“Regarding setting, the court held that both works taking place in Alaska high schools was not protectable because Alaska is a public place and setting a teen novel in a high school is a common genre convention.”
So your telling me the works are so generic that its like a machine mass produced thrm by using a template? I don't know if thats insulting to thr authors or to ai
I wanted her to feel kind of angelic, since that has always been the vibe I got from the dimension-hopping ship.
The floating, legless form was also meant to vaguely resemble a mermaid (especially with the long tail). A levitating, water-related creature... to mimic the original version being a flying ship 🌠
And finally, she is taller than the clockwork stars because... I feel like Lor's (as in the ship's) size is more important to its functionality than it is in the case of the clocks? Not sure how much sense it makes, but e.g. Nova in her terrestrial form does not need to be all that big in order to magically grant wishes with her godly powers. But Lor kind of needs to be about this tall to comfortably carry Magolor around. Does this imply she would be even larger if she were bonded with a character bigger than the Egg? Yes, yes it does.
Hello weather, how practical are dragon-powered furnaces? I'm trying to understand how having access to easily control.able fire can be such a advantage like the fire nation from avatar. To me the bottleneck would be getting all the metal. Wait, the earth kingdom was the former empire weren't they? And earth bending makes mining trivial, and they likely sold it to the fire nation because earth was deemed "good enough", and having metals to shape and get the war machine up and running it became a self-sustaining loop.
First, Avatar. Iron takes extremely high heat to forge. We see Piandao using a bronze foundry cast for Sokka's sword, which would NOT work for iron. Iron is extremely abundant, but extremely hard to work with. The fact the Fire Nation has cast-iron ships means they have something equivalent to blast furnaces.
Fire Nation = Imperial Japan
Earth Kingdom = Imperial China
And, the biggest problem with having a dragon in your forge would probably to convince the dragon to do it.
Another question, should dwarves be the only ones with blast furnaces? Also currently reading up on armor smithing finally make the meme of a knight next to a tank makes sense. Wonder if I should follow the for honor tech level.
Regarding the rough edges and pointy bits post you shared earlier. Including what you mentioned in your tags, what are other aspects, details, etc. about Emma you think are needed and relevant to her that might get looked over? No matter how raw, dark, messed up, etx. I do love your understanding and views on the character and have been learning much through your replies. Thank you in advance, miss
I get to yap about Emma’s issues? Yippee! Thanks anon! <3
Trigger warnings before you read: drug abuse/substance abuse, addiction, sexual abuse/assault and rape
So, it gets brought up here and there, mostly as a throwaway joke like ‘haha we were all doing cocaine back in the 80s’ but we really need to talk about Emma Frost and substance abuse like, yesterday, because no one ever actually brings up the damn implications of it
She has said multiple times she did serious drugs, especially in her Hellfire era but somewhat in her current X-Men era as well, and it wasn’t just cocaine, it was hallucinogenics, pills, a variety of stuff. Serious stuff. It was a coping mechanism, it was an addiction, just like her drinking is now
Her mom popped pills to numb herself to the horrific life she lived, abandoned her kids to their abusive as shit father, and did nothing but enable his abuse and dissociate. Her older brother became a drug addict, got himself hospitalised, and nearly overdosed trying to end his own life. And, hindsight, her daughters were abusing the mutant enhancing drug Kick, and one of them (Sophie) died to an overdose of it
Add onto it Emma was doing hard cocaine back in her Hellfire days, confessed to doing hallucinogenics to Scott (and how being on the X-Men was helping her curb the habit), her damn alcoholism and drinking problem that’s kind of a throwaway gag now
The Frosts have a substance abuse issue that no one ever talks about
Don’t you think it makes Emma sick knowing about it? That she nearly lost the one person in her family that mattered to her to drugs and that she ended up addicted to the same stuff trying to survive in a sex club at 18? That Shaw was probably the one who got her addicted? That she had to carry the body of her at-the-time protege — and later realising it was her daughter — out of the school after she succumbed to a Kick overdose? That her other proteges were dealing the same stuff to the rest of the student body and abusing it themselves? And still she has the urge to drink, to carry that hip flask, to probably pop pills of her own because that’s just an accepted part of her life for so long
Even as a hero in the spotlight, a political figure, Emma has her vices and she never truly gave them up
Sure, she put the crack down, but when have you not seen her drinking?
