-style pendant honoring Hekate Trimorphis: three faces, six arms, six legs, all bound within a single peplos, and holding a whip and torches and daggers.

#Hekate #HelPol #HandmadeJewelry #QueerArtist #BSNM

sorcerersworkbench.etsy.com/listing/1793...

hekate trimorphis in sterling silver (left) and shibuichi (right)

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JS Groves @satyrmagos.bsky.social · 13h

Happy National Coming Out Day

I wrote this in 2016 and while I do plan to re-write it some day, I still stand by every word of it.

journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com/index.php/20...

#WitchSky #QueerWitchcraft #QueerArtist #NonBinary #Genderqueer

One Witch’s Gender

Although I have only very recently acquired the language to articulate my experiences, I have never identified comfortably with my assigned gender. From my earliest memories, I have struggled agai…

journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com

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JS Groves @satyrmagos.bsky.social · 13h

An image of Persephone embracing her three aspects of Dread Queen (the skull), goddess of spring and flowers (the flowering vines), and patron of the immortalizing Eleusinian Mysteries (the skull's mushrooms crown).
sorcerersworkbench.etsy.com/listing/1573...
#WitchSky #Pagan #HelPol #BSNM

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Daily OC questions @dailyocs.bsky.social · 11h

Does your OC like the world they're living in?

#dailyocs

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Luxa Strata (any/all) @luxastrata919.bsky.social · 11h

#stayspooky!
#resist 💚🍄

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Penelope Trappes @penelopetrappes.bsky.social · 11h

brujas...venid a reuniros
#Witchsky #Barcelona #Spain

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Saira Workshop @sairaworkshop.bsky.social · 1d

Between layers, I kept working on the straps and buckle pieces, hurrying up what I could but without the definite measures the straps were tooled in two times... Made it work, though, but at this point I was starting to lose my head. Anyway, I love this fleur-de-lis style so much...

Pic of the volumes process of the buckle attachment pieces, two with only the border decoration marked with the swivel knife, two with the inner part tooled so the border pops up, and the last three beveled so the edge is rounded

Pic of all the buckle attachment pieces tooled and beveled in what the upper side will be

Pic of four short straight straps, same attachment decoration as the buckle pieces but only one third of the decorative border tooled

Four more straps, a bit longer and way curved, before tooled but with one third of the decorative border marked with the swivel knife

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ElfQuest - Fantasy with Teeth! @elfquest.bsky.social · 15h

Last evening at the 2025 New York Comic Con Harvey Awards. We are still in a mild state of happy shock at our induction into the Harvey Hall of Fame. Our heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped make this ceremony THE event of our year!

@harveyawards.bsky.social

Wendy Pini and Richard Pini's Harvey Hall of Fame awards.

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Alice Ferox @aliceferox.bsky.social · 15h

Malicious Indifference.

More painting on photographs for y'all.

#photography #mixedmedia #painting #portrait #alteredphotos

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JS Groves @satyrmagos.bsky.social · 11h

That's super cool! Thank you for sharing

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𝐍𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐮.@山戌軒 @necoinuken.bsky.social · 1d

I hope this helps someone, but I left it in my notebook about the effect of art becoming interesting.
(CLIPSTUDIO)

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Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 14h

Look, I'm not saying tomorrow is my birthday and you should peruse my shop, but--

shop.cairosteele.com

#BSNM #handmade #leather #bondage #bdsm #TransArtist #QueerArtist #furry #PupPlay

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 5d

Boy howdy it sure is monday! Check out my shop, I've got lots of handmade leather gear! 😈

shop.cairosteele.com

#BSNM #handmade #leather #bondage #bdsm #TransArtist #QueerArtist #furry #PupPlay

A reddish-black leather collar with raw clawmarks. It has a reddish-magenta liner, black stitching, and nickel hardware

Green day collar with black marbling and nickel hardware

A golden tan leather collar with dark brown top straps, nickel hardware, and brown stitching. It has a gray-brown agouti rabbit fur liner

A brown leather collar with nickel hardware and a leather-wrapped handle riveted to the front. The stitching and liner are black

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Sennamatic @sennamatic.bsky.social · May 7

A shy sphinx 🐆🌷

A digital painting of a sphinx laying down. Her body is that of a black panther with faint jaguar spots. She has dark skin, with a catlike nose and whiskers. Her face is round with spots along her forehead and cheeks. She is wearing a dark magenta headscarf that is fastened into a thick gold necklace. A brilliant blue reflects on her, adding volume to the painting. The entire background is a flat peach color, with the shape of low foliage in the foreground. The artists name is in the bottom right of the image

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JS Groves @satyrmagos.bsky.social · 11h

still more from my Oct 2021 shoot with Katarina

#Art #QueerArtist #Photography

black and white photo. a figure obscured by a lace cloak walks through the woods

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JS Groves @satyrmagos.bsky.social · 11h

From my October 2023 Sabbat Fire shoot.

#Photography #QueerArt #Art

three women dancing around a fire in various states of undress

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JS Groves @satyrmagos.bsky.social · 12h

The image of Saturn, according to the opinion of other sages, is the shape of a man standing upon a dragon, holding a scythe in his right hand and a spear in his left, dressed in black and tawny clothes.
-Picatrix Bk 2 Ch 10 Para 13 (trans. Atrell & Porecca, 2019)

#Art #QueerArtist #Magick

black and white illustration of Saturn with spear and scythe

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JS Groves @satyrmagos.bsky.social · 12h

“The image of Saturn … is the shape of a man with a crow-like face and the feet of a camel, sitting upon a throne, with a spear in his right hand and a lance or dart in his left.” Picatrix Bk II, Ch 10 Para 11 (Attrell & Porecca, 2019)

www.etsy.com/listing/1081...

#OccultSky #QueerArtist #Art

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JS Groves @satyrmagos.bsky.social · 12h

An oval saint-style pendant honoring Hekate Trimorphis: three faces, six arms, six legs, all bound within a single peplos, and holding a whip and torches and daggers.

#Hekate #HelPol #HandmadeJewelry #QueerArtist #BSNM

sorcerersworkbench.etsy.com/listing/1793...

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JS Groves @satyrmagos.bsky.social · 12h

Stunning