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dumb outfit drawing I made <33

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It is forever hypergreen in my heart

Every scientific research team should have at least one designated poet/writer, because you're telling me scientists made people see a new color by stimulating M-cones with lasers and they called it fucking olo (for binary 010)?

Entire clades of chlorophyllic words were open to them, and that's what they pick? C'mon. It's hideously phallic, too. A sampling of what we could've had:

- praseochlor, from two Greek roots for "green" -- a moon-moon situation

- mreen, even, for M-cones

- on that note, why not mondegreen?

- Luigi

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saw this temple earlier today, really nice architecture the carvings were incredibly intricate and well made.

I couldn't take pictures inside but really clean and equally intricate marbling and they had paintings which kind of looked like they were carved into the marble

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I love that these kinda look like something you'd see on a tarot card

Stamps issued by Tunisia in two parts, on July 25, 1962 and June 1, 1963

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I'm making some tarot cards for a space fantasy roleplaying thing i'm in this is the world of ledus banum (77th iteration), its a icy tundra world with ice sheets covering the most of it and a warm area around the equator.

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Some MSPaint art i drew for Carlotta II, the fallen queen in the new (very short) chapter of Land of our Coasts (new chapter 1)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58781740/chapters/166139350

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Worldbuilding bit

The remnants of the old world and The Creator can be found among the World Heart, a feat of primordial engineering whose operation is known only to time. While its operation fuels the expansion of the world no longer the dead heart of the creator sputters to life every so often, causing eruptions and replenishing some of the surrounding area.

In orange can be found a sort of volatile crystal, originally built to pump the heart it just gathers at the edges of the worldheart now, occasionally dropping in and reacting. In blue are magi crystals, when the world heart clotted a large ammount of magi-magma seeped into the surrounding rock in a violent reaction, leading to solid crystals of magic energy. In the black is blacksteel. There's a bunch of crisscrossing of the magi-magma in those areas which causes the hardening of the surrounding area.

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Yay :)))

Sorry for the delay on Chapter 14, y'all...work has been busy, and I decided to write that whole oneshot in February too sooo

But! I am writing it, and I think you will all really like it when it is out...soon! Thanks *️⃣

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Antigreen

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Imo humanity is kind of early when it comes to the cosmic scheme of this. Fermi paradox and all I think something really special is going to happen in a few billion years or so when life kinda explodes across the universe unless we, beings with agency, have created something so special to fundamentally alter how physics works. Whether we know it or not humanity is part of a race to divinity

What if real life is the Eldritch Apocalypse, and we have all but forgotten earlier times, before The Planets Aligned, before we discovered Things Humanity Should Not Know, Dug Too Deep, and ruined our world by making it... this?

What if the true Eldritch Horror is... normativity? Conformity? Regimentation? Dullness of mind and experience?

What if we could remember what "whelming" felt like, or when cars still needed to be quarzyk-tested? What if squirrels reminded us of those times, because even though they used to also come in some of the colors that are now missing, they're pretty much the same, otherwise?

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"Go ahead and open it, puppet; it won't bite...butitmaysting~"

🎄 Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all my readers from Calliope and Esther! As the year swiftly turns over, may your days be colorful and your nights be dark and full of (bewitching; bewildering) eyes 👁️

(expect chapter 12 of Antigreen on Dec. 27th!)

(Art by @ cutelootsuit on Twitter)

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I'm scared

If a star winks down at you from up above,

it's not atmospheric twinkling,

Its love--flirting, even,

millions of years in transit ✨

-⁊

(Art by the amazing @koinumilk )

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Semester's end unix reskin! I went with something simple this time, KDE, samsung icons, etc.

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Far out in ideatic space, where coherent thought begins to fray, a presence lurks unseen. The hidden star, the void-which-joins; we know It only indirectly for Its influence--or Its consumption--of those unfortunates that drift into Its fractal maw.

Divinities with sapience to self-preserve avoid it, when they may, but still It tracks a peppered path of mind-shaped holes across the realm. For a hundred billion years to eat unlucky scraps has been Its blind, solipsistic wont, and in that mercy life has flourished.

But no more. As Esther It has acquired personhood, and both the gods and mortals living in the Real must quake. In the face of Its unequaled power only paltry Logic, or Physics, remain in the way of Its goal of an everlasting eldritch marriage between worlds--and to Her human bride-to-be.

Her Realization will bring the end of everything.

(Art commissioned to @ sanstpx on Twitter!)

Read Antigreen on AO3!

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Yess, also having symbols that you need to discover out in the while that do certain things.

I'm a big fan of wizards-as-programmers, but I think it's so much better when you lean into programming tropes.

A spell the wizard uses to light the group's campfire has an error somewhere in its depths, and sometimes it doesn't work at all. The wizard spends a lot of his time trying to track down the exact conditions that cause the failure.

The wizard is attempting to create a new spell that marries two older spells together, but while they were both written within the context of Zephyrus the Starweaver's foundational work, they each used a slightly different version, and untangling the collisions make a short project take months of work.

The wizard has grown too comfortable reusing old spells, and in particular, his teleportation spell keeps finding its components rearranged and remixed, its parts copied into a dozen different places in the spellbook. This is overall not actually a problem per se, but the party's rogue grows a bit concerned when the wizard's "drying spell" seems to just be a special case of teleportation where you teleport five feet to the left and leave the wetness behind.

A wizard is constantly fiddling with his spells, making minor tweaks and changes, getting them easier to cast, with better effects, adding bells and whistles. The "shelter for the night" spell includes a tea kettle that brings itself to a boil at dawn, which the wizard is inordinately pleased with. He reports on efficiency improvements to the indifference of anyone listening.

A different wizard immediately forgets all details of his spells after he's written them. He could not begin to tell you how any of it works, at least not without sitting down for a few hours or days to figure out how he set things up. The point is that it works, and once it does, the wizard can safely stop thinking about it.

Wizards enjoy each other's company, but you must be circumspect about spellwork. Having another wizard look through your spellbook makes you aware of every minor flaw, and you might not be able to answer questions about why a spell was written in a certain way, if you remember at all.

Wizards all have their own preferences as far as which scripts they write in, the formatting of their spellbook, its dimensions and material quality, and of course which famous wizards they've taken the most foundational knowledge from. The enlightened view is that all approaches have their strengths and weaknesses, but this has never stopped anyone from getting into a protracted argument.

Sometimes a wizard will sit down with an ancient tome attempting to find answers to a complicated problem, and finally find someone from across time who was trying to do the same thing, only for the final note to be "nevermind, fixed it".

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This is kinda why I prefer magic which requires infrastructure to use. "Oh, you want to transmute X thing? Build this tower, put these runes, you can design this.

Ive seen people be like in modern fantasy like "oh the pritagonists can just look up spells on their phone how do you solve that"

Imma be honest most people who go on recipe websites and book every recipe they see don't even use them lmao why would with be different

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Sooo I was working on some speculative evolution stuff. The premise is that life develops in the atmosphere (world is enclosed, the ceiling of the world is an energy field that reacted with the atmosphere) and makes landfall at a later point. These are two body plans I have to share with y'all today:

Photoglydea are disk shaped organisms that have radial segments that have pores and air sockets to trap air, this gives them a bit of buoyancy and allows them to resperate, They also rely on the sun for photosynthesis. They reproduce by means of fragmentation, bits of them break off and grow into full organisms.

Next are the Aerosymbiota that form web-like clouds, they mostly float but they can't respirate or photosynthesize on their own. Mostly they exchange gas and nutrients with organisms they interact with. They reproduce when parts of the clouds break off and they share DNA by attaching to other clouds.