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Orion (he/him)<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PennedPossibilities</span></a> 754. SC POV: Do you have children? If not, do you want to have children someday?</p><p>Sim mimes looking over his shoulder, like you must be talking to someone else. "Dude, I'm 16."</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Scriberspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scriberspace</span></a></p>
Orion (he/him)<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PennedPossibilities</span></a> 753: Where do your SC feel happiest?</p><p>Kneeling in the dirt, pulling weeds. Weeds are just plants you gotta find a home for. </p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Scriberspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scriberspace</span></a></p>
Orion (he/him)<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PennedPossibilities</span></a> 752: Tell us about something that will always make your antagonist laugh.</p><p>I don't know that she does laugh.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Scriberspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scriberspace</span></a></p>
Orion (he/him)<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> Aug 13, What foods can't you stand?</p><p>Olives. Hate them. Don't know why people like them. It's okay if you do! I just don't get it.</p><p>And those garbage melons they put in fruit cups, the green and orange ones.</p><p>Also coffee. Just, why? Why do you people drink it?</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Scriberspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scriberspace</span></a></p>
Orion (he/him)<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Aug 13: What regrets do you have regarding your work?</p><p>Right now, this "power" all my characters have actively makes them psychopathic, but it's possible to have written it just as power corrupting them, that if you give children the power to kill, Bad Shit will happen. That won't work for this book, though, and the fantastic element of it isn't *bad*.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Scriberspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scriberspace</span></a></p>
Orion (he/him)<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WordWeavers</span></a> Aug 13: On a scale from 1 to 10, how safe is your world?</p><p>Like, 9? People don't lock their doors. </p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Scriberspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scriberspace</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PennedPossibilities</span></a> 754 — SC POV: Do you have children? If not, do you want to have children someday? CW: Some spoilers</p></blockquote><p>Streak Carryingaton is male and day angel. I'm not going to explain the situation or how their society works; intuit it for yourself.</p><blockquote><p>When arguments between my uncle and my mother made my uncle abandon us when I was 10, I had to raise my sisters, 12 and 9. My elder sister is an arrogant bully who will take over Mother's business, and my younger sister is a one-person disaster ready to happen, never studying, always in trouble. They don't like me, though they eat my cooking readily enough. Regardless, what I feel about my sisters <em>should</em> not color what I'll feel for future nieces or nephews. It's not their fault. I'm sure I will cherish them.</p><p>But raise them as I should?</p><p>Considering the responsibilities Thorn Rose and I have taken on [they're training to become astronauts], and how devoted she is to me, I am going to feel really bad saying no to family in the face of duty calling us. Men are looked down upon for leaving jobs to raise families, which is what made it so hard to get where I am. I'm feeling miserable about this, especially since I'd find it impossible to refuse raising <em>Thorn's children</em> if she asked. We already get too much ridicule for our exclusive relationship as it is.</p></blockquote><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thriller</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/romance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>romance</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sf</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sff</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSstory</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSReluctanceStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSReluctanceStory</span></a></p>
Jon Sparks<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WordWeavers</span></a> 13/8: On a scale from 1 to 10, how safe is your world?<br>5 to 6.<br>There’s no apparent threat of major conflict, and not too much crime… unless you consider slavery a crime, which is more than fair. But health and hygiene aren’t what we’re used to. Some doctors in the Five Principalities are still washing more thoroughly after surgery than before it. And in the Sung Lands there just aren’t enough Healers.<br><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersofmastodon</span></a></p>
