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2-rustywings-2 · 11 months ago
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I haven’t drawn a lot of guns previously and I’m not particularly familiar with them in genetral, but I tried my best to crossreference parts and equipment between multiple people
Hopefully it looks relatively correct…if not, at least I had a blast! :D
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lake-cosay · 5 months ago
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so bc i like hurt/comfort and im a medical nerd i wanted to yell about how jesse got Very Hurt in that scene right before he and lake get off the train. obviously to an extent they're just using cartoon logic but i at the same time, jesse is clearly supposed to be hurt, the messy hair and the scratches are visual shorthand for it. not to mention how he doesn't get up right away and even when he does he's clearly rattled
to be clear i'm not a medical professional just a nerd, feel free to correct me
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^ here it's possible since the flecs are pretty damn strong that him aggresively grabbing jesse like that could result in some significant bruising. hypothetically sieve could have probably broken all his arm bones but i don't think that would've happened unless he was purposefully doing it. it's like handling a small animal; just because you have enough strength to break a bone, doesn't mean it's going to happen, even on accident.
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^ given that the throw had enough force to crack the screen, jesse almost definitely had some cracked ribs, likely lower ribs. and while i've never had one myself rib injuries hurt like a motherfucker. but since he was able to get back up and move, it's very unlikely his ribs punctured anything which is good bc if they had he'd prob die without an ambulance. also, depending on what part of his face hit first, he could have a broken nose. or, say his chin hit first, that could probably cause lasting jaw pain (basically a shock injury) and/or he could have bit his tongue or lip hard enough to draw blood.
ALSO also, if the top of his head hit the screen that's probably already a mild concussion, not to mention:
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^ definitely a concussion. him hitting his back first definitely is better for his head, but still a concussion. however, the fact that he doesn't appear to have lost consciousness and was able to rather quickly stand are definitely good signs. not sure if him taking a minute or so to speak is normal for a concussion, or if that was more just him emotionally being in shock vs literal brain damage.
after a little research, it seems he had a mild TBI, since he didn't lose consciousness. mild TBIs heal fully within 3-6 months, but since he feel from so high and probably hit his head twice i could see it being a moderate TBI, which. unfortunately has a worse prognosis. my diagnosis is mild-moderate TBI, about 6 months to heal, but even after that still struggles with more mild symptoms sometimes (headaches, dizziness, nausea, fatigue).
NOW. his poor back. the good thing about spine is they move, and i have to say personally i've fallen off a horse and onto my back in much the same pose and i was just sore for a day or two, but tbf that was like a 5 foot fall, this is. more than that.
the good news is, if he was gonna be paralyzed from that (which could've happened if his spinal cord got fucked it), it would've happened. since he's clearly able to move, his back should be fine. it is possible he could've broken a vertebrae, but again, the back is flexible.
"but if he was so hurt why was he still able to get up and run!" adrenaline. that shit does wild things to your body. the whole point of your body releasing adrenaline is to help you get out of situations like this, to keep going long enough to get to safety. it also blocks pain signals. meaning until it wears off, jesse might not feel anything.
he and lake were in a survival situation. it was absolutely life or death for both of them.
to sum up, he definitely has a concussion (mild-moderate), cracked ribs (i doubt they're fully broken bc i think you need more force for them to break all the way through), and plenty of bruises.
it's possible he broke his nose, split open his lip or tongue, or got a shock injury to his jaw.
i think his biggest problem is his ribs. cracked ribs make breathing hurt, weather it's deep or shallow. my heacanon is that a few minutes after he and lake get off the train, he sits down and lake realizes "oh yeah he got kinda fucked up" and he just looks. like he Hurts and lake's like "are you. okay?" and jesse's like "breathing hurts" and then it's a whirlwind of jesse reuniting with his parents, trying to explain everything while In Pain, introducing lake, his parents realizing he doesn't look so good and eventually deciding we should probably take him to the hospital, meanwhile lake is terrified bc suddenly they're in the back of the car with jesse's parents who they just met holding jesse's hand as they drive him to the hospital and everything's so real now, they're going out in public already, it hasn't even been an hour since they got off the train, but jesse is hurt, and they're not leaving him.
i also think that well. jesse has lake to help him. so even if his injuries had long-term/permanent effects, lake's there, and the two of them are going to have a lot of time to adjust once things settle down.
if i had the patience i'd write a fic about that, and jesse and lake have to navigate everything right after the train while jesse's in the hospital. tbf, i think he'd be discharged after like 1 night but still need help: be on pain meds, not be able to do much physically bc his body needs lots of rest, being confused and naueseous from the concussion. etc. if anyone does want to write that, lmk
and as i said at the beginning, feel free to correct me on anything. my only relevant personal experience is falling off a horse and (separate incident) falling and all my 190lbs of body landing on the side of my foot that broke.
