Klaus Writes Poorly
@klaudis.bsky.social
A university grad student who loves to write fantasy but can only make maps. "To lay and dream of the many heavens."
This continent is currently in the early Bronze Age. In the world, it is 1 Ine, the first portal has just been accidentally created on a continent to the west. Many things will soon change for these groups in the centuries to come.
#fantasy #worldbuilding #writing
#fantasy #worldbuilding #writing
October 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This continent is currently in the early Bronze Age. In the world, it is 1 Ine, the first portal has just been accidentally created on a continent to the west. Many things will soon change for these groups in the centuries to come.
#fantasy #worldbuilding #writing
#fantasy #worldbuilding #writing
Either way, in times like these, it is deeply important to take the time to understand how we came to be here, and books like Wigan Pier give us that opportunity. Stay safe, and thanks for reading my thoughts.
June 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Either way, in times like these, it is deeply important to take the time to understand how we came to be here, and books like Wigan Pier give us that opportunity. Stay safe, and thanks for reading my thoughts.
To me, Orwell is a fascinating but often abrasive person to read about, especially with how he speaks on colonialism and the many groups the British brutalized during their colonial rule. Something he himself took part in.
June 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
To me, Orwell is a fascinating but often abrasive person to read about, especially with how he speaks on colonialism and the many groups the British brutalized during their colonial rule. Something he himself took part in.
This book contains some fascinating details about how the poor lived during the period, including family budgets and what the brutal labor within the mines and factories was like.
June 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This book contains some fascinating details about how the poor lived during the period, including family budgets and what the brutal labor within the mines and factories was like.
What Orwell was exploring in this study was which economic and government system would come after the fall of capitalism. This is because during the 1930s, it appeared that capitalism was failing, causing many to believe that societies would have to choose between socialism or fascism.
June 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
What Orwell was exploring in this study was which economic and government system would come after the fall of capitalism. This is because during the 1930s, it appeared that capitalism was failing, causing many to believe that societies would have to choose between socialism or fascism.
This is essentially a study of the impoverished industrial class living in the north of England during the 1930s. In it, however, Orwell is effectively tasked by a wealthy leftist circle in the south of England to understand how poor people lived during the period.
June 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is essentially a study of the impoverished industrial class living in the north of England during the 1930s. In it, however, Orwell is effectively tasked by a wealthy leftist circle in the south of England to understand how poor people lived during the period.
This week, I decided to revisit my favorite Orwell Novel, The Road to Wigan Pier, as it is such an interesting piece for any social scientist or those who study labor/capitalist history.
#book #books #booksky #history #georgeorwell #sociology #orwell
#book #books #booksky #history #georgeorwell #sociology #orwell
June 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This week, I decided to revisit my favorite Orwell Novel, The Road to Wigan Pier, as it is such an interesting piece for any social scientist or those who study labor/capitalist history.
#book #books #booksky #history #georgeorwell #sociology #orwell
#book #books #booksky #history #georgeorwell #sociology #orwell
If you love the stories that come out of the SCP Foundation or vague yet all-encompassing threats within horror, then definitely read Annihilation. Thank you for reading my thoughts, and please let me know what you think. Also, if you've read the trilogy, lmk if I should ever continue the series.
June 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
If you love the stories that come out of the SCP Foundation or vague yet all-encompassing threats within horror, then definitely read Annihilation. Thank you for reading my thoughts, and please let me know what you think. Also, if you've read the trilogy, lmk if I should ever continue the series.
Annihilation contains an exemplary flow of slow-burning horror, which is buffeted by Vandermeer’s beautiful descriptions of natural phenomena. Contained in eloquent visuals is this creeping feeling that nothing being shown is correct or even real, including the biologist's unreliable narration.
June 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Annihilation contains an exemplary flow of slow-burning horror, which is buffeted by Vandermeer’s beautiful descriptions of natural phenomena. Contained in eloquent visuals is this creeping feeling that nothing being shown is correct or even real, including the biologist's unreliable narration.
You follow the “biologist” on the twelfth expedition as she searches for any sign of what happened to her husband within Area X. What she does know is that the man who returned to her from the eleventh expedition was not her husband, and the tower she and her squad found was not supposed to exist.
June 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
You follow the “biologist” on the twelfth expedition as she searches for any sign of what happened to her husband within Area X. What she does know is that the man who returned to her from the eleventh expedition was not her husband, and the tower she and her squad found was not supposed to exist.
Annihilation is set around “Area X,” an anomalous zone where many have entered, with most not returning. Yet after the eleventh expedition, a group of military personnel sent into the zone suddenly appeared at their families' homes without a clue as to how they got there.
June 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Annihilation is set around “Area X,” an anomalous zone where many have entered, with most not returning. Yet after the eleventh expedition, a group of military personnel sent into the zone suddenly appeared at their families' homes without a clue as to how they got there.
