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Petition to change “he looked at her like she was the sun” to “he looked at her like she was the moon” and any other variation bc I look at the moon in wonder and love and amazement while I’ve only ever just squinted angrily at the sun
He looked at her like she was the sun, in that he never looked at her except in frustration. He basked in her warmth, he complained when she was gone, but he never looked. On days she was muted, he complained. On days she was stronger, he hid from her. He never looked at her until she was leaving, and in the beauty of the sunset he wondered how he’d never seen her before.
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I'm a big fan of wizards-as-programmers, but I think it's so much better when you lean into programming tropes.
A spell the wizard uses to light the group's campfire has an error somewhere in its depths, and sometimes it doesn't work at all. The wizard spends a lot of his time trying to track down the exact conditions that cause the failure.
The wizard is attempting to create a new spell that marries two older spells together, but while they were both written within the context of Zephyrus the Starweaver's foundational work, they each used a slightly different version, and untangling the collisions make a short project take months of work.
The wizard has grown too comfortable reusing old spells, and in particular, his teleportation spell keeps finding its components rearranged and remixed, its parts copied into a dozen different places in the spellbook. This is overall not actually a problem per se, but the party's rogue grows a bit concerned when the wizard's "drying spell" seems to just be a special case of teleportation where you teleport five feet to the left and leave the wetness behind.
A wizard is constantly fiddling with his spells, making minor tweaks and changes, getting them easier to cast, with better effects, adding bells and whistles. The "shelter for the night" spell includes a tea kettle that brings itself to a boil at dawn, which the wizard is inordinately pleased with. He reports on efficiency improvements to the indifference of anyone listening.
A different wizard immediately forgets all details of his spells after he's written them. He could not begin to tell you how any of it works, at least not without sitting down for a few hours or days to figure out how he set things up. The point is that it works, and once it does, the wizard can safely stop thinking about it.
Wizards enjoy each other's company, but you must be circumspect about spellwork. Having another wizard look through your spellbook makes you aware of every minor flaw, and you might not be able to answer questions about why a spell was written in a certain way, if you remember at all.
Wizards all have their own preferences as far as which scripts they write in, the formatting of their spellbook, its dimensions and material quality, and of course which famous wizards they've taken the most foundational knowledge from. The enlightened view is that all approaches have their strengths and weaknesses, but this has never stopped anyone from getting into a protracted argument.
Sometimes a wizard will sit down with an ancient tome attempting to find answers to a complicated problem, and finally find someone from across time who was trying to do the same thing, only for the final note to be "nevermind, fixed it".
Small fantasy worldbuilding elements you might want to think about:
A currency that isn’t gold-standard/having gold be as valuable as tin
A currency that runs entirely on a perishable resource, like cocoa beans
A clock that isn’t 24-hours
More or less than four seasons/seasons other than the ones we know
Fantastical weather patterns like irregular cloud formations, iridescent rain
Multiple moons/no moon
Planetary rings
A northern lights effect, but near the equator
Roads that aren’t brown or grey/black, like San Juan’s blue bricks
Jewelry beyond precious gems and metals
Marriage signifiers other than wedding bands
The husband taking the wife's name / newlyweds inventing a new surname upon marriage
No concept of virginity or bastardry
More than 2 genders/no concept of gender
Monotheism, but not creationism
Gods that don’t look like people
Domesticated pets that aren’t re-skinned dogs and cats
Some normalized supernatural element that has nothing to do with the plot
Magical communication that isn’t Fantasy Zoom
“Books” that aren’t bound or scrolls
A nonverbal means of communicating, like sign language
A race of people who are obligate carnivores/ vegetarians/ vegans/ pescatarians (not religious, biological imperative)
I’ve done about half of these myself in one WIP or another and a little detail here or there goes a long way in reminding the audience that this isn’t Kansas anymore.
When I was in my teens, I used to make an entire magic system with 900 unique spells, ordered in magic schools and categories, and it boggles my mind that I basically reinvented DnD mechanics, even down to metamagic.
I wanted to make a wiki about it but I don't have time for it.
The point was to try to encompass every "superpower" I could think of into a magic system.