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girlfriendsofthegalaxy · 1 year ago
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tuesday again 2/13/2024
writing cover letters like "Market Research Firm 953989464860, will YOU be my Valentine?"
also, a fallout 4 femslash fic for femslash feb
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Fresh Blood by the Eels off their 2009 album Hombre Loco. i would say this is another "i think a vampire probably wrote this low, grooving track" but there are several howls featured. wikipedia says it is about a werewolf. this song sounds like it has a simple bassline and simple drums but it knows what it's about. it's probably secretly really complicated but i specced in knowing about fabric, not about music.
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it makes me want to ice skate really fast and also sounds like watching broken highway lane dividers go by late at night. fascinating that the back half of the four-plus minute song is fully instrumental. definitely a song for when you are traveling, or perhaps proceeding. spotify
Sun down on the sorry day By nightlights the children pray I know you're probably gettin' ready for bed Beautiful woman get out of my head I'm so tired of the same old crud Sweet baby I need fresh blood
i've been mainlining The Black Keys' album Brothers so it makes sense this popped up on my Discover Weekly spotify playlist
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in 2015, the year i dropped out of college, the closest comic/weird nerd shit store was a forty minute drive from my house. i bought the first issue of the serialized anthology comics magazine The Island bc i liked the Moebius-esque cover by Brandon Graham, before i knew who either of those artists were or that i liked them. i think it was ten bucks, and having to show my drivers' license really sticks in my brain for some reason. the point i am slowly approaching is that the magazine only ran for fifteen issues, and i didn't buy any other copies bc ten bucks a month was too dear for me, but it was a tremendous incubator for artists i would end up loving. about half the time i stumble across a lovely self-contained book that knocks my socks off i find out it started life in The Island.
All his life, Hank Cho wanted to join the ranks of the Habsec—the rulers of the orbital habitat his people call home. But when he finds a powerful, forbidden weapon from the deep past, a single moment of violence sets his life—and the brutal society of the habitat—into upheaval. Hunted by the cannibalistic Habsec and sheltered by former enemies, Cho finds himself caught within a civil war that threatens to destroy his world. A new barbarian sci-fi adventure by SIMON ROY (PROPHET, JAN'S ATOMIC HEART, Tiger Lung), originally serialized in ISLAND MAGAZINE.
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Simon Roy's Habitat asks: do you want to hear a story about a generation ship gone wrong? this is a guy who really knows how to draw mechs and all their fiddly bits and loves doing it, which is a really transferrable skill to lovingly detailing the crumbling brutalist neo-mesoamerican architecture. the Habsec cannibals and their bits and pieces of scavenged armor blend in so well, it's genuinely shocking when we see someone in full, kept up, incredibly colorful armor. gorgeous, gorgeous book. love a fucked up generation ship.
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found while perusing the stacks of the library that was closest to a bunch of other admin errands i was running, bc i finally have a tx drivers license and can start collecting tx library cards
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im also asking myself why the hell i'm watching yellowstone with my bestie and her husband. it has every trigger warning and a lot of them would make me decline the experience had i looked them up beforehand. however, the inevitablilty of each little tragedy feeding into the circular threshing maw that is the Dutton family is really clicking for me. like well! that mom sure did die in the most traumatizing way possible! and wow that really does go a long way toward explaining why the daughter is self-medicating to an alarming degree AND why no one else is doing anything about it bc they're all still mad at her for being very tangential to her mom's death!
the amount of Stuff that happens per episode is truly astonishing. one of my favorite parts of the ttrpg Beamsaber is the downtime between missions, bc you get to have some really bonkers interactions with people who don't usually interact. despite its huge cast, Yellowstone doesn't yet feel incoherent or like it's jumped the shark in its first season bc it's really successful at getting its huge cast to have unexpected interactions with each other. this sounds a little bit like praising it for knowing how to be good television, but this is a neowestern about a land grab that's also a familial dynasty drama that's really leaning into the familial dynasty part of it. it would be very easy for this to become incoherent or bad at switching between storylines, but so far it's really good at it. it's not beamsaber or black sails bc nothing will ever be beamsaber or black sails but it's really scratching that itch of many small rapidly shifting factions and rapidly shifting political goals bc each child is their own horrible little faction and they have a lot of time where they're trapped in cars or helicopters together getting around their ranch, which is simply too large.
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we're trying to watch the yellowstone franchise in release order, and the yellowstone prequel with tim mcgraw came out between the first and second seasons. we will not be continuing this. this is a bog standard wagon train western. cripplingly boring after the brazen insanity of the first season. also i think it is in poor taste at best and irresponsible at worst to show a suicide on screen.
i said i don't know why i'm watching this but i do know why i'm watching yellowstone, and that's bc my bestie keeps seeing tiktoks about it. sometimes im influenced in real life
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changed my sheets this week and didn't chortle at the TOP OR BOTTOM tag which is how i know im having. a brain time. another way you can tell im having a brain time are these screenshots of the Breath of the Wild map. as you may or may not remember from last week, last week i had very little of the map filled out.
