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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle)
@kiraofthewind.com
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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#SFFChat Q3:

I'll choose a fellow autistic author, @kiraofthewind.com!

Her monthly worldbuilding prompts are helpful and fun. I've not read her books yet, despite being enamored with her bug themed worldbuilding, so I just bought Merchants of Knowledge and Magic to correct this oversight.
#SFFChat Q3: Recommend a neurodivergent or disabled author or character (apart from one of your own)!
January 30, 2026 at 3:13 AM
#Critterary 29

I promised to talk about my cruelty-free silk today, so now I'm going to talk about MOONBEAM MOTHS. So, most of their caterpillar life is the same as irl silk moths, with the exception that they are Wind elemental creatures and evolved to only eat when there's sufficient wind around.
Day 29
The tough, the squishy, just don't tell them that they're spineless, it's invertebrates day! They're (usually) smol but they work real hard in their colonies, weaving webs, etc., so what sorts do you have?
#Writing #WritingPrompts #Critterary
January 30, 2026 at 3:13 AM
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Happy 2nd birthday to monthly worldbuilders. 💜

As a reminder I built a feed to collect up Kira's daily card posting so if you get behind, it's easy to catch up!

bsky.app/profile/did:...

There's one for responses too so you can find the folks who misspell the tags or post separately. 🤫
I've had a hell of a week (or two) but I'm recovering. I hope to spend some time with your posts in the coming few days!

For now, here's #FebruaryWorldbuilders! This marks the second birthday of the Monthly Worldbuilders prompts, started on Twitter, but getting traction here now. Enjoy!
January 29, 2026 at 8:57 PM
#AwesomeCharacters Tynan doesn't need anything if it's just them, and since they're the baby during the course of their book, they haven't been in a situation where they've had to be responsible for anyone else.

However, I think when they get older, they will be very prepared for outings with
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

How prepared is your character?

Do they plan for every contingency and occasion? The type to have duct tape, Advil, and a sewing needle in their bag?

Or do they pack light and figure things out on the fly?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
January 30, 2026 at 1:41 AM
#SFFChat Q4

From my short story "Better the Devil You Know" where Steffa is the MC and she's going through her first day at Five Saints Academy.
January 30, 2026 at 1:34 AM
#SFFChat Q2

In general, post-Greed Wars Aloutians are good about providing accessibility for disabilities. However, it's not always about accessibility for *disabled* people, but for whole species. Steffa, for example, has all her accessibility needs met at Five Saints Academy, not because they
#SFFChat Q2: How is disability approached/viewed in your world? Are certain disabilities treated differently than others? What rights due disabled people have? Are they venerated, looked down on, etc?
January 30, 2026 at 1:27 AM
#SFFChat Q1

Steffa sometimes needs to use a wheelchair after she uses her magic. She has a condition where, if she uses magic too much, her blood 'attacks' the muscles in her legs and makes walking painful, if not downright impossible.
January 30, 2026 at 1:20 AM
#SFFChat Intro

I'm Erika/Kira, and as an anime-watcher, lemme tell ya: anime is having a golden age. Last year had some PEAK fucking series. Just from summer alone, we had Takopi's Original Sin, Clevatess, and The Summer Hikaru Died.
#SFFChat Intro:

Hi, everyone! Pretty exhausted today, so apologies if I'm not super quick on the draw tonight.

Introduce yourself and share a piece of media from this year or last that you've enjoyed that isn't a book or short story!
January 30, 2026 at 1:16 AM
I've had a hell of a week (or two) but I'm recovering. I hope to spend some time with your posts in the coming few days!

For now, here's #FebruaryWorldbuilders! This marks the second birthday of the Monthly Worldbuilders prompts, started on Twitter, but getting traction here now. Enjoy!
January 29, 2026 at 8:01 PM
We're in the extra days of January! From here until Feb, I'll ask some broader questions, #JanuaryWorldbuilders

Today's Q: What are you planning to work on this year? Particularly in regards to writing and worldbuilding, but feel free to talk about anything
January 29, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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🔴ATTENTION🔴
#WritingCommunity & #ReadersCommunity!

In celebration of its inclusion in #SPFBO, my debut novel will be available for FREE on Amazon from 2/11 - 2/14!

