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#explainyourwipplotweirdly - Two trees must talk the Unicorn of Eastern Colorado off its ranch to defy the Bristlecone Ravens. Also features the Deer King of Yellowstone, a quite literal nursery of dryad sprouts, urban naiads partying with suburban tree moms.

Night of Musing

LIBBYYYYYYYY~ WAIT WAIT WAIT THE DEER KING??? AS IN MY DEER KING MUSE????? FROM THE DEERMOOT???? OH PLEASE TELL ME THERE’S A DEERMOOT

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librariansheart replied to your post “librariansheart replied to your post “NaNoWriMo 2018, Day Sixteen...”

LISTEN. LISTEN!! NO ONE STEALS THE SHEARS!!

(ง'̀-'́)ง (ง'̀-'́)ง put em up (ง'̀-'́)ง (ง'̀-'́)ง n’ give em back (ง'̀-'́)ง (ง'̀-'́)ง

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librariansheart replied to your post “NaNoWriMo 2018, Day Sixteen Project: Moonwater & Marble Progress:...”

SONUVA-- D: WHO WOULD DARE

I’m dying, Libbs. THIS is the one that gets you out of the woodwork? :D <3

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librariansheart replied to your post:One last question--what are some different ways...

One of the common traits of one of the noble houses in the _Kushiel_ series is long black hair in intricate styles. All the boys have long tiny braids with silver caps which the girls help them do - to teach them both patience

@schillerama - Another option from my friend Libby. I think this one counts as jewelry/hairstyles, which is why I didn’t specifically talk about it, but yes, jewelry and ornamentation is perhaps one of the most widely used variety of familial differentiation in literature (and real life). Thanks Libbs! -Pear

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librariansheart answered your question “I’m losing weight...and unhappy about it”

If you have the online chart, send a message to your doctor and discuss the meds and side effects. They need to know how you feel about this.

I told my Dr about it when I first had these problems.  Like....a week and a half into starting the meds.  I got a “These are normal.  it’s part of why you lose weight” answer.  I’m gonna message her again, I think, but I have to get up the courage to do so?

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librariansheart replied to your post: librariansheart replied to your post: I’m appalled…

Will I regret this? Almost certainly. But what is life without a little danger. BRING IT!

Well, if you insist…

Chant Leader: Lutefisk! Students: LUTEFISK! Chant Leader: Lefse! Students: LEFSE! Chant Leader: Can we beat them? Students: YEAH SURE YA'BETCHA!

[theticklishpear]

What are your thoughts/what can you tell me about the use of face and body paint worldwide?

I have not studied this aside from very basic things, so here are some thoughts. First world countries are sorely lacking. Come on. Not nearly enough face/body paint in the world. But you can be certain that before we had a centralized government, way back to proto-us, there is a stage with body paint.

Body paint is a symbol. Usually both shape, color, placement, thickness, time of year all mean something for the wearer and the culture. The activity preceding or taking place afterward are generally what the paint is for, but there are some cultures that are currently utilizing tribal political organizations that wear it every day. It may communicate status, wealth (often intrinsically tied to status), or even tell of achievements. The shapes and colors are culturally specific. A line from one eye to the ear of the same side may mean something different to one peoples than to another. They can be used to identify castes such as warriors or priests or political leaders, or even farmers or slaves. It may also be used to denote emotion--maybe there are special symbols for someone who just had a baby. Body paint is mostly applied before a ritual of some kind, whether that's before a puberty ceremony or before a hunt, it could by anything. Just like with planning color meanings, body paint will be determined in the same way for the same reasons. Use your environment to determine paint colors, and use your culture's societal norms for when, where, and how they place it. Remember that outsiders looking in are not likely to know the meanings of the paint. Also keep in mind those things your society values. If the harvest is a big deal, there may be a ceremony or application of body paint. If harvesting is not considered important because it happens all the time, hunting parties may be applied with paint since the acquisition of meat is more rare. Come up with reasons why and keep those in mind as you're writing, and body paint can become an interesting, new way to portray characteristics of your culture.

Thanks for the ask!

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Color is often has a big impact on a culture and how they are perceived by other neighboring cultures. Do you have any information about how colors change in meaning between areas of the world? (Black is a color of mourning in the West, White is mourning in the East, etc?) And/or, how would you suggest figuring out what colors would be best in your fictional culture?

It's literally tied to environment. How lame is that. Every answer I have for you is: environment. Ever. The colors that are used by cultures come from organic materials, so what colors get used in the first place are determined by what they can get either from materials in their immediate vicinity or get imported in. The further they have to come from, the more expensive they are, the more likely they'll be labeled as "for the wealthy." Sometimes that's all a color's meaning is. That in mind, keep some colors aside for those wealthy enough to have them. The colors from more common materials to the culture will be the ones that have specific meanings. There hasn't been a lot of research on HOW cultures choose the meanings for their colors. Anthropologists weren't around when those choices were made, and writing about it wasn't really a big... fad... around those times either.

For fictional cultures, it doesn't matter how you decide to label your colors.

Here's a tip: Explain them to your readers. You can choose different meanings for your colors than your own culture has, but know that your readers are going to identify the meanings their culture has assigned them first. Always come along behind a reader's pre-conceived notions to clean them up for your world. Remember that you may be able to do this using context clues--if your character goes to a funeral wearing purple and they don't think anything of it, and a widow in the streets is also wearing purple close after their spouse's passing, your readers are going to pick up that purple is mourning. But if you have yellow standing in for poverty, or depression, or the moon, you'll need to clue your reader in.

I hope that helps!