SFFChat

Welcome to the new #SFFChat! Every Thursday, alternating mornings and evenings EST, I'll post a new set of questions that anyone can answer! It's chiefly for writers, but if you're a fan of SFF literature, please feel welcome to hop into the space and discuss your favourite writers as well!

#SFFChat Hi there I'm Kiya and I prrrrrobably have to go for the Duat because I literally wrote a book about it? (The Traveller's Guide to the Duat, available from Immanion/Megalithica!)

#SFFChat Here's the tricky thing: Yes, but it's not what you think it is. Hell is not an afterlife. Neither is Heaven. The Black Desert of Virgil's nightmares? Yes. He's not the best narrator of that, though. It's not something the living are supposed to see. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

The theme of THOSE WHO SPEAK FOR GOD is whether uploading your brain is a type of immorality. Different characters have different beliefs. The religious believe in a supernatural heaven. The FMC believes in living forever through the AI. The MMC starts in one direction and changes his mind #SFFChat

Jordan would be rewarded for this faith and love. If he's punished for anything it would be his doubts. Kind of a fun exercise because THOSE WHO SPEAK FOR GOD does not answer the afterlife question. It leaves it up to you, dear reader 😏 #SFFChat

#SFFChat Big caveat: No divine judgement in my worlds. Ever. You can see what would haplen in Virgil's nightmares. The shades of the problem he wronged drown him in sand and kill him over and over again. It wasn't even his fault, but he'd never accept that. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

So far I've stuck to stories in the same world. In all cases there are characters who are trying to understand what kind of afterlife exists. I enjoy keeping the truth ambiguous, much like real life. #SFFChat

Thank you for hosting! As always check out my blog at cfreak.dev I'll be in the Fark Fiction Anthology again this year with my short story MIND'S TIME. (if you subscribe to my blog, you can read it early! Completely free!) #SFFChat

#SFFChat Well, the Black Desert of Death isn't the final destination. What's beyond the desert? No one knows. Not even God. But Azrael, Angel of Death, sort of does, and I'm happy with that. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

#SFFChat I'm Fox. I write fantasy with heart and brains and, in some cases, butts. My favorite version of the afterlife might be in Order of the Stick, where Lawful Good heaven IS in fact endless indulgence, but most people get tired of it and seek a higher enlightenment after a few decades.

#SFFChat The world of Prophecies (and possibly StS, since they use the same gods) explicitly has an afterlife. Zedenko's cursed soul will simply cease to exist when he dies, though; after spending his entire life fighting tooth and nail just to survive, he is utterly terrified of inexistence.

#SFFChat One theory is that your theoretical morality and afterlife depend on which gods you worship. Drohim would be rewarded for exemplary service to the Many, and punished for sometimes doing it out of pride and not just altruism. Seff would be both rewarded and punished for being too badass.

#SFFChat I'd love for my work to have anyone read it, period, but I'd especially love for people to read it after it's been available for decades. To write something people can relate to and enjoy even generations along would be a huge honor. Also, movie rights. I have student loans to pay off.

Thanks, Steve! You're a heaven of a guy. I'd like to share an idea: reach out to at least three friends this weekend just to ask how they're doing. Give everyone you talk to tomorrow a compliment. Think about (only) the things you like about yourself for five minutes today.

The god Hermes is a psychopomp, so he has association with death and the afterlife. FFXIV Endwalker and how they broach the afterlife, ghosts, death and how Hermes as a character is are two things I'm obsessed with about the game.

#SFFChat sorry I'm late. I like the story of Sisyphus, the world's biggest fan of rock and roll. 😎🤟

#SFFChat according to Chunish mythology, the soul is reused in a process of reincarnation. You can choose to reincarnate immediately after death, but most will take a chance to relax. Some, however, are punished for a time before being allowed to return.

#SFFChat Well Enya gets to skip that whole step. She doesn't know it yet, but she is one of the Chunish mother goddesses who entered the mortal realm to get a better understanding of what motherhood means when life is so fragile. She's going to die at 111 and the other gods will say hey welcome back

#SFFChat Look if I can convince 1 other person to include their own interpretation of the Chunes in their writing as well, I will die happy.

