Thomas North
@thomasnorthwriter.bsky.social
Hobbyist writer of fantasy and science-fiction, surrounded by books, paintings, and vintage furniture.
Check out my website for more 👇
🌐 https://wildersteorra.net/
Check out my website for more 👇
🌐 https://wildersteorra.net/
Sometimes I feel like I get too much pleasure from maintaining a glossary for my #worldbuilding 😅. After working on this for several years, I spent a good chunk of my Friday evening writing up the order for the annotations I have before the definition of a word. So accomplished 😌
#fantasy #scifi
#fantasy #scifi
December 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Sometimes I feel like I get too much pleasure from maintaining a glossary for my #worldbuilding 😅. After working on this for several years, I spent a good chunk of my Friday evening writing up the order for the annotations I have before the definition of a word. So accomplished 😌
#fantasy #scifi
#fantasy #scifi
This week from my #ShortStory vault, another story based off a painting.
If you like it, please share it any way you can!
#fiction #writing #WriteSky #art #painting #fineart #traditionalart
If you like it, please share it any way you can!
#fiction #writing #WriteSky #art #painting #fineart #traditionalart
Abbey Amongst the Oak Trees
The year was dead, the sun was set. Fourteen Brothers were chosen for the deed: six to carry the burden, eight to witness the act. Expelled were words of grief and extolled were the virtues of Man.…
wildersteorra.net
December 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This week from my #ShortStory vault, another story based off a painting.
If you like it, please share it any way you can!
#fiction #writing #WriteSky #art #painting #fineart #traditionalart
If you like it, please share it any way you can!
#fiction #writing #WriteSky #art #painting #fineart #traditionalart
Houses pre-WWII 🏡
Orange juice 🍊
Books 📚
Cats 🐈
Gunpla 🤖
A good walk 🚶
Bicycling 🚴
Soda 🥤
The countryside 🌄
Urbanism 🏙️
Orange juice 🍊
Books 📚
Cats 🐈
Gunpla 🤖
A good walk 🚶
Bicycling 🚴
Soda 🥤
The countryside 🌄
Urbanism 🏙️
Get to know your mutuals! List 10 random things you like:
Writing ✍️
Coffee ☕️
Moss 🌱
Ceramics 🍶
Cross stitching 🧵
Books 📚
Rainy days ☔️
Kombucha 🍵
Naps 😪
Noodles 🍜
Writing ✍️
Coffee ☕️
Moss 🌱
Ceramics 🍶
Cross stitching 🧵
Books 📚
Rainy days ☔️
Kombucha 🍵
Naps 😪
Noodles 🍜
Get to know your mutuals! List 10 random things you like 🥰
✨books
✨cats
✨watermelon
✨sushi
✨matcha
✨thunderstorms
✨mini things
✨bath & bodyworks body sprays
✨earrings
✨stardew valley
✨books
✨cats
✨watermelon
✨sushi
✨matcha
✨thunderstorms
✨mini things
✨bath & bodyworks body sprays
✨earrings
✨stardew valley
December 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Houses pre-WWII 🏡
Orange juice 🍊
Books 📚
Cats 🐈
Gunpla 🤖
A good walk 🚶
Bicycling 🚴
Soda 🥤
The countryside 🌄
Urbanism 🏙️
Orange juice 🍊
Books 📚
Cats 🐈
Gunpla 🤖
A good walk 🚶
Bicycling 🚴
Soda 🥤
The countryside 🌄
Urbanism 🏙️
Cites (and towns, and villages) are for people, not for cars. Any inconveniences of infrastructure and land-use that don't prioritize personal vehicles is worth it, and I will gladly pay it.
Madison is pro-people, not anti-car
Just because you want to conveniently drive without traffic doesn't make it solid policy
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December 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Cites (and towns, and villages) are for people, not for cars. Any inconveniences of infrastructure and land-use that don't prioritize personal vehicles is worth it, and I will gladly pay it.
This week from my #ShortStory vault, well, the title says it all, doesn't it?
If you like it, please share it any way you can!
#fiction #writing #WriteSky
If you like it, please share it any way you can!
#fiction #writing #WriteSky
Monk by the Sea
Deep within the dying year, a man stood deep in thought before the cold, black sea. The wind strengthened as the day weakened, carrying the salty sea air over the shores in invisible surges. Capped…
wildersteorra.net
December 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This week from my #ShortStory vault, well, the title says it all, doesn't it?
