#how does time work

[loveart14]

Okay people me and my friends were just talking about this and I want your thoughts on this as well. How does time actually work in slugterra? They don’t have a sun so how do you know what time it is while living in slugterra? And what are their calendars like, are they like ours or are they different?

If anyone can help me with this that would be appreciated.

[bluepenstemon]

my brain is too puny to understand how time works. there are several ways to say the year on esper; most people go by the dragon’s system, who track time based on eras of the current ruler, some people tell time by historical events, but the gods tell time by saying how many years after the creation of the universe something happened.

is this too complicated of a way to tell time for the gods? i don’t want to use bc or ce because they don’t make sense to me and this is a fantasy world with no jesus, so there would be no reason to use this system at all. i like the idea of the gods using “the 13,8xx,xxx,xxxth year”, but then what year is it currently? do i just make up a random number for the present and go based on that?

[alowkeyclown]

so tmp4 seems to be pretty straightforward slaughter right? which is the only old one we've heard so far (newer ones being 'odd' or not as easily categorised/just having a different Vibe). How does the transplanting of The Fears work moving from one universe to another ? Are we assuming time is circular/irrelevant etc and The Fears have simply Always Been in this new universe as soon as TMA universe punted it over (or they already had fears and the new ones added in made them fucky?) ? That's my assumption anyways, but why then do the fears get weird later on ? Other than humanity evolving and that (and that could be the only reason tbf), maybe ripple in time after the magnus institute burnt down? Result of timelines diverging?? maybe it took a long time for the fears to fully come through ?

[cloudymindemptyskies]

I went back through the depths of my unfinished drawings, found one from months ago, redid what I had done and finished it.

I've almost had this tumblr for a year now (I think) so that's pretty weird to think about.

5/2/2024

[precarious-world]

Disco Elysium: Role-Playing in a Precarious World

This is a video essay critiquing ZA/UM's 2019 role-playing game Disco Elysium, organised around the broad theme of role-playing. It assumes that you're alrea...

now that i’ve actually got a page i might as well slap this here

if you’re in the venn diagram of disco players and insomnia sufferers (ample, doubtless), then oh boy do i have a video for you!!

[lizzybizzyart]

what do you mean its been a year since the last artvsartist

[spaceswordblaster]

As most of you probably don’t know, tumblr’s shutting down groupchats today at 3pm PST. In late 2019 I made a Tumblr groupchat for some friends and called it 'ADHD Gremlings' because all of us have ADHD. To my surprise, people found my group and joined and it kinda became like an ADHD support/question group. And now it's been mostly full (they cap at 200 members) for about a year and a half.

It's been mostly real cool to (accidentally) mod a gc like this. Because I was only diagnosed in 2017, I had a lot of resources on hand about ADHD/executive dysfunction and have only accumulated more. Tumblr gcs were a fun way to meet people from different areas of the world and different corners of tumblr who you might not have met otherwise, and during the pandemic I hope we all helped keep each other a bit more sane. If you were a part of it, thanks!!!

If not, you still could be! I made a (very basic, so far) Discord server. If you have ADHD or are suspecting you might, (obligatory adult ADHD screening test link) come on down :D

https://discord.gg/VhgcNw7Sgs

[rainbowjellyfi]

At what point in history did we start using BC/AD for years? Like I assume they weren't ominously counting down in BC to an unknown point, but I also assume they didnt wake up and be like "this is year 1!" randomly at some point. Really curious about this for world creation around a nearly immortal character.

Story notes if interested- a young girl is brought into a city that is shared by 6 kingdoms in an effort to create peace. One kingdom is very anti-magic, while several of the kingdoms are inhabited by almost exclusively magic creatures. Anti-magic kingdom makes deals with kingdoms outside of the shared city to attack other kingdoms and attempt magic genocide. Young girl joins military and climbs ranks, becomes immortal in one fight and continues to fight war until it is done roughly 1500 years later when she is finally allowed to die.