#and it's useful to differentiate from the og so whatever i guess

[claire-starsword]

Some graphics from Phantasy Star Deluxe, the remake of the original game for old mobile phones. Because the service it was accessible from closed, the japanese version is probably lost media. I did just find the chinese version though, because piracy preserve stuff when companies don't! Have not tried to emulate it yet because it's past midnight and i should be asleep instead of finding an emulator, but you can easily view all graphic changes by just opening up the file with winrar or a similar tool, which is fun, as the graphics are pretty much all unique.

[bassiascoparia]

Honestly, Rick’s world building fell apart the moment he introduced Roman gods. Because the og series already conflated the Greek and Roman gods - which is fine, most mythology media does, that’s not the issue. The issue is making a whole sequel series about how different the Greek and Roman gods are, then failing to explain what those actual differences are. It’s almost hypocritical. Like how satyrs and fauns are different things, but you can’t really say that because the og series was already calling fauns satyrs - which, again, a lot of already people do and would have been fine if you didn’t bring the concept of Roman mythology being a separate thing into it. It isn’t just the Greek gods with different names, there are real differences, but that being said, most of them are pretty minor and at the end of the day are just different versions of Greek stories. Because here’s the thing - Greek vs Roman isn’t that black and white because there are different versions of mythology from different parts of Greece. They did not all believe the same things. There were essentially different denominations that had their versions, and sometimes different names for the gods, or even their own gods added into what we think of as the typical Greek pantheon. Take Orphism for example - they called Zeus Jove and Hades Pluto (yeah, the Greeks were using that name long before the Romans), and had at least 2 gods weren’t recognized anywhere else in Greece - but were still 100% Greek. So then the question becomes, are there different people/personalities for all these versions too? You would think it would be easier to just say “here are these different versions, because when things spread through oral tradition, things tend to change, but here’s the REAL version” and pick whatever one is most plot relevant (which I think the og series already kind of did if I remember correctly). Not only is that more realistic, but just makes more narrative sense. Some people might say “oh, but they’re kids books, you don’t have to get so technical about it”, and you’re right. It didn’t have to be. Again, I think it was completely fine that the og series didn’t differentiate, but Rick opened this can of worms when he introduced the Roman gods, so I’m going to be nitpicky about it. What would have made more sense is if it was just like “Oh, there’s this other demigod camp and they just so happen to use the Roman names for the gods”. Boom. Done. What about gods that were unique to Rome? They can still be real. Say that only the Romans knew/wrote about them. Heck, there was that one pjo spinoff book that had freaking Melinoe in it, even though the majority of Greece would not have considered her existence to be canon. Again, nothing wrong with that, but if you’re not going to differentiate that, then there is no reason to differentiate the Romans (or more accurately, attempt to differentiate the Romans and fail).

All of this. Every single thing in it.

Rick simplified it for the children who were reading it, but he wrote a lot of it incorrectly.

The Romans didn't just take inspiration from the Greeks-they took a lot of inspiration from Etruscan culture too.

Read this link by @lady-menrva to understand more.

The Greek and Roman gods were different in PJO because the Roman Gods were more disciplined and warlike, but that seems to be the only difference, which isn't the case.

Minerva was highly respected by the Romans. She was part of the Capitoline Triad which was very important and held a central place in Rome. They represented Roman greatness and invincibility! If she had children, they would definitely be warriors if they wanted to be.

Rick just made the Romans dislike Neptune and Minerva because he needed unnecessary angst for Percy and Annabeth. Why he did this I don't know, since they were just accepted without any question later. Just wanted to make his favorites more special, I guess.

My advice to anyone reading this is to never take Heroes of Olympus as anything that's correct. Never take any of it seriously and search on Google for your questions using verified academic websites or ask real people.

[heartbinders]

Headcanon: what even constitutes the World Order?

"Neg," I hear you say, "MY muse knows about other worlds. It's not a secret. Besides, if other worlds aren't supposed to know about the existence of the multiverse, how do you explain Heartless and Nobodies to them? How do you explain the guy that can manifest a giant key and beat up bad guys?!"

That very well may be true, dear strawman I made up to hook people into reading this post! At least the way I see it on this blog, the rules do have a little give to them.

Worlds where knowledge of others is commonplace.