Jon Sparks<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 13/8: What regrets do you have regarding your work?<br>Je ne regrette rien…<br>Well, I try, and I certainly don’t dwell on regrets. I could have pivoted to fiction more fully, sooner… but then I wouldn’t have written the same books.<br>Yeah, pretty much rien.<br><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersofmastodon</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WCC</span></a> 2025.08.12 —How does the morality of the characters you write differ from your own?</p></blockquote><p>There is a distinction between morality and ethics, with morality usually (but not always) taking cues from what the dominant religion considers right and wrong, whereas ethics is generally about the social contract and the concept of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." As such, the dominant morality is often screwy and patently unethical, more likely to squelch individuals and their creativity in line with guidelines that conflict with our basic humanity and animal nature.</p><p>How does the morality of my characters differ from my own? In matters of degree and in measures of what I would like, versus what I am constrained to advocate interpersonally. Wishy-washy? Dang straight. I live in today's unsafe world. Look at <em>what I do</em> rather than <em>what I say,</em> especially on an open Internet. I will say my character's society is not a chaste one—a moral can-of-worms if there ever was one.</p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSstory</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSInklingsStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSInklingsStory</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSReluctanceStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSReluctanceStory</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WCC</span></a> 2025.08.10 —How much of your worldbuilding extends beyond what's shown in the text?</p></blockquote><p>For the purposes of this question, worldbuilding is what I know about the story's world when I have completed the story. I discover a lot along the way. I know a lot more about the world I'm writing in than could ever reasonably make it into a story. That would turn it into an essay about a culture or a travel guide for visitors instead.</p><p>Critically, I leave certain information out in the sense that I never explicitly state certain aspects, or their reason for being. Why? Think of all the technology and traditions we live with in our modern day lives. Do we know why stuff works, or why we cut off the ends of the roast, or question why marriage still exists? No. Some elements need not be discussed in a story, though they unquestionably affect the character's feelings, and guide what happens. </p><p>Edit: Better that the reader notice the discrepancies and theorize what is common place to the characters but extraordinary to the reader, without stating some things explicitly. Where would be the fun in that? My stories are always mysteries to a degree, and knowing more than the reader is ever going to be told helps with that.</p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PennedPossibilities</span></a> 753 — Where do your SCs feel the happiest?</p></blockquote><p>Here's a variety of SCs.</p><p><strong>Bolt as an SC in an unnamed novel</strong>: She was given part of the attic of a downtown building as an aerie (she is a day angel), and she's built a custom darkroom. It makes her rather gloomy life way happier.</p><p><strong>Caramello (you cannot pronounce his actual name) from <u>Inklings</u></strong>: Truly, he was happiest before the succession war broke out on Crab Island (think Tahiti). As the son of a second wife of the chieftain, and the youngest over all, he got to live life as a fisher and loved a woman he'd have had as a wife, were it not so dangerous for her to be connected to him. Those days were idyllic.</p><p><strong>Emeraline from <u>Reluctant Moon</u></strong>: She can never be happy, having failed to have saved the life of one of her twin sisters. She carries that guilt, but not that of killing her sister's murderer or being convicted of killing an accomplice that had surrendered. She's now a high praetorian. As a day angel with an unusual recessive gene, she can kill with her wings. Her author thinks she's actually happiest when using that talent on anyone who would threaten Director Rainy Days, or the occasional slave-killer.</p><p><strong>Boss Mead from <u>Reluctant Courier</u></strong>: It's probably when dining at a <em>specific</em> delicatessen. He considers that he owns Lowtown Home City's underworld, despite appearing very respectable. Little goes wrong for him, so he's probably happy most anywhere.</p><p><strong>Chrome from <u>Reluctant Moon</u></strong>: He's a dragon who can still pass himself off as a daemon. When the dragon lords killed his family, a poor daemon village took him in, mistaking what he was at first. Since then, he's used his dual identity to run an underground railroad to spirit away daemons in danger of being made slaves or killed. Despite the hardships in the village, it is there that he is most happy.</p><p><strong>Cloud Dancer from <u>Reluctant Moon</u></strong>: In the arms his lover who's referred to in the story as "the hawk." The man uses Cloud Dancer and is trying to separate him from his family, but Cloud Dancer doesn't really care. It's with him that he's happiest, when alone and they need only think of themselves, not the responsibilities society puts on them. </p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSstory</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSInklingsStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSInklingsStory</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSReluctanceStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSReluctanceStory</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><strong>Obsidian Threading Plugin Test</strong></p><p>I've installed Obsidian and Mastodon-Threading on my Mac to automatically break up long posts into <500 character replies with a thread post counter.