AM I THE OBSERVER, OR MERELY THE OBSERVED?

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must take care what we pretend to be"

[zandoarts]

Hello! I hope my binge-liking of your art hasn't been too annoying - the Hibourverse has been my new obsession for a couple of weeks now. I wanted to ask, what service do you use for the Hibour website? I'm looking to make one for my own setting and haven't found a good source yet. Thanks for all you do!

It's a wordpress domain and if I'm being completely honest, I hardly have a clue what I'm doing. Just chipping away at it, one page at a time.

[the-demon-colonel]

You're doing a great job, my friend

I've enjoyed reading through the lore and perusing your frankly amazing art

[i-am-a-fish]

please learn how to code

like, if you're bored today, and not doing anything,

learn a little bit of coding please

[i-am-a-fish]

hi hi hello PLEASE DON'T JUST REBLOG THIS FOR LATER

I know how much you love reblogging posts and then never looking at them ever again. I get it, I really do. but PLEASE

just open one of these links and explore a bit if you're interested

Scratch - great coding program for learning the basics, but so good you can make a video game with it

Codecademy - learn any coding language with lessons

Neocities - literally make a website

it's all free

[i-am-a-fish]

I'm sending wild animals to your doorstep.

[digitaldiscipline]

[literaryvein-reblogs]

more words for worldbuilding (pt. 2)

ANIMALS

Animal: adult, beast, buck, cat, chicken, cur, father, frog, goat, half-breed, horse, hybrid, litter, mongrel, monster, parasite, pig, stock, young

Bird: bird, chicken

Fish: aquarium, aquatic

Group of animals: drove, herd, insect, pack, stock, team

Insect: bee, grub, pest

Limb or appendage of: bill, coat, feather, fur, mop, pelt, scale, trunk, wing

Mammal: cat, dog, father, goat, hound, mother, pig

CLOTHING

Accessory: bag, belt, buckle, collar, pocketbook, purse, satchel

Clothing: apparel, array, bathing suit, cape, clothes/clothing, costume, dress, dungarees, falsies, frock, garment, girdle, gown, hat, jacket, negligee, nylons, pajamas, pants, quilt, scarf, skirt, suit, swimsuit, thing/things, trappings, underwear, veil, wash, wrap

Part: collar, crown, pocket, strand, tiara

State of dress: bareness, nudity, try on/try out, wear

FOOD & DRINK

Beverage: alcohol, coffee, drink, potable

Beverage, alcoholic: beer, liquor

Change in: curdle, turn

Food: appetizer, bite, brew, bun, casserole, condiment, cracker, diet, doughnut, feed, frosting, grub, helping, hors d’oeuvre, leftover, macaroni, meat, nosh, nurture, nutrition, pastry, produce, refreshment, seasoning, stew, subsistence, support, sweet, treat, vittles

Food part: morsel, nip, taste, tidbit

Meal: banquet, bite, buffet, diet, fare, picnic, repast, spread, table

Produced from animal: comfort food, feed, food, frosting, grub, hero, macaroni, sandwich, submarine, vittles

Produced from plant: condiment, doughnut, loaf, pastry, produce, sweet

Quality of: acerbity, baked, done, edible, mellow, nourishing, perishable, rare, ripe, salty, short, stale, strong, sweet, unappetizing, weak, wholesome

NATURAL RESOURCES

Electricity: beam, spark

Energy: electricity, fuel, nuclear energy, petroleum, power

Expression of energy: blast, bonfire, chill, concussion, discharge, fire, flash, noise, thunder

Natural event: eclipse, meteorology, weather

Resources: fuel, resource, rock, substance

PLANTS

Flower: bloom, bouquet, flower

Fruit: berry, produce

Growth or death of: bloom, bud, germinate, growth, wilt, wither

Part: bark, branch, cereal, flavoring, foliage, grain, juice, limb, nut, pod, scion, shell, stalk, trunk

Plant: algae, bramble, bush, crop, fossil, grass, harvest, hybrid, organism, produce, wreath

Tree: timber, wood/woods

Vegetable: produce

WEATHER

Object connected with: avalanche, breeze, climate, cold, dew, film, flurry, frost, gust, haze, hurricane, meteorology, moisture, puff, thunder, weather, wind

Quality of: breezy, clear, close, crisp, dismal, fair, fiercely, fine, furious, gloomy, hazy, humid, intimidating, misty, oppressive, raw, rugged, soft, stormy, sultry, temperate, thick, tranquil, turbulent, wild, wintry

Type of: blizzard, cloud, drizzle, fog, hail, mist, puff, rain, shower, tempest, torrent, tremor

NOTE

Excerpted from Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Updated and Expanded 3rd Edition, in Dictionary Form, edited by The Princeton Language Institute.