First and foremost — key wielders know about the existence of other worlds. Therefore, so do those in worlds largely comprised of wielders or where the Keyblade is baked into the culture. Mainly: Radiant Garden, Land of Departure, Daybreak Town, Scala Ad Caelum, and I guess Keyblade Graveyard.

The same can be said of worlds whose denizens largely consist of those who are from other worlds to begin with: Traverse Town, a safe haven for those whose worlds are lost, and The World That Never Was, the Organization's stronghold.

Finally, and most relevant to tumblr RP: there are worlds where knowledge of other worlds is commonplace — that is, within that world's collective boundary. I hate to keep going back to Pokémon as an example, but it's the thing most of my mutuals are familiar with, so here we go: the Pokémon universe has Ultra Space, and Ultra Wormholes, canonically portals to different worlds where Ultra Beasts live. It has "version exclusives," as indicated by the Lake/Altar of the Sunne/Moone. It has the og versus remake timelines, where mega evolution is the main differentiator. Knowledge of, at the very least, Ultra Space is all relatively commonplace among muses from this universe. Therefore, from the perspective of a key wielder, it's not unusual for someone from this larger world to have knowledge of its little sub-worlds. To the Pokémon muse, these are entirely separate worlds. To a Kingdom Hearts muse, the wider World is so much larger.

A visualization, using the Pokémon example above. ( For those who don't know, the Sea Between refers to the space in between different KH worlds. It is the space traversed by characters in the series to get from one world to the next. For other fandoms, just replace "Ultra Space" with whatever your world of choice would call the space between different timelines/continuities. )

Can anyone other than KH original characters know about other worlds?

Yes, but it's rare. A handful of the Disney characters in Kingdom Hearts know about other worlds outside their own, but these are all characters that are VASTLY powerful within their own universe. King Triton, being a powerful figure in his own world, clocked Sora and company as being outsiders immediately ( though their cover wasn't exactly helped by Sora's novice merman swimming ability ). Sufficiently powerful Disney villains are also shown to have some level of knowledge of other worlds, perhaps because of entanglement with the Heartless. Maleficent and Pete are probably the most prominent examples of this, since they regularly travel between worlds in pursuit of our heroes, but I would consider them exceptions.

For RP purposes, I would say in order to know about other worlds, your muse would have to hold significant power within their world/narrative, have magical inclinations to begin with, or be in a world wherein knowledge of others is commonplace ( as above ). An isekai protagonist would have no trouble believing in the existence of other worlds, for example. I'd also say gods and time traveling muses are prime candidates. A sufficiently observant muse could probably deduce that a KH muse isn't from their world, but it would NOT be immediately obvious, so talk to me if you're not sure.

The other way for your muse to know about other worlds without being told would be for their home world to be lost. For most, I believe that they fall with their world and are suspended in a sort of slumber until the world is restored. But for those whose hearts are strong enough, they may survive the destruction and end up scattered to other worlds. Remember how I mentioned Traverse Town is a haven for those whose home worlds are lost? If your muse has strength of heart, maybe they'll end up there. Even more strength of heart, and they may remember their little trip off-world.

But Neg, wouldn't the magic, the giant key, and the talking duck be dead giveaways?

For some, maybe! But for muses who are less likely to have this sort of knowledge in the first place, I operate under Sailor Moon/Clark Kent/Superman rules. There's always some sort of thin veil that keeps the balance in check and helps onlookers rationalize what they're seeing. The veil isn't unbreakable, but it generally does its job very well.

Like...just as an example, in my head, there's NO WAY Shang recruits Donald and Goofy into his forces without any questions whatsoever, even with Mushu. So in order to keep his brain from completely snapping in half, he probably thinks that Donald and Goofy are guardian spirits of sorts. ( It's funny to think there's a world where this is what Shang sees, though. )

I can't go into this exhaustively because for each world it would be different, and I would encourage my RP partners to give this some thought themselves! But in my head, each world has a way to rationalize the fantastical things they see the key wielders do. Worlds where magic is commonplace? Well, that's easy. Worlds where that's less true? Maybe there's a more scientific alternative. No smartphones in your muse's world? Well, the Gummiphone is simply a spyglass!

