March Munch | Worldbuilding Wednesday
What unnecessary piece of culture, language, society, etc. do you like to add to your world to give it some flair, perhaps just because it's something you like?

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March Munch | Worldbuilding Wednesday
What unnecessary piece of culture, language, society, etc. do you like to add to your world to give it some flair, perhaps just because it's something you like?
March Munch | a whole lot of asks games to get you chewing on your stories
random WIP ask game by @/tabswrites
tree writer ask game by @/on-noon
edgy/misc. oc ask meme by @/coldresolve
sunset-themed wip ask game by @/sunset-a-story
wip asks: weaponry by @/baroquesse
knack-themed writeblr ask game by @/sunset-a-story
uncommon questions for ocs and creators by @/cassandrapentayaaaaas
random wip ask game by @/i-can-even-burn-salad
dragon-themed writer ask game by @/ashen-crest
what type of writer are you by @/igotablankpage
soft oc ask game by @/autistic-seven-red-suns
worldbuilding ask game: colors edition by @/ink-fireplace-coffee
details about ocs ask game by @/noahsresources
tea writing asks game by @/soph-the-writer
dinosaur-themed ask game by @/talesfromaurea
cute lil writeblr ask game by @/kjscottwrites
space related ask game by @/scribbling-stardust
zodiac writing asks game by @/writeness
oc asks: not so nice edition game by @/cityandking
35 oc asks game by @/2corvusossifragus
character asks: background stuff game by @/mist-the-wannabe-linguist
fruity bubbly oc ask game by @/sleepyowlwrites
power rangers writing asks by @/sleepyowlwrites
fluffy snippet share by @/ashen-crest
need more snippet asks game by @/aziz-reads
March Munch | 2026 Event
An event wherein I offer you a bunch of snacks on a buffet and you take what you want. The main tray (post) will be reblogged a few times throughout the month, with potential bonus posts on the regular themed ask days. I'm not promising anything because work is currently exhausting, but at least you'll have something.
As per usual, please make use of the appropriate tags:
#march event 2026 and #the write collective share
or you can also tag this blog to get your stuff reblogged here to the collective library.
DUE TO PERSONAL DIFFICULTIES, THIS BLOG WILL BE "CLOSED" FOR THE REST OF FEBRUARY.
I HOPE TO RESUME POSTING AS NORMAL IN MARCH, BUT FOR NOW I AM UNABLE TO KEEP UP WITH IT. THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING.
The Black Books Day 17
Today's spotlight author is:
James McBride!
James McBride (born September 11, 1957) is an American writer and musician. McBride's father, Rev. Andrew D. McBride was African-American; he died of cancer at the age of 45. His mother, Ruchel Dwajra Zylska, was a Jewish immigrant from Poland. James was raised in Brooklyn's Red Hook housing projects until he was seven years old and was the last child Ruth had from her first marriage, the last child of Rev. Andrew McBride, and the eighth of 12 children.
His published works include:
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
Miracle at St. Anna
Song Yet Sung
The Good Lord Bird
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
Five-carat Soul
Deacon King Kong
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
The Black Books Day 16
Today's spotlight author is:
Saara El-Arifi!
Saara El-Arifi is a British fantasy author. Her debut novel, The Final Strife, was published in 2022. It is the first in the Ending Fire trilogy, which draws inspiration from West African and Arabian mythology. El-Arifi was raised in Abu Dhabi before relocating to Sheffield with her family. She is of Sudanese and Ghanaian descent.
Her published works include:
The Ending Fire series - The Final Strife, The Battle Drum, The Ending Fire
The Faebound series - Faebound, Cursebound
The Black Books Day 15
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is an American speculative fiction author. Adjei-Brenyah's published works are set in near-future dystopias. They often explore the topics of exploitation, capitalism, and the societal acceptance of violence.
His published works include:
Friday Black
Chain-gang All-stars
The Black Books Day 14
Today's spotlight author is:
Brandon Taylor!
Brandon Taylor (born June 1, 1989) is an American writer. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Iowa and has received several fellowships for his writing. His short stories and essays have been published in many outlets and have received critical acclaim. His debut novel, Real Life, came out in 2020.
