#DecemberWorldbuilders 17 My main characters lack skill in these areas, but the group has direct connections to both an armorer and a tailor! Dennis is a blacksmith apprentice and can't do armor, but his mentor can. Dennis has at least picked up enough to do basic repairs on Thess's armor. 1/2

EVERYONE GET MORE PASSIONATE AND SELF INDULGENT ABOUT CREATIVITY AND BEING HUMAN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#DecemberWorldbuilders 16 What with being on a long-running adventure across the world, food is a resource they've gotta keep good tabs on. They've gotta do market runs at pretty much every stop, preserve fresh foods, take inventory on longer legs, and take turns on cooking duty. 1/6

Just fyi I am doing the softest of soft launches on Ko-fi to have a place to share my physical art and merch. Greeting cards are up, and while they're currently just within the lower 48 of the US, I have the Triple Strike ebooks available here as well!

#DecemberWorldbuilders 15 Our main characters' hometowns have well-defined seasons, so you'd see snow shoveling in winter, street/gutter sweeping in autumn, and some dusting in the spring and summer to clean pollen or, well, dust. Rainwater harvesting is common, though it's less a chore. 1/4

#AwesomeCharacters I found that many of my characters would actually have a pretty good sense of direction. Rho's a courier by trade, so they're accustomed to navigating towns, cities, and urban environments by map. Off-road, though, his sense of direction probably escapes him. 1/4

i can confirm this crossword is great, you are all legally obligated to play my friend's puzzle !!!

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#DecemberWorldbuilders 14 If needed, the elderly often move back in with family, usually children. Big cities have some old folks' homes, though. Dedicated daycare is rare; childcare tends to happen at home, a neighbor's, or a relative's. Schooling exists, but with a different structure from ours.

> Got writer's block? Share your screen with Copilot vision. Hey Microsoft thanks for the suggestion but I'd rather be torn limb from limb, stitched back together, sent to hell, and have it done all over again ad infinitum. I thought I'd recovered from my depression but you've reignited it, thanks.

my internal monologue talks to me the way the green goblin mask talks to norman osborn

#DecemberWorldbuilders 13 Uh oh! A prompt that I could definitely say holds true -- there ARE relevant family names, crests, symbols, etc -- but that I haven't actually fleshed out yet. Like the last one, though, we have some examples that may help us glean some insight. 1/

These guys have done really great work (on top of being just generally fantastic people ❤️) and it's so nice to see how their love for their craft has paid off. You are legally required to play indie games and that includes these guys' games. SO GO FOLLOW THEM NOW!!!!!!

#AwesomeCharacters Ahaha, one of my silliest worldbuilding tidbits. They all speak a language that is phonemically and syntactically and lexicographically and grammatically indistinguishable from (an idiosyncratic dialect of) English... but it's not English. It's Modern, an auxlang, untranslated. 1/

#DecemberWorldbuilders 12 When I first saw this prompt I thought, "oh, I haven't worked on that at all," only to remember halfway through the day that one of my side characters is lowkey a member of a corporate dynasty. And with dynasty comes some implied inheritance rules. 1/4

"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist

[injecting human feces directly into my blood] no man you don't get it it comes from the human body, more content is good, it will make me healthier, i'm just putting more inside-human-stuff inside my human to make me stronger, it's more of my internal contents and that's good this is about disney

#DecemberWorldbuilders 11 Hrm, difficult -- I don't really have anyone in a solid "main villain" role. Some possibilities: Dexian Black, regime leader; Dachryx, giant monster; Dzefta Škavotz, dim witch. And none of them are particularly fleshed out at this point. Still... let's see here... 1/6

#DecemberWorldbuilders 10 I guess it's time to pay the piper for doing an ensemble cast. Thread incoming. Let's start with Rho. I haven't developed his parents yet, but I know he has a good relationship with them. His older sister Shan doesn't, but she and Rho still get along fine. 1/

Again, apologizing to all videogame environment artists who knocked up satirical posters for their games, I should not have rolled my eyes, yes, even you Cyberpunk billboard team, I am sorry

#DecemberWorldbuilders 9 The Roman example here is a good reference point -- reproductive rights aren't thought about that much, but tend toward safeguarded in that the methods of preventing pregnancy are typically plant- or fungus-based and few governments impose strict regulations for that. 1/4

the best part of unpacking in a new place after a move is when i get my desktop computer set up and i no longer care about unpacking anything else because that was the only thing that mattered

#DecemberWorldbuilders 8 I haven't thought about it too much. I suppose it depends on what culture of the world we're looking at, but the main cast's family units are pretty nuclear. That might be boring, but I value a level of autonomy and independence from blood relations. 1/4

