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New Word Weavers for the "NoWham Bear" 2025

Here you find my answers for the last month:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115295505920192507

The prompts can be found here:
https://wandering.shop/@AlinaLeonova/115464922258134337

In text on the profile of @AlinaLeonova

And here:
https://writing.exchange/@BranwenOShea/115489128295963124

as a share pic on the profile of @BranwenOShea

And here you find the Overwiew toot for the NoWhamBear and a little drawing fitting to the name:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115473986093419633

#WordWeavers #November2025 #NoWhamBear2025

Anna Saultron :progresspride: (@[email protected])

New Word Weavers for October 2025. Last month answers are here: https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115139381219884504 The overview toot threat toot for October 2025 is here: https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115294270072941194 The questions can be found here as text: https://wandering.shop/@AlinaLeonova/115300949741352055 On @[email protected]'s profile. And here as the share pic: https://writing.exchange/@BranwenOShea/115299351911357194 found on @[email protected]'s profile. #WordWeavers October 2025

NerdCulture

01.11.2025
Tell us what you’re working on now. What’s special about the project?

Still Star Ryde.
Well special i only jumped back to it thanks to the prompt games here on Mastodon and in my megalomaniac mind I create a franchise not a Book... And I struggle to come along so in another megalomaniac move I set my goal for this month to double the amount of existing words this means 30.000 words for the write month where I just got done 22.000 since last write month (which made me write 10.000) but you know if I don't succeed it's okay. I'm glad about every bit I get done.

#WordWeavers 01.11.2025 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

I'm stupid 😅 I've done the Oktober Prompt again. Folks if you see this how about letting me know?

01.11.2025
Describe a perfect reader for your story (i.e. who is the story for?)

The perfect reader does not exist this I do not think about them. I do instead think about persons for who I'm working on my story.
1. Me
2. People that are like me to a degree.
3. my aim for Star Ryde as an example is an average to deep invested SciFi Person that liked Star Trek, Mass Effect and similar.
4. Queer people.
5. People that are open minded for a "luke warm" warm up of many SciFi 'tropes' & topics remixed & rearranged with lessons I took from Terry Pratchett and others, plus my own spin on things.

#WordWeavers 02.11.2025 ketchup #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

02.11.2025
Share something unusual about one of your characters’ lives.

Ashlei would love to cook if she had a Humanoid body.
But she isn't programmed to love, or cook or have a Humanoid body so she only can tinker with the EQuil mix in the Enzyme printer.

#WordWeavers 02.11.2025 #StarRyde #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

Kira lost her whole family & almost her life at what was considered a normal day in the park, with 6 years. She found a loving 2. family but the tragedy struck once more as her 2. Father died. After which her 2. mother acted like Kira was somehow infectectious.

Arkham had a relatively balanced childhood as long as her Father lived, he died as she was 8. Her mom than turned up her Draconian behavior to 11, forcing Arkham to "live out her dream" (that of the mother) forcing her into all kinds of 'Hobbies' like music, dancing, poetry, arts.
On an Union core world Arkham would have been protected, sadly her mother took her to a colonial world close to the Rim. Arkham fled & lived on the street as she turned 13. Taking on the name Arkham.

A.S.H.L.E.I. is only 6 years, her 'childhood' was reinforced learning behavior, patterns, data analysis etc.

#WordWeavers #StarRyde #KitaKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #Childhood

04.11.2025
Are you working on one or several projects? What’s your preference?

Multitasking kills the progression Star to quote a musical title very inaccurate.