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now is this EXPLORED? good heavens no. i have under 40 shrines DISCOVERED. i have simply beelined to each tower and went VERY fast. or was very sneaky. the three towers i have not bothered to climb yet are the ones i would have to actually fight some guys about. fuck the akkala tower for real.
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i love to accidentally get way too close to dragons and die. some fun things about this run: incredibly, exceptionally rainy. except for the stint in the literal desert and the five minutes in the snowfield it has been raining about 70% of the time, which has made climbing very annoying. another fun thing about this run: exceptionally low ancient shaft drop rate, which makes getting ancient arrows to safely kill guardians from afar very difficult. bc as discussed above i have optimized this little blond boy to be very fast and very sneaky to get up the towers very quickly in the two minute spans of time it is not raining.
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another fun thing about this run: not very good at successfully spitting out riders next to horses. you can only see the tip of spinch's hat bc he is underground.
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i have unlocked the elephant and the falcon, i haven't gotten much farther than finding painkillers for the goron boss and stalled out at the yiga clan stealth mission. bc despite liking being a sneaky fast sniper out in the world, i fucking hate an enforced stealth mission. i don't think i ever got past this part in my other run either.
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not jacked enough to unlock the master sword, i think you need twelve hearts? i would rather have more stamina so i can get faster horses + the princess's horse.
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after i unlocked a bunch of towers i spent a goofy amount of time in the Lake Floria system herself hunting for treasure chests (there are easily fifty chests in the water. wild) to get the 10k rupees to unlock the last great fairy. i also spent several real-life hours video game mining video game ore. this was deeply annoying bc i sold off all my gems to get 10k rupees and then had nothing to get those sweet sweet high level upgrades with. this was the point on sunday night where i realized i was getting irrationally annoyed with a game that is supposed to be fun, and is NOT meant to support the kind of grinding i was doing. that was enough video game for one day thank you.
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did you know there's a korok in the shrine of resurrection? me either.
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also did you know magnesis ACTIVATES on the windmills in Hebra but i can't figure out how to get close enough to any of them to do anything about it. annoying.
this has got to be so funny from ganons point of view. i unlocked the elephant and the falcon in under a week of in-game time and then spent several in-game months mining and collecting clothes. would that make ganon more or less anxious d'you think
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cross stitch update. this confetti in the rover square. i am dying. here’s what it will look like finished, and a link to buy the pattern
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i had such high hopes for pin stitches as a thread finishing method but i had to rip out a mistake near a pin stitch and accidentally ripped out the entire pin and single confetti cross stitch. so what the fuck. i am an insane woman who likes to fully submerge and lightly hand wash projects before they get framed to remove all the oils (yes i wash my hands before stitching, i do get paranoid) and i am not confident pin stitches will hold up to that. oh well. the loop method is pretty great in halving the number of ends i have to weave in, even though i feel like it is extremely wasteful and leaves me with lots of short useless lengths my cats would love to eat. so the gains from halving thread management are really not offset by the meticulous cat management i must embark upon every time i do my fun relaxing hobby.
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and the back, which is a horror. and will only become more of a horror. but once this is framed no one will actually see it so it's FINE. i am FINE with this. i started this knowing there was going to be lots of confetti. that's the point of this masochistic pattern
i wrote the first chapter of this fic last summer and outlined the emotional beats (but not much else) while procrastinating moving and have finally lightly polished the first chapter and threw it on the archive. im trying to let things molder less and just fucking post them in the hopes this activates the writing part of my brain again but who could say what's going on up there. this is still something that hasn't quite returned to me post-covid round 2
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this will eventually be an E-rated 5+1 fic fixing all the fucking bullshit around Cait Fallout4's companion quest. she will NOT go in the magic chair that tortures her into not being a junkie and being the perfect waifu. she is going to stumble backwards and accidentally into some harm reduction and get railed by a mean top. the mean top and the harm reduction won't fix her but they certainly won't hurt.
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anfeycare · 1 year ago
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i'm Anfey Care, a queer non-binary artist and writer! i go by gender neutral words only (as for pronouns: "they/them" — "ê/elu/-e" in portuguese)
i enjoy art and science. i'm a fan of lots of things, specially Undertale, Dead Plate, Married in Red, Cold Front, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Omori, and Adventure Time! i'm brazilian, too. you're welcome to follow me if you enjoy:
art, pixel art, animation;
books, comics, mangas;
cuteness, horror, comedy;
games, music;
indie, alternative things;
queer, LGBT+, gay stuff;
shows, cartoons, animes;
thought-provoking stuff;
nerdy things in general!
i'm fairly silly, quite gay, and very nerd!
nice to meet ya!