</p><p>Only the 1st post is Public, mentions and hashtags must be posted:<br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fnordon.de/@bleistifterin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bleistifterin</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mindly.social/@floofpaldi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>floofpaldi</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.stickbear.me/@lunar_fang" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lunar_fang</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.es/@ElPamplina" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ElPamplina</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/threading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>threading</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>obsidian</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a><br>[1/5]</p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WordWeavers</span></a> 2025.08.12 — On a scale from 1 to 10 — how comfortable is your MC’s life?</p></blockquote><p>A question like this almost demands a discussion on cultural relativism. Projecting what we think is right, practical, ethical, or moral on another culture has often lead to religious wars or marginalization. The MCs story takes place in a world very different than ours but, through what paleontologists define as convergent evolution, it is also very familiar. It's developed, it's urban, it's modern, with cities and trains and interstellar flight, but without much utilization of electricity. Consent is far more important to them than it is to us, so when it is violated it is more of a big deal. It is <em>not</em> a chaste society, and for good reasons I shan't go into here.</p><p>Bolt's life from the outside is pretty reasonable. She eats regularly. She has shelter from the endemic furious heat. She has money, though she's allowed barely enough. She's in great physical condition, and occasionally has men in her life. What she lacks is agency. She has been blackmailed. She has no consent in the jobs she takes, though they're rarely onerous except when someone decides to beat up the messenger, her. Some readers might see her as being used or abused physically, but what constitutes that is fungible in her society unlike in ours, and relies on her perception of consent. What's important is that she often has no consent when she might otherwise withhold it. She knows she's where she is because of her own mistakes (her perception, at least) due to ignoring the advice of teachers and parents; she's become apathetic.</p><p>Bolt's story is about how her hobby leads to her taking more control of her life. </p><p>Her life is reasonably comfortable, except when it isn't. A 4, with 10 being exceptional.</p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/cozy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cozy</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sf</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sff</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSstory</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSReluctanceStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSReluctanceStory</span></a></p>
Orion (he/him)<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WordWeavers</span></a> Aug 12: On a scale from 1 to 10, how comfortable are your MC's lives?</p><p>Before the events of the book, they're a 9 or 10. Really wonderfully comfortable lives. During the book, like a 2. They're in a murder cult (in space!). After the book, they have a lot of healing to do, and that involves a lot of discomfort, but it's to good ends. So, like a 7.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Scriberspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scriberspace</span></a></p>
Orion (he/him)<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WordWeavers</span></a> Aug 11: Looking back at the beginning of your writing journey, what advice would you give yourself?</p><p>Trust your own method; bring up a blank page and *write*. It never fails you.<br><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Scriberspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scriberspace</span></a></p>
Orion (he/him)<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Aug 12: How does the morality of the characters you write differ from your own?</p><p>My villains don't care about people. They care about status and power and conformity. My heroes are my ideal, so not my morality but rather what I aspire to.</p><p>Except Sim. He could have gone either way, but his friends all picked "good," and he went with them. :)</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Scriberspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scriberspace</span></a></p>
Orion (he/him)<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Aug 11: Have you ever felt overwhelmed by a work of fiction? </p><p>Very soon, I will celebrate having for the first time written a first draft of a whole damn novel.</p><p>And then soon after that, I will *lament* having to revise a WHOLE. DAMN. NOVEL.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Scriberspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scriberspace</span></a></p>
Orion (he/him)<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> Aug 12 What's the most rewarding thing about your creativity?</p><p>When someone reads and likes it and wants to talk about it. Not praise! *Talk*. I mean, I'll take praise, but interaction is just the best.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Scriberspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scriberspace</span></a></p>
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