His published works include:
Real Life
Filthy Animals
The Late Americans
Minor Black Figures
The Black Books Day 13
Today's spotlight author is:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie!
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian writer, whose works include fiction, nonfiction, and lectures. She is widely recognized as a central figure in postcolonial feminist literature. Many of Adichie's novels are set in Nsukka, where she grew up. She started writing during her university education.
Her published works include:
Purple Hibiscus
Half of a Yellow Sun
Americanah
Dream Count
The Thing Around Your Neck
Notes on Grief
The Black Books Day 12
Today's spotlight author is:
Jason Reynolds!
Jason Reynolds is an American author of novels and poetry for young adult and middle grade audiences. Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in neighboring Oxon Hill, Maryland, Reynolds found inspiration in rap and had an early focus on poetry, publishing many poetry collections before his first novel in 2014. Reynolds does not start with a particular age audience in mind; instead he focuses on trying to write the voice of his characters authentically and lets that dictate whom the book would appeal to. All of his writings feature minority characters, which he sees as a reflection of the modern world.
His published works include:
All American Boys (with Brendan Kiely)
As Brave as You
Let Me Speak
When I Was the Greatest
Long Way Down
Track series - Ghost, Patina, Sunny, Lu, Coach
The Black Books Day 10
Today's spotlight author is:
Leila Mottley!
Leila Mottley (born 2002) is an American novelist and poet. She is The New York Times bestselling author of Nightcrawling, which was a nominated for numerous awards, including the Booker Prize, making her the youngest author to have been nominated for the award. In June 2022, Mottley published her first novel, Nightcrawling, which she began writing at age 16. She wrote the original version during the summer of 2019, shortly after completing her high school education. At the time, she was employed as a substitute preschool teacher.
Her published works include:
Nightcrawling
woke up no light
The Girls Who Grew Big
The Black Books Day 9
Today's spotlight author is:
Tracy Deonn!
Tracy Deonn is an American author. She was raised in central North Carolina. As a child, she and her mother were fans of Star Wars, Star Trek, and science fiction and fantasy stories. However, she notes, "Growing up in North Carolina, there would be coursework as elementary and middle school, like, tell where your family came from, and this assumption that there was a European origin. And so, students could come to class and be like my family, way back when, they came from France or they came from Scotland. And for the Black American students, this was just this horrifying, sort of traumatic, school assignment that white instructors never really thought about how painful that was." She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), graduating with a bachelor and master's degree in communication and performance studies.
Her published works include:
Legendborn
Bloodmarked
Oathbound
The Black Books Day 8
Today's spotlight author is:
Angie Thomas!
Angie Thomas is an American young adult author, best known for writing The Hate U Give (2017). Thomas was subject to multiple instances of gun violence at a young age. She grew up near the home of assassinated civil rights activist, Medgar Evers, stating that her mother heard the gunshot that had killed him. When she was 6 years old, Thomas witnessed a shootout between gangs. In an interview with The Guardian, she recounted how her mother took her to the library the following day to show her that, "There was more to the world than what [Thomas] saw that day." This inspired her to take up writing.
Her published novels include:
The Hate U Give
On the Come Up
Concrete Rose
Blackout
Nic Blake and the Remarkables
The Black Books Day 7
Today's spotlight author is:
Helen Oyeyemi!
Helen Oyeyemi is a British novelist and writer of short stories. Oyeyemi was born in Nigeria and was raised in Lewisham, South London from when she was four. Oyeyemi wrote her first novel, The Icarus Girl, while studying for her A-levels at Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School. She attended Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Her published novels include:
The Icarus Girl
The Opposite House
White is for Witching
Mr. Fox
Boy, Snow, Bird
Gingerbread
Peaces
Parasol Against the Axe
A New New Me
The Black Books Day 6
Today's spotlight author is:
Tayari Jones!
Tayari Jones is an American author and academic known for An American Marriage, which the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction. Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, the University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She is currently a member of the English faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University and recently returned to her hometown of Atlanta after a decade in New York City. Jones was Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-large at Cornell University before becoming Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.
Her published books include:
Leaving Atlanta
The Untelling
Silver Sparrow
An American Marriage
The Black Books Day 5
Today's spotlight author is:
Ta-Nahisi Coates!
Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates is a progressive American author, journalist, and activist. He gained a wide readership during his time as national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he wrote about cultural, social, and political issues, particularly regarding African Americans and white supremacy.
Coates's father founded and ran Black Classic Press, a publishing company specializing in African-American titles. The Press grew out of a grassroots organization, the George Jackson Prison Movement (GJPM), which initially operated a Black bookstore called the Black Book. Later, Black Classic Press was established with a tabletop printing press in the basement of the Coates family home.
His published novels include:
The Water Dancer
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Let’s not forget to acknowledge Alexandre Dumas this Black History Month
The writer of two of the most well known stories worldwide, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo was a black man.
That’s excellence.
Let’s not forget that he was played on screen by a white man. And the fact that he was black is barely ever mentioned or the book he wrote inspired by his experiences.
Other things not to forget about Alexandre Dumas:
chose to take on his slave grandmother’s last name, Dumas, like his father did before him.
grew up too poor for formal education, so was largely self-taught, including becoming a prolific reader, multilingual, well-travelled, and a foodie, resulting in his writing both a combination encyclopedia/cookbook (which just— is fucking outrageous to me) AND the adaptation of The Nutcracker on which Tchaikovsky based his ballet
he also wrote a LOOOOT of nonfiction and fiction about history, politics, and revolution, bc he was pro-monarchy, but a radical cuss, and that got him in a lot of hot water at home and abroad.
even beyond that, he generally put up with a lot of racist bullshit in France, so he went and wrote a novel about colonialism and a BLATANTLY self-insert anti-slavery vigilante hero (which he then cribbed from to write the Count of Monte Cristo, the main character of which, Edmond Dantés, Dumas also based on himself).
(…a novel which also features a LOAD of PoC beyond the Count, and at LEAST one queer character, btw, bc EVERY MOVIE ADAPTATION OF ANYTHING BY DUMAS IS A LIE; seriously, at LEAST one of the four Musketeers is Black, y'all.)
famously, when some fuckshit or other wanted to come at Dumas with some anti-Black foolishness, Dumas replied, “My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends.”
for the bicentennial of his birthday, Pres. Jacques Cirac was like, “…sorry about the hella racism,” and had Dumas’s ashes reinterred at the Panthéon of Paris, bc if you’re gonna keep the corpses of the cream of the crop all together, Dumas’s more widely read and translated than literally everybody else.
and they are still finding stuff old dude wrote, seriously; like discovering “lost” works as recently as 2002, publishing stuff for the first time as recently as 2005.
ALSO IMPORTANT:
SWAG
I am absolutely ashamed to admit I had NO idea Dumas was black.
when this post first went around (a year ago apparently) I was like BUT WHAT ABOUT DADDY DUMAS THOUGH because basically
daddy general dumas was an immense fierce french warrior who was a 6 foot plus, stunningly gorgeous and charismatic Black gentleman
he invaded egypt
the native egyptians said “is this napoleon? this must be napoleon. we for one welcome our majestic new overlord”
then napoleon showed up
napoleon has all the presence of yesterday’s plain Tesco hummus
the native egyptians were like “… no… no, we’ve thought very hard and we’ll have General Dumas actually”
this did not make napoleon happy
in fact it made him jealous
napoleon felt so emasculated that he launched a campaign of revenge against General Dumas, including taking away his pension, that probably inspired a lot of Alexandre’s rather satisfying scenes in which fathers are nobly avenged and the money-grubbing villains are rubbed in the mud
I was never taught that he was Black either. WTF.
General Dumas (aka Thomas Alexandre Davy de La Pailleterie) looked like this…
…and like this…
…while “Napoleon has all the presence of yesterday’s plain Tesco hummus“…
:-D
I suspect Alexandre Dumas would have laughed at that, because besides looking like someone who laughed a lot…
…he was also a foodie.
He was also born in present-day Haiti. Back then, it was the French colony of Saint-Domingue.
General Dumas was also the highest ranking officer of African descent to have command of a European army. EVER.
His stuff is in the public domain, you can find them on Project Gutenberg here:
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