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💙✨ about me: ✨
besides being a silly gay queer nerd artist and writer, i'm atypical, a furry, a fan-enby of a bunch of characters, an adult and a game dev. i'm an introverted, shy, and asocial person. somewhat antisocial too; sometimes i can be completely silent and spend weeks alone when too overwhelmed from socialization. (i'm INFP and pisces, but i don't take these seriously, although i can relate at times)
i'm completely atheist. i don't mind religion, even if i might take it as stories and thoughts, but i just don't mind as long as it isn't fanatic christian stuff — i was raised around these people and it got me very tired of those things.
i graduated on a game development technical course i took along with high school (public education, got in through an entrance exam, got in first place on the classification list), and i'm often studying things on my own, like languages. i draw, design, paint, conceptualize, illustrate, make pixel art, research, edit, write, and can animate and code too — sometimes i also try music, acting, photography, and cosplay. i'm still working on being an indie game dev; for now, i'm mainly an artist and writer
as for how i identify as LGBT+, i'm queer as in all pan a-spec atractions-wise. gender-wise, i identify as pangender, which in my case includes agender; i'm transneutral and non-binary (and — it's obvious but just to mention — gender non-conforming). i usually put it all in short by just saying i'm a queer enby, or a pan a-spec enby, but i don't shy away from just saying i'm gay (as in i'm definitely not straight)
as an enby, i'm also dionysian (more often known as diamoric), and any kind of relationship with me would be called this — 'cause they'd have an enby (me) in them. you could call me almost anything from the LGBTQ+ definitions and that'd still be almost fitting, but if you were to call me something accurately fitting, that's queer, pan a-spec, diamoric/dionysian and enby, heheh
i could be considered legally blind, as i can't see anything a few inches away from my face without glasses (8 degrees in each lens, but i've been needing a new prescription for some years... couldn't afford it yet). i suspect i might be neurodivergent (ADHD, ASPD and autistic, mainly), and i have lots of symptoms of depression, anxiety and C-PTSD, but also can't afford to look into those. (funny fact: i managed to get in a psychology college earlier in 2024, and for a good while was studying psychology there before even being able to go see a psychologist-) (i still do deep researches about those topics of mental health)
from the way i understand relationships and concepts related to it and to living in society — understandings that have some connections to my pan a-spec (includes asocial) pangender agender way of being —, i'm also non-monogamous in attractions and beliefs. i could be either in a monogamous or non-monogamous relationships romantically, though. i'd do fine in any, i can adapt quite well to who i love and/or like and care about! it could even be an undefined relationship — it all would be up to who i'd be with. (i'd develop an attachment, and even a hyperfixation on them, too, which would make it even easier for me to adapt,,, anyways-)
i know spanish and french, besides portuguese and english. i don't have a lot of practice with those other two languages, but i can understand them well (speaking portuguese helps, heh). i still want to learn more languages — for now, i'm also studying japanese, LIBRAS and ASL from time to time
i aim for diversity, inclusion and equity, specially for my games. that's a reason why i study a lot, and that's also why i want to make most of my creations available for free. and that's why i encourage you to give me support if you want, as it helps it all to be free of charge, and can give you a custom art or some cool extra things for a low tip!
i'm interested in:
Undertale;
Rot in Paradise;
Dead Plate;
Married in Red;
Elevator Hitch;
Cold Front;
Bittersweet Sentence;
Eloquent Countenance;
The Picture of Dorian Gray;
The Owl House;
Omori;
Revolutionary Girl Utena;
Deltarune;
Dracula;
Adventure Time;
She-ra and the Princesses of Power;
KinitoPET;
My Little Pony;
Sonic;
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared;
Welcome Home;
Puella Magi Madoka Magica;
Studio Investigrave in general;
and the Daycare attendant from FNAF
i also like to roleplay/perform as characters at times, and used to play D&D, besides liking the RPG genre in videogames itself
as you see, i'm all over the place — i'm not completely organized, and i allow myself to let some things be messy (like tags); it's what works best for me, as far as i noticed
i like lots of things! and, though i enjoy horror, i don't make much art of this kind. plus, i create original stories, art, and characters of my own, like Safey — they're my mascot persona, and they're the fox creature on the pixel art by the start of this blog post. i have a bunch of projects i develop on my own, including ideas of comics and games! and sometimes i write poems, generally in portuguese, but i mix languages and write in english at times
i usually make cute things! whenever i happen to make something scary or with sensitive topics, i let it with the warnings i think it needs. personally, i'm positive about NSFW topics, specially sexual-related ones, in regular conditions. however, i very rarely allude to NSFW — if anything, it can be there as subtext, if i ever even include anything like that at all. to my mind, these are not NSFW, but either way: i do enjoy artistic nude art, i do like philosophically/sociologically/literarily analytical thoughts and texts that could be about/related to sexual topics, and i also do like (well, you know) horror. i take a different approach on my own art that's around these, but you can avoid it if i ever make it due to the warnings, and i hope you will use the warnings' opportunity to avoid it if you're sensitive or just don't want to see it.
overall, specially for other people like me, i want my space to be a safe space
Undertale, Dead Plate, and Married in Red are my most favorite pieces of media, so i'm drawn towards them most of the time. for the characters in those respectively, Flowey and Sans, Vincent, and Bok-su are my favorites (i know, they're the popular ones... sorry, heh, i genuinely love them)
nice to meet you, and i hope you will like what i create!
thanks for reading!
see ya! ( ^ ꒳ ^ ) [cute face smiling]
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breelandwalker · 3 years ago
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Hi, I'm new Witch here.
