#dharjeeling

[enemyofrome]

Hello. I finished reading Swansong a week ago and have proceeded to hawk it to just about every fantasy reader in my circle. It is a glorious piece of art, and one of the best and most satisfying things I've read this year. Thank you. Your writing is gorgeous. (I've now re-picked up Elegy again.)

thank you so much <3 I waffled back and forth on the ending for ages, so you have no idea how happy this makes me!

[fahye]

Dear Fahye, A quick note to tell you i can't wait to read your fantasy m/m romance novel when it comes out. 😱

thank you <33333

the novel-in-progress is LANGUISHING at the moment while I curse every single one of the life choices that led me to the point of having to hand-sequin a skating costume. literally all of my spare moments I am spending rewatching the 2014 olympic skating events on youtube while grimly sewing, sewing, sewing. the competitions are this weekend. I expect I will never want to see another sequin in my life by that point.

meanwhile I keep opening the novel’s scrivener file and adding to the segment called ‘notes for rewrites’, which is mostly full of pointed comments to myself about how lazy my worldbuilding is and how I am going to have to rehaul half of it in the second draft.

another note in that file is THEY NEED TO NOTICE CLOTHES MORE which is very dangerous because, if you didn’t know this already, I am at all times holding myself back from describing everything everyone is wearing in loving detail. but given that both of my protagonists have solid character reasons to notice clothing in particular, I have decided that I am going to UNLEASH MYSELF. pity my betas. pity them.

[valeaida]

I finished Elegy literally five minutes ago and I wanted to let you know that I am now biting my fingers waiting for the next one. 😱 (and hello from a fellow Singapore resident. 😁)

HELLO NEIGHBOUR :D

[scriptastronomer]

Me again! Realised I left off a part of that ask of many asks (!!!): if a planet is tidally locked to its star but has two other bodies orbiting it, would that affect climates at all? i.e. provide light+heat to the darker side, etc etc? Sorry for so many asks!

You keep asking, we’ll keep answering. :-)In general, orbiting moons wont have an effect on the climate of their primary. The light they reflect from the sun won’t have much effect on the weather. The Moon of Earth is about 1/400000th as bright as the Sun, so the amount of extra energy the Moon dumps into Earth is negligible.What orbiting moons can change is the planet’s ecosystem. The Moon has an incredible effect on Earth’s wildlife through creating tides to making the night much less dark than it would. Many animals have parts of their life cycles influenced by the Moon. Multiple moons might have multiple cycles, with different species tagging off of one moon or the other’s cycle.

Also, a moon can effect the tectonic movement of it’s primaries. Flexing the surface of a planet can cause more and/or stronger earthquakes and volcanoes.

In general, the closer a moon orbits it’s planet and the more massive the moon is, the more effect it will have. Bigger moon effects tectonics and tides, brighter moon effects plants and animals.

[fahye]

dharjeeling replied to your post: Dear Fahye, A quick note to tell you i can't wait...

But… Descriptions are life �� But it’s moving! You’re on a solid way to a first draft and that much closer to something for all of us morbid fans to rabidly devour at the end. �� There’s pre-sequined cloth for the next costume?

hahaha...ha... pre-sequined cloth is, yes, a great idea, but unfortunately I have a VISION for this costume and it involves a density gradient of individual sequins of three different shades of green, starting from my wrists and going up my forearms. 

I am, as one of my friends has already pointed out, an adorable monster.

BUT I WANT IT TO LOOK RIGHT AND I’M GOING TO MAKE IT LOOK HOW I WANT COME HELL OR HIGH WATER

/slytherin

[scriptastronomer]

Awesome blog!! If a habitable planet becomes tidally locked to its sun, does that generally occur gradually over a long period of time, or is it a sudden event (with presumably catastrophic effects)? What would inhabitants be experiencing around this time, and is there a possibility that once tidally locked, the areas outside the twilight zone would be somewhat habitable given certain technologies / magic / evolution? Would there be variances in climates even within the three zones?

Tidal-locking usually takes place over a large, gradual amount of time - several million or several billion years. There’s actually an equation that estimates the time it takes for a body to tidally-lock to another one:

But don’t worry about it. I just like math. ;-)

The equation states that the faster the planet rotates and the farther away the other body is, the longer it takes to achieve a tidal-lock. Conversely, the more massive the planet and the other body the less time it takes to achieve a tidal-lock.

As to the effects to the world as it moves towards being tidally-locked, well, just look outside - assuming you’re on Earth, that is.

The Earth’s rotation is actually slowing down and approaching a tidal-lock with the Moon. The Moon is, or course, already tidally-locked to the Earth.

As the Moon creates tides and the Earth rotates inside them, that friction generated does two things - it slows the Earth’s rotation, and it allows the Moon to get slightly farther away from the Earth. Eventually, the Earth and Moon will both be tidally-locked, keeping the same face towards each other.

That’s going to take a while. The Moon is receding at the rate of about 4 cm per year, and the Earth is slowing down at the rate of about 2 milliseconds every century. At these blistering speeds, it will only take about 50 billion years to achieve tidal-lock.

Sadly, it will never happen because the Moon should drift away from the Earth first. Actually, the Sun will go all red giant on us and vaporize both Earth and Moon before the Moon can drift away. Looks like we’re stuck with each other until death. ;-(

Assuming that a planet has a larger, closer moon, and does actually tide-lock with it over a couple of billion years, the climate will have changed so much that the planet will become almost totally unrecognizable. Considering the changes that would take place over billions of years anyway, the effects of being tidally-locked are negligible in comparison.

However, if a planet were to slow down much faster - say on a human scale of a few decades to a few centuries - then the effect would be much much stronger. The planet’s climate will start to radically change as temperature extremes will start to become more pronounced and animals and plant life will struggle to adjust to the lengthening day/night cycle.

Massive ecological disruption would be the best outcome of this situation. I could see most of a society’s resources turned towards mitigating or even just surviving the changes.

However, I’m sure there would be a small group of scrappy scientists that would try to uncover the reason the changes were taking place so rapidly.

[fahye]

I thoroughly enjoyed hood and glove!! ❤️ thank you so much and it makes bedridden recovery so much more bearable. 😁 GOod luck on novel-writing because I feel your pain so much, trying to do the same for more than a year now... 😐

oh, goodness, I wish you a speedy recovery for whatever it is!

novels are the worst and mine is ESPECIALLY THE WORST but never underestimate the motivating power of spite. even though I am 97% convinced this is the worst novel ever written by anyone, ever, in the history of the world, the other 3% of me is smearing imperator furiosa grease onto my forehead and yelling FUCK ITTTTTT, LET’S GOOOOOO while chairdancing to ‘shake it off’.

so you know.

GET WRITING.

[fahye]

!!!! A note to say I TOTALLY INHALED GRAVITY over a very antisocial dinner. ❤❤❤ I have also, I think, never waited for fanfic ever with bated breath. THANK YOU, that was a lovely read, and Otayuri has never been more appealing or distracting 😱😱

as one introvert to another I am VERY GLAD I could enable this antisocial dinner of which you speak. thank you!