Love Is A Place Where Your Innocence Goes When It Dies

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abyssal_sylph's salad bar

salad 1	slow dancing, Proposal & 600 words
salad 2	stargazing, Promotion & 200 words
salad 3	snowed in, Returning Home & 300 words
salad 4	cuddling, Graduation & 500 words
salad 5	renovations, Anniversary & 1000 words
salad 6	cooking together, Bon Voyage & 400 words
salad 7	waking up together, Retirement & 700 words
salad 8	first kiss, Wedding & 100 words
salad 9	second chance, Birthday & 800 words
salad 10	hair braiding, Funeral & 900 words

So I saw this reblog chain on Tumblr talking about birds in Hollow Knight's world. & other posts showed me that I'm not the only one who say the Faylorn beast as a bird of this universe.

Now, the bugs of HK/Silksong aren't 1-to-1 in appearace or behavior to their IRL counterparts. Matises for example in real life mostly solitary (+ iirc only ants shed their wings in adulthood, and ony if they're a queen). So it's likely if birds exist in the HK/Silksong universe, they'd be diffent too. Now how they look like is likely up to interpetation of the fan, since the closest thing we have to a bird is the Faylorn. But as the reblog chain also stated, many birds (at least large to the bugs + insect eating ones) would be interpated as the dragons of their world.

Now dragons in our world aren't one thing. The main diffrence you may know is the western vs eastern divide in dragons. Where (iirc) the western dragons are brutish beasts to slay with fire, & where eastern dragons are often wise beasts who are more assoiciated with water. Of course there's nuaces that I'm not getting here. But just like how dragons in our world aren't thing, and birds are a diverse clade; birds in the HK/Silksong universe would likely be seem in various ways by diffrent cultural groups & goverments.

So this post talked about tech ideas for a sci-fi setting which is steampunk in nature. Here's my attempt to share my thoughts on it:

Anti-Gravity
iirc Victorians didn't think they'd get to space because at the time, rockets sucked. And so they thought they'd use anti-gravity tech. Now, with steampunk in space we props have to bend a lot of suspension anyway, and magic (even in low amounts) might be needed. Depending on if reletivity still existing, this could be a way for the people to get to space without electricity. Though if they have anti-gravity tech or magic, i can see it also bleeding through their infrastructure & sports. Astronauts IRL do training in underwater to prepare for little to no gravity. So I don't think it's absured for water + wuxia level sports to become popular.

The Gun
Now this idea I adore. Basically one idea early people had for getting into space was, just a big gun & shooting the people into space. My & I discusses many of these ideas & he suggested that the moduals would be water-filled, to avoid the astronauts getting injured. Which basically makes them reverse submarines. Which I think is fitting, with how ocean obssessed victorians were. I think it's fun to think of space as a special ocean or "Sea of Stars", so I'm biased towards this idea. But I'd still like anti-gravity wuxia.

Other Things
Other things that I'd think happen:
- Ladies being banned from space travel for a bit, only to be later allowed. Maybe they even have their own Amelia Earhart.
- People being banned from space travel till 16 cause of how terrorizing it is.
- So many company towns, oh god /intrigued.
- If radios aren't a thing yet, astronauts could possible mostly communicate via morse code + heliographs.

So I've caught up with Runaway to the Stars, and while I have a lot of emotions about it, few of them are able to be worded in a way that makes sense. But yeah one thing I can say about the webcomic is that it's very human? Not applicable since a lot of characters are very much alien... Sophont? Sophont. About the ways they think & feel about their situations. Also the situations the characters have been in? Very plausible. It helps the comic stay slice-of-life even when it's currently about getting an illegal ship back in orbit.