I want to research about "History of Witchcraft".
Could u guide me the link or site or post about that?
I do have something for this! I have a post listing podcasts that discuss the history of witchcraft, witch trials, and suchlike. I update it from time to time when I find new material.
You should definitely check out the History of Witchcraft podcast hosted by Samuel Hume, and Historical Blindness hosted by Nathaniel Lloyd. Both address the topic from a scholarly standpoint and discuss various important figures and events connected to magic and witchcraft in history.
You should also check out BS-Free Witchcraft, hosted by my fabulous podcast senpai @traegorn. They have done several episodes on the history of Wicca and the modern witchcraft movement. I've also done a few episodes about witchcraft and history on my own show, Hex Positive. You can find both shows on your favorite podcatcher or by visiting the Nerd and Tie Podcast Network site.
If you're more into books, your best bets are Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler and The Triumph of the Moon by Ronald Hutton. Both are deep dives into the modern pagan and witchcraft movements, with Adler taking a witch's perspective and Hutton writing from the outside view of an academic. They're very thorough and very well-researched and I can't recommend them highly enough.
The Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft by Michael Bailey has also been invaluable to me in my own research. It includes a timeline overview and alphabetical entries on many people, events, and topics related to magic and witchcraft. It reads rather like an encyclopedia, but it's a great reference volume.
I will extend one small word of caution - Do not put stock in anything you read that is written by or cites the work of Margaret Murray. Murray posited a theory in the early 20th century that concerned a secret surviving matriarchal pagan witch-cult in Western Europe, and unfortunately the theory caught on very strongly with the roots of the modern witchcraft movement. Murray's work was later thoroughly discredited, but not before she'd written several important books and encyclopedia entries, as well as influencing the major progenitors of modern witchcraft. (This is where we get the Burning Times myths and that "unbroken line" nonsense.)
As a general rule, it's good to take everything with a grain of salt and make sure you're fact-checking as you go, but I do like to warn people about Murray's work just to get ahead of a few of the more widespread misconceptions.
Kudos to you on doing your due diligence! We can't know where we are without first understanding where we've come from.
Hope this helps!
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paramouradrift · 3 years ago
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Sorry for intuding on your blog but I have to tell you that your story has inspired me to try world building. I am hoping that it will get me out of a deep writing hole. That and it seems fun.
Got any tips for beginners?
This is honestly a topic I could go on and on about. Worldbuilding has been something of a hobby of mine since forever, and delving into the lore and history of interesting settings honestly can make my enjoyment of something so much better. So here are some tips and tricks you can use to help get started! TIP #1: don't be too ambitious. The purpose of worldbuilding is to serve the story you are trying to tell. Anything outside of that might be fun and interesting...but only to you. Adding in trivia from time to time is fine, however.
TIP #2: ask questions of your world! Your characters don't exist in a vacuum anymore: they live in a world, and that world has changed them. Where do they go to get their groceries? What's the current topic of discourse at the local tavern? What's the dominant religion in your protagonist's hometown, and what kinds of rituals or worship services do they have? Who's the president/prime minister/king, and how did they get elected? What fruits or vegetables are currently in season in this world? Asking questions like this is a way to organically build out from some characters and a plot to make the story feel believable, like it's about believable people in a lived-in place with compelling and relatable problems.
TIP #3: purposeful research. I draw a lot of inspiration from real-world things, and that means I spend a lot of time trawling wikipedia and google for things like: ship blueprints, engineering diagrams, historical Chinese pirates, popular names in foreign languages, etc. If I want to include something in my world, but I don't know much about the topic, then that's a perfect time to start learning. Since I'm using what I learn for fiction-writing purposes, I can be satisfied with a surface-level understanding on most uncontroversial topics. This does come with a caveat: if you want to tackle a controversial issue in your writing, it is your responsibility to understand that issue. I like this video by OSP about how to do research, but there's not one right way to do it.
TIP #4: DO YOU HAVE A MAP!? If you don't then why the fuck not!? I'm visual. Looking at maps is how I orient myself spatially, and it's how I organize information about my worlds. Maps are useful. Maps are important. Without maps, we are truly all lost. Plus! There are so many ways you can use maps in your story! In H&V, I use maps of the world of Avatar to help me plot out Zuko's travels and work out how long realistically those trips would take. There are so many resources out there for making maps, populating maps, and interpreting maps. You really don't have an excuse.
