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I love to hate a well-written shitty person. Looking at you, Bev Keane (Samantha Sloyan) from Midnight Mass. She's a real pill, and Sloyan leans all the way in, but she saves Bev's "evil straight from the bottle" the moment she witness the miracle in the church. 1/3 #AwesomeCharacters #WriteSky

In one single take, Sloyan sells her character being stunned to the core of her being, witnessing a true gospel miracle right before her very eyes. And she also concurrently sells the deep disappointment that she herself isn't the focus of the miracle. It's a masterful moment of acting. 2/3

I’ve mentioned the manta and sarong that is traditional in the Redwoods, but this attire is certainly not universal within Enclosure. When the ensemble arrive, they are dressed in roughly woven clothe and worked hide. 🧵 1/4 #OctoberWorldbuilders #WriteSky

They've had millennia to watch the pattern play out. The burden of eternity imposed by Enclosure is heavy, and sometimes the intricacies of life, no matter how complex and interwoven, just aren't enough to hold a person together. It's disturbing to see a personage like Tourr'di so bedraggled. 3/4

I’ve mentioned the manta and sarong that is traditional in the Redwoods, but this attire is certainly not universal within Enclosure. When the ensemble arrive, they are dressed in roughly woven clothe and worked hide. 🧵 1/4 #OctoberWorldbuilders #WriteSky

Tourr'di: It's not easy for tukhé to lie. It's written in our tumpa. Not impossible, but not as easy as it is for adiamag to lie to one another. They see no tumpa. By omission is the best I manage. When? When I know my son will be prickly to deal with. 🧵1/2 #LitHodgepodge #WriteSky

This is a forensic reconstruction by paleo-artist Elisabeth Darynès. It is a Homo sapiens (10-12k years old) found in North Korea, currently on display in South Korea. It is where Sayan begins as an idea in my head. #AwesomeCharacters #WriteSky

Baltar's Lament There’s a Cylon in my coffee
 putting thoughts into my head. 
There’s a Cylon in my cupboard,
 and she wants my people dead. There’s a Cylon in my bedroom, 
and I think she’s pretty hot.
 There’s a Cylon in my bathroom.
 Should I go, or should I not? #Poetry #PoetrySky

There’s a Cylon who’s brunette,
 and of course, there is the blond.
 There’s a Cylon who’s a fellah, 
and the ladies do grow fond. There are Cylons free on Caprica. 
They run and play in mirth.
 There’s a Cylon on Galactica. 
I think she’s bound for Earth.

Baltar's Lament There’s a Cylon in my coffee
 putting thoughts into my head. 
There’s a Cylon in my cupboard,
 and she wants my people dead. There’s a Cylon in my bedroom, 
and I think she’s pretty hot.
 There’s a Cylon in my bathroom.
 Should I go, or should I not? #Poetry #PoetrySky

There’s a Cylon in the flight pod,
 and she’s frakking up my plans.
 There are Cylons in the fleet. 
How did they pass my scans? There’s a Cylon in the corner, 
and everywhere I look.
 There’s a Cylon on the vid-screen,
 and in every single book.

I prefer a physical book, but I buy digital for the convenience. If I really loved a book in digital format, I will usually later buy it as physical because we all need to get uncomfortable with the idea that digital media is easily taken from us and made unavailable. #booksky #bookishQOTD

After Cetus come Theos and Polemos. Cetus is the story I usually talk about. It introduces Enclosure and the main ensemble. This story is about passing of the baton, changing of the guard. The rise of Tourr'di the Hominin Builder. Next comes Theos, which means god. 🧵 1/3 #pretendpanel #WriteSky

Theos is about Tourr'di coming to terms with being a "goddess" who has to work for a living, and has to learn ℎ𝑜𝑤 to goddess. The B-story is Angie bringing the Exiles back into communication for the coming change, because change is a-comin'. Big change. 2/3

Agreed in full, and, expanding on the topic of nuance when engaging, a very concerning example of my own. Full disclosure: I know AI checkers are probematic, but I have no other way of showing you what could possibly happen without a person even knowing it. Here is the image in question.

Here's how each of these ping when you pass them through an AI checker.

Agreed in full, and, expanding on the topic of nuance when engaging, a very concerning example of my own. Full disclosure: I know AI checkers are probematic, but I have no other way of showing you what could possibly happen without a person even knowing it. Here is the image in question.

Mmm… 🤷 I am clearly a child of the 1970s. My influences are Le Guin, Norton, McCaffrey (not just Pern), Niven, Herbert (not just DUNE), Julian May, Robert Sawyer, to name a few standouts. 1/7 #OctoberWorldbuilders #WriteSky

Most of my research has been on the ecology of this place because, by and large, this is an eco-story, and about who gets a second chance at stewardship over life on Earth here in the Enclosure after we modern Sapiens did such a dramatically poor job of it back home. 6/7

Mmm… 🤷 I am clearly a child of the 1970s. My influences are Le Guin, Norton, McCaffrey (not just Pern), Niven, Herbert (not just DUNE), Julian May, Robert Sawyer, to name a few standouts. 1/7 #OctoberWorldbuilders #WriteSky

There are romances. Nikho & Sayan. Angie & Kaila. Tourr'di & Marán. But it's Paleo-Space-Opera, not Genre Romance. If you're looking for that super-duper slow burn, look elsewhere. I tend to present couples as already established, or with past romantic history. 4/7

Mmm… 🤷 I am clearly a child of the 1970s. My influences are Le Guin, Norton, McCaffrey (not just Pern), Niven, Herbert (not just DUNE), Julian May, Robert Sawyer, to name a few standouts. 1/7 #OctoberWorldbuilders #WriteSky

Many of the above are Science Fantasy writers. My story is firmly in that zone, though it leans more Science than Fantasy. I avoid Hard Sci-Fi. It often feels like a dare more than a genre, like the readership is there to test the hardness of the science, not the quality of the human narrative. 2/7

First would be the game of Raiders & Mammoth in three different iterations: Hasbro for the affordable version, Stonemaier Games for the nicer one, and WS Game Company for the signed, limited edition hardwood and abalone version with semi-precious stones for game pieces. #LitHodgepodge #WriteSky