The things that seem to be a universal constant across worlds are Heartless ( and to a lesser extent, Nobodies and Unversed ). We repeatedly hear Disney characters refer to Heartless by name, and even see villains try to exploit / control them within their own worlds. Your muse doesn't have to know what a Heartless is / be able to refer to them by name; a KH character can fill you in on that. But if your muse knows nothing else, they can know one thing: these weird shadowy creatures have started appearing in their world lately, and they're bad news!

[kiruliom]

also like, can i just say how many times I've seen people complain or even tell me that Flags are TOO similar or the description of a term is too similar or whatever.

imo...

Its like cake.

You can have a chocolate cake home made yourself or from a friend, you can have a chocolate cake thats different sizes and with different things on it.

Just because its a similar recipe doesn't mean it tastes the same.

if a cake has chocolate frosting with chocolate inside and its decor is white edible pearls but someone makes the exact same thing but with sprinkles then guess what. Its still its own thing. I prefer sprinkes,other people prefer edible pearls.

I wish people didn't have what i called "blind bag/box thinking". Meaning if they get a duplicate their money is wasted. If you get a duplicate you can do so much with it? A back up in case the og goes missing, customize it, give it to someone, turn it into kandi, etc etc

this!!!

I struggled with this for a while as well but actually asking about it in a kind manner has changed my worldview so much

is desirdae from the surface the same as dissomei? sure. but theres so much complexities to it and the coiner of desirdae made it different for a reason (they didnt feel connected to how dissomei was worded, which is fair)

one of my mutuals had made a term (which I sadly dont remember the name of) describing how one's attraction was affected by alterhumanity. I had made a fairly popular term similar to it a few weeks earlier (called alteraffectis) that described a tertiary attraction that was impossible (or difficult) to describe using human relationship terminology, so it compared other stuff to it instead, made mainly with alterhumans in mind. you would assume this made me upset, it did, but then I asked the mutual about it, and she herself clarified the differences to me (which feel too obvious now) and now I was happy that my mutual and potentially other people had a word to describe themselves where mine didnt particularly fit.

Ive seen so many new terms that could be considered recoins of vesility (by kenochoric, describing when a single thing affects almost every aspect of one being, or them as a whole) but theres still something to differentiate them, and sometimes that differentiation is important for people.

I love the comparison of chocolate cake. I get everyone wants to do something original, but theres no such thing as a completely original idea, unfortunately. good thing is though most people will go "oh crap! two cakes! lets go!!" rather than "eugh why even have 2 chocolate cakes? I dont even like edible pearls so the other one is superior" yk

youre genuinely so correct for this anon. thank you. I feel like that two greek philosophers conversing image

[language-dragon]

Strap in guys, ‘cause you’re in for a ride.

In Norwegian, kost has several meanings, differentiated based on the pronunciation. The simplest one is perhaps the noun en kost (1) /kʊst/ (short, round o): a broom or a brush. Note particularly composites feiekost, hårkost and tannkost (broom, hairbrush, toothbrush).

Derivative from this, we have the verb å koste (2), meaning to swipe. Its imperative form is (you guessed it) kost /kʊst/. The picture shows a pun on the common phrase koste hva det koste vil (whatever the cost/whatever it costs), taking the double meaning swipe whatever it may.

However å koste (3) /kɔstə/ has another separate meaning, which is to cost. It is conjugated the same way as koste (2), but pronounced differently (short o sound, close to å). Technically, this verb also has an imperative, but I can see no natural way to use it.

Kost (4) /kuːst/ is also the present perfect tense of å kose (i.e. har kost), meaning to enjoy. Kose can be both reflexive and not. Compare Hun har kost seg med boka (she enjoyed herself reading the book) and Hun har kost med katten (she petted/cuddled the cat).

Finally, there is a second noun kost (5) /kɔst/ (m; uncountable, def. sg. kosten). This is a rather uncommon word, used mainly in the idiom kost og losji, roughly meaning “food and bed” (board and lodging). Kost can technically also mean the cost of something, but it’s more common to use kostnad here.

So, the possible meanings of kost are:

Kost (/kʊst/) - brush, broom 

Kost (/kʊst/) - brush (imperative)

Kost (/kɔst/) - cost (imperative)

Kost (/kuːst/) - enjoyed (present perfect)

Kost (/kɔst/) - food, cost

Håper dere har kost dere med denne posten og at den ikke var for hard kost! Hope you all enjoyed this post and that it wasn’t too incomprehensible!