TIP #5: you're not alone. There are whole communities out there of writers, gamers, fans, nerds, and others who are passionate about fiction and worldbuilding. Engage with them! Talk to them about your story, or about your world! Listen to their advice and their critiques. Watch their videos or slide into their DMs. Join their discords. I like Hello Future Me for this kind of thing because he is a writer who worldbuilds and who has a lot of great advice for structuring stories and characters. I also like Artifexian for his systematic look at different worldbuilding topics. But there are so many others.
The most important thing I have to say is this: at the end of the day, writing should be fun or rewarding. It should spark joy. If you find yourself running into a wall or falling into a hole with your writing, that's a good sign that something isn't working. And if something isn't working, change it! I certainly did when I was looking down my early drafts of H&V. Change the world to suit your story, or change your story to better fit into the world you've made. You have the power!
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salemorbit · 4 years ago
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Could I get a BOTW and/or marvel ship? I'm a 5'0 straight female with freckles (like a lot) (I'm pale as heck and I don't tan I just burn and then get freckles) , green eyes, and brown hair (I used to have a Mohawk that I dyed different colors and its still in that awkward growing out phase).
I am a Sagittarius (tho I don't really belive in that sort of stuff) and have a mediator personality on the Briggs scale.
I love to bake, sew, crochet, draw, etc... Basically anything where I get to create something. I love seeing an idea come to life. I'm constantly making things and I like to fidget with anything I get muy hands on (meaning I have a habit of breaking stuff) (oops).
I also keep freshwater aquariums and love the process of building tanks and decorating them. I especially love shrimp because they are adorable. (And kulhi loaches) (and plecos) (and mystery snails) (and everything else I own). I love my fish....
I constantly crave affection (but will never admit to that) I really love cuddling, and am definitely touch starved but anyone who knows that has figured it out themselves. Because for some reason my brain thinks I don't deserve any of it.
I am way too nice to everyone, even at my own expense and tend to Bury my emotions when I am in pain. I have Depression and some anxiety and tend to worry about if anyone I know actually likes me while simultaneously thinking that I don't deserve anyone to love me.
I also tend to go into self hatred spirals that make me try to isolate myself (and do some other stuff that's not so good for me).
I am shy and awkward as heck. But I will talk your ear off if you get to know me.
I like being nature, alone and far from others. I like hearing the birds calls and the other noises. (Plus if there is a lake I will stare at fish) (yes I have problems).
Anyway thanks in advance if you do answer this :)
omg are we literally the same person bc you might've described yourself but also me at the same time ajdldjshahs
i also just got some black skirt tetras!!! they're my literal children im in love with them so i know what you mean
but thank you! sorry this took so long!!! i hope you're doing well <3
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Marvel Matchup!
Based on your characteristics, I think you'd do best with....
Bruce!
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very similar to each other lemme tell u
bein the little nerd he is, bruce will 10000% appreciate your fish as much as you appreciate your fish
you definitely will know a lot more about their maintenance and such because he hasn't always been a fish person, and he doesn't really want to do external research because he's infatuated with your passion on the subject
bruce also has a habit of playing with his hands and toying with things in front of him, especially while he's deep in thought
you guys definitely give each other fidget objects for when the occasion arises
bruve is also pretty empathetic, and it's taken him some trial and error to know when and where to give empathy and when he needs to take a step back
he'll definitely coach you on such things because he doesn't want you to suffer from burnout!
he's also a big grounding point for you when you expend yourself too much in the niceness category, and he'll even go out of his comfort zone to stand up for you if you have trouble doing it yourself
bruce is i n c r e d i b l y caring and will always be there for you if you're spiraling
he's been there and done that, so you can depend on him to know how to help and what to do
he loves when you go off on tangents about something you like because he's mentally taking little notes about you (and he thinks you look absolutely adorable when your face lights up)
he's big into compassion and listening, and even though he's nervous about messing something up along the way, he's also willing to work things out because you're just so worth it
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crowandmoonwriting · 6 years ago
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I read your post that you worldbuild a lot, and now I'm worldbuilding a fantasy novel, and idk how to organise stuff and so. Which tools do you use? How do you classify all the information? I'd like to know your thoughts
Hello! I have a loooot of thoughts on the matter, lol, so sorry if this is really long.
Yes, I worldbuild almost constantly. It’s as much a hobby as writing my stories. The way I see it, and the way I do it, there’s two ways to worldbuild: improvisation and preparation.
The first method involves just starting your story, and creating elements as you need them. Have your characters, but not sure where to put them? Draw a map! Start with a few lines on a page, make the rough outline of a country or continent (or city). Are they travelling out into the countryside? Add roads! It’s something I do as a DM in my tabletop games quite a bit, and it can be good if you’re not sure where exactly to start.