Emma numbs herself with alcohol, she numbs herself with her diamond form, whores herself out, objectifies herself, it’s a shield, a coping mechanism, it’s a way to survive, she was practically a child when she was forced into prostitution and drugs, she was sexually abused by Shaw in the Hellfire Club, her brother was a drug addict, she did cocaine while teaching her first class of students, she lost them and forced herself clean of the habit
She still had urges to do drugs, being on the X-Men and throwing herself into work stopped her from doing serious drugs, yet she probably pops the same pills her mother used to numb herself to the world to regulate when she can’t diamond form out of her problems, she’s constantly hopped up on the stress and anxiety of being a public figure and politician and hero and Emma fucking Frost
Her daughters have already shown themselves willing to dirty their hands with this stuff, have the same tendency the other Frosts have shown, and Emma wants desperately for them to be better than her
And beyond the drug issues and the drinking and all that entails, Emma was a victim of sexual abuse, of rape
Of abuse from Shaw in the club, of being groomed as a high schooler by a teacher she had fallen for, of implied sexual violence from a guard at the Essex Clinic while she was drugged and imprisoned there (BY HER PARENTS) for being a mutant
And despite all of this, Emma still objectifies herself as if its second nature. She’s tried to coerce men into sleeping with her when they have firmly denied her advances. She’s been underhanded and manipulative in getting her way via sex countless times. She’s used her telepathy to waive consent as if it’s nothing.
The sexual violence has numbed her sense of body and sex to a point that it’s just a tool to her, something for her to use, a survival mechanic
She’s vain because she needs to be in order to survive, to live
She’s fiercely protective of women and girls because she’s been through the worst of it, yet she was utterly heartless to other women in the club because she learned to be cutthroat or die. She stole Ororo’s body and nearly raped her by attempting to coerce Shaw into having sex with it. She was everything bad and evil about the Hellfire Club and every bit its victim at the same time.
Emma is messy, her life is messy. She’s been through hell and back, done horrific things to just live, done horrible things for pleasure
It keeps her up at night, it strains her relationships, she tries to play it off and be above it all, but it haunts her
She knows she’s beautiful, she’s a diamond, she’s magnificent, but she also knows there’s nothing under that. She’s shallow, she’s nothing.
She can hardly see herself as deserving a second chance, of being better, because this is all so ingrained into her. She’s a horrible person.
And yet… the X-Men have accepted her. She has their sympathies, not their scorn (for the most part). She’s revered as a hero. She’s a leader of mutantkind. She’s no longer a villain…
And Emma so desperately wants to believe all that to be true.
It needs to be pointed out that the Hellfire Club is real. They were clubs for the idle rich to do things that seem exciting. And drugs and sexual missteps were 100% exciting things done by idle rich.
as much as i think her and scott are funny together it sounds like her recent hookup with tony stark is the perfect pathway to start adressing these issues becasue he shares one of them with her, alcholocism
It is frightening to consider that our ancestors might have been more intelligent then us on average for the simple fact they are not bombarded with stimulus
Something of a follow-up question, how much of whatever passes as dwarven clergy be made up of solely physical therapists (Masseuse, massage therapists, chiropractor, etc)? I know you mentioned healing magic before but to me physical alignments would be harder to heal while things like sickness and mental ailments would be easier. If magic has a spirtual basis those two ailments would be easier to detect, sickness due to it appearing as a foreign mass and mental via exorcism. Things like muscle sores are the strain of the body. To me, magic would only be a temporary cure for such ailments, simillar to sleeping it, muscle pad, or advil, because to me, magic needed to cure such pains needs to understand the internals of the body, and base medieval medical knowledge is questionable at best.
That's honestly like - Redo of Healer.
Where healing magic just accelerates natural healing. So, closing wounds, restoring damaged tissue. It can't do anything more.
And that would be an easy way to make sure your healers can't just keep healing in combat. This gives wounds weight and depth.
Having Dwarven masseuses give you a deep healing that more powerful healing magics could not would be a great way to show wisdom.
So the psychological shock of growing a new limb unless thr healer does physical therapy or hypnotize the patient? God combat healers must be a fresh hell of constantly mind controlling soldiers so they don't freak out and bloody everything because its better to saw off a limb then let it naturally heal. And a lot of cauterization.
How effictve is your healing magic by the way? Can the local priest literally pray away back pain where mine can only do so temporarily?
In Redo of Healer, his healing magic is divine, and bypasses the normal limitations of healing.
Most healers just struggle to keep people alive.
And in Cynn, healing magic is magic. There are no 9th-level spells. Using magic spends stamina and takes mana from the air to recharge. Healing anything serious requires time, and most healing is done to stop people from dying on the battlefield, and then spend time healing when they are safe.
Something of a follow-up question, how much of whatever passes as dwarven clergy be made up of solely physical therapists (Masseuse, massage therapists, chiropractor, etc)? I know you mentioned healing magic before but to me physical alignments would be harder to heal while things like sickness and mental ailments would be easier. If magic has a spirtual basis those two ailments would be easier to detect, sickness due to it appearing as a foreign mass and mental via exorcism. Things like muscle sores are the strain of the body. To me, magic would only be a temporary cure for such ailments, simillar to sleeping it, muscle pad, or advil, because to me, magic needed to cure such pains needs to understand the internals of the body, and base medieval medical knowledge is questionable at best.