I've made more and more changes to my world over the months, so here is a small part of what I've been working on. The states/cultural groups in the year the portals were created within the Academies of Gressus. #fantasy #maps #worldbuilding #writing
May 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I've made more and more changes to my world over the months, so here is a small part of what I've been working on. The states/cultural groups in the year the portals were created within the Academies of Gressus. #fantasy #maps #worldbuilding #writing
Something I found highly interesting was the inclusion of Mitsumi’s aunt Nao, a trans woman who is Mitsumi’s guardian in Tokyo. Such normative inclusion of queer characters is something I find deeply encouraging for a genre that, in my experience, treated queer characters very poorly in the past.
May 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Something I found highly interesting was the inclusion of Mitsumi’s aunt Nao, a trans woman who is Mitsumi’s guardian in Tokyo. Such normative inclusion of queer characters is something I find deeply encouraging for a genre that, in my experience, treated queer characters very poorly in the past.
I will say, like other entries in this genre, there is this habit to lightly, and I mean like a feather, touch on the darker sides of growing up and making mistakes. Something we see in the brief references towards Mitsumi’s hometown struggling, or Sosuke Shima’s broken family and childhood.
May 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I will say, like other entries in this genre, there is this habit to lightly, and I mean like a feather, touch on the darker sides of growing up and making mistakes. Something we see in the brief references towards Mitsumi’s hometown struggling, or Sosuke Shima’s broken family and childhood.
This series paints a nostalgic vibe that has the ability to hit in a deeply personal place. For me, it was the peaceful summers of my childhood neighborhood, which heavily incentivized me to keep reading.
May 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This series paints a nostalgic vibe that has the ability to hit in a deeply personal place. For me, it was the peaceful summers of my childhood neighborhood, which heavily incentivized me to keep reading.
Skip and Loafer is about Imakura Mitsumi, a highly ambitious highschooler who moved to Tokyo from a small village in the rural region of the Ishikawa Prefecture. Standard to these kinds of stories, there is a whole roster of characters, all with their own stories that intertwine with one another.
May 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Skip and Loafer is about Imakura Mitsumi, a highly ambitious highschooler who moved to Tokyo from a small village in the rural region of the Ishikawa Prefecture. Standard to these kinds of stories, there is a whole roster of characters, all with their own stories that intertwine with one another.
So I just finished the first three volumes of Skip and Loafer by Misaki Takamatsu, and I really enjoyed them. In an attempt to challenge myself, I decided I would not just cover academic work here since that is what I am most comfortable speaking on, so here we go. #books #booksky #manga #anime
May 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I will say, Hyman does push that the digital age offers the opportunity for humans to evolve how we work past our modern roots in industrialism. However, I think corporate greed enabled by generative AI will, like all else, be able to exploit our creative human work, Hyman flaunts so highly.
May 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I will say, Hyman does push that the digital age offers the opportunity for humans to evolve how we work past our modern roots in industrialism. However, I think corporate greed enabled by generative AI will, like all else, be able to exploit our creative human work, Hyman flaunts so highly.
Executives increasingly outsourced to temp workers, funded the cultural promotion of the entrepreneur, and continued to use marginalized communities, and the exclusion/exploitation of these groups, to break down working-class solidarity.
May 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Executives increasingly outsourced to temp workers, funded the cultural promotion of the entrepreneur, and continued to use marginalized communities, and the exclusion/exploitation of these groups, to break down working-class solidarity.
Hyman demonstrates how the corporate prioritization of longevity and steady profits was replaced by the draw of high profits, temp work, and hostility to unions/worker rights.
May 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Hyman demonstrates how the corporate prioritization of longevity and steady profits was replaced by the draw of high profits, temp work, and hostility to unions/worker rights.
Any other sociologists on this app? Would luv to hear from fellow soc-pilled ppl. #Sociology #academia
November 30, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Any other sociologists on this app? Would luv to hear from fellow soc-pilled ppl. #Sociology #academia
The Mages of Frada remain an ancient and volatile threat to the Ataraki trade routes that go along the northern coast of Marna Atho. Devoutly worshiping their supposed God, they hold the ability to manipulate the waves of the ocean and mind. #art #maps #writing #worldbuilding #fantasy
November 30, 2024 at 6:38 PM
The Mages of Frada remain an ancient and volatile threat to the Ataraki trade routes that go along the northern coast of Marna Atho. Devoutly worshiping their supposed God, they hold the ability to manipulate the waves of the ocean and mind. #art #maps #writing #worldbuilding #fantasy
These four kingdoms remain in conflict for most of the late Ker era. Geographically induced conflicts like the frequent raids from the Yalom Hill Kings or short bursts of war between petty Demashi nobles have kept the region unstable up until the birth of the portals in 1 Ine. #worldbuilding #maps
November 28, 2024 at 1:52 AM
These four kingdoms remain in conflict for most of the late Ker era. Geographically induced conflicts like the frequent raids from the Yalom Hill Kings or short bursts of war between petty Demashi nobles have kept the region unstable up until the birth of the portals in 1 Ine. #worldbuilding #maps