But the second method, preparation, is trickier and requires a lot more hours. I use a few programs to help me come up with and organize information:
World Anvil and Notebook.ai: these websites provide numerous categories for worldbuilding and fillable templates. You can create a personal wiki of sorts with articles on characters, countries, races and ethnicities, items, languages, myths and legends, traditions, religions, and more. For a more in-depth discussion about these two sites, see this post (x)
Evernote: this is my favourite document-writing and compiling resource EVER. I’ve been using it for about 5 years now. You can create numerous notebooks to compile notes, and stacks of notebooks to further organize. Evernote’s service syncs across your devices and all of your data is stored, so even if your computer dies, your data is safe. There are apps for your computer and your phone so you can access on the go. You can also assign search tags to each note to find it all easier. Check it out here (x).
Here are some sites I use for inspiration:
Pinterest, of course lol. There are numerous links to worldbuilding help articles, and organizing your favourites into boards can be quite helpful.
DeviantArt and other art hosting sites: enrich your eyes with fantasy art! It can provoke ideas better than almost anything!
Then there’s tumblr! All of my worldbuilding posts can be found here (sorry, shameless plug), and you can feel free to ask me questions any time.
Here are some general tips:
Read a lot of history and historical research. Even if you’re writing a fantasy world that you think has very few parallels with our own, history has so many lessons to teach regarding how cultures interact, how commodities affect countries and their people, how food factors into politics, etc. You can also gain a lot of plot ideas.
Read in your genre. High fantasy novels are wonderful for fun, but it can also be fun (for me at least, I’m such a nerd) to recreate the writer’s worldbuilding methodology. If you haven’t read Tolkien yet, please do! It may be a bit dry, but his worldbuilding is remarkable.
If you know a DM or GM of any tabletop, talk to them about how they create their encounters. I find they have some of the best worldbuilding tips out there.
Aesthetics? Playlists? Ambient mixes? All wonderful to make your world seem more real to you. The more real it is for you, the writer, the more real it will be to the reader. Stimulate your imagination with a wealth of media. I recommend the following sites: Spotify, 8tracks, and Ambient-Mixer.
Backtracking one idea you like can birth a thousand more details. I’m fascinated by food culture, for example, so sometimes I experiment, trying to create dishes my fantasy races would enjoy, using spices they might like. Then I backtrack and ask why particular spices are used in particular regions, expand on trade routes, etc. 
Keep in mind, everyone’s creative process is different, and everyone’s fantasy world has different needs. Maybe you don’t need to go into ridiculous detail, to know which currencies are used in which time periods by which factions. Maybe you do. I for one need incredible detail to bring my world to life, but not everyone does. Some are okay with just a few historical notes, and geographical maps, and that’s all. I’m so jealous of those people, lol.
Finally, no matter what advice you read or hear, remember you make the rules. This is your world, and until you get a horde of loyal readers, you’re going to live in it. Have fun with it! Explore its vast plains, its deep caverns, its lofty windswept mountains, its shimmering seas, and its sifting deserts.
I hope that helps!
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warsofasoiaf · 8 years ago
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Another anon asked before about how to write believable battles and you told him/her to ask about it again on Friday. Since he/she may've forgotten it, I'm asking you now because I'd like to read the answer!
Thanks to this question and some prodding from @hiddenhistoryofwesteros, I’ve been crafting this. Much thanks also to @goodqueenaly for fixing my atrocious grammar.
Battle can be an important conflict piece for any piece of media, but too often, battle is either turned into a series of duels or is used merely as a setpiece for character drama. The battle itself can be a moment of action and tension, and as such, a poorly-written battle detracts from the experience of the novel, and that I don’t like. I after all, have a vested interest in explaining how battles were waged and the vicarious experience of the soldiers that were in them. So that being said, let’s see what we can do to understand how battles work and how you can incorporate them into your writing.
What do you want?
Usually my first step for anything is to research. Unfortunately, there have been a lot of battles over the course of history (citation needed), and so just looking at battles isn’t going to be very helpful.
Instead, focus instead of what the conflict and resolution needs to be for the story. This requires worldbuilding; you need to know who is fighting and what are the particular circumstances of this battle in the macro- and micro-sense. Figure out the level of technology and bureaucratic organization for the players in your novel. Figure out when the battle is, what will the results be, the characters that will be present, and how this is going to resolve in your story is important. Once you figure out what you want the battle to be and how it fits in your story, then you can begin plotting the battle so it’s realistic from start to finish.
Research - Find Your Starting Point
Now that you understand what the technology level of your people are, and how you want the battle to shape up, you can look at battles from the past to find your inspiration. Battles that resemble what you’re looking to portray is a good start, until you get the handle of building your own make-believe battle step by step. If you are writing a medieval fantasy, look at medieval history. If you have a supernatural element, figure out how that effects the world and look for an analogue in history. Dragons can become air strikes, divination magic becomes satellites, and so on. Use these facets to narrow down your research topics until you can pick a battle. If you’re still having difficulty, think about the characters that are in your battle, and what their specific strengths are. Looking at the campaigns of a general with similar skills can help you find a battle that you can use
Once you find the battle, lay out how the battle was waged from start to finish, and look at pivotal moments of said battle to see how the battle was won. Depending on how in depth you wish to go with your own writing, idle reading through Wikipedia, armchair generalship from military enthusiasts like yours truly, or deep scholarly work might be your requisite level of depth. That is an artistic decision that you the author will have to make.
