Pat Luther
@plutherus.bsky.social
Novelist and Playwright.
https://pluther.us/
https://www.twitch.tv/plutherus
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Pat+Luther
https://pluther.us/
https://www.twitch.tv/plutherus
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Pat+Luther
"Calling all #AspiringWriters: Want your first page read and critiqued by a published author—online and in public? I do one per week on YouTube. Submit yours here: buff.ly/ulE7lSh%22,%... #BetaReader"
December 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"Calling all #AspiringWriters: Want your first page read and critiqued by a published author—online and in public? I do one per week on YouTube. Submit yours here: buff.ly/ulE7lSh%22,%... #BetaReader"
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Hey folks. We just released more songs. They'll be available in a couple of days, but if you click on this link you'll be able to hear previews of what's about to hit. We've been going through two decades of unreleased tunes. Please add us to your playlists.
We Are Not Okay by Ego and The Ids
Stream and Save We Are Not Okay - Distributed by DistroKid
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December 4, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Hey folks. We just released more songs. They'll be available in a couple of days, but if you click on this link you'll be able to hear previews of what's about to hit. We've been going through two decades of unreleased tunes. Please add us to your playlists.
#DecemberWorldbuilders
Thoughtless and Careless take place a couple of hundred years into our future. It's relatively high-tech, but nothing magical like transporters or FTL.
Actually, all of the technology described exists today, though in smaller scale, more expensive, or prototype form only.
Thoughtless and Careless take place a couple of hundred years into our future. It's relatively high-tech, but nothing magical like transporters or FTL.
Actually, all of the technology described exists today, though in smaller scale, more expensive, or prototype form only.
#DecemberWorldbuilders! What is the "level" of technology in your fictional world? Is it a low-tech fantasy? A high-tech sci-fi? Or something in-between? Maybe something outside the tech progression of human history. Did they invent anything ahead of us in time? Any inventions suspiciously absent?
December 5, 2025 at 12:38 AM
#DecemberWorldbuilders
Thoughtless and Careless take place a couple of hundred years into our future. It's relatively high-tech, but nothing magical like transporters or FTL.
Actually, all of the technology described exists today, though in smaller scale, more expensive, or prototype form only.
Thoughtless and Careless take place a couple of hundred years into our future. It's relatively high-tech, but nothing magical like transporters or FTL.
Actually, all of the technology described exists today, though in smaller scale, more expensive, or prototype form only.
#WIPSnips 12/4
Once again, Del finds herself in trouble. Not just with city security, but with time itself...
(Also, that's 8 Martian years, so she's 16 in this memory, in case you were worried.)
Once again, Del finds herself in trouble. Not just with city security, but with time itself...
(Also, that's 8 Martian years, so she's 16 in this memory, in case you were worried.)
December 5, 2025 at 12:35 AM
#WIPSnips 12/4
Once again, Del finds herself in trouble. Not just with city security, but with time itself...
(Also, that's 8 Martian years, so she's 16 in this memory, in case you were worried.)
Once again, Del finds herself in trouble. Not just with city security, but with time itself...
(Also, that's 8 Martian years, so she's 16 in this memory, in case you were worried.)
I am watching, for the first time ever, the very last episode of Deep Space Nine.
#PatWatches #DS9
"Let's make a pact: We both come home alive."
Me: Oh no! One of them is going to die!
#PatWatches #DS9
"Let's make a pact: We both come home alive."
Me: Oh no! One of them is going to die!
December 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I am watching, for the first time ever, the very last episode of Deep Space Nine.
#PatWatches #DS9
"Let's make a pact: We both come home alive."
Me: Oh no! One of them is going to die!
#PatWatches #DS9
"Let's make a pact: We both come home alive."
Me: Oh no! One of them is going to die!
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PSSST...Wanna see a portal to a beautiful place that has nothing but art made by real humans.
Left click or press & hold this > #ArtAdventCalendar and choose "See #ArtAdventCalendar posts"
The biggest art event on Bluesky. Last year we had 1500 participants from 25 countries posting +20,000 images
Left click or press & hold this > #ArtAdventCalendar and choose "See #ArtAdventCalendar posts"
The biggest art event on Bluesky. Last year we had 1500 participants from 25 countries posting +20,000 images
December 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
PSSST...Wanna see a portal to a beautiful place that has nothing but art made by real humans.