If you like it, please share it any way you can!
#fiction #writing #WriteSky
If you like it, please share it any way you can!
#fiction #writing #WriteSky
This week from my #ShortStory vault, a spirit celebrates her adopted daughter's birthday and bond over a shared interest.
If you like it, please share it in any way you can 🙂
#fiction #writing #WriteSky
If you like it, please share it in any way you can 🙂
#fiction #writing #WriteSky
That Moment, Small and Mundane
“Mother, I’ve decided what I want for my birthday,” Edelas said. The skies were gray, the air was chill, and the wind blustered. It was a respite from the oppressive summer heat, a present for all …
wildersteorra.net
November 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This week from my #ShortStory vault, a spirit celebrates her adopted daughter's birthday and bond over a shared interest.
If you like it, please share it in any way you can 🙂
#fiction #writing #WriteSky
If you like it, please share it in any way you can 🙂
#fiction #writing #WriteSky
Another item for my wish list!
I've read The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, and I have in my library The Riddle Master of Hed and Heir of Sea and Fire, all of which are in their first editions with their lovely old-school art. I'm glad this collection pays homage to that art. McKillip is great too 😁
I've read The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, and I have in my library The Riddle Master of Hed and Heir of Sea and Fire, all of which are in their first editions with their lovely old-school art. I'm glad this collection pays homage to that art. McKillip is great too 😁
Check out as @garykwolfe reviews THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP by Patricia A. McKillip, calling it an “invitation to reconsider her work as even more varied, complex, and sharp-witted than we might have remembered.”
The Essential Patricia A. McKillip by Patricia A. McKillip: Review by Gary K. Wolfe
The Essential Patricia A. McKillip, Patricia A. McKillip (Tachyon 978-1-61696-448-1, $28.95, 320pp, hc) October 2025. Cover by Tom Canty. Fifty years ago, Patricia A. McKillip received the World Fa…
locusmag.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Another item for my wish list!
I've read The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, and I have in my library The Riddle Master of Hed and Heir of Sea and Fire, all of which are in their first editions with their lovely old-school art. I'm glad this collection pays homage to that art. McKillip is great too 😁
I've read The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, and I have in my library The Riddle Master of Hed and Heir of Sea and Fire, all of which are in their first editions with their lovely old-school art. I'm glad this collection pays homage to that art. McKillip is great too 😁
💙📚 On this Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for family and several hours of reading time. I'm halfway through "To Green Angel Tower" by Tad Williams ⚔️
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
💙📚 On this Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for family and several hours of reading time. I'm halfway through "To Green Angel Tower" by Tad Williams ⚔️
Across so many aspects of our lives, it is clear to me that we need to support smaller, and shall I say, more communal, organizations, ones that better respect our humanity. For books, here is a way forward.
wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
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Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Across so many aspects of our lives, it is clear to me that we need to support smaller, and shall I say, more communal, organizations, ones that better respect our humanity. For books, here is a way forward.
This week going through my #ShortStory vault:
Two spirits awaken in the afterlife, and they figure out who they are and what's their purpose.
#writing #fiction #WriteSky
Two spirits awaken in the afterlife, and they figure out who they are and what's their purpose.
#writing #fiction #WriteSky
Awaken From the Dream of Life
Darkness, silence, purity. Nothing. There was nothing, until something knew the nothingness, and so We began. A deep note resounded once, and then motes of light flickered and drifted through dimen…
wildersteorra.net
November 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This week going through my #ShortStory vault:
Two spirits awaken in the afterlife, and they figure out who they are and what's their purpose.
#writing #fiction #WriteSky
Two spirits awaken in the afterlife, and they figure out who they are and what's their purpose.
#writing #fiction #WriteSky
The spirits of a wife and husband at last get an opportunity in their afterlife they did not get in life, but at what cost?
#ShortStory #writersky #fantasy
#ShortStory #writersky #fantasy
A Glimmer of Light
Golden sunlight poured into the parlor, painting a gilded outline on the face of Ilisan, my sweet neighbor. We weren’t talking about much at all, just the idle conversation of a lazy summer evening…
wildersteorra.net
November 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The spirits of a wife and husband at last get an opportunity in their afterlife they did not get in life, but at what cost?
#ShortStory #writersky #fantasy
#ShortStory #writersky #fantasy
What happens when two machines love each other? And what does that mean legally? "The Flaming Embusen" has some answers, and a healthy dose of social commentary.