The above are concepts classified according to subject and usage. It not only helps writers and thinkers to organize their ideas but leads them from those very ideas to the words that can best express them.

It was, in part, created to turn an idea into a specific word. By linking together the main entries that share similar concepts, the index makes possible creative semantic connections between words in our language, stimulating thought and broadening vocabulary.

Source ⚜ Writing Basics & Refreshers ⚜ On Vocabulary

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Words Related to Science Fiction

Android - a robot that looks like a person

Antigravity - reducing, canceling, or protecting against the effect of gravity

Blaster - a handheld weapon similar to a gun that fires bolts of energy instead of physical projectiles

Cyberpunk - science fiction dealing with future urban societies dominated by computer technology

Cyborg - a bionic human

Deep space - space well outside the earth's atmosphere and especially that part lying beyond the earth-moon system

Extraterrestrial - originating, existing, or occurring outside the earth or its atmosphere

Galactic - of or relating to a galaxy and especially the Milky Way galaxy; huge

Hyperspace - a fictional space in which extraordinary events happen

Kryptonite - a substance that causes the comic-book character Superman to become weak when he is exposed to it

Martian - an imaginary creature in books, movies, etc., that lives on or comes from the planet Mars

Multiverse - a theoretical reality that includes a possibly infinite number of parallel universes

Space opera - a futuristic melodramatic fantasy involving space travelers and extraterrestrial beings

Space-time - the whole or a portion of physical reality determinable by a usually four-dimensional coordinate system

Starship - a spacecraft designed for interstellar travel

Superhuman - being above the human; divine

Time machine - a hypothetical device that permits travel into the past and future

UFO - "unidentified flying object"; a mysterious flying object in the sky that is sometimes assumed to be a spaceship from another planet

Warp speed - the highest possible speed

Wormhole - a hypothetical structure of space-time envisioned as a tunnel connecting points that are separated in space and time

Source ⚜ More: Word Lists

[the-demon-colonel]

A dictionary after my own heart 🚀🪐

[liberalsarecool]

Defund the bumbling police.

[gaylor-moon]

[magnoliaalchemist]

[darklynoon-deactivated20170407]

Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

[punkerduckiememes]

[libraford]

Unemployment is not a moral failing.

[libraford]

My seasonal contract ended this week and I'll be unemployed for 2.5 months.

My partner lost two different jobs because the company dissolved the position.

My brother lost his job of 7 years to an AI chat bot.

My friend lost her job because someone was uncomfortable working with a Trans woman.

Companies will end your contract over stupid petty shit and even if you quit because it's a shit job then that's saving yourself from further hurt and even if you got fired because of no call-no show who gives a shit and if you can't, literally can not get a job then it's no one's business-

Let's all just agree that it sucks out here and anyone that's scraping by is trying their best and no amount of 'making coffee at home' is gonna change your circumstances.

Mind ya business.

[the-demon-colonel]

I've been functionally unemployed since early September, and I needed to hear this

[restauracionhumana]

[the-demon-colonel]

"Behold, the great realm

"And Dwarf city of

"Dwarrowdelf"

[glassrunner]

CYBERPUNK 2077 | Dogtown, Pacifica

[shadowrungames]

More beautiful setting ideas for Shadowrun.

[the-demon-colonel]

Forever in love with the cyberpunk aesthetic

[eshesmites]

It’s impossible to give directions in Boston. Nothing makes sense. There are inexplicable one way streets, there are streets that change their names as you move from one area to another. There’s a road in my area where the gps literally tells you to take TWO full right turns to “stay on” the same road which is at a right angle to the original. There’s like four different Massachusetts Avenues. Sometimes you have to be in the left lane to turn right. The gps can’t even get directions to my workplace correct; it tells me to take a left on a road where lefts are not allowed, and the only way to not have to go across the river and take 15 minutes to turn around is to remember this shit one block early and make the left THERE. Recently, they’ve restricted 1 of 2 lanes on each side of major thoroughfares to only allow bikes and buses, and the government officials seemed to genuinely believe that would somehow EASE traffic. Oh and don't try to drive on Memorial Drive on Sundays; they close it for pedestrians. Just because. And when you DO drive on Memorial, there's one exit that will make your gps lose its mind and start chanting random sequences of numbers for four minutes straight. You can't take a Uhaul on Storrow Drive because the bridges that go over it are too short, and every year some doofus college student ignores this rule and proceeds to "get Storrowed" when they shave off the top of the truck on the overpass and get stuck. I-93 turns into I-95 and makes a big circle around the city, so a lot of the time you'll be on I-95 north but driving east or west.

