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rachelillustrates.bsky.social
Rae Terwilliger
@rachelillustrates.bsky.social
#tockthegnome #worldbuildingwednesday with another minor Gnomish god….. www.patreon.com/posts/137588... 💀🖤

#worldbuilding #indiecomics #queercomics #gnome #gnomewoman #skeleton #faerie #goddess #fairyart #fantasyart #fantasyreligion #gaslampfantasy #pencildrawing #traditionalart #whimsy
A pencil drawing of a skeleton, with what humans would consider chibi or in fact Gnomish proportions, dressed in robes and with a veil at the base of their pointed Gnomish cap. Their skeleton grin is pointed at a single butterfly that flits above their open hand, the energy of the drawing kind and gentle, while curving lines fill the background space, implying a certain energy.
September 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM Everybody can reply
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Haly, the Moonlight Bard
@moonlightbard.com
It's another #WorldbuildingWednesday and the 25th edition of my weekly #Worldbuilding #Advice column, "Ask the Bard!" Tonight: unreliable narrators; what they are and when to use them! (And, yes, tips on how to build them.)

#WorldAnvil #WritingCommunity #RPGCommunity
Ask the Bard #25: Assumptions, Misconceptions, and Ego
This week's worldbuilding advice column sent Haly crawling through the archives to gather up even more information on crafting and identifying unreliable narrators in fiction.
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January 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM Everybody can reply
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Rae Terwilliger
@rachelillustrates.bsky.social
#tockthegnome #worldbuildingwednesday with #mycellioom #mushroom -type roles (for #funguary !) – www.patreon.com/posts/123029... 🌱🍄📜

#worldbuilding #indiecomics #queercomics #drawingchallenge #faerie #bodypositiveart #fatart #bodypositive #sizepositive #fantasyart #fairyart
A pencil drawing (digitally tinted blue) of a plus-size, masculine-presenting, Indigo Milk cap style Mushroom person with their hands linked to other apparent mushroom folk off-screen, head and pose facing the viewer’s left, a smile on their face and their eyes pupil-less. A rough line of small spoke-like shapes floats between them and the other figures at shoulder height, and above them – as if coming up from their cap – are lines suggesting the threads of mycelium or roots. Coming from the figure on their left side, a small speech bubble with parts of its round shape open-lined reads, “just breathe.”
February 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM Everybody can reply
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darthdecisive.bsky.social
Darth Decisive
@darthdecisive.bsky.social
Welcome back to another Warcraft #WorldbuildingWednesday!

Part 37: The Pandaren Zodiac!

We talked a bit about the Lunar Festival during last year's holiday WBW, but I thought it would be fun to talk about the WC equivalent of the Chinese Zodiac to celebrate next week's holiday!
January 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM Everybody can reply
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Wonderful Starfish
@wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social
#WorldBuildingWednesday

Instead of a civilized world in the middle of the map and wilderness around it, plop a big forest/mountain range/sea in the middle with civilization scattered on the edges.

#d&d #dnd #ttrpgs
March 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM Everybody can reply
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rachelillustrates.bsky.social
Rae Terwilliger
@rachelillustrates.bsky.social
#tockthegnome #worldbuildingwednesday time again, with a take on certain popular Gnomish statuary – www.patreon.com/posts/127604... 🌼

#faerie #gnome #gnomes #gnomewoman #steampunk #gaslampfantasy #gardengnomes #fantasyart #fairyart #indiecomics #queercomics #bodypositiveart #fatart
A pencil drawing, digitally tinted sepia, of two gaslamp/steampunk-styled gnomes (both plump, one feminine-presenting and one masculine-presenting, with similar facial features) standing in a walled garden. The gnome woman holds a “garden gnome” created in the likeness of herself, and looks very calmly pleased about it, though her companion glare-glances over at her in judgment. Heart-shaped musical notes float above her head, on the opposite side from him, indicating that she is singing or humming in her happiness.
April 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM Everybody can reply
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rachelillustrates.bsky.social
Rae Terwilliger
@rachelillustrates.bsky.social
**Time for another #tockthegnome #worldbuilding post, dear readers!!** Looking at three characters that call the Lowlands home– 1 of whom we’ve met, 2 of which we haven’t: www.patreon.com/posts/108938... 🧌🧌🧌

#indiecomics #queercomics #worldbuildingwednesday #faerie #troll #bodypositiveart
A pencil drawing of a troll of indeterminate gender, drawn from the chest up as if walking on all fours, turned slightly back to the right of the image and smiling as a small, sprite-like faerie rests on their head and says something (as indicated by an empty speech bubble above). The background is filled in with foliage shapes, penciled in slightly less darkly than the figures, to indicate depth.
August 1, 2024 at 2:45 AM Everybody can reply
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Wonderful Starfish
@wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social
Hey! Let's start a thing!

