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Sure, sure...
Aah...there it is...
I keep waiting the moment people will massively exit Twitter. At this point I'm cool with a government ban. At least locally it is improvement.
Hey internet! For the foreseeable future all of my fun time is going into finishing the projects I've already started. Going for finishing as many of my dozens of IRL WIPs in as little time as possible.
Tag games would still be fun if you want to tag me, but any of the active writing ones like the last line tag are going on a shelf for a while.
Of course, as soon as I make a little bit of progress on my big work project, my impulse control monkey thinks it will be fine to write just a little bit. It will not be fine. That is a slippery slope that leads to destruction.
All my free time for writing and other projects has to be funneled into a giant work project until said giant project is done. This will be a summer of very little fun.
I have been working on the same drawing off and on for 6 months. Everytime it's "off" it's because I decided it was time to attempt to draw the snake skeleton. Somebody yell at me and just tell me to do the damn thing.
Or, yell at me to decide where my characters' power limitations are. I also keep tapping out on that.
Weekly Worldbuilding Homework #3
Sooooo, I missed turning in my own homework last week. The homework I assigned myself to try to get the story haunting me out of my own head. Most people would double up to make up for homework assignments, but this has been a month. I’m still just going to focus on one part of the worldbuilding.
Today, I want to talk about clothes. Clothes here are fun. Mostly because I hate fast fashion, and I want a society where it is not possible for fast fashion to exist. Because there are so many people with powers, one size does not fit most. The standard size scheme works for maybe 30-40% of the population. Tailors and seamstresses are still relatively common jobs, but there’s a lot more specialization based on what a person needs. For example, if you can manipulate fire, you probably care about making sure your clothes won’t melt into your skin. A person who has wings or scales or horns is going to need special accommodations for those.
As a consequence of so many people needing specialized materials, patterns, and fabric, designers aren’t as important. And, advertisements for fabric and notions and sewing supplies are much more important than the latest Old Navy dance number ad. Trends aren’t really as big of a thing either. If there’s only a handful of cuts that work for someone’s expression of their ability, they’re not going to be into oversized clothes one month and skin tight clothes the next.
Personal expression is much easier through clothes here.
Still brainstorming:
Exactly how different I want the population to look from standard humans (i,e, what percentage of the population does have horns and skin colors like green or orange)
Do different groups and communities have ways of distinguishing themselves from the way they dress?
Are clothes made by the person wearing them cool or a signifier of poor social standing?
How does jewelry fit into this? (Probably going to be brainstorming this next week)
Where do people who don’t care about how they look get their clothes?
Are thrift stores still a thing?
Shoes?
Weekly Worldbuilding Homework #2
Another post for my accountability-inspired Worldbuilding Wednesday! This time I want to talk about the superpowers I’ve been thinking over.
Superpowers in my story are not uncommon. Think not quite as rare as the X-men universe, but not as common as in My Hero Academia. Jobs don’t necessarily hire people only for their superpowers, but they will help you in the job market. An exception though, some legislation requires that places have at least one person with a specific power employed, i.e. fire departments need to have at least 1 person who can fly/jump high and land safely; ER’s need to have someone at triage with X-ray vision.
Still brainstorming:
- How big the conflict between people who have powers and those who don’t will end up being?
- How do people know they have powers? Is it possible to not know they have a power?
- Can a person have more than one ability?
- How would jobs verify that someone has something like x-ray vision or telepathy?
room is now clean/smells like peppermint, laundry is in the dryer, precept reading sorta done, here’s the rest of the day
re-read precept reading
fold/put away laundry
book taos shuttle
email gran!
work on french poem u can do better
lab reading
finish translating le cygne
text sueanna about masks
go buy toothpaste/soap/coffee/snacks for d&d (moved to friday afternoon)