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Teresa
@dimreaper.bsky.social
(they/them) author, goat farmer, martial artist, indigenous, communist.
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Published Works: www.tdgonzalez.com
There are different schools of magic in Chrysia, though they focus on different uses rather than types because there’s only one magic.

There are the Healing Temples, one in Carta where Larathel grew up and trained, another in Salmorel, and then Sangor’s Temple in Paret of course 1/3
#Febchantment
#Febchantment Day 15

This week we're discussing magic's role in the culture. So let's start with different approaches to magic.

Are there multiple different types of magic, or different philosophies? Are there multiple schools or disciplines? How do they differ?

#writingcommunity #writesky
February 15, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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You are not ready. Prepare your eyes...

@nushdeco.bsky.social you are amazing. Thanks so much for bringing Kallista and Geni into visual form in such stunning fashion.

At long last, here's Captain Kallista Audax and Doctor Eugenia 'Geni' Philistos from A Prayer for the Pirate Queen 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️
February 15, 2026 at 5:40 AM
The Queen of the Melipenati has less of a governing role than you’d think, and this is true of real honeybees as well. The Queen has only two brain cells that say “eat” or “fuck” and she cannot be trusted to make laws. So the nurse bees do that and let her feel important 1/2
#FebruaryWorldbuilders
Hey, #FebruaryWorldbuilders! This week is about laws and the legal/court system in your fictional worlds. Today's Q: Who makes the laws? Does your world have a king? A council? An all-powerful God rules directly or through somebody else? Is it total anarchy? Just a village elder?
February 15, 2026 at 1:29 PM
You are enough. You can learn anything. You are capable. You have something worth saying. You can leave a good mark on this world.
#pretendpanel
See, I told you I wouldn't make it about romance, #pretendpanel 😜 so tell me...

February 14th: If you could send a kind, loving message to your earlier writer self, what would it be?

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
February 14, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Oh, y'all thought Sangor only transformed on purpose? Afraid not, and in fact most of the plot is figuring out WHY the most powerful being on the planet is turning into scary chompy monsters at random (in the middle of battle!) and it's just as awful as it sounds.

cw: body horror

#Febchantment
February 14, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.

The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.
February 11, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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is it getting warm in here or is it just me?
happy valentines day from @khonri.com 's lovebirds ❣️

[ #art #artcommission #OCart #OCsky ]
February 13, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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is it getting warm in here or is it just me?
happy valentines day from @khonri.com 's lovebirds ❣️

[ #art #artcommission #OCart #OCsky ]
February 13, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Congratulations to everyone who called for body cameras now you’ve expanded the surveillance state woohooo
February 13, 2026 at 8:23 PM
I just really fucking love telling stories and I don’t just mean making up stories although that is fun in itself, I find joy in the art form of telling a story: choosing words, settings, format, medium, visuality on the page, I enjoy all of it. Writers are artists and I love the arts.
#pretendpanel
Don't worry #pretendpanel, I won't be asking awkward questions about romance just cos tomorrow is Valentines 😉 Instead...

February 13th: What do you LOVE about writing?

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
February 13, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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bite the hand that will not feed
November 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Magic spells are not reversible (with a few exceptions) so once you decide to take on a new ability via magic, it's permanent. And the magic will always want to be used. And after the initial spell-working to get the ability, it activates without words, action, or even intention 1/4
#Febchantment
#Febchantment Day 13

It's Friday the 13th! So let's talk about ~misfortune~ 😈

I love a magic system with some dreadful consequences. Tell me what happens when your magic goes wrong? What happens if someone doesn't know what they're doing, or they abuse it on purpose?

#writingcommunity #writesky
February 13, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Oh my 😏

Commission to @searynnsfw.bsky.social !
Thank you for your support ❤️
February 12, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Only three characters in the entire story (1500 year timeline) are considered "masters" of magic--one of them being Sangor, the god who invented it. According to his own rules, someone is a master of magic when they can create their own spells rather than learn ones already written 1/2
#Febchantment
#Febchantment Day 12

What does it take to be considered a "master" of your magic system?

Is it about the range of your techniques? The difficulty level? The amount of knowledge in your head? Your ability not to set yourself on fire?