Thank you @tadethompson.bsky.social !
Thank you @tadethompson.bsky.social !
ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?
Try the short story "The Flaming Embusen" by Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
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Try the short story "The Flaming Embusen" by Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/7DQPTPY
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
What happens when two machines love each other? And what does that mean legally? "The Flaming Embusen" has some answers, and a healthy dose of social commentary.
Thank you @tadethompson.bsky.social !
Thank you @tadethompson.bsky.social !
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I saw Predator: Badlands this weekend, and it was awesome. It pleased me to see a film trusting its audience enough to dedicate its whole opening to showing the Youtja culture AND have everyone talk in an alien language the whole time. That was very satisfying.
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I saw Predator: Badlands this weekend, and it was awesome. It pleased me to see a film trusting its audience enough to dedicate its whole opening to showing the Youtja culture AND have everyone talk in an alien language the whole time. That was very satisfying.
The spirits of a wife and husband write a song together in this unfinished draft from 2017.
#fantasy #shortstory #fiction #writesky #writing
#fantasy #shortstory #fiction #writesky #writing
The Glow Upon the Clouds (Unfinished)
In life, the husband and the wife both loved song and dance. I remember; it was song and dance that brought them together for the first time, as youths first taking interest in those of the other s…
wildersteorra.net
November 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The spirits of a wife and husband write a song together in this unfinished draft from 2017.
#fantasy #shortstory #fiction #writesky #writing
#fantasy #shortstory #fiction #writesky #writing
After a few different attempts over the years to write my own #poetry, particularly with meter (respect to modern poets to don't use meter, but I personally like the more old-fashioned stuff), I tried copying some poems and writing scansions of them. It was a lot of fun!
#LiteratureSky #handwriting
#LiteratureSky #handwriting
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
After a few different attempts over the years to write my own #poetry, particularly with meter (respect to modern poets to don't use meter, but I personally like the more old-fashioned stuff), I tried copying some poems and writing scansions of them. It was a lot of fun!
#LiteratureSky #handwriting
#LiteratureSky #handwriting
Continuing my way through my old stuff. This was my first attempt at a first-person story back in 2017, and it turned out to be a seed of something much more I hope to return to one day.
#fantasy #shortstory #writing
#fantasy #shortstory #writing
The Good Stuff
It was a hot summer day here in The Middle of Nowhere. The sun had reached its zenith, casting hot, white light onto the land below. It was a dry heat, much as it had been for a while, as the crops…
wildersteorra.net
November 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Continuing my way through my old stuff. This was my first attempt at a first-person story back in 2017, and it turned out to be a seed of something much more I hope to return to one day.
#fantasy #shortstory #writing
#fantasy #shortstory #writing
I have a blog where I've been uploading old things! This is a foundational myth in my first #conlang, though it's a culture and setting I haven't written for in so many years.
Arrasprr Tsarrmejtsnund (Treebirth Story)
Tsarrtsnud, or Treebirth, is the prevalent creation myth for the Yerek’shah centered around the avsel trees. All the mountains, valleys, and rivers were already in place when the avsel trees seeded…
wildersteorra.net
October 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I have a blog where I've been uploading old things! This is a foundational myth in my first #conlang, though it's a culture and setting I haven't written for in so many years.
Reposted by Thomas North
Author Rachael K. Jones is known for writing stories that are so knife-sharp that you cut yourself when you pick them up. Her story "Five Functions of Your Binosaur," from Issue 4, is a gentler story, though still bittersweet.
Five Functions of Your Bionosaur - Small Wonders
The bionosaur was a baby shower gift from your mom's favorite aunt. They were nervous about its size, the stainless steel maw, the retractable razorclaws inside its stubby little arms, but the aunt had insisted.
smallwondersmag.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Author Rachael K. Jones is known for writing stories that are so knife-sharp that you cut yourself when you pick them up. Her story "Five Functions of Your Binosaur," from Issue 4, is a gentler story, though still bittersweet.
Hello friends, I'm Thomas North, and I’m a hobbyist writer of fantasy & sci-fi. I call myself that since writing proper stories AND worldbuilding is such a commitment when you have only so much leisure time left after the day job 😊
October 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Hello friends, I'm Thomas North, and I’m a hobbyist writer of fantasy & sci-fi. I call myself that since writing proper stories AND worldbuilding is such a commitment when you have only so much leisure time left after the day job 😊