It’s not limited to driving either. The Arlington train station is not in Arlington, it’s in the middle of downtown. Harvard Square is not a square, it’s more like a pentagon. There are four different green line train routes, and they’re labeled B for Boston College, C for Cleveland Circle, D for… Riverside, and E for… Heath Street. The Silver line is listed on the train map but is entirely run on buses which have to be connected and disconnected from power lines every time you go through the route. The Blue line goes to (and I’m not joking) Wonderland. The two red lines are labeled for their southern points: Braintree line goes to Braintree, and the Ashmont line goes to… Mattapan. To be fair, the train itself stops in Ashmont and you continue to Mattapan on a trolley, but that doesn't make it better. South Station and North Station are 1 mile apart and the easiest way to get from one to the other is just to walk it because otherwise you have to travel through 4 or 5 train stops on two different lines. But make sure you memorize the route because there's a good chance your gps will lose signal in the Financial district because it can't get through the buildings. In Boston Commons there are two train stops within line of sight of each other, on the same street, and one of them screams. To get to the trains at Porter Square, you have to ride down escalators 105 feet below street level, or you could just take the 3 flights of stairs totaling 199 steps (presumably because the engineers had something against nice even numbers). The North End is south of East Boston. Castle Island is part of the mainland.

No matter where you're going or how you're getting there, it takes 45 minutes (no wrong turns) or an hour and a half (one wrong turn). It doesn't matter if you're going one stop on a train; it will take 45 minutes. If it's summer, there's a better than 50% chance you'll be in the train car that lost it's AC; if it's winter, you're guaranteed to be in the car where the heat has it up to 80 degrees and the inside of your winter coat will be a sauna. Check the Red Sox schedule before you go south of the river, or you'll be trapped in the waves of baseball fans flooding the streets and days will go by before you're found again. And just... don't go outside on September 1.

If you're thinking that this sounds eldritch as shit, you're right. The entire city is an arcane lock keeping the ghoulies and ghosties from haunting the rest of the nation. We charge it with every "fuck" we utter while we travel our labyrinthine paths and drink our Dunks. You're welcome.

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[the-demon-colonel]

Had a colleague tell me earlier this year that when he was working in Cambridge they had a public measure to see if they wanted to put up street signs and the public VOTED IT DOWN because they figured that if it was harder to drive there people would stay away so this is peak Massachusetts indeed

[unnamed-form]

not a wolf, not a dog, but a secret third thing

[to-be-called]

[the-demon-colonel]

"If you're cold, they're cold...

"SO GET THE FLAMETHROWER"

[vaspider]

Ohio Rep: Ending Trans Care Will Make Trans Youth "Less Of An Issue"

The Republican Representative, who was the prime sponsor of Ohio's bathroom ban targeting trans youth and some adults, implied that a gender

A more charitable interpretation of Bird’s words is the assumption that transgender youth will cease to be transgender if they cannot access gender-affirming care. ... Even under this interpretation, however, denying medical transition does not make transgender youth cisgender; it forces them to endure untreated gender dysphoria, often with devastating consequences.

[demontruth]

What complete utter bullshit! I wish just once before they made these laws, they would take even 5 mins to find out anything real and factual about gender-affirming care. They destroy these young people lives without even a care what it will do to them. Out of fear and misunderstanding.

[vaspider]

It's ... more that a lot of these people would really prefer children were dead than that they were trans.

[libraford]

I haven't shared much about this decision because I've been too pisses to articulate myself coherently, but that's basically it.

[the-demon-colonel]

And these are undoubtedly the same sisterfucking bastards who claim to be "pro-life" at every opportunity they get

[soberscientistlife]

So many people do not understand the relationship between climate change and cold weather.

[headspace-hotel]

If you see this post it is important to send it to someone else so they too can understand

[headspace-hotel]

People hardly ever change their minds in front of you...the conversation becomes one of a series of slow drips that builds up to a realization

[rjkoehler]

[the-demon-colonel]

Dark was the night,

Blue was the sky.