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Millions of Years of Immutable Evolutionary Law: “Cats shall have litters of many offspring at one time. Some will be weak or stricken with disease--they will perish to allow the stronger siblings to escape, and to satiate other predators in order to reduce competition and encourage the existence of more capable adults.”
Human Beings:
Dark times all around but there are still people out there who love you
Do not hurt yourself, do not hurt others, get help, talk to someone, anyone. Humanity has survived before and we can do it now if we all just support each other. My country and my people let me down and endangered my life but there’s nothing I or anyone else can do about that so let’s try to spread the love that is so clearly lacking.
We know the perils of naming things as a GM. You might be too mundane: Bob, the bronze dragon of the southern coast. You might be too archaic: what do you mean the party can’t remember the archmage Zenithisces Miramandovion Shorfodorf?
We have tales of the GMs who created the legendary sword of Jeo’m Amah by mistake, or panic-named two people the same thing (shout out to Skinny Greg and Stocky Greg). But yesterday I think I ran into one that was my own dang fault.
Idea: say names out loud. Say them many times. If they are too fun to say, there will be problems. Do not by any means name your terrible monster “Klong” even if you want him to be a King Kong reference.
‘relationships are work’ means ‘you have to put effort into loving each other intentionally & learning how to love each other and communicating properly’ not ‘your relationship makes you feel stressed and sad most of the time & the other person disrespects you and treats you bad but you stay anyway’
@that-gay-jedi requested that i talk some about material conditions and their effect on worldbuilding so here's something I'm thinking about
One area where the conditions of day to day life never seem to be fully considered in their impacts on the worldbuilding: magic systems.
I'd have to do more research to support this theory, but I think that this is one of the major ways that D&D has shaped how we Do Worldbuilding in fantasy. Most magic systems, in the way they are shown to us, have a lot of very combat-focused applications. Even if it's not all fireballs, lightning bolts, and more classic D&D wizard type stuff, physical/elemental type magic is explored from the angle of "how do I hurt/kill people with this" or "how do I destroy things with this"
But. If you're in a roughly pre-industrial fantasy world, and a portion of the population that's at all significant has magic, or can learn magic, that affects the natural world, the oldest and most widespread type of magic or method of using magic likely isn't going to be for warfare, and even when writers question the combat-centered magic, they usually go for like, exploring how magic is incorporated into the arts or something
Which is great. But in most pre-industrial societies, like 90% of the population is rural farmers. What I'm saying is, where is the farm magic.
The first spells to be developed, the oldest and most well-known spells, should really be like this:
banish slug
repel frost
corral
loosen dirt
uproot
magic scythe
separate chaff
repair horse
castrate bull
deworm
summon scarecrow
peel sheep
direct moisture
What farmer even today wouldn't find loads of uses for magic? Charms that keep patches of ground above freezing. Magical explosions that disseminate seeds instantly all over your fields. Shade spells to protect your plants from beating sun.
If magic can summon demons or familiars or make constructs to do stuff for you, you bet your ass that stuff was used by farmers long before it was ever used for fighting. The most culturally important use of necromancers isn't creating soldiers to form undead armies, it's reanimating your dead mule so he can still pull your plow. Farmer warlocks will summon demons from hell to haul manure for them.
If you have wizards in a fancy wizard private school learning how to create a shield of frost, that knowledge had to come from somewhere, and the answer is probably thousands of years of farmer wizards learning how to magically protect their crops from extreme heat and cold.
I want to see side notes in worldbuilding about how every spell used for combat is basically a repurposed farming spell.
This spell for summoning a magical suit of spectral armor that shatters weapons? Yeah, that was originally developed for chickens so foxes would shatter their teeth when they tried to bite them. It was used for centuries before someone thought of trying it on a person.
As a side note this makes me think that a likely reason why necromancy could be considered evil/taboo/bad has to do with family dynamics and social structure
For a city dwelling necromancer, it might seem superstitious to have qualms about going to the morgue and picking out a corpse to reanimate, if that person consented to their body being used as such. For a rural necromancer, though, the only bodies around to reanimate are likely going to be those of someone you know personally.