Also read this post by ysabetwordsmith which was about how agriculture tends to get misunderstood why white people in specific (in the sense of "monocropping isn't the only thing that count"). Which makes me happy that Jay has clearly put in a lot of thought in the diets of the non-human characters, even if Talita gets the short end of the stick :(

Also made me think again about sci-fi worldbuilding... that + my au Marstuck, which is spiritually inspired by the RttS comic. Specifically with me getting a bit into making trolls more plausible + figuering out how they'd be as 2 seperate cultures prior to the Mars rebellion. With specifically Alternia having been a colony of Beforus before it's countercultural revolution which- it was countering the culture of Beforus! Just, also dystopic.

Prompt list by sapphic-september [prompts written down below the cut]



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Snagged this from priama who snagged it from this site.

Original Summary:

A list of prompts has been floating around on the internet – I was told it originated on DeviantART – and after having successfully used the prompts, I share them with you. You pick a list (I have two right here) and write something for each theme. Poems, drabbles, short stories, journal entries, anything. A group of us from Holy Worlds are using the list to outline an entire novel to be written for NaNoWriMo. I just finished my outline today. 😀 You would be shocked to find how easy it is to create an entire, round, detailed plot just by using each theme to create a scene.

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SO in case you don't know: leprechaun romance is a joke-detail about the leprechauns/the felt from Homestuck. Basically what we know about it is that;

• Leprechauns have 9 (sub)types of romance.


• They're expected to get into troves, which is when a relationship has 3 romance (sub)types.


• It's seemingly build around love, pranks & jappery.


• Leprechauns reproduce homosexually.

Which first of all: how is reproducing homosecually diffrent from reproducing bisexually??? Honestly the bisexual reproduction makes sense if trolls were moss or fungus like, but they're not, so I have no clue what this realistically could mean (besides gender but that makes even less sense let's be honest here).

Call me Aranea, but I'm obsessed actually! I wish Homestuck had an actual explanation for leprechaun romance. Because part of the fun of the Homestuck media is the quadrants romance system. It's the way it explores how diffrent characters would find eachother important. Honestly we were robbed more fun by the fact this seems to be a joke on the quadrant shippers! Jokes on you hussie I ADORE making aliens/non-humans more wacky!

Some days; the mirror still shows my past self.
Young and angry at the world + my old home,
forever a nurturer first, be strong, be silent.
Tied by the neck to my lusus, my matriarch +
mother to all of the future I was meant to build.
Which should’ve been slaughtered with the planet
when the game started. When I was spared the
dignity of an apocalyptic end.

For a few decaying moments, my lusus lived.
She told me to cut out the matriorb + do it
delicately, the future of my species at my mercy.
Memories of the Jade blood soaked egg cowed me.
The reality of its guts + shell laid to ruin haunts me.

Back then everything still ached, just mirrored.
Longing + wanting for the desolation of all that
femininity that caged me. Did past me know
in her brain or dreams or the marrow of ribs
that I’d regret it?

Card for allbingo [prompts taken from the bingo generator]

2 of Wands	Page of Pentacles	5 of Pentacles	3 of Pentacles	9 of Wands	2 of Pentacles	4 of Cups
7 of Wands	10 Wheel of Fortune	7 of Cups	10 of Swords	0 The Fool	Page of Swords	4 of Swords
6 of Swords	7 of Swords	10 of Wands	17 The Star	Queen of Pentacles	5 of Swords	6 of Wands
21 The World	18 The Moon	4 of Pentacles	Ace of Pentacles	Page of Cups	5 The Hierophant	Ace of Cups
9 of Pentacles	10 of Pentacles	10 of Cups	8 of Wands	4 The Emperor	16 The Tower	2 of Swords
Ace of Swords	20 Judgement	5 The Devil	6 of Pentacles	7 of Pentacles	6 The Lovers	3 of Cups
2 The High Priestess	King of Pentacles	6 of Cups	Queen of Swords	3 of Swords	Knight of Pentacles	9 The Hermit

Challenge #7: LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good. Feel free to expand as much or as little as you want.

Creative (drawing & writing mostly), openminded, stubborn, full of adoration & likes animals.