#WorldBuildingWednesday

Post an idea or prompt for a campaign seed, cool setting, or just ramble about world building for #rpgs #ttrpgs #dnd or even #writing books, I guess.

#worldbuilding

Here's a quick starter one:
March 6, 2025 at 4:11 AM Everybody can reply
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darthdecisive.bsky.social
Darth Decisive
@darthdecisive.bsky.social
And that will do it for this week!

As always, thanks for reading! Feel free to share questions, comments, and critique, or to borrow anything you like for your own stories!

I'll be back again soon with another #WorldbuildingWednesday.

Until then, fair skies, and strong winds!
a dragon is flying through a cave with a person standing in front of it
ALT: a dragon is flying through a cave with a person standing in front of it
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April 17, 2025 at 3:38 AM Everybody can reply
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pangeanchronicles.bsky.social
JP MacDougall
@pangeanchronicles.bsky.social
From the Sanctuary's towering gates to the haunted wilds beyond, every corner of Pangea holds a secret.
Step into a world rich with lore, rebellion, and prophecy.
📚 mybook.to/thepangeantr...
🌐 www.thepangeanchronicles.com
#WorldbuildingWednesday #FantasyReads #ThePangeanChronicles
July 2, 2025 at 4:13 AM Everybody can reply
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rachelillustrates.bsky.social
Rae Terwilliger
@rachelillustrates.bsky.social
#tockthegnome #worldbuildingwednesday with an addition to the #elven (background) cast, related to someone we already know….. www.patreon.com/posts/134061... 🌟🌞🌟

#worldbuilding #characterdesign #elf #fatelf #bodyposiart #pencildrawing #indiecomics #queercomics #fantasyart
A pencil drawing, tinted green on a salmon-ish background, of a plus size, androgynous Elf holding several magical spheres of energy aloft, and smiling at them. The image is shaded in around the figure and the spheres to imply that they are glowing, and several other small, dark spheres frame the scene on the bottom.
July 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM Everybody can reply
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darthdecisive.bsky.social
Darth Decisive
@darthdecisive.bsky.social
After a nice little break, it's time to come back to Warcraft #WorldbuildingWednesday Part 40: More Housing and Architecture!

In honor of the awesome news about player housing today, let's BUILD off of where we left off a few weeks back and talk hearth and home once more!
March 13, 2025 at 4:01 AM Everybody can reply
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Rae Terwilliger
@rachelillustrates.bsky.social
#tockthegnome #worldbuildingwednesday with the #badgerfolk again, specifically design work for their Temples….. www.patreon.com/posts/124607... ✨💫✨

#indiecomics #queercomics #fantasyart #fairyart #worldbuilding #badger #comics #gaslampfantasy
A pencil drawing on brown paper with white wax pigment highlights of a European-styled badger person, drawn from the shoulders up and facing to the image’s left. They smile calmly as lines of spiraling, curving energy in both pencil and wax pigment flow up from their chest and off the page in the same direction they’re looking. The image has been placed over another piece of white paper, on which are drawn some designs and notes unable to be perceived in full, except for two large standing stones and a blobbish shape next to it labeled “scale model.”
March 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM Everybody can reply
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Ceece
@ceclowson.bsky.social
#PostApocalyptic #ScienceFiction #DarkCityAesthetic #DystopianArt #IndieAuthor #CinematicSciFi #BookstagramScifi #WorldbuildingWednesday #AlienCivilization #StrongFemaleLead #DivergentProtostar
October 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM Everybody can reply
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Leiland Goldwell
@leilandgoldwell.bsky.social
#WorldbuildingWednesday
Golnesh is the god of land and constructive art. His domain of patronage is fairly wide; drawing, painting, sculpting, and even areas like smithing and architecture can be considered part of Golnesh's sphere of influence.
October 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM Everybody can reply
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charconsult.bsky.social
The Character Consultancy (she/her)
@charconsult.bsky.social
It's #WorldbuildingWednesday! We usually only credit humans with the ability to make structures that change our world, but other creatures do it too. E.g., beavers dam rivers and flood entire areas. What species exist on your world that change their environment? #worldbuilding #writing #Wednesday
May 15, 2024 at 3:10 PM Everybody can reply
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Haly, the Moonlight Bard
@moonlightbard.com
It's #WorldbuildingWednesday and tonight's edition of #AskTheBard is the first of a two-parter! Y'all brought the excellent questions, and I've got excellent answers lined up. Tonight: First Person Perspective and Plotting a Revolution.

#WorldAnvil #Worldbuilding #WritingCommunity #RPGCommunity
Ask the Bard #26: First Person POV, Plotting a Revolution, and a First Ever TBC!
This week's worldbuilding advice column answers questions about first person narratives and how to plot a successful revolution; the first of a two-part Ask the Bard.
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February 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM Everybody can reply
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Rae Terwilliger
@rachelillustrates.bsky.social
** #tockthegnome #worldbuildingwednesday !!** With #dwarven religion and #magic – www.patreon.com/posts/world-... ✨🪨✨

#worldbuilding #faerie #fantasydwarf #dwarf #dwarves #earthmagic #fantasyart #indiecomics #queercomics #queerart #bodypositiveart #pencildrawing
A pencil drawing of a broad, feminine-presenting. bearded fantasy dwarf standing in a cave with three stalactites in the background. She smiles as several rocks float around her, curving, spiraling lines indicating that they’re being lifted on a path up and off the right of the image.
May 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM Everybody can reply
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leilandgoldwell.bsky.social
Leiland Goldwell
@leilandgoldwell.bsky.social
#WorldbuildingWednesday
Dhesa is a queendom found to the northeast of Primlan. Its people are highly religious, to the point that the line of succession for the throne is not decided by any royal bloodline.
July 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM Everybody can reply
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darthdecisive.bsky.social
Darth Decisive
@darthdecisive.bsky.social
Welcome back to Warcraft #WorldbuildingWednesday Part 46: The Great Timeline Squish Experiment

This week is going to be a little bit different.

Learning about K'aresh's timeline got me thinking about how insane WoW's dates are. So, let's see if there's any way we can fix that.
July 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM Everybody can reply
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Rae Terwilliger
@rachelillustrates.bsky.social
#tockthegnome #worldbuildingwednesday and #thankgnomeitsfriday proper, finally! With #gnome and…. 🐌 www.patreon.com/posts/world-...

#gnome #gnomes #faerie #snail #snails #giantsnail #worldbuilding #indiecomics #queercomics #gaslampfantasy #steampunk #bodyposiart #fantasyart
A pencil drawing of two feminine-presenting, gaslamp-fantasy-style gnomes on a steampunk-setting street, one watching from the shadows with several devices while another rides a giant snail past, looking at a map in confusion.
July 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM Everybody can reply
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moonlightbard.com
Haly, the Moonlight Bard
@moonlightbard.com
In tonight's q&a, I explore how humor's timing and perspective impact story believability! Learn when humor works best and how to tell the difference between funny and mean.

#worldbuildingwednesday #askthebard #WorldAnvil #worldember #writingcommunity #RPGCommunity
WorldEmber Day 11: Ask the Bard #18
Explore how humor's timing and perspective impact story believability. Learn when humor works best and how to tell the difference between funny and mean.
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December 12, 2024 at 12:57 AM Everybody can reply
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Holly Daye
@hollyartonline.bsky.social
Do your characters suffer from same face syndrome?

The top set are early tests, about a year old. I try to compare my character designs as my art changes. There is also another reason. Three of the four are related, and they should look similar, but not too similar. #art #worldbuildingwednesday
A set of faces ordered to show different proportions and features. Below are figures each in trousers and a top to demonstrate different clothing styles and body types.
March 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM Everybody can reply
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Leiland Goldwell
@leilandgoldwell.bsky.social
The struggle with #WorldbuildingWednesday is that I sometimes forget what lore I've already shared...
May 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM Everybody can reply
rachelillustrates.bsky.social
Rae Terwilliger
@rachelillustrates.bsky.social
** Time for another #tockthegnome #worldbuilding post, dear readers!! ** This week, we are taking a quick look at the main #elvish lunar/Spring festival – www.patreon.com/posts/111627... 🌺🌕🌺

#indiecomics #queercomics #worldbuildingwednesday #elf #faerie #moon #flowers #nature #magic #fantasyart
A bearded, masculine-presenting elf drawn from the waist up in high fantasy style, holding a hovering, large datura blossom before his middle. Behind him, part of a very large, full moon can be seen at the top of the image. He smiles with innocent delight, eyes closed.
September 18, 2024 at 11:54 PM Everybody can reply
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