Furthermore, if that person died young of a disease or something, it would be dangerous to keep them around because they could spread the illness. But if they died more naturally of age related ailments, they're probably like, your dad or something.
It's fucked up to reanimate your dad's corpse to turn him into a farmhand. Even if the reanimation itself isn't considered disrespectful to the person, using their body to do manual labor probably is, especially if they were your elder and you're supposed to respect them.
Interesting to think about.
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Heroes of our times: this woman who stopped shaving, plucking, moisturizing, fixing her hair and applying make-up because her douche boyfriend kept complaining she spent too much time in the bathroom and YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT.
[Spoiler: he learned women don’t actually ‘look like that’ and tried to force her to ‘take care of herself’ again, while she realized she was wasting so. much. time. and is now living her best hairy, unplucked, unmoisturized, unblow-dried and unlipsticked life. Truly a blessèd day.]
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#i need to find a way to watch this show
Here is a link and here is another link and another one.
I wish I had access to HBO so I could watch it there to improve ratings, but alas. It's ok though, Taika won't mind.
I will describe some stuff about Our Flag Means Death for anyone who hasn't seen it and would like to know what to expect, because this is not a show anyone could have expected and I still haven't processed the fact that it exists, despite having watched it twice.
It's about 5 hours in total - 10 episodes that are more or less a half hour each.
It's a romantic comedy with lots of queer pirates, and they are the main characters. I couldn't find a shot with all of them, but here's the captain reading most of his crew a bedtime story.
It's very silly a lot of the time, and some ridiculous cartoonish stuff happens. Sort of a similar flavour to Galavant, but with more swearing and no musical numbers.
But the queerness of the pirates is never the butt of the joke, they're just there existing and it's very normal. Absolutely no mean-spirited writing.
(side note - if you tag this "q slur" I will make you eat your own severed toe. Or perhaps just block you)
There's a nonbinary pirate played by a nonbinary actor and there were three nonbinary writers in the writers room. The other pirates are cool with it, and their character arc isn't about gender stuff.
The first (unnamed bad guy) character to say something racist to one of the black crewmen immediately gets his hand pinned to the table with a big knife by another crew member and it's great.
There's some stabbing and blood and removing of digits, but nothing super gory.
There are some sad bits but it's not bleak, because it's still a silly romcom.
Taika Waititi and Rhys Darby play the main couple and they're wonderful actors with great chemistry and nothing about the romance is played for laughs, the two middle aged pirate captains kiss and it's beautiful.
While none of the costumes are accurate to 1717, a lot of the suits are surprisingly good for later decades. (Though not perfect, nobody ever sets the sleeves quite right or does a good job with neckwear in 18th century film costumes. 18th century menswear is one of my very favourite things and I've been sewing it for years.) I expected to hate the costumes, but now I only think a few of them are awful. I usually fuss about accuracy a lot more than this, but this isn't a genre where everything has to be logical.
The showrunner says he figures he could fit the story he wants to tell into 3 seasons. That would be good, I need there to be more episodes and for some things and stuff to be resolved.
Some of my fave Black Fae Day lewks:
Slays.bySarah on IG
Etoilesroses on IG
Phleshe on IG and maybe on here?
Feycrafts on twitter
KSHAW_tv on Twitter
Kagoneko on twitter
Hotboybebop on Twitter
Queer_Elf_Club on Twitter
And Thorns_and_Flames who lives in my head rent-free
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this is from an Australian youtube channel where they go to hat tower and drop things
Water doesn’t compress very much, so once it hit it’s terminal velocity, it was basically a solid ball, not a liquid. This is why you can use water to cut things if you have a high enough pressurized jet of it.
The reverse POV of “if you’re too high, hitting the water is like hitting concrete”
Well that's not in one piece anymore