#Speculation Corner

[roystartt]

All this 'bee' talk about s8 and then something about the fact that Tommy flies helicopters or otherwise known as 'birds'

The birds and the bees

Bucktommy sex scene s8 premiere confirmed

[fishing-lesbian-catgirl]

It is funny to me how much arguing there was between people trying to speculate on Ryoko Kui’s sexuality and people saying it’s literally none of our business. Then she uploads art where she draws a bunch of elves from video games and refers to multiple of the of the elven women as “her wife” or “fell in love at first sight”. And yet in a twitter thread about it I still saw people saying that referring to women as your wife could be straight woman behavior actually (???)

[aeriona]

Some various races and species of Khalodnan people (not to scale) + a map I cooked up in Agzaar's fantasy map generator

Most of the Frenator population is nomadic so the examples above are very derivative, and more often than not their race won’t represent where the person is from, but rather their heritage.

Out of the five Frenator races, the Eltalyans are the oldest originating from the deepest glaciers of southern Khalodna, where they spread out across the continent and diversified over thousands of years.

Khalodna from coast-to-coast is roughly the same width as Australia, only it's much, much colder with a good portion of the landscape being covered in glaciers and frosty tundra.

The map shows the (very rough) "urban" distribution of the four peoples of Khalodna, although it doesn't account for wandering nomads which actually make up the majority of the Khalodnan population. Most of the country has few resources/food to go around, so many people have to travel to stay fed and happy.

It wasn't always like this, there actually used to be MUCH more people in Khalodna with actual kingdoms and stuff, but that was before a war happened that essentially collapsed anything resembling organised society. There's ruins of castles and towns all over the place BOTW-style.

Apart from the people of Khalodna, there are also various creatures that call it home! Namely two types of dragons, feathered serpents in the northeast, wooly rhinos, sea monsters and a very wide array of marsupials spread out across the continent.

[unordinary-diary]

Remi and Swimming

Why can’t Remi swim?

That’s a genuine question. Why does Remi, at seventeen years old, not know how to swim?

After some quick research, I found that being unable to swim is actually way more common than I thought. Still, I want to speculate on Remi’s reason.

The Red Cross lists fear as the top reason people cited for not learning to swim. Other reasons I can think of for not learning to swim are: couldn’t afford lessons, didn’t live near a pool or body of water, disability, or simply never made time to learn.

However, in Remi’s case, I think it’s much more likely because of her ability than anything else.

It could be because her parents wanted to wait until she had better control of her ability before putting her in water with other kids. This of course, raises the question of why she didn’t learn before her ability developed. It could also be that someone in her family had an incident in the water, and the family was very cautious after that.

I personally like to believe that Rei had an ability-related incident when Remi was quite young, and her parents wanted to keep Rei out of the water until he could control his ability better. Because it would be mean to take Remi swimming and make Rei stay behind or on land, Remi’s lessons got put off indefinitely until they were forgotten about.

Of course, this scenario also means that Rei never finished learning to swim either.

I also like the idea that their mom was the one who had a swimming accident, and was somewhat traumatized by it and therefore extremely paranoid about putting her kids in the water. This explanation would also mean that Rei probably couldn’t swim.

I will now kindly place here for my own enjoyment, a reminder that Blyke was the one who taught Remi to swim and it was cute as fuck:

♡

[eligejtor]

imagine opening up S3 with the scene of Crowley's fall

[ kinda similar thing they did in S2 with them together in space ]

and then it could cut to credits or a scene where Crowley's drunk and miserable in some pub or something

i think it would be a killer scene both visually but also (and mainly) emotionally, i need some ANGST. (also i've heard how good & heartwrenching David scream is and im a bit of a masochist)

and then, later in the season aziraphale sees it (the fall) in some heavenly archives or something... i feel like its very important for his character to know not only why crowley fell (but its still like 50/50), but also HOW it went 🤔

i mean its important to see how "the Fall" went exactly, for the main bois, the audience and for the story

[friendsdontlieokay]

I have this sort of lingering feeling at the pit of my stomach that Nancy is going to sacrifice herself for Mike.