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel. (I don't typically do these things bc everyone I know already has, but I'm legally obligated to shill for Grand Budapest Hotel)

#DecemberWorldbuilders 7 Nyehehe.... I love space, so naturally I've developed the whole stellar system around the world, even though it's fantasy so it's not like they're going to space. However, as Jane focuses on blue magic, it does come into play on occasion. Space rant incoming. 1/11

#DecemberWorldbuilders 6 Another thing I haven't thought about much! However, I do have the towering mushroom (it's fantasy, I wanted big mushrooms, sue me). They form relationships with plants and other fungi varying between parasitic and mutualistic via their sprawling mycelium networks.

#DecemberWorldbuilders 5 The state of medicine in the world is pretty 1800s-esque as well, fitting with the rest of the tech level; however, when it comes to unique developments, the existence of magic (specifically green magic) means a lot more tinctures, salves, and potions for various ailments.

#DecemberWorldbuilders 4 Their tech level is near-gaslamp fantasy -- I like to imagine it as high fantasy at the turn of the 19th century. Recent developments and discoveries include photography, aluminum, the typewriter, and the airship (the first working one is currently on its maiden voyage). 1/

dude someone on tiktok said that my weird #space #indiemusic (specifically Charonian Lament: youtu.be/yaUIH7WS3ls) reminds them of "the robot who sings daisy daisy". this is the best compliment i have ever received i am now high on life

#DecemberWorldbuilders 3 Ah, we've uncovered a big hole... I've got a number of mad scientists and witches whose specifics haven't been developed yet, so surely some of them will end up as chemists. I'm looking at you, missing (and current) League of Defenders mad scientists and witches...

#DecemberWorldbuilders 2 Canonically, they evolved, but the existence of magic since antiquity allows for some fun evolutionary shenanigans (e.g. centaurs, satyrs) that evolution alone couldn't produce. TL;DR, the current species all evolved from elves, which went extinct thousands of years ago. 1/

#DecemberWorldbuilders 1 Yes, it's open to anyone! At least in most contemporary societies. General educational paths don't include much science, but specialization in social sciences, mad sciences, or witchcraft is available to anyone interested in them. Formal certification is an option, too. 1/3

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

dude 12-year-old noah was right. 2012-15 era edm and dubstep and related electronic genres slap hard. i don't care if it's cringe i am free

𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘂𝘀 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘅 "𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗼" 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲 is a semi-human bookseller and member of the Silent Exchange of Whispered Esoterica who is notable for having cat ears, whiskers, and tail—features caused by shiftclot from excessive hasty shapeshifting in his youth. Yes he's the "no more catboys. catmen" meme

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The mode of transport is actually very intertwined with my characters themselves! The group's main method of transportation is their world's very first working airship, built by their own resident mad scientist Baxin and his grandfather. It's the main thing Baxin has to remember his grandfather by.

GRRRAAAHHHH I LOVE COMMISSIONING ARTISTS !!!!! IT FILLS ME WITH JOY TO PUT MONEY IN THEIR POCKETS AND RECEIVE DRAWINGS OF MY BLORBOS !!!! LETSGOOOO

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy

i made pumpkin pie for the first time today. sometimes the little accomplishments are important

I'm eating a breakfast burrito and coffee that cost too much. A man is sleeping on the hard floor even though there are soft chairs right next to him. I immediately follow the coffee with a tuna sandwich. There's a baby crying somewhere. Did they just start playing a Shepard tone? It's dark outside.

Panic! at the Disco once made a song called Nine in the Afternoon about an impossible time of day that has a positive vibe. Whatever is vibe-wise the opposite impossible time of nine in the afternoon, that's the time at any given airport at any given time.

i take it back, these are not mutually exclusive, medication plus 2012-14 era dubstep is actually the ideal situation

I just got an email from the bank titled “Sports Betting vs. Investing”. …We are so damn cooked, man.

you can have nuance when unions protecting employee rights are the norm. until then fight with all you've got folks

no doctor i don't need to take my medication i just need to listen to various 2012-14 era dubstep songs for the first time again

just had to update to macOS Tahoe with liquid glass and thEY FUCKING ROUNDED THE WINDOW CORNERS EVEN MORE SOMEHOW THEY'RE INCONSISTENT I CAN SEE OTHER WINDOWS WITH LESS ROUNDED CORNERS PEEKING OUT FROM BEHIND WINDOWS WITH MORE ROUNDED CORNERS HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE

i want to believe. manifesting more of my robot wife (wheatley)