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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle)
@kiraofthewind.com
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She/her, author of fantasy novels coming from Shadow Spark Publishing✨
Fantasy gamer, anime nerd, reader🌈
SFINCS3 judge📚
Autistic ace vampire🧛‍♀️ LGBTQ+ safe🏳️‍🌈 Occasional 18+ content🔞

Links to my stuff: https://linktr.ee/kiraofthewind
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Welcome to our third week, #NovemberWorldbuilders! This time we're talking about important RIVERS or LAKES in our world! But, tbh, any sufficiently important body of water will do. Also, don't feel obliged to answer; sometimes I cover niche topics that aren't for everyone!
#NovemberWorldbuilders prompt card Hosted by Kira of the Wind Week 3: RIVER/LAKE 15. Important river/lake in your world The image in the background is a blurred picture of a foresty/rocky landscape with lightning and a mountain in the background
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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🤣🤣 Thank you for your interest! This is for the book I have yet to write, which I plan to get to after I finish my Good Thyme Inn book. So, publishing will be a while!

The hot villain (only semi-villainous, because I gotta redeem him, kinda) :
Sidonay from the Pentagonal Dominion books. He is an aloof, arrogant man with his head held high in profile, with a prominent aquiline nose. He wears an ascot and fancy clothes, with cape and hat. His clothes are red, silver, and black. His fingernails are red, and he has red eyeshadow. His hat has a red feather and red jewels dangling around the brim.
November 15, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Mori:
"Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters" Picture of a living crawdad with claws raised, looking dramatic, in front of a plate of cooked crawdads
November 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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My reaction to that last bit of information
meme of the girl saying "waow" to some horrifying information, but she actually thinks its "based" (cool)
November 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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The only way to 100% tell what element a person is would be to get their DNA tested by a Mantodea. The Mantodea are a species of people who can read a person's DNA if they eat a sample. In Aloutia, babies are required to be tested by a Mantodea at hatching and parents given a report about them
Picture of Basil from the Good Thyme Inn books. He's a Mantodea, a mantis-man with four legs and two long arms. He is insectoid, with a long abdomen, big compound eyes, antennae, and segmented limbs. He also has a mohawk
November 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Shallot and Aubergine (Iom'ren) talking about the Bond he shares with his friend. When Aubergine and his close friend escaped from the breeding facility together, they had to run in separate directions to avoid being caught. They have a psychic connection:
“At least you have your Bond so you can talk to him. Perhaps one day—” “Bond wears off over time,” Iom’ren said sadly. “I will only be able to ‘talk’ to him for a few weeks. Then I’ll feel his emotions for a month. After a year, all that will remain is a general sense of his direction. And in two years, the only thing I’ll know is whether or not he’s still alive. That shall remain until one of the Bonded individuals die.” Shallot struggled to say the next words, but they had to come out. “Like… your sister?” “Like my sister,” he confirmed. The ensuing silence was painful.
November 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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What's up, #NovemberWorldbuilders peeps! Have you dared to get a little freaky with your worldbuilding? Does your fictional world's society believe something to be good or evil which societies on Earth (generally speaking) do not agree with? How did you come up with that idea?👀
#NovemberWorldbuilders prompt card Hosted by Kira of the Wind Week 2: Good and Evil Any morals different from Earth's societies (generally speaking)? The image in the background is a blurred picture of a foresty/rocky landscape with lightning and a mountain in the background
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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#SFFChat Q4

A bit of scenery worldbuilding about the Good Thyme Inn and its walls full of secrets... plus the Lightning God who singlehandedly keeps them in a pre-Industrial society
The Good Thyme Inn had secrets galore within its walls, quite literally. As technology and engineering improved across Aloutia and clockwork contraptions became the norm in the larger cities, the inn had also been renovated so its walls contained the machinery needed to power any such invention the innmaster chose to acquire. Each room had a clock, which had been Marmalade’s decision when she was innmaster. Shallot admired punctuality as much as the next person, but she wasn’t so obsessed with it that she would have ordered a clock in every room. The machinery did not generate electricity; such actions would attract the unwanted attention of Sparkato, the Lightning God, whose depravity knew no bounds and who wouldn’t think twice about throwing a lightning bolt at any mortal he thought to be harnessing his element.
November 14, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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#SFFChat Q3 Close up of the clock in the Good Thyme Inn, from art by Aowna.

