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Master Post of Current Projects

Youtube:

Geography for World Builders:

  • A series of videos about different geographic features, how they work, and how they affect the development of societies near them, geared to fantasy writers.

Infectious Disease for World Builders:

  • A series of videos about infectious diseases, how they work, and how they affect societies. Broken down by transmission route and geared toward fantasy writers.

ViUzka Mythology:

  • A fictional series of college lectures about the equally ficticious ViUzka people and their mythology and folklore. Utterly self indulgent world building for its own sake. Loosely connected to the Volcano Spirit novel project listed below.

Plus assorted short videos


Novels:

Volcano Spirit:

  • A planned middle grade novel about a girl who has a year to find the lost volcano goddess, or the god of ice will kill her. She spends the year in the wilderness on the slopes of the volcano with her two talking animal companions, learning the ways of the land around her, before eventually discovering that she is the volcano goddess. If that sounds like an obvious twist, remember, I’m writing this for eight to twelve year olds. Takes place within the ViUzka mythology.

Shree:

  • I mean, technically I’ve been working on this project since I was fifteen, and I do have some drafts of the first novel, but they are terrible and I have torn it to pieces and rearranged it completely in the last few months. It’s an epic fantasy about a selkie empire. In the last few decades, one selkie kingdom has emerged to conquer a swathe of human coastal nations. Now the granddaughter of the empress finds herself alone on land with the last prince of one of the conquered countries, trying to keep him alive. Will be a trilogy.

Weak is the Crown:

  • Formerly known as Nicandor and Sortanza, which are still the names of the main characters. Political romance about an arranged marriage between the last heirs of two feuding branches of a royal dynasty. Heavily inspired by the Wars of the Roses and the Tudors, but no one is an analog to anyone actually from the period.

The Palace of Broken Blossoms:

  • This isn’t so much a current project as a germ of an idea about a fantasy romance between a disgraced royal concubine and her maid, that takes place in the Palace of Broken Blossoms, the dumping ground for concubines out of favor with the king. May end up becoming a short story. I have done next to nothing with this.
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Leftist antisemitism is a symptom - American Jews and the Illiberal Left

TLDR: I think we would be wise to stop regarding leftist antisemitism only in its own context and habitually recognize it is a part of a larger issue, the rise of the illiberal left.

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jewish I have seen a lot of leftists in the last decade making some very authoritarian arguments my favorite was still the one saying we shouldn't engage in electoralism because electoralism bad and useless and by electoralism they meant voting participating in the democratic process and having a representitive government and supporting liberal democracy The logic here was literally democracy bad let's get rid of it I know a lot of it is Russian election interference and now Iran and Qatar have gotten in on the game too but also a lot of leftist westerners have taken to the authoritarian ideas with gusto and authoritarian revolutions tend to go hand in hand with mass Jewish death so I am scared as someone who is passionately pro liberal democracy and also as a Jew
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deluxetrashqueen

Honestly, Rick Rolling is the best practical joke ever. Like, there’s nothing offensive or mean  spirited about it. It’s just like “Oops you thought there would be something else here but it’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’.” which isn’t even a bad song. It’s fairly enjoyable to listen to. There’s no jumpscares, no screaming, no ill will. Just Rick Astley telling you he’s never going to give you up. I think that’s great. “You fell into my trap! Here, listen to this completely benign song that will have no negative effect on you.” 

moonblossom

I wish this were true. There’s a really good article about the problems inherent with rickrolling here.

pinkphilosopher

Very interesting. I never thought about that and now I feel bad.

whitewolf634

Man, that sucks.

wolfthorned

We can’t have anything good can we? :/

rickroll your annual dose of april fools silliness

poolsidescientist asked:

Assumptions: you have dog treats in the pockets of all your coats, you like to garden, and you have at least 5 unfinished writing projects that you "mean to get around to".

I am stingy with dog treats, but I keep some in my car along with a leash in case I run into a lost dog. I garden, and I also keep potted plants, and I absolutely have five (million) projects I mean to get around to.

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