Left click or press & hold this > #ArtAdventCalendar and choose "See #ArtAdventCalendar posts"
The biggest art event on Bluesky. Last year we had 1500 participants from 25 countries posting +20,000 images
Left click or press & hold this > #ArtAdventCalendar and choose "See #ArtAdventCalendar posts"
The biggest art event on Bluesky. Last year we had 1500 participants from 25 countries posting +20,000 images
#DecemberWorldbuilders
While not her primary specialty, Bilan's namesake great-grandmother was Venus' first First Engineer. I ended up doing a lot of reading up on material science as she was responsible for construction of the first of the of the floating cities on Venus. I had to figure out [1/4]
While not her primary specialty, Bilan's namesake great-grandmother was Venus' first First Engineer. I ended up doing a lot of reading up on material science as she was responsible for construction of the first of the of the floating cities on Venus. I had to figure out [1/4]
Yap at me, #DecemberWorldbuilders! Does your world have any chemists or alchemists? Are they living at the time of your characters' journey or are they ancient history? What did they discover? What *is* chemistry or alchemy in your setting?
December 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
#DecemberWorldbuilders
While not her primary specialty, Bilan's namesake great-grandmother was Venus' first First Engineer. I ended up doing a lot of reading up on material science as she was responsible for construction of the first of the of the floating cities on Venus. I had to figure out [1/4]
While not her primary specialty, Bilan's namesake great-grandmother was Venus' first First Engineer. I ended up doing a lot of reading up on material science as she was responsible for construction of the first of the of the floating cities on Venus. I had to figure out [1/4]
I've been "binge" watching Deep Space Nine for over a year now. I missed a lot of it when it was on TV. That was back in the Olden Dayes when you had to watch TV when it was being broadcast or you didn't get to see it.
I'd never seen the last season at all before.
[1/2]
I'd never seen the last season at all before.
[1/2]
December 3, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I've been "binge" watching Deep Space Nine for over a year now. I missed a lot of it when it was on TV. That was back in the Olden Dayes when you had to watch TV when it was being broadcast or you didn't get to see it.
I'd never seen the last season at all before.
[1/2]
I'd never seen the last season at all before.
[1/2]
#DecemberWorldbuilders 2
The world of Thoughtless & Careless is the future of our own. As such, humans are evolved. There are stories indicating otherwise, just as there are today, though of course over 200 years they, too, have evolved.
The world of Thoughtless & Careless is the future of our own. As such, humans are evolved. There are stories indicating otherwise, just as there are today, though of course over 200 years they, too, have evolved.
Hello, #DecemberWorldbuilders! Tell us about the creation of your people according to the in-world lore. Were they created by gods? Did they evolve from single-celled organisms? Maybe a bit of both? Maybe they don't know, and maybe they have stories about it. What are their creation myths?
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 AM
#DecemberWorldbuilders 2
The world of Thoughtless & Careless is the future of our own. As such, humans are evolved. There are stories indicating otherwise, just as there are today, though of course over 200 years they, too, have evolved.
The world of Thoughtless & Careless is the future of our own. As such, humans are evolved. There are stories indicating otherwise, just as there are today, though of course over 200 years they, too, have evolved.
#DecemberWorldbuilders
This should be fun, since my current WIP is science fiction.
The technology developed by science is available to everyone. (Some more than others.)
Anyone can do science, but credentialed scientists have an easier time finding funding and getting their findings published.
This should be fun, since my current WIP is science fiction.
The technology developed by science is available to everyone. (Some more than others.)
Anyone can do science, but credentialed scientists have an easier time finding funding and getting their findings published.
Welcome to the first week of #DecemberWorldbuilders! This week is about SCIENCE (broadly speaking) (you can play along even if you're writing pre-industrial fantasy!)
Today's Q: Can anyone in your world participate in scientific research? Or is it reserved for elites?
Today's Q: Can anyone in your world participate in scientific research? Or is it reserved for elites?
December 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
#DecemberWorldbuilders
This should be fun, since my current WIP is science fiction.
The technology developed by science is available to everyone. (Some more than others.)
Anyone can do science, but credentialed scientists have an easier time finding funding and getting their findings published.
This should be fun, since my current WIP is science fiction.
The technology developed by science is available to everyone. (Some more than others.)
Anyone can do science, but credentialed scientists have an easier time finding funding and getting their findings published.
#WIPSnips 11/30
A little bit of a spoiler. But I think it's the type of spoiler that you won't really know was a spoiler until you get to it, at which point it won't be a spoiler anymore. Maybe.
A little bit of a spoiler. But I think it's the type of spoiler that you won't really know was a spoiler until you get to it, at which point it won't be a spoiler anymore. Maybe.
December 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
#WIPSnips 11/30
A little bit of a spoiler. But I think it's the type of spoiler that you won't really know was a spoiler until you get to it, at which point it won't be a spoiler anymore. Maybe.
A little bit of a spoiler. But I think it's the type of spoiler that you won't really know was a spoiler until you get to it, at which point it won't be a spoiler anymore. Maybe.
This whole thread is great. Kira's analysis is spot on - a great examination of how those made-up words are used, and looking at things like that beyond the surface level. A lot of authors really think these things through, and readers will often be rewarded if they do, too.
Welp, fuck XKCD then
I'm going to go invent *more* words now just to say 'fuck you'
I'm going to go invent *more* words now just to say 'fuck you'
I refrained from really engaging directly, but so much of it seems to be conflating well-considered worldbuilding and the bad stereotype of fantasy of "a bunch of nonsense words" as the same thing, some using this old XKCD as "evidence" of that.
And that just hurts the genre.
And that just hurts the genre.
November 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This whole thread is great. Kira's analysis is spot on - a great examination of how those made-up words are used, and looking at things like that beyond the surface level. A lot of authors really think these things through, and readers will often be rewarded if they do, too.
#WIPSnips 11/29
The logistics of water supply in the asteroid belt. Because isn't that what most people want to read about when your protagonist is taking a shower?
The logistics of water supply in the asteroid belt. Because isn't that what most people want to read about when your protagonist is taking a shower?
November 30, 2025 at 4:28 AM
#WIPSnips 11/29
The logistics of water supply in the asteroid belt. Because isn't that what most people want to read about when your protagonist is taking a shower?
The logistics of water supply in the asteroid belt. Because isn't that what most people want to read about when your protagonist is taking a shower?
#WIPSnips 11/27
I don't know if I've ever seen the word used as a verb before, let alone used it that way myself.
But here's the closest I get.
I don't know if I've ever seen the word used as a verb before, let alone used it that way myself.
But here's the closest I get.
November 30, 2025 at 4:17 AM
#WIPSnips 11/27
I don't know if I've ever seen the word used as a verb before, let alone used it that way myself.
But here's the closest I get.
I don't know if I've ever seen the word used as a verb before, let alone used it that way myself.
But here's the closest I get.
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Thanks for this post! The Sunken Place is an adaptation of my UCLA course, but for the public: www.sunkenplaceclass.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Thanks for this post! The Sunken Place is an adaptation of my UCLA course, but for the public: www.sunkenplaceclass.com
#WIPSnips 11/23
What Del doesn't know is that there have been three attempts to unite all of Earth, the last of which fell apart a hundred years before she was born:
1. The League of Nations
2. The United Nations
3. The Earth Global Council.
What Del doesn't know is that there have been three attempts to unite all of Earth, the last of which fell apart a hundred years before she was born:
1. The League of Nations
2. The United Nations
3. The Earth Global Council.
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
#WIPSnips 11/23
What Del doesn't know is that there have been three attempts to unite all of Earth, the last of which fell apart a hundred years before she was born:
1. The League of Nations
2. The United Nations
3. The Earth Global Council.
What Del doesn't know is that there have been three attempts to unite all of Earth, the last of which fell apart a hundred years before she was born:
1. The League of Nations
2. The United Nations
3. The Earth Global Council.