That said for the life of me I can't focus on one thing alone. That's why I have next to Star Ryde, the overflow, or rest ramp as we call it some times of Galaxy Glyde, where a lot of stuff is ment to go I cut out of Star Ryde. I also have the crazy idea of working very occasionally on the Star Ryde Self Insert Romance Alternate Universe, which makes me a character in my own stories because why not. Star Ryde itself is a Multi layer Project ment to be a rival to Star Trek or Mass Effect (as I said before if you aim for the stars why aim for the nearest) because I am a bit crazy... Like Mad scientist meets writer with imposter complex...
And all da Plotbunnies ... I'm doomed.🤪😂
As an "early retirement do to health" person, I have the time but not the discipline.😅

#WordWeavers 03.11.2025 #StarRyde #SRSIRAU #SciFi #WIP

05.11.2025
What community or group does your antagonist belong to?

Ariaene Johnsen/AJ is the first hench for the unknown entity that only is referred to as AI (Antagonist Infernale has no name yet).
A person or a group of people that has suspiciously good information about everyone & everything going on. AJ lives & works from a ship called the Nethrazier. It is not much known about the ship itself, its not unusual for ships to have holographic cloaking systems, the crew wears mostly black armor & helmets that hide their faces, most seem Terran, no one on board has ever spoken to AI directly other than AJ, but AJ wouldn't talk even if they would remember who is behind AI. AJ claims to be a S.H.A.D.E. but this claims can't be verified. They act eerily similar to Seraph a terrorist branded group that claims to be part of Gaia Unika the main philosophy Terras.

#WordWeavers 05.11.2025 #StarRyde #AntagonisJunior #AJ #AriaeneJohnsen #Nethrazier #GaiaUnika #Seraph #WorldBuilding #WIP #SciFi

06.11.2025
How is the antagonist’s community/group perceived by the people in your world?

well their is more than one antagonististic force in the Star Ryde universe.

The stories Antagonist isn't the known quantity sort of.

Most people in the Union see Matriarc, the Bethosian Outcast, as the most dangerous Antagonist for the Union.

Only few citizens would knew about AJ or AI directly. Their black armored Marines on the other hand are often seen around battlefields.
Most in the military think that they might be part of a Terran centric separatist group that call themselves Seraph.

The truth is... [Insert X-Files theme here]

#WordWeavers 06.11.2025 #StarRyde #Matriarc #AntagonistInfernale #AntagonistJunior #AJ #AJohnsen #AriaeneJohnsen #WorlBuilding

N7.11.2025
What community or group does your MC belong to?

Kira Knox: Terran, Spacer, Military, Union, Alliance, Phoenix Fleet, Phoenix Crew 2343, Council Guard, Head of Security, S.H.A.D.E.S. Ghoz'Tarc, Ghoz'Tarc Crew 2343, Command, Knox Family/sole survivor, Friendship station catastrophe, Johanson Family, A.P.E. program & Alliance Academy 2322-2324

Abbishek "Arkham" Pakthi: Terran, Colonist, Military, Union, Alliance, Phoenix Fleet, Phoenix Crew 2343, Council Guard, Flightcommand/Pilot/Navigation, Ghoz'Tarc, Ghoz'Tarc Crew 2343, Pakthi Family, A.G.A.Q. program & Alliance Academy 2337-2342.

A S.H.L.E.I.: Military Grade A.I., Union, Alliance Assets, Phoenix Fleet, Ghoz'Tarc, Ghoz'Tarc Crew 2443.

#WordWeavers N7.11.2025 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

C8.11.2025
How is the MC’s community/group perceived by the people in your world?
1/3
I take some of them.

S.H.A.D.E.S. are a special forces unit that are partly hidden. Usually there is one openly announced Shade on each mission. This people can use great powers like taking command over a entire fleet and act without waiting for Brass decisions. However to make sure that a Shade doesn't act against the interest of the Union 4-9 Shades are deployed with them secretly. Only the ships A.I. knows about their identity and they have insignia to proof their claims if necessary. Which makes Kira's merge with ASH a bit risky...
As with all such organisations they foster different opinions. Some see them as heroes that are needed others see them as a catastrophe waiting to happen.

The Alliance is the the military training and strike force of the Union while the Union itself has a military force this are more like the U.N. troops ➡️

#WordWeavers C8.11.2025 #StarRyde #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

2/3 C8.11.2025 2/X
⬅️ in our time. The Union military also handles defense matters. The only way to go into the Union military is by going through the alliance training. The general opinion is positive and they are seen as needed. The Alliance is seen as a benevolent Force that ensures that average citizen can life a peaceful life. The Alliance patrols the Boarders of Union Spaces and makes sure that Eltaryn encounters don't go into full blown planetary invasions, they also handle pirates and hostile mercenary forces.

