#without each other

[sonderden]

❤️ Happy WorldBuilding Wednesday! ❤️

What are your cities or towns like? Feel free to talk about the layouts or the people or the architecture, etc. and to talk about more than one if you'd like!

Happy WorldBuilding Wednesday (what's left of Wednesday where I live) and thank you for the ask, this was really helpful to think about! It actually answered some of the questions I had about the plot of A Place to Return, one of my novel WIPs I've been stuck on for awhile.

It's long-winded as usual, so I'm putting my answer under a cut.

As a refresher for those who've seen me talk about it before and a quick summary for those who haven't, APtR is about a pair of boys who live on different worlds: a version of Earth similar to ours and a fantasy world called Ryedenne. When they're still preteens, they switch bodies and the story revolves around them growing up in cultures that are completely unfamiliar to them and having to pretend that they understand how these worlds work and that they belong in lives that aren't truly their own.

A lot of that story takes place on the (unnamed) main continent of Ryedenne, and the towns and cities there are what I thought about to answer this question.

A lot of the culture on [unnamed continent] is defined be 2 things: people's occupations and a berserker curse that affects people and animals almost entirely at random. It manifests at any age, hitting its most violent and unpredictable stage in the summer months. As a result, the cities here are shaped around career schools (called training halls), headquarters for specific careers (work halls), and the facilities (sealing and sanctuary halls) used to quarantine the cursed during violent surges and protect the non-cursed.

The average village has one sanctuary hall, the average town has a sanctuary hall and at least one work hall, and most cities have at least one sanctuary hall, at least one sealing hall (an official one that isn't just someone's house or a blocked off cave), at least one work hall, and at least one training hall. Sealing halls are typically situated on the outskirts of towns and cities to they avoid casualties if the cursed escape and to act as barriers against new arrivals.

The bigger the city, the more each work and training hall gets to diversify. Instead of occupational categories being grouped together in wings of a building or in singular offices, they can each have their own independent halls. This means that bugger cities are more valued, and those who got their training done there are more desired by customers, clients, etc. Smaller cities are seen as way-points and places where traveling workers gather temporarily. Towns are often seen as places for the untrained and the retired. Villages are seen as resting places for merchants and shoddy sanctuary from the curse and not much more.

Leo, the APtR lead born on Ryedenne, grows up in a village and has to travel to a distant city for mercenary training -- just like his older brothers did for medical training. Owen, the lead born on Earth, doesn't see this village for years. By the time he does get to visit, he prefers to stick close to cities in case the curse that manifested in him as a teenager spikes and he has to turn himself in to a sealing hall for a few weeks or months to keep others safe and avoid legal punishment.

I still have a lot of development to do for these cities, this continent, and the APtR story itself but this really helped me put their hierarchy and facilities into perspective and give me a better hold on Ryedenne as a world. So again, thank you for this ask!

[swan2swan]

Whoever conceived and animated this moment, I hope they're doing well and thriving. This is S-rank romance stuff here.

[thought-begone]

I guess the real glorious evolution was the homoerotic yearning we made along the way

[transpeterparkcr]

honestly kudos to Elementary for gender swapping John Watson in what we all thought was an attempt to make johnlock palatable to the masses and then proceeding to not only make them entirely platonic but also become the ONLY modern adaptation where i actually feel like them being platonic makes complete sense

[diamondsunbursts-and-marblehalls]

Athena, goddess of wisdom, and all-powerful, being the only person that Annabeth could call on for help; being so cruel that she would be complicit in her daughter's death just out of spite.

Percy, age 12, weak and dying, having told Annabeth they could never be friends; not only sacrifices himself to save Annabeth's life without a minute's thought, but does it without her having to ask for help.

[hazelcallahan]

caitvi + hands

[psin314]

be careful, boys. 😦

[saltedbirdcat]

No thoughts, just thinking about how Gelphie canNOT keep their hands off each other

[theone]

I watched When Harry Met Sally yesterday so now I'm curious how everyone's parents met. Any and all stories are welcome!

[bacchuschucklefuck]

a totem pole of hopeful idiots

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Okay 3 things

1. I was thinking about an aroace Sonic who says things that can be taken as wildly flirty/romantic but he just means them genuinely. “You have beautiful eyes, I keep getting distracted while looking at them,” not cause he’s interested romantically in them but because eyes can be really cool and pretty man I dunno what to tell you he likes looking at cool things and he thinks his friends are neat. “You’re the most beautiful person here,” because he really thinks that, he loves his friends

2. Sonic randomly dropping heartfelt genuine comments on his friends out of the blue completely blindsiding them and then moves on like nothing happened while they’re left going ?????? Bonus points if he does something immensely stupid or jerkish just before or immediately afterwards and they can’t tell if he was serious or not with the compliment (yes he was)

3. Sonic usually being so allergic to truly vulnerable moments that when he expresses something heartfelt randomly Tails thinks he’s been stabbed or something and does not believe him when he reassures him that he’s fine he’s fine he’s not dying yeesh

[paragonraptors]

im a davrooknevecanis truther

[bisexualpercyjacksons]

pjo tv show episode 5 alignment:

[nestokaodevojka]

house episode where a new male fellow has the hots for house kinda like cameron did. young and attractive like his fellows usually are. everyone and their mom knows. it gives house endless material for elaborate gay jokes, but he doesn't think the fellow is serious about it. until it's been a while and the fellow doesn't stop. house tells him he's straight, albeit flattered, in his own way. the fellow is genuinely surprised to hear that. this sends house into kind of a crisis about his possible bisexuality. wilson is incredibly interested in house's admirer and when house realizes he does actually like men, wilson is capital J jealous of the fellow. they go out once and make out a bit. wilson starts thinking he's homophobic for being unsupportive of this development, now that there's actually a possibility of house getting with this guy. house is joking when he pesters wilson about being jealous and wanting house to himself and then wilson stupidly does that stupid Oh face and his big brown eyes widen in realization. this is never discussed again

[thatonedudeinthecorner]

Happy pride month to these two specifically I can’t believe that Merthur is real