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Ori Nephtali
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Writer of alien mermaids. They/them. I hope your writing and art inspiration is both plentiful and well timed.
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Annnnd Chapter 4 of THE ODYSSEY OF TIGER ELLSWORTH is live on my website!!!!! Yaaaaaaaaaay!

It's only... 14,800 ish words!

🐈🌈🖊️🐉📝📖
The Odyssey of Tiger Ellsworth
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December 16, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Oh snap! y'all it looks like I put the first book of We up *for totally god damned free* 'til the first of next year.
Go check out my first epic! There are pyramids! A sullen himbo with magical jungle animal familiars? It has that!

#EOYSale2025
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We Gather
1000 years ago, the mighty empire of Barracheh lost its magic. Sathriel, exiled brother of the emperor, is on a quest to recover the ancient secrets of their people's sorcery. But everything comes at ...
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December 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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#DecemberWorldbuilders 7

Astrology is pretty common in my world. Depending who you ask, the stars are either gods or guardian souls and each constellation hold significance. Some use them to guide their lives, some navigate by them, and some barely notice them, twinkling quietly.

#Ame_NephilimWIP
kiraofthewind.com Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · Dec 7
Last for for our SCIENCE week, #DecemberWorldbuilders! Does your world have astrology and/or astronomy? Is it ever useful for your MCs? Tell me about your stars, friends 👀 ✨
MonthlyWorldbuilders prompts daily feed card #DecemberWorldbuilders Hosted by Kira of the Wind Week 1: Science 7: Does your world have astronomy and/or astrology? The image shows a cozy town during winter with warm lights. Large mountains are in the background. It is blurred. Snowflakes are around the top words
December 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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We made it to Saturday, friends! Did you do any writing this last week? If you did, share a short line from your recent writing sessions. Are you happy with it? Do you already have plans to improve it?

#BookSky #WriteSky #SaturdaySnippet 🪐📚💙
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December 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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You must have a three inch waist and a face protruding from your neck 👍
ori-nephtali.bsky.social Ori Nephtali @ori-nephtali.bsky.social · Dec 6
My friend tried to take a panoramic photo of me and I think a new unrealistic body standard for women just dropped.
A panormamic photo of a white person with brown hair. Their boobs are compressed into one, and it seems like they have two faces and an impossibly thin waist.
December 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Tegalin, a #Wonao girl of the Naonaere tribe, wearing her traditional clothing.

The Naonaere Wonaos live at the eastern coast of #Buyan.

#worldbuilding #artshare #digitalart
The kingfisher, shown at her brooch locking her cloak, is a traditional symbol of her tribe.
December 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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I live to serve, and if you humor me and vote on my silly polls, just know that I love you and worship the ground you walk on.

Here’s a milkshake. Name’s Mr. Straw.

The pattern I bought for this one is great, but I tweaked the colors because the pattern is for vanilla and I like choccy. 🧶🥤🍒🍦
A crocheted happy chocolate milkshake with little chocolate drizzle arms and feet, a whipped cream, a cherry, and a red and white straw on top. Mr. Straw is sitting against a gray background.
December 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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My friend tried to take a panoramic photo of me and I think a new unrealistic body standard for women just dropped.
A panormamic photo of a white person with brown hair. Their boobs are compressed into one, and it seems like they have two faces and an impossibly thin waist.
December 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I hate when I buy something from somewhere and they automatically start sending me marketing emails.

No, bitch. I gave you my money already. Leave me alone.
December 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Artists show off your OC!

The Doctor and the Assassin 😊
Digital painting of Serara, a young woman with dark skin, reddish brown curly hair and green eyes. She's dressed in a blue tunic with purple and gold patterns, and has a green scarf over her shoulders. She holds a sprig of a herb in her hand. Digital painting of Zaki, a young man with light brown skin, medium brown hair and blue eyes. He's dressed in dusky grey leather armor with green details, and a grey-green shirt. He has weapons strapped to his body and is holding a leather mask in his hand.
December 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Artists show off your OC!

Here's Ehuna, Asran's mom.
ID begins. A purple skinned mermaid with curly darker purple hair. She wears cream coloured robes and has red and blue bangles dotting her wrists. End ID.
December 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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I did a bit of research on some massive corporations and made a list assigning each of them a few evil corporations from science fiction, yay!

It's like an award, except the award is shame. 🙂

Anyway, check it out. And subscribe if you like. It helps immensely. 🧡

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6 Evil Corporations and Their Fictional Dystopian Counterparts
Real-life companies that have done some real messed up stuff, and the fictional evil corporations that best fit them.
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August 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Tell me a bit about the first time your character met someone important to them.

This could be a close friend, love interest, mentor, etc.

Did they like each other right away? Did they warm over time?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Ol' Salty, Pirate Saltasaurus. A bit of silliness which became a personal favourite.

Sepia ink over blue pencil on Strathmore grey toned paper, 110 × 143 mm, from 2013.

#ArtAdventCalendar
Drawing of a Saltasaurus with its back to the viewer in three-quarter view, wearing a voluminous sash around its waist, in which is stuck a profusion of swords whose hilts are carved as the heads of various dinosaurs and pterosaurs. It also wears a tricorn hat trimmed with long feathers and carries a spear.
December 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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I've updated this, ignore that I'm in it (I don't know how to make a starter pack w/o my account in it), I added more Gazans who have active gofundme's, so go show them some support (if you're Gazan and have a campaign, just reply and I'll add you!) go.bsky.app/8QuU4fg
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Another pixel art piece. Wanted to try drawing clouds again, this time in a night sky. Don't ask where the light source is LOL. I drew the clouds first as if the moon was above them, but then decided I wanted a moon behind them, with light coming from the left side. Just... just go with it
Pixel art by me. It's a screenshot because the actual picture would be too small. It's a night sky with clouds and a crescent moon. Below are hills with scraggly pine trees. Crows or maybe bats are flying above them
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Long one today. If I add a picture, it'll squeeze the image so you have to open it to read it, and that's the death knell of getting people to read a WIPSnip. So, no pic.