The (non military) Union. government of 6 core member species & 64 associated + an unknown amount of trade member species. Core species handle the government, course of action, bringing the bulk of the defensive & offensive force as setting the Union Standards. Associated members are protected/supported by them & strive to implement the rules set by the cores democratic council. Trade members are exactly that.➡️

#WordWeavers C8.11.2025 #StarRyde #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

3/3 C8.11.2025

⬅️ they agree to begin the formation into a associate member, gaining protection & support from the Union.

The Unions Council are a group of democratic elected leaders, each core world nominates a leader & several ministers, this are challenged/supported by core member & associated member groups of ministers. This are only partly elected & partly randomly chosen citizens. After a legislature 9 autocratic leaders are chosen randomly for a year.
Most people think its incredibly complicated but necessary to prevent things like Lobbyist intervention. In general most citizens are okay how this works in the long run but few look forward to being randomly chosen themselves.

The Phoenix is the flagship & mobile government of the Union. Build to prevent planetary favorism. The Phoenix fleet is its defensive & support fleet. The ship indeeds looks like a giant bird to a degree.
It's seen as a honor to host the fleet.

#WordWeavers C8.11.2025 #StarRyde #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

09.11.2025
Which community/group (from questions 5&7) is stronger? Why?

A.I. claims to work to preserve the Union, A.J. claims to be an S.H.A.D.E., the Union seems to tolerate the Black dressed Marines on the battlefield & no hostile encounters between the Nethrazier & any Union/Alliance ship are known. The Nethrazier has been seen fighting Eltaryn Ships in space alongside Union/Alliance ships.
S.H.A.D.E.S. derive their power from Union Sanctioned Laws, the Alliance is part of the Unions military & trains the Shades, if A.J. wants to claim Union/Alliance Assets it's only working because of the Shades Status granted by Union law to graduates of the Alliance Shades Training. The asset ships have their own shades, so several Shades are around to challenge such a claim if they seem it necessary.
The Nethrazier is a warship of big size but it seems to have no fleet, no one knows if their even is a fleet & AI clearly keeps secrets close.

#WordWeavers 09.11.2025 #StarRyde #WorldBuilding

10.11.2025
MC POV: Name one thing you’ve never done but really want to.

Kira: "Well I'm not disclosing that."

Arkham: "Oh come on be a bit fun."

K.: "Did you want to imply that I'm not?"
A.: "You can be funny but that's quite literally one of the better Psychological Evaluations questions lately. I'm sure I could ask Ash?"
K: "Ash wouldn't tell you because I simply don't want it."
A: "I could ask very nicely."
Ash: With all do respect FC, I am bound to honor the Captains wishes, I am your friend but disclosing a secret of the Captain would set a dangerous example for the crew that I am not trustworthy.
K: "Thank you Ash. Arkham, Imzadi, how about askin me very nicely? In private, later tonight? But don't give me a reason to regret it, please."
A: "Why you don't want to share it openly?"
K: "Because I'm the captain & even in a tight knit family, not everyone needs to know everything, even less so on a military vessel."

#WordWeavers 10.11.2025 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #WIP #SciFi

11.11.2025
Describe the mood of your story using colours or sounds.

[Invalid Instruction, sound commands and/or color changes only available in the Mastodon Ultra deluxe anniversary white gold platinum prime upgrade edition]

I can describe the colors and the sounds but not use the real things.

Answering this question in an other way, I would have preferred, has turned into an two hour rabbit hole of my own making, so I leave it with that, because I have more on my plate than blasting my own time schedule, sorry 😅

Usually I would write skip in such cases but well today it is what it is.

#WordWeavers 11.11.2025

12.11.2025
Choose a book from the real world that would be a perfect match for your antagonist.

Before I start digging another rabbit hole I simply say skip...