I even got lore related to it all, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna simply reuse it all for OC worldbuilding. Ngl the fun part was naming all the spells, symbols and coming up with the logic of it all. Edit : Due to popular demand, I'm making the wiki now yay. There's even more sigils done now >:]
actually hate that the bodys response to anything is nausea. ate too much? nauseous. ate too little? nauseous. an imaginary threat got you scared? be nauseous. on your period? you guessed it. sawed into your hand and need to go to the emergency room? perhaps throwing up into your open wound will be of help
What should I blog about next in worldbuilding Aeniith?
Primogeniture (or otherwise: how inheritance and legacy works)
Clothing, fashion, textiles
Arms and battle technology
Selupan medicine and science
Flora of Orikrindia (northern island)
Something else? Suggest!
You should automatically get time off work until the light returns to your eyes and you feel like a real person again
So my PhD advisor did this for me when she could tell I was burnt out. She assigned to do no work at all until I felt alright. It was about 4 weeks. At the end of that time she had me report on what down time fun stuff I’d done.
My advisor did this for me too! She told me I could work on anything but my thesis. It helped a ton.
It helped SO much. I took up my dissertation again with a renewed enthusiasm whereas I’d been basically in a permanent state of panic and despair prior. My advisor said she could see the difference just by seeing my face. It was true. I managed to finish my dissertation in a year and I graduated having been satisfied with my research and writing.
You should automatically get time off work until the light returns to your eyes and you feel like a real person again
So my PhD advisor did this for me when she could tell I was burnt out. She assigned to do no work at all until I felt alright. It was about 4 weeks. At the end of that time she had me report on what down time fun stuff I’d done.
Will you ever write anything on Ao3 again?
I might. It’s been a long time. Creative writing has always been a passion for me but it comes and goes. If there’s an iota of interest, I might continue some of the work there or start new ones, who knows.
More game devs need to understand the following concepts:
There is a finite amount of memory on any given device.
No matter how good your game is, players will want memory for other things on their devices.
Not everyone has a stable internet connection so making single player games needing an internet connection is not good.
4. The price of memory has more than quadrupled in the past six months
I wrote a new blog post on my Aeniith Wordpress blog about valency change in language (both natlangs and conlangs). It’s a modification of my presentation for the LCC 11 in Maryland last spring.
You can read it at Aeniith.blog. It’s a little technical but I’d appreciate it if you took a look if you’re at all into languages, linguistics, conlangs, etc.
My favorite thing about being an archer in Skyrim is when the slow motion kill cam follows the arrow and you get to sit back and watch as it just absolutely misses the target.
the great thing about this is that the computer has calculated that the arrow will strike the target as a critical hit, but then when the kill cam engages it changes the physics in game (I think having the arrow be the focal point rather than the player causes the formula to change) and in doing so, it can change the trajectory so dramatically that you miss. I once saved the game and tried the same shot multiple times with kill cam turned on and then off, which proved with perfect correlation that it was the camera itself that was messing up the shot
The Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation in Dawson City, Yukon, is looking to translate a beloved story about a child who goes away to live with t
"The Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation is looking to translate a beloved story about a child who goes away to live with the salmon people into Hän. It's an effort to support the growth of the language in the community.
The First Nation held a public presentation at Yukon University's Dawson City campus on Tuesday for the Hän language art project, with readings of different variations of the “Salmon Girl” story."
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"Alexa Nagano, a Robert Service School student and Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation citizen, said she feels upset that Hän isn’t taught more extensively, compared with other languages. She hopes to see it become part of everyday use.
'If I'm on my homeland and my traditional territory, then I feel like I should get a say on what I want to learn and what kind of language. I respect French people, but I'd rather learn Hän, in my opinion,' said Nagano, who is also learning Japanese, a familial heritage. 'I just want to learn my heritage before I learn someone else's, maybe.'"
Absolutely horrid that a 10hr sleep does not cure you of all that ails you
it doesn't even cure me of being tired
It should work like in RPGs. I want to be able to go to bed exhausted, poisoned, and missing half of my blood and wake up at 100% fully recovered
guys who's ready for perfectly even february in a week
Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so, And spedde as wel in love as men now do.
chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde c. 1380
glossary: eek also and even tho at the time prys great value wonder a cause for astonishment nyce stupid spedde succeeded
You know the form of language, too, can change. Within a thousand years, even the words that were most precious then, seem strange and foolish to us; yet they spoke them so and did no worse in love than we now do.