Or perhaps there IS no "mastery"?

#writingcommunity #writesky
February 12, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Whether or not the souls are real is less important than the enforcement of belief in them in Melipenati culture. The worker bees are taught that their Queen is a goddess who can do anything she wants, including eat dissidents. They believe she also consumes their souls 🧵1/3
#FebruaryWorldbuilders
#FebruaryWorldbuilders. Are souls real in your world? Does anything happen to them after a person dies? Or, whether or not they know the truth, do your characters have any beliefs about that? Does your world's religion preach anything about souls?
February 12, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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These accounts are indistinguishable from what happened in early concentration camps of other regimes, where many people died of malnutrition or diseases. This is the time to stop these. Right now. Because we know what is next.
Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.

They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 12, 2026 at 1:14 PM
The party of “protect the children” sure seems to be getting in a lot of fistfights with children
February 12, 2026 at 3:09 AM
A man in my state shot and murdered his daughter in a political argument and has yet to face any consequences from our so-called justice system which also allows non-criminals and CITIZENS to be held in concentration camps. Brown people like me are afraid every day to go out in public. This is life.
February 11, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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A MAGA freak in Texas murdered his own daughter in cold blood after they had an argument about Trump.

A grand jury in the Dallas area then *declined to indict him*, and he has not yet faced charges.

Seems like many Texans believe a man has the right to kill his own child for disobedience.
British Woman shot by dad in Texas after 'arguing about Donald Trump'
Lucy Harrison, 23, was alone in a bedroom at her father's home in Texas when she was shot dead.
www.bbc.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:12 AM
The limitations around magic in TIC are both physical and mental.

First, the magic draws power from the user's body, and therefore if you cast a spell that is too strong for you, you die a horribly painful death. Using magic too often makes you weak, hungry, or even implode 🧵 1/4
#Febchantment
#Febchantment Day 11

What limitations did you put on your magic system to keep it from becoming too OP? Is power in short supply? Do spells take a physical toll on the body?

Note that this is about magic done RIGHT. Day 13 will be about when magic goes horribly wrong!

#writingcommunity #writesky
February 11, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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@nushdeco.bsky.social is full of certified bangers. 🤣

We're getting silly in this discord that will attempt to persist despite the changes.

If you like being silly and talking about creative stuff feel free to hit me, the Khrompus, up. I use breathable burlap sacks to bring you to new friendships.
February 11, 2026 at 4:26 PM
He straight up murdered his daughter after telling her to her face that he wouldn’t care if she got raped and he won’t face ANY CHARGES???

Also yet another “smiling white man in photo murdered his family members” to the list
"A Texas man will not face charges after gunning down his daughter after they got in a heated argument about President Trump.
Lucy Harrison, who was visiting from the UK, died of her wounds after the 23-year-old was shot in the chest Jan. 10 at her father’s home" nypost.com/2026/02/10/u...
Texas dad fatally shoots own daughter after ‘big argument’ about President Trump
A Texas man will not face charges after gunning down his daughter after they got in a heated argument about President Trump.
nypost.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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said it before and I'll say it again: if you can copy/paste any couple into a sex scene, then it's not a good sex scene
intense character building through sex and intimacy. how they fuck DOES matter.
February 11, 2026 at 4:16 AM
The question of free will is the biggest repeated themes of the book.
1) The Queen bee is chosen by divine selection (she is also a goddess) but when Atl, a trans male, is born he throws a wrench in that whole thing by rejecting his assigned gender, his destiny, and deity🧵1/3
#FebruaryWorldbuilders
#FebruaryWorldbuilders Does free will exist in your world? If you have any kind of prophecy, fortune-telling, soulmates, or destiny in your stories, how are these reconciled along with the idea of free will? Do your characters have any beliefs on the matter?
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 PM
US-made weapons are EVAPORATING PEOPLE. Nothing left but blood spray.

REMEMBER: imperialism abroad always finds it way home. We’ve seen it with ICE repeating the same indiscriminate violence as exhibited by the IDF. The tactics came back here, it’s only a matter of time before the weapons do.
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:04 PM