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Blog update (2024-04-13): Reorganization efforts

In the year since reviving my Tumblr account, I initially set this blog page as my Genshin blog. However, ever since learning about the possibility of maintaining multiple blog pages (subordinate to this "main" page), I have decided to reorganize my Genshin posting to a separate blog page:

Where I post and reblog about Hoyoverse games. Primarily writing about Genshin Impact worldbuilding but also interacting about Honkai: Star

I have a rudimentary set of featured tags on that page, which I will try my best to abide by, but those are more of tag minimums than tags I will exclusively use on that page.

To be clear: due to how primary and secondary blogs work, I can only follow and fully interact from the main page, but if you want to see my future Genshin-related stuff, I will endeavour to post it first on my hyv-studies secondary blog, and then just reblog it on my main.

As for old Genshin-related posts I have on the main page, I will leave them up for posterity, but I might post revisions or reblogs of it in my secondary blog at some point.

At the moment, I am considering slowly reinserting gaming in my daily life, and with regards to my worldbuilding studies, the main target development this year would likely be me converting some of my older works into LaTeX PDFs (I want to consolidate my worldbuilding studies into big documents based on the categories that I set for them, e.g. a PDF file of my progress on area studies, a PDF file on allometry studies, etc.)

That's all for this blog update. Relevant comments would be appreciated! Thank you for reading!

#blog #update #blog reorganisation #hyv-studies #genshin impact studies #genshin-studies #genshin-impact

Choose your bnuuy

Lolol sometimes me but ehehehehehe

Oegufheoehg i reblogged a math post under my hyv specific blog awhewwitjd. mbmb much as it is unintentional, it will probably happen again

#blog #blog reorganisation #two brain cells #neither worked

8pxl

PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.

you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.

to opt out, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.

you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)

#blog #online privacy

ambiguouspuzuma

Writing prompt? No. Writing much delayed.

#me irl

robot-roadtrip-rants

GUYS GUYS THEY NAMED AN ARACHNID AFTER ABBADON

Find out what happens when your favourite science fiction universe collides with actual, real-world science.

IT WAS NAMED ABBADON DESPOILIATOR BECAUSE IT'S ALL SPINY AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

LOOKIT HER! SO SPIKY LIKE A GOOD CHAOS GIRL!

#40k #not actually #science fiction #irl science

elancholia

Aren't you tired of all that grimdark/noblebright shit?

Don't you want to live a little?

corpus-vak

Dune is definitely dry tbh

brazenautomaton

"alien" is dry are you shitting me

everything in alien is wet all the time

elancholia

People are questioning the wet/dry distinction, particularly as it pertains to Alien. That's fair, honestly. The alien itself is indeed wet—dripping—but its milieu is not. Both Alien and Dune are about the intrusion of wet into dry, as is The Expanse (the protomolecule is very wet, the broader setting very dry). Dryness is not just the dryness of deserts, it's the dryness of statistics, history books, and technical manuals. Those other things correlate with physical dryness, that's the thought that spurred this post, but they are not identical with it. Things that are dry:

Mostly involve humans and machines; aliens are monsters and wildlife; transhumanism is marginal.

Take place in controlled, Earthlike, barren, or otherwise less-exotic environments.

Use a subdued color palette.

Are sober and Apollonian rather than exuberant and Dionysian.

Are reminiscent of the late 20th century; tech is chunky and technical and not at all like magic.

Involve the economy. Governments and corporations are dry. Things are being produced in places, maybe there are R&D programs and universities, people are making deals, planets have exports, there are companies and economic interests. If a starship is chugging through the void towing a vast refinery which breaks planets down for raw materials and the people aboard are being fucked over by their bosses, that's dry.

Are inhabited by professionals, entrepreneurs, and workers—space truckers, mining technicians, merchant-princes, contractors, suits, academics, detectives, mercenaries. They are autonomous economic agents or parts of vast, 20th-century-style organizations. Competence porn is dry. If a mechanic goes to fix the communications relay, that's a dry element. If the mechanic looks at a readout and says shit this is just not my day, goddammit, and then puts on a big spacesuit, that's even drier. (This does not happen in Alien as far as I can remember, it's just a convenient example.)

This is a family resemblance and no one factor is definitive. Its opposite is "wet": biological and Dionysian, lots of exotic aliens, transhumanism, heroics, premodern elements.

The real mistake is Dune. Dune is both wet (Chosen One, magic, myth, premodern vibes) and dry (chapters open with quotations from a historian, emphasis on historical and ecological context, it's about a planet exporting a resource, CHOAM, desert, Liet-Kynes). However, it should be creepier than its current position indicates because it suggests that history and the universe are antithetical to human freedom and flourishing as we conventionally understand them, and also the universe runs on a substance that turns you into a big monster in both senses of the word. Also that business with the sandtrout worm king abomination. Creepy.

Creepy things are physically threatening and existentially complicated. If something is trying to kill you and eat you and reproduce itself using your body and your enigmatic android colleague says to you, "The thing that is trying to kill you and eat you and reproduce itself using your body is more perfect than any of us because it has no conscience", that's creepy.