Theirs days are exactly as long as ours are, but they like to divide the day into 3 chunks of 8 hours, so their clocks have only eight hours. One 8-hour block is called a triune. They say the triune when they say the time.
Close up of a clock from an art piece done by Aowna. It shows a PD clock with a face divided into three (morning, day, night). There are eight hours. Three different pieces go around the clock like hands. One indicates the triune, one for hour, one for minute
November 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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#SFFChat Q1 Different planes of the PD have different day-night phenomena. Even different places of Aloutia have different stuff going on e.g. if you live in the shadow of the rings vs. on the poles vs. the equator

Aloutia has 14 moons and a planetary ring. They're all magic in their own ways
Eruwan from Merchants of Light and Bone. She is a purple-skinned/blue-maned lion-girl (female lions have manes in this world) with blue wings. She is sitting on a palm tree and looking at a carved seahorse bone. It is a tropical setting and she is on the beach, and dressed in leaves and bones. In the background is the ocean, with many moons in the sky and a beam of light, the planetary ring. Because they are on the equator, it looks like a thin straight line. The Good Thyme Inn, two buildings in an old European style. The two buildings are connected by a glass-covered walkway over a river. Aloutia's planetary rings are visible in the background, resembling a rainbow. The yard is covered in purple flowers, and some climb up the sides of the building
November 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Oh, Varesh! I don't want to forget him. He has a very specific kink: he wants to get in trouble juuust to the point where someone is about to punish him, but then be found innocent in the last second, and freed. Basically, he wants to be "almost" punished, but not actually hurt
Varesh from Better the Devil You Know. He is a young adult/old teen boy with purple skin, some scales on his shoulder and cheeks, and red hair on the left side of his head only. The other side is shaved bald. He is carrying a box of books, but looks happy to be helping out. He’s wearing sleeveless shirt and long pants with a vine-like pattern down the leg
November 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Kamiko (shown here with Jen's character Raven) is into most dommy stuff, but her signature move, taught to her by her mother, is forniphilia. That is, using people as furniture. She regularly sits on her slaves and uses them as tables and trays.
Art of Kamiko from the Pentagonal Dominion books, and Raven from Valerie Storm's Demon Storm books. Kamiko is a dark-skinned woman with silver hair, wearing a kimono with higanbana patterns. She is holding a cat o nine tails. Raven is a white-skinned woman with black hair. She is dressed in red dominatrix gear and holding a whip. They are both looking down on you as if about to dominate you
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Grilled is a bratty bottom. His specific kink is to be 'used' by several men at once. He wants to suck off all his male partners one after the other. He also loves being the middle piece in the Eiffel Tower position. "But Erika, how can they do an Eiffel Tower if he doesn't have a butthole?"
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Sidonay has God complex and has a kink for various domination/sadism acts. He doesn't go AS far as the Hierophant but he's a bit more kinky than Selfishness. He especially likes the idea of stepping on people. Note: he's a Takyufon and has roller-blade feet. He's technically barefoot in this picture
Sidonay from the Pentagonal Dominion books. A handsome, well-dressed man in an ascot, waistcoat, and cape. He has a unique hat with a feather and dangling jewels around the brim. His legs become mechanical above the knees and he has roller blades for feet. He has a cruel smirk and is tilting his hat in an aloof, arrogant manner. The man gives off a supercilious/condescending attitude
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The Lord Hierophant has every domination and sadism kink you can think of. Whipping, cutting, humiliation, burning, etc. etc. Actually, perhaps I should say any kink HE can think of. Reminder that this is a world where pee and poop don't exist so he's not into THAT, at least (he has no concept)
The Lord Hierophant from the Pentagonal Dominion books. He’s a tall, dark-skinned man with an elaborate beard and mustache, and purple jewels embedded in his face around his eyes and on his forehead. He’s dressed in purple priestly robes with images of peacocks (regular colored and one with red/yellow coloration). He has wings coming out of his lower back, as well as wings for ears and on his wrists. He is holding a whip and has a pained, vicious expression on his face, as if sad that he has to torture his victim. All around him is purple, like a purple light is shining on him.
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Lord Selfishness is ace, but dresses this way and likes it. She's into lighter kinks: gentle flogging, spanking, stepping on people. She's actually quite nice when you get to know her

(I'm using this pic so you can see all of her. The little girl is not exposed to any kinky stuff)
Lord Selfishness and Vivea from the Pentagonal Dominion books. Selfishness is a white-skinned woman in red dominatrix-esque clothes and wielding a khopesh with a red ruby on the pommel. Vivea is a young girl with black and purple goth aesthetics.
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Alright, now let's begin:

Requiem is THE kinkster in my series. She's the merchant of hedonism and there is NOTHING she won't do unless it would kill her. She quite literally wrote the book on sex (no, seriously, later in life she wrote a book on how to fuck each of the 88 different species)
A beautiful, big-breasted woman in a loose purple kimono stands in a bamboo forest. She has purple hair and eyes. She carried a katana resting on her shoulder with sun glinting off the blade.
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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#nsfw #kink

My friends who do not want to read this: you have been warned. Mute this thread if you don't want to see 18+ material.