Here, Garlic tells Parsnips that he's unable to slaughter chickens...
Parsnips patted him gently. “I’m sorry, Garlic. You don’t have to do this, or watch it. There are plenty of other chores you can do around the inn. I grew up having to learn how to prepare meat dishes, so I hadn’t thought of this as, well…” “As foul as it is?” Garlic hoped the pun would lighten the mood. The chef barked his signature shrill laugh. “Yes, indeed. Why don’t you go back inside and prepare vegetables? There’s plenty you can do to help without making yourself vomit.” Garlic swallowed. “Thanks, Papasnips. I… I thought you would think me weak and pathetic.” He shrugged. “I’m all of five feet tall and small enough the Mornese in these parts could skin me and only get a sock out of me. If I made fun of someone for being weak, I’d be inviting trouble. We have a saying in the House of the Lime Flame: ‘the cats don’t belong in the kitchen.’ Meaning don’t invite something into a place where they’ll just get in the way or cause problems. Since this is clearly a problem for you, I’m advising you stay out. Cats are plenty useful elsewhere and we love them and welcome them in our homes, but we can’t have them stealing ingredients, knocking down spice jars, or getting their fur in food, right?”
December 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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#MythDecember

The Pentagonal Dominionists have 25 holidays important enough to be in my notes, lol.

Admittedly, the Star Carnival is three of those since I have its Ophidian and Cosmonite name as separate entries. It's THE big holiday of the year, being Lucognidus's birthday and deathday
mystic888wizard.bsky.social MYSTIC @mystic888wizard.bsky.social · Dec 1
IT IS TIME (I’m a little late) for day 1 of my first ever prompt game.

I’ll be posting once a day different prompt about the myths and folklore of all of your wonderful worlds.

Question 1 is, what kind of holidays are celebrated in your world?

#writesky #prompt #fantasy #writing #worldbuilding
December 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Hello, #DecemberWorldbuilders! Tell us about the creation of your people according to the in-world lore. Were they created by gods? Did they evolve from single-celled organisms? Maybe a bit of both? Maybe they don't know, and maybe they have stories about it. What are their creation myths?
MonthlyWorldbuilders prompts daily feed card #DecemberWorldbuilders Hosted by Kira of the Wind Week 1: Science 2: Were your people created by gods or did they evolve? Both? The image shows a cozy town during winter with warm lights. Large mountains are in the background. It is blurred. Snowflakes are around the top words
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

When do you consider a side character to have earned a name?

Is it when they speak a line of dialogue? Have a certain amount of importance to the story? When it is confusing to describe the scene otherwise?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 1, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Where was he? He’d gotten confused again, and his head ached. He hummed to calm himself, his favourite song, Anatoshi Ayar, and grasped nothingness instead of stone. He’d used to recite the names of the Zhakar to calm himself, but it hadn’t been working lately and he didn’t know why. It might be many long, cold, lonely minutes before he found one of his hair-clips. Except they wouldn’t be lonely. Eshevim was above, and hadn’t he sensed heartbeats? Three of them, pulsing fast, like they were trying to swim out of the being they belonged to. Somehow he knew he wasn’t meant to remember that.
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Arab Lit Quarterly is making all of their pdfs of works with Palestinian authors free for #ReadPalestine week. arablit.gumroad.com
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Scroll down for buyable items related to ArabLit (Arabic Literature and Translation) and the Bulaq podcast.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Unfortunately, science is reserved for the elites, but that doesn't stop citizens from experiemnting and stealing scrolls and trying to learn. Many scientific advances especially about plants have been found by farmers, not the elites.
kiraofthewind.com Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · Dec 1
Welcome to the first week of #DecemberWorldbuilders! This week is about SCIENCE (broadly speaking) (you can play along even if you're writing pre-industrial fantasy!)
Today's Q: Can anyone in your world participate in scientific research? Or is it reserved for elites?
MonthlyWorldbuilders prompts daily feed card #DecemberWorldbuilders Hosted by Kira of the Wind Week 1: Science 1: Science in your fictional world: is it available to everyone? The image shows a cozy town during winter with warm lights. Large mountains are in the background. It is blurred. Snowflakes are around the top words
December 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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#DecemberWorldbuilders
Despite that Aloutia might look pre-industrial (I'd dare to call it side-industrial), science and the acquisition of knowledge is very important to them. It's cultural phenomenon that comes from their religion: when your God is the God of the Mind who tells you to cultivate
kiraofthewind.com Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · Dec 1
Welcome to the first week of #DecemberWorldbuilders! This week is about SCIENCE (broadly speaking) (you can play along even if you're writing pre-industrial fantasy!)
Today's Q: Can anyone in your world participate in scientific research? Or is it reserved for elites?
MonthlyWorldbuilders prompts daily feed card #DecemberWorldbuilders Hosted by Kira of the Wind Week 1: Science 1: Science in your fictional world: is it available to everyone? The image shows a cozy town during winter with warm lights. Large mountains are in the background. It is blurred. Snowflakes are around the top words
December 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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I’m on a roll.

Someone needs to take my crochet hooks away from me.

Found this awesome, adorable pattern for a popcorn kernel AND piece of popcorn. What a cute pair!

So I made it. And I like it. 🧶 🍿 🌽

Their names are Floss and Puff, respectively. Please be kind. They are sensitive.
Floss and Puff. An orange-ish popcorn kernel with a little white tip on the left. A puffy little popcorn guy with brown hands and a brown top on the right. Set against a gray marble-ish background.
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM