#Yes in the tumblr post that's linked

[wreniriis]

One year of Tears of the Kingdom 🐉☁️

[kimyoonmiauthor]

Slight correction to the correction...

Screenshot is from Wikipedia on Sugarcane.

Text:

The two centers of domestication for sugarcane are one for Saccharum officinarum by Papuans in New Guinea and another for Saccharum sinense by Austronesians in Taiwan and southern China. Papuans and Austronesians originally primarily used sugarcane as food for domesticated pigs. The spread of both S. officinarum and S. sinense is closely linked to the migrations of the Austronesian peoples. Saccharum barberi was only cultivated in India after the introduction of S. officinarum.[12][13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarcane

^^;; My geekery continues.

OK, what's true is that unlike a lot of other foods, it was a slow Westward diffusion over time until it hit Europe and Europe can't grow sugarcane under normal conditions. The native range is tropical or subtropical. I've covered this in the larger doc and several times over, but people argue for sugarbeets in this case, and NO, you REQUIRE industrialization for that since sugarbeet processing didn't exist until the LATE Victorian era. This is why the slave trade.

References abound in that section and I checked. It lines up with the Cambridge History of food.

BTW, I'm stating this again, I did a 50 page treaties on subsistence systems which DOES cover rich and poor food, and struggle food using anthropological sources. The original post was merely adding to it. It has SOOO much, it crashed my computer of the time. It has SO much information, that pretty much the sheer compiling of it beats most Anthropology textbooks on food, including the official one because the commonly used one for Anthropology of food doesn't break it down like that, but basically has a list of articles of which I've effing included into the doc as the book is listed (not the articles.)

The point of the opening post was to add and the point of the replies was to say stop using magic as a substitute for trade. 'cause Fuck it, PoCs exist and Fuck it, like WTH is with everyone fixated on temperate climates? Even Europe isn't all Temperate. Scandanavia not exist for you??? The Med doesn't exist for you?? Italy IS NOT TEMPERATE.

I don't think magic should be used as an excuse to cut out PoCs. I think that's a really poor way of going about things, ya know. And I hate to see it. Won't kill ya to mention traders and trade. (And I did cover how Inuit are PoC that far north too in the Physical Anthropology post and man, it's tied to food).

I swear, I tried very, very much to cram in all I could into those 50 pages and give you vastly more to think about than Seasonal changes. I got things like goats vs. sheep and which environments (And I checked with my Economics Prof on this and my theory and he said it made sense), how to invent domesticated animals, I tried to cite people who did it right and wrong in Fantasy. I got the advantages and disadvantages of various plant types. How to avoid imperialism (thus also do imperialism) from a theoretical standpoint, how to design a trade network around food. I put my degree for good and shared it free for you, even though the degree cost me over 20K. I poured my years of watching cooking shows, research in the uni library, begging with the Food Anthro prof to give me his syllabus, used the Harvard syllabus, pictures I took of pages from said library and vast watching of various anthro and food documentary shows to compile it together.

I swear, I tried my best to cover everything until my computer and Tumblr said no mas and I had to give up and then reblogged and wrote a topic on top of the things I kinda couldn't write in so you could research them.

Yes, Socioeconomics of food is IN THERE. I didn't suffer for 5 years in utter abject poverty for the first 5 years of my life to forget about socioeconomics of food. I also spent time giving credit to where things come from, have pictures of the Cambridge History of Food, and then used a college class on European food systems to talk about the contribution of the Mongols to Europe.

I was fucking efficient. It took me quite a while to write. And I took a few years to collect the images for it too. But I missed thinking about food more efficiently on realizing how long it takes to make one dish and how much pre-planning goes into it. That's why I put up a new post.

Again: I swear it's all in that doc. I just can't edit it anymore because I broke Tumblr. ^^;;

The reason I state this is I'd rather not tread old ground when I effing covered it and very widely and gave a bunch of thinking points on it. You bet I'd cover imperialization of food. I swear, I swear that post should have almost everything you need. My economics prof often talked about how the economics was tied into food production. If I thought of it, I think I put in his whole thing about his work on Yap or linked him to it at least. (James Egan) Flips everything you think about food and food production.

So before people reply to this post, at least give the original a spin and skim it to see if the point was made so I don't have to repeat the same thing. Read the subject titles if you like, but get an idea of what was covered.

Slight note about the system of food.

'cause adding it to the large doc might crash my computer?

I've realized that though historical fiction minds this more when set in pre-industrial times, that often fantasy set in agricultural societies doesn't seem to do this, though it should.

So I'll give you an example...

Almost everything in Korean food is centered and bred for two things: Kimchi and soy sauce.

But what you don't realize in your industrialized state how freaking long it takes to make these things and how much planning is involved and how much you have to mind the seasons in order to make it correctly.

Kimchi:

Baekchu (or other vegetables) that's often harvested in fall.

The salt, which was traditionally sea salt was harvested in the spring and summer months.

Garlic is a spring to mid summer crop.

The sweet rice that goes into winter kimchi takes a ton of work to make and can take from Spring to fall.

The fish sauce that goes into Kimchi that helps preserve it for over a year, takes and ENTIRE YEAR to make. Yes, a year. You really, really have to plan on that. And what do you do if the fishing is poor for that year?

Spring onions are faster to grow, but you still have to time it for the fall kimchi making.

The fish are seasonal. For example, Yellow Corvina is taken in Korea in the spring. Shrimp in the summer (June), and anchovies in early spring to fall.

Your timing has to be impeccable and you need an entire year to plan this one dish.

Meanwhile, you, industrialized person, take for granted that you can get fish sauce any time you like and can pour it over kimchi.

In fantasy this could add flavor to your fantasy make up, if your character can only get this dish once a year. It can add political unrest (What do you mean the salt harvest was poor and we're left with the shitty metallic salt), because your characters in an agricultural society will be subject to weather changes, which you get when reading historical fiction and so on. Three seasons of poor harvest, daaaamnn... the people might overthrow their government. There might be new religions that pop up, there might be uprisings because the King and Queen are eating feasts every day while the peasants are eating things that are empty calories.

What I'm saying is that you can't be too entrenched into industrial mindset if you're not writing an industrial setting.

That orange is seasonal and only comes about in a connected system that has winter and a warmer climate.

Maybe there are key foods for your climate that are highly treasured or sought after. Mandarins once were. Cacao. Think a bit about those things and how it might interact with the larger world. When does your plant mature and when can it be harvested? is it different from different climates? There's wars that have been fought over food. (Tea, famously, at least a few times).

A staple crop failing is going to have devastating consequences.

And yet, often in fantasy, I often see people going, ya know what I can eat in the dead of winter, strawberries. Do we have greenhouses? No. Did we have freezers? No. But you know what my character is eating? A strawberry. Yeah, think about that. Strawberries don't preserve well. So plan out the timing of your dishes a bit (to the climate and subsistence system) and it can give a bit of background worldbuilding to your dishes and food.

I do have to say that the small mentions from Rings of Power n what's in season or not and why kinda made me feel like the world and the traveling was more "real" with the Harfoot. There's small references to fall v. spring crops.

[emkini]

He looks trustworthy

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Inspired by In the Hall of the King Underhill by @hellenite, whose fics have consumed my brain.

Also this is my first colored pencil illustration in 5 years and I did the whole thing in as many hours, it sure as hell ain't no masterpiece but I had fun and that's what matters

[rowynri]

so i had this theory

[fuzziemutt]

In love with how we finally have some williams being silly and decided to make some gifs of these scenes from "Stuck Inside" animated by Coda ^^

[yellllowstar]

[myzkagirl]

hes so pretty

[lexintothenex]

under the starlight 🌙✨

inspired both by the rayman 3 ost, and also listening to my buddy jumble's song blastoff on repeat until I barfed some art up. (his stuff is wonderful, please go check it out!)

[nothoughtsjusthoffstrahm]

Saw V is a horror TO YOU. To me it's just a doomed rom-com about a criminally insane homosexual(/bisexual) and the target of his affection. 🫶🫶

oh right and there's this romantic straight sub-plot about those two bisexuals playing this one game together as well.

[starflungwaddledee]

a masterpost following starstruck's interactive adventure at the 2024 @kirbyoctournament, for however long she makes it through! told mostly in response to asks, hence the 'interactive' component. can also be followed in the oc (2024): starstruck dee tag!

✧･ﾟ✧‧͙⁺༓જ⁀•｡ﾟ⟡ ｡ﾟ���︎｡⋆ *☾༓⁺‧͙✧･ﾟ✧

(full page comics are noted in bold, and the most important updates are designated with ‧͙⁺༓ )

stage 1: cookie country 🏡🏰

✧ are you ready, starstruck? (intro comic, entry + ref) ‧͙⁺༓ ✧ start the adventure ‧͙⁺༓ ✧ what kind of pie? ✧ a cupcake for the road ✧ happy early birthday ‧͙⁺༓ ✧ what's up? ✧ a selection of gifts ✧ the beating Sun ‧͙⁺༓ ✧ fountain's busted ✧ precautionary incense ✧ it doesn't mean anything ‧͙⁺༓

stage 2: rambling rainforest 🌲🌳

✧ into the woods (intro comic) ‧͙⁺༓ ✧ that red butterfly ‧͙⁺༓ ✧ friends with a little liar ✧ weapon select ✧ do you love the stars? [poll] ✧ night owls ✧ worth the climb ✧ where you fit in ‧͙⁺༓ ✧ distracted ✧ a little shut eye ‧͙⁺༓ [poll]

stage 3: yawning yonder 💤🌈

✧ should have stayed up (intro comic) ‧͙⁺༓

[skitskatdacat63]

Forced against my will to post these(thanks @flopnandoalonso and @schumigrace ...) , but please enjoy gifs of: Fernando at the spa (PLEASE DON'T BLOCK ME)

[isengard]

ryliver: secret

[the-holy-ghosted]

inspired by this @archivistbot post that would not leave my head until i drew it

[kingcunny]

the helaena/jace marriage offer *was* a political move, and a pretty smart one by rhaenyra too. the whole argument that helaena would be in danger because jace is a bastard is kinda silly to me, because the only people who cared about that were the greens. the velaryon boys legal father and both grandfathers have already accepted them as legitimate. the only people that would be putting helaena in danger would be her own family. if she were married to jace it would force them to accept not only rhaenyra as queen, but jace as king after her. (also shoring up jaces claim, as the next queen would be viserys daughter, and the queen consort after that… also his daughter) it would force alicent to stop her scheming against both of them, unless she wanted to put her daughter in danger. (as compensation it would also put her blood on the throne, just through her grandchildren vs her children. but thats not what alicent wants) alicent *knows* this is what rhaenyra is trying to do and thats why, along with her own bastardphobia and unwillingness to give up control over her daughter, she refuses the offer. she married the king it should be *her children* on the throne.

in the book, laena and rhaenyra betroth their children together when theyre much younger because *They* were in love. and what do you do when you love someone but cant legally marry them? well you marry your kids together. of course.

but since the show cut their relationship they had to also change the reasons behind the baela/jace and rhaena/luke marriages. and made them another political arrangement, and again not a bad move by rhaenyra! the argument that rhaenyra ‘stole’ baela/rhaenas birthright is, again kinda silly since the driftmark throne never ‘belonged’ to them anyway? even though laena was the eldest, it was going to go to laenor, since he was corlys firstborn son, and after laenor, luke (since jace would be king). it was only rhaenys that was trying to convince corlys to name laenas children over luke, since they were, by blood, related to him. rhaenys feeling like her daughter was getting passed over just like she was. vaemond wasnt arguing for baela or rhaena to be named, he was arguing for *himself*, and his children after him. rhaenyras marriage offer to rhaenys soothes her, because while it might not be laena or her children themselves, laenas line will continue on both the iron and driftmark thrones. it also shores up lukes claim to the driftmark throne, because even if he isnt a “true” velaryon, rhaena is. and their children will be. the driftmark throne stays within the velaryon family, keeping everyone happy. (minus vaemond)

[ask-sasha-nein]

Dear Doctor Nein,

I'm a psychic living on the east coast, and I was wondering what exactly your opinion was on things like psychic blockers? I know that Whispering Rock used Geodesic Psychoisolation Chambers for a time within its history, but I've never been sure if that was the best practice, considering the side-effects I've seen floating around. The reason why I ask, mostly, is because I'm trying to cope with huge bursts of power- and I mean huge, huge- while getting a BFA degree.

Mostly it's just been some pipes bursting and excess amounts of rain, but I'm worried that it will get worse if I leave it unchecked, and I don't have the money for proper training because of my schooling taking priority. If you have anything that could help me cope with some of them, I'd really appreciate the advice.

Thanks in advance,

Ozma B. Valentine

[kheprriverse]

Continuation of this short. Ballad makes up to Ko'jin for rejecting him previously. I like to think this was the next day, Malon has the group out for pointless errands so the three of them could have the ranch alone for a good chunk of the day. Ko'jin was also sent off to give Ballad time to get dressed.

This one's pretty suggestive so... ahah.. get mature labeled.

My original idea was gonna have more than just one page (maybe 3 or 4 at most), but I dropped it because that would've taken me multiple days and I didn't have the energy when I could just cut it short and do one page in a single day.

I am however obsessed with the outfit Ballad is in and so is Ko'jin (he's biased because the one who made it).