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🔥 books

holding books is a religious experience. the tactile engagement with a book - flipping through the pages, leaving stains and wrinkles and creases as you go - is its own kind of story. you can go back to a book and read the history of your experience with it in all the little ways you marred it the first time you read it.

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Going back to your infectious diseases for worldbuilding: what are some of the best and worst examples you've seen in fiction. Beyond that, what factors impact how scientific and medical knowledge and practice progress in a fictional society?

Oh man, there are a lot of terrible examples, mostly of the "this plague kills everybody and fast and if you're exposed to it, you have it, and it works like magic but is supposedly scientific" variety (this is actually more common in scifi than fantasy). In fantasy what I've noticed is that there are just so many authors who completely disregard the concept of infectious diseases completely. It's just absent. Battlefield wounds never get infected, and nobody spends the days and weeks following worrying about death from infection. Nobody ever talks about siblings or children who died before their first birthday because they got a fever. People who die from childbirth die from bloodloss, not the much more common childbed fever. Nobody worries about STIs. Fantasy Rome or Renaissance Italy might have the plague, but they don't have the perpetual scurge of malaria. Armies never miss their climactic battle because everybody is down with typhus or dysentery.

Obviously this lack of disease is because it's not what the authors want to focus on, but for the ones who do, or for the ones who just want to have it in the background, I'm making some videos to help.

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Quagmire and Orison

Quagmire: What childhood book holds a special place in your heart?

Ella Enchanted. I still reread it every year or two, and each time I'm impressed by the amount of depth that Gail Carson Levine brings to the world. I daydream about adapting it into a miniseries (which I think would work better than film; the movie is fun but as an adaptation I don't think it really maintains the spirit of the novel).

Orison: What song(s) reminds you so much of someone you can’t listen to it without thinking of them?

Ohh there are definitely many. But a sampling:

"Breezeblocks" by alt-J

"They Got Lost" by They Might Be Giants (both the fast and slow versions)

"Dance Apocalyptic" by Janelle Monaé

"What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong

personal asks based on random x files eps

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☕ jam

I’m a fan and I tend to like it more than jelly

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Monica Rambeau for the character ask!

Wandavision spoilers, obviously. First impression: “Oh hey, a Cool Science Kid” Impression now: She’s a badass, and I want to see more of her.

Favorite moment: When Wanda and the military are having their standoff outside the Hex, and Monica steps between them to try and negotiate a peace. Monica looks at this woman who could kill her with a thought, this woman who Monica would be totally justified in hating, and decides to offer her compassion.

Idea for a story: Something something space adventure. Agatha gets to come too, for the Chaos. Unpopular opinion: I don’t know what the prevailing Opinions are, popular or otherwise. Favorite relationship: I like the idea of her and Darcy as Science Buddies Favorite headcanon: Her and Darcy become Science Buddies.

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