If you've had this on your TBR, this is your chance to snag it! Set your calendars & get ready to read!
January 29, 2026 at 3:21 AM
#AwesomeCharacters

Tynan has an iffy relationship to start with, given they have no feelings toward anyone and their parents can literally force them to do anything.

After bonding and learning how to love, Tynan develops a great relationship with everyone. But, there are complications everywhere.
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

How is your character's relationship with their family?

Do they have biological and/or found family? Are they close or were they?

Can they count on family for support, or was family a source of conflict?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
January 29, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Happy birthday, Rebecca!

Hatching-days are celebrated in the PD, almost everywhere. It's seen as a day to celebrate oneself. It's not about 'aging up.' Like, the whole thing some people say "who cares, I'm a year older" isn't the point. It's about celebrating *you*
It's my birthday, so I'm gonna ask a birthday related question!

If birthdays celebrated by your characters, do they have special traditions for the occasion?

#WritingCommunity #WritingQ
January 28, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Welcome to the Good Thyme Inn writing breakdown

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Genres: cozy grimdark, fantasy
My Writing Breakdown

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Angst:
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Sex/Spice:
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Genres: smut, fantasy, romance, romantasy, dark fantasy, isekai, otome, horror
January 28, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Started my short story! It's another one about Vinoc, the Lord of Terror.

Here's a little bit from the first page

cw// torture, of a sort. Not the traditional kind
January 28, 2026 at 7:06 PM
ACCOUNTABILITY TOPIC

1/28/26

Gotta do some outlining today for a short story. Might even start writing it? We shall see~
January 28, 2026 at 5:52 PM
#Critterary
Yeah, I got some gods. Here's my alignment chart of 'em, lol. These are the kind of fuckers you're dealing with when you enter my fantasy world
January 28, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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In the spirit of community support and finding things to look forward to, I'm going to run a game next month called #TBRuary! Come talk about the books you want to read and get community recs!

Details in the following thread: 🧵

#booksky #readingcommunity
#writesky #writingcommunity
January 27, 2026 at 8:59 PM
#JanuaryWorldbuilders, tell me why a war, either historical or current, started in your world. If this is your first time seeing my prompts: please note that these are for fictional worlds of our own creations! Please no discussions of real wars unless it relates to your fictional story!
January 28, 2026 at 5:00 AM
#Critterary

Jeweled elephants are common on one of Aloutia's continents. They're an incredibly intelligent and kind 'breed' of elephant. A herd of females might 'adopt' a local village and join their community of sapienti. These elephants are known to willingly help with labor and provide milk for
January 28, 2026 at 3:58 AM
#AwesomeCharacters

It's the weird stuff about Tynan that makes them fun. When they transform into a bug or a machine or something ferocious that defies easy description, or like that time when they removed their eyeballs.
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Technical question!

What is your favorite feature to describe about your character?

Hair, eyes, facial expression, hands, posture? Other?

Does it help visualize? Tell us about their emotions? Something else?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
January 28, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Thanks to everyone wishing me the best. I am alright, I just knew that if I stayed on the internet, I would say things I'd regret later. It was one of *those* days.

Anyway, Orb is indeed peak and makes me feel things I never though I'd feel about heliocentrism.
I've been in a bad mood today, so I'm just going to watch anime and mind my own business before I say anything I regret.

I shall engage in the miracle of reading and writing tomorrow, perhaps.

(screenshot taken from the anime I'm watching today: Orb)
January 28, 2026 at 3:46 AM
I've been in a bad mood today, so I'm just going to watch anime and mind my own business before I say anything I regret.

I shall engage in the miracle of reading and writing tomorrow, perhaps.

(screenshot taken from the anime I'm watching today: Orb)
January 27, 2026 at 5:29 PM
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity

On the night of one of the most holy days of the year, in which people honor a saint who died in the cold to save her brother, a boy stumbles into the inn, his extremities frostbitten.
January 27, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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🦜🏴‍☠️⚓WEIGH ANCHOR: PUBLICATION DAY!⚓🏴‍☠️🦜

Excited to announce my latest book: THE CURSE OF DRAGON TAIL ISLAND. My first fantasy (and romance 🌶️🌶️)!

A revenge-fueled tale of clashing cutlasses, monsters & magic, second-chance romance, and salty sea adventure.

LINK: www.jonathannevair.com/curse-dragon...
January 20, 2026 at 2:27 PM