Thoughts on Part 4: Chapter 24: War Among the Lashunta of Castrovel
(first published two years ago)
#PennedPossibilities 631 — What does your antagonist / villain do to relax?
There's a few options here. He could go to work in his lab. Work always clears his mind. He could visit a robohooker, too. That always does the trick as well. He might even just take the evening off from working in his lap and sleep if he desperately needs to relax.
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Lashunta Architectural Inspiration
Gaitore ki chhatriyan, Jaipur India
Could this be a model for standard urban domestic architecture for Lashunta? Could the spires serve a function as a connector stage to megadendra bought paths?
Philosopher Caste Recovery Centre -
The Chosen's "Scorched Earth" policy in regards to Corruption did not apply to their own assets, particularly archons. One of the Philosopher Caste's primary duties was cleansing Corruption from important members of the paracology.
#PennedPossibilities 630 — Is your MC receptive to warnings and advice given by others?
Hardly. The only time he ever listens is when either Junk or Dante give him any advice. Warnings as well, to be fair. A warning is generally taken as a challenge in his eyes, and advice can and will be either taken into consideration or discarded, one or the other. Sometimes he's an idiot. If the words come from Dante and / or Junk, however, he's liable to actually listen. He has a habit of doing rash, stupid things because of a fiery temper and they've been able to stop him. On occasion, Cosmia has been able to change his mind as well, but it's a rarity.
Now in Washington State, we’re getting close to the end of the North American tour. The #Petrofuture map of Tacoma. Melted ice caps on a vintage Mobil gas station map. More: https://conspiracyofcartographers.com/ #climateChange #maps #cartography #climateCrisis #greenWashing #WashingtonState #worldBuilding #pugetSound #Tacoma
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Lashunta Weekend Inspiration, Part ~Haea~
Artist: Nachaya Campbell-Allen @0nachaya0
A last Tara inspiration for today, which comes with question: are there lotuses on Castrovel, or something nearly like? If so, what do they symbolize?
GlitchyWriter
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVbrhhUXADk
Blog: https://blog.illestpreacha.com/wccctypewriter
#WCCC #wccchallenge #Livecoding #CreativeCoding #Text #PoeticArt
For this week's Creative Code challenge by @sableraph “ Typewriter Art”, GlitchyWriter uses #Hydravideosynth & #LiveCodeLab to create a glitchy typewriter effect with a poem written in real time
Fly to The Sky
Fly to The Other Side
Make everything that is said
Something that is worth sharing
Something that is worth hearing
Enjoy the process
Enjoy the Progress
The words, The Verbs
As these fly to the sky
beyond the realm of the pixels
as These Texts are soon to swivel
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Lashunta Weekend Inspiration, Part ~Zaea~
Artist: Kamini Gupta
More inspiration from Green Tara. Here, perhaps Mahaere's - Greenmother's - body merges with the world around her, symbolizes her life innate in all things.
Lashunta Weekend Inspiration, Part ~Zhoa~
Artist: Tsem Rimpoche - more Green Tara inspiration for the Lashunta goddess ~Mahaere~ - Greenmother, contemplating her children's bounty within the rainforest.
Lashunta Inspirational Pic of the Week
Artist: Pavel Yurev, Grafit Studio
Mahaere - Greenmother - Castrovel personified Herself, who through the milktrees is the Lashunta's deified ancestor. Some sage-philosophers pose she forms a trinity with Matarasse - Burning-Mother - and Mahae - Seamother - wherein their combined consciousnesses form ~Vatheia~ - the World-Soul.
30.03.2025 What do your characters get nostalgic about? What triggers that?
There isn't much general nostalgia going on for most of my characters.
And I don't think remembering the fallen loved ones counts as nostalgia.
On occasion they remark on something from the past but most of them where born into a Utopian society that is fighting a war against an alien species for several decades now. Most of their parents don't remember it differently, that's one reason why soldiers of the Union and the alliance are broadly accepted in the society. They are the ones keeping the others as safe as it gets.
#WordWeavers 30.03.2025 #StarRyde #WorldBuilding
Another world for the Larvitar Herculis (HR 6950) system, slowly rotating in it's terraformed majesty
The Columbia River will rise, and at the confluence with the Willamette--the #Petrofuture map of Portland.
Melted ice caps on a vintage Shell gas station map. The Willamette Valley becomes an inland sea.
More:
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#climateChange #maps #cartography #climateCrisis #greenWashing #Oregon #Portland #worldBuilding #WillametteRiver #ColumbiaRiver
Acceptable Collateral Damage -
Chosen doctrine explicitly stated that any "third party" collateral damage was acceptable in the response to even a hint of Host activity.
Lashunta and Symbiosis - one of my first worldbuilding essays, first published five years ago on FB...
#HexIsland - eine kleines Spiel, um dunkle Zeiten aufzuhellen: Lasst uns #HexIsland-Mikrosettings erschaffen!
Hex für Hex erstellen wir eine Insel. Ab MORGEN stelle ich hier täglich einen Prompt ein und zwar für:
- Eine Hexfeld-Beschreibung
- Einen Eintrag für eine Zufallsbegegnungstabelle
- Einen Abenteuer-Schauplatz
- Etwas Anderes – z.B. ein Monster, eine Hintergrundinformation etc.
Jede Beschreibung sollte idealiter in einen einzelnen Post passen.
#osr #hexcrawl #pnpde #Worldbuilding 1/n
These things are TRUE for every #HexIsland:
- Each hex spans 6 miles.
- The basic geography of every HexIsland is similar, but climate and other details may vary.
- Every HexIsland is unique - yours could be a tropical lost world teeming with dinosaurs, a low-fantasy Iron Age milieu, or a White Lotus-style resort hiding dark secrets.
- Yet ALL HexIslands are, at least theoretically, connected - whether by hidden (?) portals or other mysterious means. 2/n
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