First, the meme. I simply must post it every time ace people and kinks are brough up in the same
Meme of a cartoon character (ace) cutting a small slice out of a cake labeled "kinks and fetishes." The small slice is called "sex." The ace character then takes the massive huge pieces, leaving "sex" behind, but taking the other kinks and fetishes
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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It's #NovemberWorldbuilders time! We're talking about the concepts of GOOD and EVIL in our fictional worlds this week. Tell me: what does your world's authoritative figures say about morality? Is there a church or governing body that tells people how to live? What do they command?
#NovemberWorldbuilders prompt card Hosted by Kira of the Wind Week 2: Good and Evil Fam13. Teachings of the church/moral authority in MC's society The image in the background is a blurred picture of a foresty/rocky landscape with lightning and a mountain in the background
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Grilled and Aubergine being just a teensy bit ✨gay✨

Context: They summoned a Demon Lord and asked him to put an enchantment on an article of their clothing. Grilled came prepared...
“Now, my over-prepared friend, tell me what you want me to enchant.” Grilled’s hat bore a feathered golden pin. Aubergine was sure Grilled would ask for the enchantment to be placed upon that pin. “My underwear,” he said in a smug, confident tone. Aubergine’s jaw dropped. “Are you fucking kidding me?” “Why would this be a joke?” Grilled threw his hands out. “An enchantment should be placed on something close to the body. Something that won’t come off easily. And something that no one else is going to take and decide to wear. Garlic and I sometimes share shirts and pants, and some of my old clothes get passed down to Shanks. And you have borrowed my hats, Gene.” Aubergine recoiled in shock. “You mean the ones you told me I should wear because they’d look hot on me?” Grilled brushed his comment aside. “But no one is going to borrow my underwear.” Grilled and Aubergine from the Good Thyme Inn books. Grilled is sitting on Aubergine’s knee as he sits on a stool at the bar. They’re being cheeky and gay with each other, about to put their respective phallic fruits in each others’ mouths. Grilled is a light-skinned man with silver hair and wearing a bowler hat. Aubergine is a dark-skinned man with jewels on his face, and he’s dressed all in purple.
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Hey there, #NovemberWorldbuilders! It's GOOD and EVIL week. Today, tell me about the ethics/morals of your VILLAIN. If you don't have one of those, talk about another character, particularly one who might deviate from protagonist's moral philosophy
#NovemberWorldbuilders prompt card Hosted by Kira of the Wind Week 2: Good and Evil 12. Villain's (or other important character's) ethics The image in the background is a blurred picture of a foresty/rocky landscape with lightning and a mountain in the background
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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New art of the Lord Hierophant!

His Eminence, St. L'tsok, who saved Aloutia from destruction at the hands of greedy kings and business owners... but at what cost? It took hundreds of executions, tortures, and sending people to brutal work camps.

The common people regard him as a saint and hero
The Lord Hierophant from the Pentagonal Dominion books. He’s a tall, dark-skinned man with an elaborate beard and mustache, and purple jewels embedded in his face around his eyes and on his forehead. He’s dressed in purple priestly robes with images of peacocks (regular colored and one with red/yellow coloration). He has wings coming out of his lower back, as well as wings for ears and on his wrists. He is holding a whip and has a pained, vicious expression on his face, as if sad that he has to torture his victim. All around him is purple, like a purple light is shining on him.
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Shadowmere my beloved demonic Elder Scrolls horse~

Posting an Oblivion screenshot because Oblivion is a better game than Skyrim. Fite me, nerds
Shadowmere the terrifying demon-horse from the Elder Scrolls game, here shown on a path near a walled town
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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The whole gang is going out for a picnic. Not sure whose picture to post since everyone is here😂

Cotza wrap = hamburger, btw

Also, I am coincidentally eating a burg right now 😋
Grilled had made cotza wraps and sliced up a honeydew melon, apples, and peaches. As he unpacked the food, he hummed a song every minstrel visiting the inn for the last month had sung. “Ooh, lookie up there!” Turnip pointed at a tree growing precariously over a cliff above them. “Are those poms?” It was too far for her or Grilled to see well, but Aubergine’s eyes focused in on them. “Sure are,” the older boy said. “This is the first time I’ve seen fruit on that tree.” “I never noticed it until now,” Grilled said. “Hold on, I’ll get a few poms.” He detached his hands and flew them to the faraway tree.
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM