#booksky🧵of
And if you want some stories for #InternationalLesbianDay, I have two books out plus a few short stories (both spicy and not) from #ChroniclesOfTheRealms on Ao3: archiveofourown.org/series/4547401 💜🖤

Books: campsite.bio/nicolehidalgo.
Book 1 is also available 🧵

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October 8, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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So far, I haven't actually devised the transliteration of any of our popular compound words for the Kirrhin language, so here's an attempt at brand-new potential examples that I may keep or not.

In Kirrhin, compounding words is, 🧵
#Conlangity Day 8

This is gonna be a sort of loose topic day - do what you want with it!

Today is about compound words & other affixes. Can you combine words in your conlang? Do you have any examples? What kind of prefixes/suffixes exist, & how are they used?

More to consider in the thread! 🧵👇️
October 8, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Manga gets banned in a lot of school libraries for valid reasons (violence, sexual content) not exactly “educational“ if the opening scene is a classroom of students are pointing guns at tentacle monster.

Assassination Classroom by Yusei Matsui

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October 8, 2026 at 4:05 AM
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I, incidentally, do not have one of these YET who has been story-acknowledged. However, I do have plans for not one, BUT TWO, such characters, albeit one's technically already dead. Weslea's aunt, who was a soldier serving in 🇺🇸 🧵
#QueerPrompts October 8: International Lesbian Day: Lesbian character(s) or sapphic reading recs
October 8, 2026 at 3:03 AM
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Ordinarily, Weslea cooks for himself (and for a host of others), but if he had unlimited cash and could go anywhere on Earth?

I think he would, absolutely, choose a casual dining location — which might also be amazing but 🧵
Tell me about your #AwesomeCharacters

Your character is in the modern world, money is no object.

Where are they going to eat?

1) Michelin star restaurant

2) Casual dining place

3) Little known but amazing hole in the wall

4) Sidewalk hot dog cart

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October 7, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Day 4 of: What writers of Greek myth retellings often do wrong 🧵
"They don't have a reliable safety net."
The plot and characters are perfected. But now you've gotten to know Greek culture and things got complicated. Insecurity creeps in.
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October 7, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Midway through Banned Book Week and I am slowly going through my list of books. I had hard time eating this frog (or in this case… a pig)

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Talking about politics is a social no-no for me (as it leads to arguments), but here goes.

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October 7, 2026 at 1:01 PM
“Racial caste systems do not require racial hostility or overt bigotry to thrive. They need only racial indifference.”
-Educator, activist, and writer Michelle Alexander, born on this day in 1967
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October 7, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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The Ghan Desert is a bit of a cross between Tatooine and the Sonoran Desert, a xeric shrubland, one having several sources of reliable water, the most famous and well-known being the Starflow River. There are also other 🧵
Good morning, #OctoberWorldbuilders! Thanks to all of you who have been patient while I spend some much-needed time off social media. I hope the prompts have been useful for creating your desert! Today: talk about its geology, rocks, or maybe some ruins. Whatcha got in your fantastical desert?👀
October 7, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Interesting books on Hoon Lee's bookshelf in East of Eden. 🧵

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October 6, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Most of the Seven Cities of Ghan obtain their water in one way: living beside it, either the Ghan Meridia, a massive inland sea in the far eastern quarter of the desert, or the rivers that feed that.

One or two may set 🧵
#OctoberWorldbuilders, hello friends! Alright, it's time for the survival question I promised a few days ago! Tell me how the people who live in your desert actually survive in it. How do they get food and water? What kind of clothes do they wear? How do they stay warm/cool otherwise?
October 6, 2026 at 6:05 AM
City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita

Interesting characters and a decent mystery. 📚🧵 #booksky
October 6, 2026 at 3:01 AM
The Man Made of Smoke be Alex North

I dont remember a single thing about this book. 📚🧵 #booksky
October 6, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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I actually kind of tried to ensure Elaine doesn't really have any of these, because I sort of wanted her to be completely alien.

I failed at that, because she's someone you can understand in the context of lived one's own 🧵
Tell me about your #AwesomeCharacters

Antagonist day!

I think even the most evil villains have things people will connect to, either something big or small.

What's something you think people will find relatable about your antagonist?

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October 5, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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I could potentially see Weslea offering haunted forest rides with a herd of horses he's formed connections with — as an Omega, he can basically communicate with them pheromonally, so he'd be able to form the connection pretty easy. 🧵
Please try to remember, the 5th of #Octember!

TODAY'S QUESTION: What kind of haunted business would your character start?

With entrepeneurship your characters are cursed! For what ghostly endeavor would they start to fill a purse?

Have fun! Don't think too hard!

1/2

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October 5, 2026 at 10:17 PM
1. #WIPSnips - October 2026 🧵
(An excerpt from Book 2 (Untitled) of the Kendrick Chronicles)
Word - Injury
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October 5, 2026 at 8:18 PM
To mentioned in my last post in Fahrenheit 451 where the only form of literacy is comics and magazines; but even today comics can get banned just as books. I’m a show reader and “comics help me comprehend” so my second pick is

Maus by Art Spiegelman

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October 5, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Day 3 of: What writers of Greek myth retellings often do wrong 🧵
They miss their chance to explore Greek culture and make their readers fall in love with it:
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October 5, 2026 at 5:49 PM
If Robert Charles Anderson’s handling of Francis Baker (1611–1696) is typical of "The Great Migration" series, the whole dataset needs a major audit.
​When an academic's rigid opinion gets mistaken for consensus, thousands of family trees get broken by lazy logic.
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Continue?
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October 5, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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Kirrhin is sort of an all-rounder, aside from the creole notion.

It developed in isolation on the moon, where the reihyanyun evolved and are natively from. It served as the step-stone of their people to communication with others 🧵
#Conlangity 5

We're taking a step back from the details of your conlang today to look at the big picture. What's the origin of this language? How did it evolve? What purpose did it serve?

This is important to think about, because it should inform things like grammar rules & word etymology!
October 5, 2026 at 5:11 AM
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In the Hero's Edge, there aren't any organised religions, only a few disorganised ones, and some assorted spiritualistic faiths. Thus far, I haven't actually delved into them or their assortment of beliefs, but I will - 🧵
Hello, #OctoberWorldbuilders! Tell me about some of the deeper lore of your desert. What myths, legends, religious stories, folklore, etc. do you got? What stories do people tell about this land or about something in it? Or what do they believe in general about their world?
October 5, 2026 at 4:59 AM
How to Find a Missing Girl by Victoria Wlosok

Unfortunately unremarkable. 📚🧵 #booksky
October 5, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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QUOTE:

In the outer fringe of my field of vision, barely in the periphery, I can see a man in a long, beige coat, with a short-brimmed, tan hat with a diamond crown and a black ribbon. The man's wearing a white sneakers and 🧵
#QueerPrompts October 3: Line that foreshadows danger or scary scene/snippet
October 4, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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At the start of the story, Weslea is displaced and living nowhere.

Shortly after arriving in Lincoln Park, he discovers a cave which has bioluminescent mushrooms and earthworms, and he stays.

Later, this is expanded into 🧵
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

What is your character's living situation like?

Do they have roommates? Pets? Live with family? Alone in a mansion? On the road? On a ship? Other?

Are they happy where they are, or striving for something else?

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October 4, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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I would envision the Kirrhin language as non-tonal language, but the emphasis/stress on certain letter sequences in some word could be a source of distinction for intended meanings. Similar to the variations in pronunciation with 🧵
#Conlangity Day 4

This is our last day dealing with the sound of your language! So let's talk about pronunciation.

Which syllables get stressed & when? Does it change the meaning? Is your language a tonal language? Do letters ever change based on other sounds near them or their place in a word?
October 4, 2026 at 5:25 AM