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Nicole "Ashrah" Hidalgo
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- Narrative Designer & Book Writer 📝
- She/Her 🏳️‍🌈
- Author of World Without Love (https://linktr.ee/NicoleHidalgoAuthor) & Chronicles of the Realms (https://archiveofourown.org/works/63099754/chapters/161589157)
- ⚠️Lesbian/Demonic NSFW
- Anti AI slop
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Nicole "Ashrah" Hidalgo @sayaashrah.bsky.social · May 29
"I know who and what I am now, and under the promise of dawn and the serenity of the night, I weave my destiny with my own hands, for I belong to myself, and no creature, whether born in the pits of thorns or in the golden river, can tell me who I am."

#SayaAshrah #ChroniclesOfTheRealms #DigitalArt
Ashrah bust, commission from Saphnoctis (Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/saphnoctis/). The drawing is a three-quarter view of Ashrah wearing her Balance is a Journey outfit (the golden, Barong-shaped pauldrons, the purple selendang, the white collar of the white kebaya, and the Garuda-shaped pendants tying the kebaya together), her purple eyes looking to the right, and her hair done in her usual, warrior-like topknot.
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Do we consider a martial arts tournament where killing is allowed and encouraged a sporting event? If so, that's an important element of #ChroniclesOfTheRealms as it paused the war between four of the six Great Realms... until the day one of them will emerge victorious and the war will begin anew.
cometkins.bsky.social Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @FurCon @cometkins.bsky.social · 34m
Are there any sporting events that are important to the setting of your book/wip? What are they and what do they mean for that setting? #WritingPrompt
January 7, 2026 at 3:51 PM
sayaashrah.bsky.social
That she is, that she is...
January 7, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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Thank you :)
January 7, 2026 at 3:44 PM
sayaashrah.bsky.social
I think maybe werewolves, and vampires too, suffer from the issue of being *everywhere*. I still like vampires, especially my take on them, but I get the saturation. And as we start creating our worlds, maybe that influences us, as we want to try new things instead of going with the same creatures.
January 7, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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She's very... pragmatic 😬
January 7, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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Hi! I'm Nips and I draw [nips] ✨ Pinning in case you wanna snag my work or just support! Whether it be a share, buy or pledge: it helps a lot! Thank you 🖤

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August 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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A #VGen commission of Artemis from Hades II 💚
January 6, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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I don’t want a gaming ghost, I just want more games from trans people
eurogamer.bsky.social Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 1d
Sony has patented an AI gaming ghost that will play PlayStation games for you when you get stuck www.eurogamer.net/sony-has-pat...
Screenshot from Horizon Forbidden West showing Aloy firing an arrow at a large snake-like machine
January 7, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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serraleta.bsky.social
Just like how I have beings that are vampiric in Lights, there are the werewolf...ish 😋 And just like vampire lore, it's clear that werewolf lore was also *probably* developed by a certain few who were no good at keeping to themselves. Food gets the best of them! 🤷‍♀️
#Critterary
serraleta.bsky.social Serra Leta @serraleta.bsky.social · 10h
Day 7
Alright, time for shifty puppies! Werewolves!🐺 Big enough to have their own category, so why not have a day to focus on these beings?
#Writing #WritingPrompts #Critterary
#Critterary - A January writing prompt game. Today's Theme: Werewolves. Yup! They get their own section! Have you written anything featuring them? If not, feel free to discuss any random thoughts (fun facts, favorite media featuring them, gifs, etc.) Bottom Tagline: Celebration of all things creatures! Hosted by Serra Leta. Art of a wolf howling, and art of a cartoon werewolf looking ready to fight. Background is a leafy jungle.
January 7, 2026 at 5:15 AM
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... to potentially create a werewolf species for Outworld. I think something similar would work well for that realm. I haven't developed that yet, though, and likely won't until I start working on Book 2 since that's when Outworld becomes prominent in the story. (2/2)
January 7, 2026 at 12:05 PM
sayaashrah.bsky.social
#Critterary 7. I have a... strange relationship with werewolves. When I was a kid, I used to love them (my father pretended to be one, too lol), but as I grew up and explored more of the realms of fantasy, they stayed behind.