#SFFChat Hey! I'm Ez. Erratic, sporadic, but here I've always liked the classic Greek, but there's one I know I'm forgetting, I can feel it in the back of my head. Maybe someone else said it&I can scream in their replies. What dreams may come might be it, it's gorgeous

#SFFChat No, I don't ever deal with death and the after. The closest i get is in star book where they actually empirically know the soul is light and it's returned to the aether after you die to dissipate and be drawn into new lives as they're take their first breath

#SFFChausing Using Jaysea Lynn's concept of the 9 levels of hell & paradise Alo goes to lvl 1 for therapy over allowing Corrin to pretend he was ok for 8 yrs Beryl goes to lvl 2 for therapy over being an asshole til he met Corrin Nora & Corrin go to a shared paradise & regularly visit Alo/Beryl

#SFFChat I want readers to feel less alone. Either because someone understands them well enough to represent them on the page, or because they feel in (any kind of) love with one of my characters/ found a while family in one of my casts

#SFFChat Q2 I have all of it. I have hell, in which I merged Elder Scrolls Oblivion planes with Catholic lore and Dante's inferno. I wanted it to be a visceral experience There's like 400 heaven variations. Torcallism mirrors Valhalla, Florism has people become plants in a garden, old Henetian...

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Relians reward as a whole would be two fold: 1. He'll see that he's been as good as Ryan or any mythic hero. 2. His afterlife would be serenity incarnate.

Thanks for hosting! If anyone wants a book about a sad disabled changeling finding happiness and home, that's a link in my bio. I'm to tired for a proper promo

The only world where I built an explicit afterlife is in ♟️W&B. The Betwixt is a physical land where Uncanny souls linger. Someone who has not passed can travel there, but it is very perilous a la the Underworld in Greek myth.

Following up with my ♟️W&B offshoot, Maeve would be punished by guilt. She would be trapped in a prison of memories, where she failed, what she cannot change and who she lost.

What I would like those who read my stories to keep with them is that they are not alone. Love lingers as the heart beat of each character and story that lives here. #SFFChat #writing

I guess I’ll share some of the art I drew for my WIP.

#SFFChat Q1 Emil Bronze, the resident viking-themed, fantasy author fresh from his 19-day vacation (I tried to detox as best I could) I grew up with Christian/Catholic heaven & hell. I know that inside and out I'm fascinated by Norse lore with the afterlife

#SFFChat Q3 Oakengrove is a deity, so I won't use him. Instead, I have Roderick, one of the secondary characters in the book. Roderick grew up as a Florist and traded it out to become a Synanite, someone who follows the deity of the cycle of life & death Syna praises him for his life's work...

#SFFChat Q4 I as a writer want this world to have like a "designer" aspect. You die, assuming you weren't a shithead, and now you get to design your personal paradise and edit it freely for all of eternity Personalization to the max

#SFFChat Hey all! I’m Joseph Brassey, author and HEMA instructor. Probably my favorite take on the afterlife is when it’s presented as a hint, a tease, an implied continuation where those we love are able to find joy and fulfillment and rest. I don’t need to know the details and prefer not to.

#SFFChat In Glassblade the answer is a spoiler for the series so I won’t answer definitively, but re the characters: -Gabe doesn’t know. -Agnes hopes for it. -Michael worries about it. -Claire doesn’t think about it. -Heart considers it largely irrelevant.

Hi! I'm Rowan, I write a little bit of everything when the mood strikes. You can catch me talking to the trees and feeding stray cats. Recently, I've been a huge fan of Jaysea Lynn's depection of the afterlife. The idea that every belief is valid just jives with my soul.

All links for Glassblade here: www.josephbrassey.com/the-wielder-...

#SFFChat I would like my work to be read long after I’m gone, honestly. That would be more than enough.

#SFFChat This is pretty great! Thank you for doing it.

#SFFChat Hi! I'm Zed. I write satirical fantasy and I have, let's say, OPINIONS about this subject. Best depiction? Robot Hell in Futurama, nothing exemplifies humanity's revenge fetish better than even machines being forced to recreate it. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Oh this should be fun. I'm Not That Chris Brown, querying my speculative sci-fi romance THOSE WHO SPEAK FOR GOD. Fav afterlife: Maximus returning to his family after death in Gladiator. Truthfully, I like most representations of an afterlife. Life and death play a big part in my work #SFFChat