#WordWeavers 12.11.2025

13.11.2025
Antagonist POV: You get the book from question 12 as a gift. Your reaction?

In its unknown, secret hideout the great force behind the scenes, Antagonist Infernale (AI), opens a never delivered package that nobody ordered, from the space delivery giant nobody uses 'aVoid.' what happened nobody can tell because no one has seen nothing that never happened.

Or maybe AJ opens a box full of nothing which transfers the energy uf infinite uncertainty onto their body so it's starts vibrating catapults itself out of existence with a "SKIP."

It would probably look like this.
Warning flashing colors from 1:32 onwards
https://youtu.be/90DC_ri0WEY

#WordWeavers 13.11.2025 #StarRyde #AntagonistInfernale #AntagonistJunior #AJ #AriaeneJohnsen #SciFi #WIP

Twisted Gallery OIIA OIIA

YouTube

14.11.2025
Does your SC have any insecurities?

Yep some have for sure.

#WordWeavers 14.11.2025 #StarRYDE

15.11.3025
Describe the setting of your last writing session (where, what time, sounds, smells, etc.). How did it go?

Thursday morning
Bed after midnight.
Smelled like me in my bedroom? Sounds, only my fingers tapping on the smartphone with the typical 'klack' by fingernails, reduced light from my phone screen and from my black light, which also added some faint humming from the lamp itself. I used to have one black light source in every room, but only two survived, for more than 10 years and I never bothered to replace them.

Went well ~1800 words.
It's way easier for me to write in my hanging chair. Gently swinging back and for.

Or do you mean in story?
Hospital, patient room, two beds, the vid screen showed news of an attack.
Smell? Like any hospital I would assume. I didn't sniff my imagination, nor any body parts of mine which would probably smell like human.

#WordWeavers 15.11.2025

16.11.2025
If your antagonist magically appeared in your home, would you two get along?

Well in case of A.I. I would probably assume someone try to spy on me sending me an Alexa device or some compound SH17.

AJ would be a different thing. They is a very extreme person. They is a special forces soldier o.o.c. and the tec they uses is magic from our perspective but in the other hand Ariaene also has severe memory issues and it would absolutely depend from which situation they arrive at my home and where.

Sleeping in my bed would be the worst case scenario because that's usually the time when AJ wakes without memory how they got somewhere after a shipload of bad dreams.
And I don't think "you popped into existence under my blankets" will help in deescalating the scene.

#WordWeavers 16.11.2025 #StarRyde #AriaeneJohnsen #AJ #AJohnsen #AntagonistJunior #AntagonistInfernale #SciFi #WIP

17.11.2025
How athletic are your characters?

The crew of the Ghoz'Tarc is pretty much fit as a sport shoe as we say in German (Fit wie ein Turnschuh).
Of course in a group of ~40 people you get varying degrees of athletic fitness. On the not so athletic side are Arkham, Mondira, Talisa, Chief Trawella & some parts of the crew that rarely have field missions or took shorter military education.
The fact that the Ghoz'Tarc is a small vessel makes it easier to "forget your training."
The ship isn't ideal but you can find ways to train almost everywhere.
Kira, Rose, Dr. Kaiden & J. are on the opposite of the spectrum. They train daily & Kira is very invested that the crew keeps fit.
She her self climbs, dances & uses a mix of martial arts to keep fit.
Dr. Kaidan & Rose are at the same level while Dr. Kaidan looks more trained. J. has muscles as big as peoples heads & they aren't show only, even if she loves to show them.

#WordWeavers 17.11.2025 #StarRyde #GhozTarcCrew #SciFi #WIP

18. What do your MC and SC disagree on?

Skip because I'm not going into detail with 3 MCs & ~38 SCs & TCs crew members. (Tertiary Characters, Background Characters, etc)

#WordWeavers 18.11.2925

19.11.2925
Are there any emotions that are hard for you to write?

I think I'm not good with insecurities...
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Nah I believe I am overall fine but that will show sometimes in the future if I am wrong or right about that.