I don't dislike them, I just feel indifferent. This said, I'd like (1/2)
serraleta.bsky.social Serra Leta @serraleta.bsky.social · 10h
Day 7
Alright, time for shifty puppies! Werewolves!🐺 Big enough to have their own category, so why not have a day to focus on these beings?
#Writing #WritingPrompts #Critterary
#Critterary - A January writing prompt game. Today's Theme: Werewolves. Yup! They get their own section! Have you written anything featuring them? If not, feel free to discuss any random thoughts (fun facts, favorite media featuring them, gifs, etc.) Bottom Tagline: Celebration of all things creatures! Hosted by Serra Leta. Art of a wolf howling, and art of a cartoon werewolf looking ready to fight. Background is a leafy jungle.
January 7, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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January 7, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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A thoughtful individual—they're rarer than we'd like to think 😅
January 7, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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Ah, these characters that possess parts of our minds and souls and start making demands 🙃
January 7, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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That's cool! I've never played Genshin, but my sister loves it (or used to... not sure) 😄
January 7, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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Not gonna lie, the possibility of a "cease and desist" used to worry me as well... 😬
January 7, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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A DnD-style campaign played on a subreddit? That sounds quite cool. Was the entire subreddit dedicated to this, or did you make specific threads to run the campaign?
January 7, 2026 at 11:58 AM
sayaashrah.bsky.social
#JanuaryWorldbuilders 7. To make a rather long and tedious story short, it was a desire to give Ashrah the mythology she deserves and that only I can (and care to) give her. Plus, she asked me to, and I learnt that I can never tell her "no" 🤷🏽‍♀️

#ChroniclesOfTheRealms #SayaAshrah
kiraofthewind.com Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 10h
Good morning #JanuaryWorldbuilders! A very broad question that I have no doubt is difficult to answer: What was YOUR beginning of worldbuilding? What was your inspiration? Your initial spark? Another work of fiction? Boredom? A powerful imagination seeking an outlet?
MonthlyWorldbuilders prompts daily feed card #JanuaryWorldbuilders Hosted by Kira of the Wind Week 1: Beginning 7. What inspired you to create your world? The background image shows a blurred magic tree with a waterfall coming down between two halves of its trunk. It’s nighttime and the night sky is magical with lots of blues and pinks and purples
January 7, 2026 at 11:57 AM
sayaashrah.bsky.social
Hell yeahl badass Fox! 🔥

See? Demons are always being helpful!
January 7, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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charliedeltawrites.bsky.social
January 7th – lock

Returning to Fox and the demon, Fox has perhaps had a bit of a breakthrough...