[fluffypotatey]

I'm thinking about an AU where like...Ody picks up a feral kid from an island who stows away on the ship. It'd be good to get some whimsy on that ship and maybe things go better. Hope Penelope doesn't mind an extra kid + Telemachus having a wild child of a little sibling now. Very overly enthusiastic, half the crew is terrified, other half is like "yeah the kid has good survival technique ideas." Ody is like, "please stop gleefully mopping the bloodied castle" after kid decides to be helpful. Proceeds to kick a suitors head out of the hallway so OdyPen can walk around together peacefully.

excuse you, that child is helping!!! Ody, Telemachus, and Penelope are reuniting and tired and this child, out of the goodness of their heart is cleaning the palace (with aid of course) 😤

they don’t need to bc by that point their an official ward of the palace, but it the thought that counts (they totally loot the suitor’s stuff in the process)

[yulgurr]

blorblo bleebus :]

she forgor

[stupidsexygrizzop]

mikey meeting that first arbiter.... "it was impossible to make out any features of the man himself other than his height which was around the same height as me"

he spoke "slowly and deliberately"

[void-tiger]

Okay so like.

I don’t think Viktor and Jayce are actually dead/gone. We don’t get any explanation for how Arcane-Touched!Viktor is even going through realities with far more control than Ekko (who’s Thing literally time travel) or Heimerdinger. We only know he’s apparently the Mage who saved Child!Jayce, then shows up again when Jayce is flung into An Even WORSE Ending Reality.

ANYWAY!! Point Being.

Meljay Lives.

(As does the messy QPR Jayce has with Viktor.)

[novlr]

Writers have tons of creative ideas, but most of us aren’t scientists. So, how do we make sure that we get the science right in our fiction?

Even if you write speculative fiction or fantasy stories, there’s still some thought that must go into making sure there’s an internal logic to your worldbuilding. A sense of cause and effect. Readers get lost if they can’t easily follow or make sense of your big ideas, but this is especially important when discussing real-world science, and how it might affect our future, or manifest on other worlds.

In the Reading Room today, you'll find a list of books that are perfect for science-fiction and worldbuilding research, to keep you grounded, and give you a great basis for building out sci-fi, fantasy, and future worlds.

[orcelito]

I bought a chair and a sword today

Wahoo!!!

[juustozzi]

okay I gotta share something I've been thinking about a character from victory road raimon

I won't be sharing images from the gallery but I did take screenshots and edited it so there's some basis, and...

you know the dude with the long sea-like hair and freckles and a big smile? and how you can see just a tiny bit of the first and last letter on the back of his uniform?

I learned that if you cut n paste letters from other raimon players' names on their uniforms, the sea dude's tiny letter bits align pretty perfectly with "tsunami"

cool surfer dad tsunami???

[the-weeping-dawn]

Another htank you to Lae'zel for being the character whenever I need someone to need to ask exposition questions which would be more obvious to the rest of the group.

[3-aem]

You don't have to reply to this, but, I've always disliked king Chris for some reason and I could never put my finger on it. It's not that he's more annoying or cringe than other anime content accounts, just some reason I could never identify made me viscerally dislike him. Like, I cannot stand the sight of this man's face or his voice and I have no idea why. Now that he's reposted someone's art and made NO effort to credit I can kinda be at ease because I have a concrete reason, not just a random feeling for disliking him lmao. I scrolled and scrolled his comments and he even commented and didn't credit. I saw one comment only crediting you on Twitter from someone else. You'd think such a big creator would understand crediting but I guess not since his face is plastered all over his content.

im not about to pick beef with king chris.

tbh i think my anger about this goes a bit deeper and at the end of the day has nothing to do with king chris

the one video praising my work being exposed to millions doesn’t have my credit listed.

[likedaylighht]

I really want Taylor to relax and to stop for at least three months and take a breather. She deserves it. TTPD is a tasty big album, with ongoing discussions about the muses and what she's really saying. Some I agree with. Some I don't. So many songs to figure out. I think taking a breather and a break can be good. I've been told TS12 is coming soon. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Keeping an open mind as always with Taylor.

See but I don’t really love the “Taylor should take a break” mindset either. If she announces a new album next week I’d be thrilled! It makes me so happy seeing her flexing her creative muscles, and lord knows if there is anything Taylor is a master at, it’s putting together an album (folklore came together in 4 months remember!) but like you said, it’s best to just keep an open mind instead of expecting anything, which is where my issue is mostly. It feels like all some people want to talk about these days is what’s next and how soon will it happen meanwhile I’m just chilling listening to ttpd on repeat still