#WordWeavers 19.11.2025

20.11.2025
Has the Covid pandemic affected how or where you write?

Well before the pandemic I didn't write for a half decade or so ...
So I guess yes that said i only started here again in 2023 as I joined. Which wasn't because of the pandemic, well not directly. Of course a lot is indirectly linked to the pandemic but who knows if the moose sniffing eel would have bought Twitter without it... Which gave me the final push of that plattform... So overall I think, if we look on it from an complete decency of everything to everything I have to say yes. For the impossibility of proving the opposite.

Oh an well masks are a mandatory thing in Star Ryde between Terrans and Talithi for completely different reasons, but yeah I think it might have come from this to a degree...

#WordWeavers 20.11.2025

21.11.2025
Is writing an escape for you, or does stress make it hard to write?

1/2
Worldbuilding, creating characters, stories with intriguing twists & epic tales that is my true escape.
Throwing up some colorful sand of imagination, telling you that in this sand rests magic, that can open your eyes by closing them, throwing a soft colorful fabric over to you that covers your view & as you catch it out of the air, we are in a fantastic world with colorful blue trees under a gently soft orange sky. Take my hand listen to the music of this place, the gentle beat in its earth, the humm' of the town & the songs of birds that look like rainbow cats.

Writing is the stone that anchors you down, that pulls you down the drain of reality, that your beautiful world is just a moment, a blink of an eye, writing it down keeps it for the rest of the world, it is necessary to share it, but it's also the end of opportunities the moment it's written because a decision was ...
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#WordWeavers 21.11.2025

2/2 ⬅️... made, writing is not as colorful, not as alive as narrating it, reading is as colorful because the moment you read the words the imagination sparks it's journey, you understand red swirling in with yellow, feel the rhythm of the music, the dance with something that isn't true but beautiful.
But writing is the hard work of keeping this illusion alive for others, the monochrome line for line chore of building a wall of text, on a static piece , deciding when to cut a corner, when to change the angle, so that out of all this decisions a house can grow, a home for the fantasy of others. It might not be your house but you took this chore as yours and build it and maybe if we are lucky we can join the ones living in that house too...

Am I overdramatic? Yes. But it is true that writing isn't the same magic as discovering what others wrote and yet so many do it...
Writing is magic, maybe a lot of work for some... But is worth it? Absolutely.

#WordWeavers 21.11.2025

22.11.2025
If any artist, dead or alive, could create your cover, who would you choose?

If I ever come to a finished book.
I have some offline and online friends/artists I follow that I would offer this at first so they can decide if they want to.
The list is relatively short but contains along others our very own local @art_of_goulwenr .
Or das Gnomo https://www.dasgnomo.com/.
Given a) that they wish to b) have time c) my cover ideas aren't Alien to their focus Art d) they have the time e) I can afford their workforce.
If I go completely of the rails with realism I would ask someone like @JenJen or
Stjepan Sejic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stjepan_%C5%A0eji%C4%87
It could be very interesting to see Rumiko Takahashi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumiko_Takahashi,
Naoko Takeuchi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naoko_Takeuchi,
Paul Kidby
https://www.paulkidby.com/
on the cover too.
With the same points above.

I would insist that their names would be printed on the cover too as cover artist so everyone can directly see who made that piece of art.

DasGnomo.com

DasGnomo.com is the website of the female Chilean artist & graphic designer Nicole Cepeda. She has worked in Capcom, Toei Animation, Bandai Namco, Warner Bros and more!

Dasgnomo

23.11.2025
Finding good cover artists, beta readers, & editors is hard. Shoutout who has helped you.

I wish I could but so far the few souls that helped me are not here, or anywhere. I could name all the hosts of the prompts I answer and probably forget half the number of people (also I thank them and shout out regularly) so...
I again give a shout out to @art_of_goulwenr our mails often hell me finding a different POV onto my writing which leads to different outcomes than before. Also look at his art and if I saw it right their is a QR code in his profile for a mysterious offer out of the savings galaxy.🙂

I think with time their will be more people that are also are online or are okay with being seen, I will give them all the credit they deserve and a good shovel on top.