#DawnsBlood

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
“Thank me?” The demon seemed a bit surprised by her reaction. “Sometimes, it takes a bit of tough love to get things through my thick skull. Really, this has been the best therapy session I’ve ever had. Without your…help, let’s say, I never would have realized.” “Realized what?” “I blocked out the details of that day so completely that I really didn’t know. But that was fire, wasn’t it?” The demon didn’t respond. Suddenly, it seemed concerned. “Yes.” Fox smiled, more sure of herself. “That was fire. And it was mine.” And finally, she found it, the deepest lock she had subconsciously placed on her power all those years ago. As it snapped open, she felt it fill her. Her body hummed with it. “It was always mine. And you’re right. I have been wasting it. Shameful. I think it is time I do something about that.” Flames burst from her, searing the demon flesh where it touched her skin, baking it like mud in the sun and crumbling it to dust. Brushing off the fragments, Fox got to her feet. “Today seems as good a day as any.”
January 7, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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smoking-gnu.bsky.social
G'morning #WIPSnips! We have a lock on a specific snip for TLC again, with Jennifer really pissing off her appointed council *that she's never met before this court case*.
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
The courtroom falls utterly silent. I can distinctly hear other rooms on either side in full legal swing, even through the walls. Every single eye is focused on me, and I can feel one pair of compound eyes staring daggers. I also feel the widening grin behind me. Driona is enjoying the show immensely. “Interesting…” the Arbiter comments, and his four-fingered hand darts across the surface of the tablet as if searching for something. “What do you think you are doing??” Voliannas hisses in my ear, suddenly close enough to my head for me to feel her body heat. A warm caterpillar. Ergh. “I am doing as I am rightfully entitled to,” I reply, turning my head to face her eye to eye. My voice is as firm as steel, and I lock into a staring contest with her. “Maybe if you had tried listening out there, we’d have other options than this.” Her face drastically contorts, and she seems to be speechless for the first time since we met. Before either of us can say anything more, the Arbiter speaks up from his podium. “Very interesting! The terminology you used, Miss Jennifer, is absolutely spot on! I feel like I have no choice but to acquiesce to your request, if only for a brief interlude. Court proceedings will remain in current stasis until I say otherwise! Miss Jennifer, do you require your representative council by your side in this?” he asks. I glance to my side, to the fuming Voliannas, and shake my head.
January 7, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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ellielieberman.bsky.social
The hurt she always carried, like the weight of a mountain, grew heavier still and trickled through those cracks until it flooded to the surface before she could ever tamp it back down. Lock it back up. Stuff it full like a wardrobe that could never quite shut.
- When Morning Comes
#WIPSnips
January 7, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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Making an escape
From "Children of the Void" or "Voidsent"
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips
I open my window and climb out. It’s not as exciting as jumping out of a window usually would be. It is only a few feet to the ground. My room is in what people call an addition; an afterthought for the house. Just like I am, an afterthought. You would think my room and I would bond over this, but no. I absolutely hate my room, or at least I hate things that my feeble locks have no power over.
January 7, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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Beren being suave AF. In her defense, Alex is modeled on Manny Jacinto, and I have been reliably informed by many a lady-type that he is prime sweeping material. #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #writesky
Alex lifted her chin and kissed her, lingering over her lips as though memorizing the feel of them against his. “Please get through this alright. I know you’re powerful, and I trust the others to do their work implicitly, but this isn’t something I can patch with some gauze and an IV tube. Just… please come back. I need to sweep you off your feet the way I’ve wanted to for years.” A few fumbling interjections lumbered over Beren’s tongue as she struggled to find something to say that wouldn’t sound completely lame. She settled for reaching over and bopping Alex’s nose. “I’m the witch. If anything, I should be doing the sweeping. You know, because of the brooms and stuff.” Seeing his face twist as he held back laughter, Beren yanked her thyrsus from him and thew her shoulders back, hoping to recapture some dignity. “Shut up. I’m not good at the romantic stuff.” “You just handle the god problem, and I’ll take care of the rest.” Alex tucked an errant lock of hair behind Beren’s ears. He kissed her cheek and squeezed her hand before walking to the Jeep and sliding in. “Go on and do your thing, Priestess of Dionysus. But after this, you’re going to have to get used to someone else taking care of you for once.”
January 7, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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beyondtheonions.bsky.social
#WIPSnips #lock #writing #amwriting #western #horror #fiction #wip Sunsetter - #comingsoon
#sequel to the #novel Weathervane: A tale of ancient evil in the wilds of the west a.co/d/4KHttZd - available now

*Maddie seeks the guidance of the Great Communion
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #read
“I have to go, Francis.” Maddie said, turning around to face me. Her eyes, not the steady hazel’s to which I had grown accustomed, they wandered in their wide sockets, furious in thought, then locked on me once again with the woman’s steady gaze. “There are caves up high. I know the way. There I will make the flame and seek the Great Communion, and the one whose name I will not speak. I will seek the spirits of ancient ones and hear what words they share.” I looked at Maddie with the flat face of a grease-paint mime blanked by disbelief. “The Great Communion is where all spirits gather to whisper winds of words, and bend their ears to listen,” she explained. My face remained unchanged. She sat back down beside me and placed her hand on mine, glancing for a moment at the woeful state of McTavish. “I’ll be fine, Francis. You forget, these hills up here are my home. I’m more kin to them than any family I know. They have been my mother and father, my friend and foe. The mountains are well known to me, and I know where to go.” excerpt from #wip Sunsetter by Ross McDermott
January 7, 2026 at 10:58 AM