That's honestly like - Redo of Healer.
Where healing magic just accelerates natural healing. So, closing wounds, restoring damaged tissue. It can't do anything more.
And that would be an easy way to make sure your healers can't just keep healing in combat. This gives wounds weight and depth.
Having Dwarven masseuses give you a deep healing that more powerful healing magics could not would be a great way to show wisdom.
So the psychological shock of growing a new limb unless thr healer does physical therapy or hypnotize the patient? God combat healers must be a fresh hell of constantly mind controlling soldiers so they don't freak out and bloody everything because its better to saw off a limb then let it naturally heal. And a lot of cauterization.
How effictve is your healing magic by the way? Can the local priest literally pray away back pain where mine can only do so temporarily?
with my half-assed knowledge of prophecy, it states the meek shall inherit the earth, and if you look at our last 2000 years its somehow always a chrsitian (more commonly an Anglo-European of some kind) leading it in some way or the other.
Now, I don't consider india meek (and it's not from a lack of trying from them), but to me it seems asia in general has a thing about cults. One of it's most common starters for cults is christanity. so i have to ask, does she actually understand Jesus died for her sins? that's all i ask because if i remember right one of the most common things these cult state that they are the brother of christ, or they are the second comming, or whatever.
Weather, how big would the dwarven physical health industry be? (Hey maybe that's what all the females are doing). You talked about hot baths and plumbing a lot but I remembered how gladiators got oil massages, something I bet dwarves would enjoy because thry commonly work they are stiff. Bet thry would be able to handle Thai massages too lol!
Roman gladiators got oil massages, because they didn't have soap.
Literally. They were rubbed with oil, and then have the oil scraped off of them. That's how they cleaned themselves in the baths.
Celts had soap, so, it make perfect sense for Dwarves to have them.
I always give the Dwarves advanced Alchemy. Their healing potions are among the best in the world.
Then we have the Finnish worldview, where every health problem can be solved by saunas and vodka. Or mead is a great medicinal drink.
The reason Humans don't bathe that often is that if they jumped in a lake, they have to spend the rest of the day around a fire to warm back up again, or else they'll die of hypothermia. Dwarves don't have to worry about this. Elves also don't have to worry about this, but are a lot more shameless about it.
I remember a post, years ago. It didn't say this, but this was my takeaway.
Imagine how the healthcare industry would be different if you could give a pence to your priest and have him cure cancer.
And this is what happened in the Counter-Earth/Gor saga. The Priest-Kings wouldn't let Humans develop military technologies, but they had incredible longevity tonics.
Of course, a major thing to think about in the Dwarven Health Industry, is that Male Dwarves live 4-5x as long as a Man, but take the same risks.
And yeah, I made Female Dwarves taking up healing magic to be extremely common.
Hmm, I guess I should of specified physical health as in the ones athletes deal with (apparently massages are classified as manual therapy, who knew). Dwarves are short and work manual jobs, that's the common trope right? To me it sounds like they would get stiff a lot due to it, and thus need a manual therapy treatment due to it (sounds like dwarves would get a lot of work holidays in the name of Efficiency. After working long hours of course). I know manual therapy can involves things like oils, creams, and hot stones so my original question still stands. How big would the Dwarven Manual Therapy industry be due to dwarves being such hard workers? I bet they would be able to handle their women standing on them for things like thai massages lol!
Would you like to see me test stuff like this in armour (Including the pole)? Or learn how it was made and fitted? Please help fund the Bluminarmour project if you can!
Axes look cheaper so why aren't they the common solider weapon and why do we default to swords? Is it that its easier to find a sword thne to identify a axe in a archeology site? The arthurian myth?
Pyrrha: (Shivering) H-Hey, Jaune, what do you think of women with a huge libido? Like, they want to fuck their beloved all the time?
Jaune: ...Pyrrha, what the fuck are you talking about?
Pyrrha: (Blushing, Drooling) Well, J-Jaune, what would you do if, hypothetically, a girl wore a s-super daring set of lingerie underneath her usually boring clothes? A-And after a date, she tries to make an advance with the man she l-l-likes! And she tried all sorts of suggestive sex-sex-sexual poses while drunk on her own pleasure? (Clears her throat, Rubbing her thighs while looking away) O-Of course, this is just a hypothetical. Like asking for a f-f-friend.
Bet Pyrrha could do it with a nerd not-date. Wait, she's a c lister, that means she would definitely be forced into the convention circut! She can whine about and Jaune would be excited and asked to go eith her, the whole team comes. Shenanigans ensues, Pyrrha sneaks into the convection herself and ends up accidentally doing a couple's costume with Jaune, Jaune enjoying his time with this somewhat clueless, bumbling mystery woman!
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