#scifi #worldbuilding #somewhat lighthearted dichotomizing

It's my 9 year anniversary on Tumblr 💀 ☠️ 💀

Stages of renovating this account does not change this fact XD.

#9 year tumblrversary #tumblr milestone

assdevourer

shounenchild

This is how anime characters dance in the end credits after somebody they care about brutally dies

#anime and manga

Oh yeah I just noticed but I have to transfer pinned post and background image to shuuumaaaaa-hyv-studies and cook up a new set for this.

Expect overhaul continuation after March 1st! I will try to do mini unhiatus.

#miscellaneous #tbd tag category #blog reorganisation

beebfreeb

Please keep work place safety in mind at all times

beebfreeb

Did I mess up somehow

mid-nighttiger

@ossidae-passeridae

ossidae-passeridae

*posing saucily with my autoclave*

Hey baby, you wanna... share electrons?

(god the last poster is so dae coded it's like it was made for me)

shuuumaaaaa-main

🥰🤤🤖

#adeptus mechanicus #From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel.

esleep

i can't remember if i have posted this before but the coffee shop by my house has my favorite hand-washing sign in the world

foone

Given how wizards are themed around higher education, with their universities and ivory towers, I wanna see more fiction that goes into their published papers.

Like, there should be massive drama in the Wizarding world about how Fantasy Wikipedia says "There's no consensus about the origins of skydoves" when in fact, there very much is, everyone knows they were created in the first or second dragon wars, and that's uncontroversial. One single wizard at the University of Towers who thinks they're an offshoot of mermaids DOES NOT MEAN IT'S AN OPEN ISSUE.

Papers that are rebuttals to other magical discoveries. Like, look, that spell just won't work, and you can't call it a "theoretical exercise" just to cover up the fact that you've not been able to cast it. You can't combine Ichthyomancy with completely unrelated elemental summonings, that's just not how magic works, in all due respect.

Thesis defense would be significantly scarier when all your reviewers can cast Everburning Fireball on your ass.

Learning Theoretical Evocation from a hungover lizardman TA at 8am, because the professor for this course has been off on the Elemental Plane of Circles for half the semester trying to finish her paper on how Centaurs predate horses rather than the other way around.

Speaking of which, the life of a wizard graduate student... You keep getting called to go on "quests" which are just overgrown research expeditions to help out some professor's project. You spent nearly a month in that damp castle capturing all the spinfrogs you could find, all to help your professor's project on the possibilities of concentrated soul essences. To this day, you still get dizzy whenever you see battlements, let alone a donjon.

blood-orange-juice-deactivated2

Imagine the crisis of reproducibility happening in the wizarding world too.

shuuumaaaaa-main

YES PLEASE this flavor of worldbuilding is still a slowly developing field.

tagged by @the-commonplace-book. Thank you for the tag! It is appreciated, I got to reflect on my recent leisures.

nine things / nine people / nine companions

Last Song: "Do not touch" by MiSaMo

Favorite Color: Green and Blue from its natural shades (like the forests or sea foam) to the pastel (~matcha / aquamarine) variants

Last Movie/TV Show: Last movie watched was "Murder on the Orient Express" (2017), whereas last TV(streaming?) show watched was Jujutsu Kaisen E29 (~S2:E5, iirc)

Sweet/Savory/Spicy: All three would be nice, although if it isn't close to dessert I would not mind mostly savory and a bit spicy.

Last Thing I Googled: "Topological insulators vs topological superconductors"

Current Obsession: I don't have a singular obsession, but I suppose my materials research takes the largest chunk of my time at the moment. Outside of research work, my music rotation currently is Christopher Tin - Twice - Taylor Swift - Red Velvet - Thomas Bergersen. (The idol groups tend to change somewhat more frequently than the composers or the solo act, and also my genres are everywhere, and the rotation loops back ehehehe...). As you can hopefully see by now, I am not built correctly for a satisfactory answer for this category.

Last Book: I'm currently alternating between "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf, and "This is How You Lose the Time War" by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

Do research articles fall under book? If so, mostly stuff about hexagons. I would like to not spoil my studies further until I have something conclusive to show for it.

Last Fic: "That's what love feels like I think" by Saberin recently posted valentines fanfic re: Bocchi the Rock band poly. It cute.

Looking Forward To: After my undergrad final presentation in a couple weeks, I would like to return playing Star Rail, at least on auto, and exploring a chunk of Genshin beyond Dharma Forest (but also I have to catch up on the story quests from the underground Chasm!!!!) so I can progress a bit into my worldbuilding studies on it, at least for what remains of the spring holidays. In the longer term sense of things, I would like a successful experimental trial please, thank you.

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No pressure tags for this trend: @emanation-aura @astrophyta @istharoth @yuniemaki @berryblooo @craminni @nanbeidou @castaincognito @sunnyy-sunsh1ne

#miscellaneous #idk how to tag this #tbd-tag-category