#c: Urielte

[void-botanist]

Happy WBW! What does entertainment look like in your world? Are there movie/tv or sports equivalents?

Happy WB...M...! I talked about this for my settings in a long-ago post but I think it would be fun to talk about some specifics.

I'm not super interested in reinventing sports as a whole, so the people in my worlds do pretty much the same sports as we have on earth, with some occasional modifications like riding birds instead of horses. On Pajiir, Kirnus is extremely dedicated to watching televised avestrian (bird-equestrian) competitions, and also tends to listen to baseball over the radio while he works. With other media, some places, like the Confluence (which combines Tree and Mushroom Forests with an Akkanswl and a lot of humans), make big money from movie and tv studios looking to film in a highly interspecies environment. You'll also find that a lot of nonroot media that takes place in Forests is filmed in the Confluence, because it's hard to get film access to Forests elsewhere.

Since I've been talking about Elbas Island I also want to bring up a genre that's fallen out of favor in the modern day but used to be a big deal: reality tv about the so-called "dying network families" in the Confluence. With the advent of the satellite and later fiber internet (metal/glass networks), the old money uep and neriem families who had built their wealth through being involved with the mycelial internet (just "network") were feeling extremely dramatic about the whole thing and the tv studios of the time were more than happy to lend an ear and a camera. Herric didn't really want to get involved in that whole trend, despite the fact that they were big news for establishing Elbas Island, the first offshore location to be connected to the network via satellite, but their old-money wife was not going to take no for an answer (there was a good chunk of time where she thought Elbas Island was gonna be a haven for the wealthy). So there are a few different shows from a little over a century ago that feature Herric, their Southern belle of a wife, and their two kids, with whole episodes devoted to trying to convince everyone that there was something going down between Herric and the island's co-founder, Urielte. They weren't entirely wrong, but they kinda missed the warning signs of Herric and his wife's spectacular divorce, which really wasn't about Urielte at all (she discovered Herric was for real about being a communist and didn't actually care secretly about currying favor with the Forest government).

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Happy STS! If your characters went out to karaoke, which song would they belt out at the top of their lungs?

Finally getting to this one! My mind remains full of Elbas Island so if we pretended that they know Earth music:

Milo: the idea of him doing Barbie Girl with Binna, where he is Barbie and Binna is Ken is just too funny to not be the answer.

Nidilaenn: Major Tom (Coming Home).

Ellery: Poor Unfortunate Souls. He wants to be dramatic about it and he wants you to understand how dramatic he's being about it.

Patience: Hollaback Girl. You know Mel is singing backup.

Mel: Last Dance by Donna Summer.

Tirias: she literally cannot sing so she would either put on a song everyone knows (All Star) and let them sing it while she hams it up or announce that this is a rendition of John Cage's 4'33". These two things get different responses from the audience but they are functionally the same thing.

Ysa: Friends in Low Places by Garth Brooks.

Rae: Any Way You Want It by Journey.

Madge: Sucker by Jonas Brothers.

Rigo: Break My Heart by Dua Lipa.

Haskell: no, I don't do karaoke, no...well, I guess... Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.

Lacey: the most heartfelt rendition of Mary Had A Little Lamb you've ever heard.