#WordWeavers 23.11.2025

24.11.2025
What’s the strangest animal product your MCs eat?

Honey.

Kira isn't the only MC but Honey is a rare item, because most colonies don't have any thing like a bee population & on earth they only exist again thanks to reintroduction into the catastrophically damaged ecosystem.

Arkham eats meat but only lab grown or printed in the Enzyme Printer which makes it not a real animal product. Like most people on Terra.

J. one of my SC's eats animal meat on occasion, she comes from Terra but her parents went into the rim boarder area to live on a giant farm with a lot of animals, To produce food for themselves & some neighbors. Such J. often gets weirded out looks, if she tells them, that she has killed animals & taken their meat for food.

Mondira, another SC, loves the fish chocolate from her home planet.

#WordWeavers 24.11.2025 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #JHarveyGladstone #MondiraRamann #ChocolFish

Art of Goulwen R Nov 22

@AnnaSaultron Ì would be glad to do it ! 🙌

@art_of_goulwenr if I come to the point that I will need some cover art I will definitely inform you and I would be honored. :)

Anderlandbooks Nov 21

@AnnaSaultron Funny, how differently we perceive this. For me, writing is colorful. It's discovering my characters and their journey, making them come alive on the page.

@anderlandbooks i'm happy that it is that way for you. 😊

For me it's a lot of trimming and taking away opportunities, while my inner world tries to find the right words for feelings, squeezing itself 'onto Paper.'
I'm clearly better in narrating roleplay stories than writing them down.
Same goes for my stories if I talk to people.
In writing I need more than one attempt, rediscovering stuff and changing it again and again. Making decisions and redecisions and think about them, while I just roll with it while talking about my world, narrating it. 😅

C. R. Collins 🌳 🐸Nov 18

🤣 I'm never sure how to answer these questions that imply a single SC or antagonist. I only have one MC per book, but there's more than one book. Particularly with SC questions, I'm always like 🤔 who fits this one best.

@crcollins I often explain all 3 MCs where a clear focus exists on Kira Knox. She is the Captain & her first appear is in chapter one line one as a teenager. Arkham is the Flight Commander (sort of 'Overboss' Pilot) of the Spaceship and she comes into play around the same time as A.S.H.L.E.I the artificial intelligence of the ship. ~20 years later The rest are several SC/TC/BC from Kira's youth and the crew of the Ship and a lot of more characters already exist...
It would be insane to list all.
Especially some are not even more than one line of information.

In the German Phantastik Prompts we used to have questions for random characters which in my opinion was quite fun and I made a numbered list on which I rolled a 30 sided dice. It's interesting what characters you get to know. :D

Alina Leonova Nov 12

@AnnaSaultron Haha yeah, if nothing just springs to mind it's probably not worth wasting your time 😁

@AlinaLeonova i can dig so deep holes for myself occasionally. The question about colors & songs started with the idea: "okay paint a quick picture in my awful style on the phone."

I didn't found the functionality I was looking for so I crawled for it in the net, stumbled upon color coding.
Okay well doesn't work out maybe a sound collage.
Doesn't work with the code of mastodon.
I was part of a goth site on the net, back in the early 2000s where you could inbed everything at any point of a post as long it was previously uploaded to you profile (similar like the playlists on MySpace back in the day)
Of course that didn't work.
Okay than let us look for YouTube videos with sounds you want to portrait your stories feeling.
Oh look the scene from movie XYZ in HD remastered with Dolby nice lets watch if it fits...
Oh a theory of how the Antagonist in that film ...
And than I stumbled over a short that used tbe SpongeBob 2 hours later meme...
At that point I gave up.😅

Alina Leonova Nov 13

@AnnaSaultron I can totally relate to that 😆

@AlinaLeonova it's a horrible habit at times, and for some reason regardless of how many rabbit holes I fell into not a single time I have come out in wonderland... Always some weird corner of the Internet.😅

Alina Leonova Nov 13

@AnnaSaultron Haha that's so true 😅