Diaries and journals are a big help here. First-hand accounts of battles can give you a sense of what soldiers were thinking. While nothing is written in the heat of combat, many journals were written with the intent of preserving memories as they were experienced. Even if the journal itself is a lie, the voice it provides is useful.
Modification - Make the Battle Yours
Alright, now that you have your baseline, it’s time to integrate your characters into the battle. While it’s tempting and easy to do a straight one-for-one, that requires your characters to be in the same type of position, politically, militarily, culturally, socially, etc. to the people that were present at the battle, and that drastically limits your character’s potential. Instead think, where should the character be, and put them there.
Use your character’s strengths to your advantage when it comes to shaping actions on the battlefield. Smart and quick-witted characters should be using them to recognize things, strong characters should be doing things that are strong, cunning characters should be doing things that are cunning. The closer you can stay to the actual course of the battle, just scrubbing off the name of a historical figure and replacing him with a fictional one, the more realistic the battle will be. Once you gain more understanding of battles (usually by studying multiple ones with similar characteristics), you can start mixing and matching which will make the battles less predictable for any military nerds and give you the writer a greater sense of satisfaction for owning your own battle.
To learn more about that, you need to start researching about actual techniques
Giving Voice - Writing the Battle
Now we get into the meat of the whole thing. You have your battle scripted, now you must put the script to paper. Much of this will depend on your own literary choices and style, but here’s things to know. After all, an invisible, immortal being floating in the sky sees different than a soldier on the ground, but the battle still happens either way.
Battle is confusing - Warfare is very noisy and very confusing. Everything is drawing your attention and the sensory input is overwhelming and disorienting. Adrenaline is rushing and this makes it hard to concentrate. In almost all battles, dust is a major concern for soldiers, and that sensory deprivation.
Battle is intense - People are trying to kill you. This is stressful. Adrenaline is pumping as mentioned, danger is all around. To some, this is terrifying, to others, its exhilarating. Let me make this clear: If someone experiences exhilaration in battle or enjoys any or all of the experience, it is not monstrous nor is the character a monster. Those hormones and the intensity can have an effect on someone. How your character reacts to battles, particularly first or very hard-fought battles, is a personal thing; it is likely to be one of the most intense experiences of their lives. Make it a part of themselves. How they react to it, and how they react to others in that lens, is important.
Battle is a living thing - Things ebb and flow on the battlefield, and the soldiers respond to what happens. Do not have events happen in a vacuum, use cause and effect to chart the course of the battle. Also, armies consume much. Food, fuel, supplies, all of these things
Battle is not in isolation - Very few battles are all-or-nothing affairs. While famous battles tend to dominate conversation, real warfare is about campaigns and strategy as much as it is about tactics and battle. Remember this, know it. Move the armies, let them withdraw and adjust based on actions that happen.
Will the Protagonist Please Stand Up?
Author perspective’s choices and the military character will form how your reader reads your battle. The character will drive the drama and their voice will color the battle.
The grunt will primarily be seeing the action as it is being undertaken. Limited in scope, the grunt will likely be looking to complete their mission and kill the enemy. As the grunt is a very limited perspective, the key way to increase drama is to take advantage of the grunt’s lack of knowledge. The grunt does not know the major battle plan, and this uncertainty leads to anxiety and fear of what the enemy will do next.
A squad leader also will have a limited perspective, but has a new concern, that of the troops under command. As squads are small, the leader likely knows the troops by name and has a relationship (good or bad) with them. Tension here comes from the relationship and the mission, as well as the uncertainty.
A junior officer has more understanding of the overall strategic plan, and their unit is tasked with a slightly larger mission. The tension here comes from accomplishing the mission set out, and how the plans change in response to the battlefield. If the junior officer’s unit accomplishes the mission, but the unit to the right collapses, the officer needs to adjust, and this reaction helps emphasize the dramatic action.
Senior officers understand the plan, so dramatic reveals of cavalry in the wings does not work because the senior officer is supposed to know the greater tactical plan. A senior officer’s tension comes from observing the execution of the plan.
These aren’t hard and fast rules. Alexander the Great was clearly a senior officer, but at Issus River and Gaugamela, he was fighting in the thick of it, with the perspective of a leader on the front lines. The tension in any Alexander-centric story will come not from the culmination of a strategic plan, but the action of charging into Darius III’s ranks, looking to take out the Persian Emperor on his mighty chariot.
Alright, I think I’ll stop here, but hopefully this should give you everything you need to start thinking about making a battle, adapting it to your work, and making a believable, but thoroughly well-written battle.
Thanks for the question, Anon.
SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King
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