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[loominggaia]

LOOMING GAIA MUSINGS: SOVEREIGN + ZAREENITE POLLUTION

The Zareenites liberated their red elf slaves around the year 4300. The slaves were replaced with robots, which dramatically increased the empire's energy usage and pollution output.

600 years later, Sovereign and Mr. Ocean were born off the eastern coast of Noalen. By then, Zareen's pollution was really getting out of control and starting to affect foreign waters.

200 years after that, Sovereign was an accomplished curative mage. He healed sick Aquarians for free, simply to better his community. But the number of patients was increasing every year, they were coming from lands further away, and their ailments were getting stranger and more severe. Based on their similar symptoms, Sovereign began to suspect that these Aquarians were being poisoned by something.

Sovereign traced the cases on a map and noticed they followed specific ocean currents. These currents all passed by Zareen's shores, which by that time were notoriously dirty with pollution. Could the currents really carry this pollution so far from its source? According to all these Aquarians with strange cancers and chemical poisonings, apparently so.

Anyway, the Red Elf Liberation Movement was the major catalyst to the Aquarian Alliance's uprising. These events are directly connected, even though they happened centuries apart. The RELM actually gave birth to two Great Kingdoms: The Empire of Damijana and the Aquarian Alliance, which today are ironically at war with eachother over the pollution...Pollution that stemmed from the RELM in the first place, because Zareenite corporations would rather pollute Gaia with millions of fuel-guzzling robots than even think about paying real flesh-and-blood workers.

I just thought it was too interesting not to mention!

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[loominggaia]

Good question! This is one of those "no one really knows for sure" things, but historians at the World Athenaeum have found enough evidence to suspect the following:

-Each race (for example, Ela elves or Grenil ogres) was split up into multiple tribes, and these tribes magically manifested into their respective regions. How many people were in each tribe isn't known and probably differs wildly; could be a dozen people strong or even a few hundred strong in some cases.

-The exact ages of these first peoples isn't known, but evidence suggests the groups were diverse and ranged from infants to young adults.

-They probably spawned naked and without tools or resources. They seemed to have some basic instincts. However, ancient nymphs have claimed that they helped these first people survive by giving them food, warmth, education etc. until they reached a state of independence. This was the nymphs' first great task assigned by Gaia.

The next great task was to protect Gaia from these peoples they just nurtured...

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Lore Masterpost

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@loominggaia, I have a question I must have answered (please)

Mostly:

HOW WERE THEM PEOPLES DROPPED

What I mean is:

How were all of the species we know and love today put onto Gaia?

On Earth, as everyone except Fundamentalist Christian Evangelical Young Earth Creationists Americans Who Vote Trump knows, humans evolved over a long time and got our basic survival skills from our ancestors.

On Gaia, meanwhile, Gaia just made them and them dropped them.

My questions are:

Were these people clothed in furs, fig leaves, or whatever when they were plopped down, or just fucking naked as shit?

Were they given instincts to not die from whatever until they made stuff themselves and to not eat fucking poison?

Or was Gaia just replacing everyone until the populations learned to NOT die from a banana on the ground?

Also, were they adults or babies tended to and given basic survival skills from the nymphs?

Knowing how nymphs spawn I see they had no issues, but what about the other peoples?

[pollywiltse]

Not that I think women in the 18th century had freakishly long hair the way some of the Victorians did, but "shoulder-length hair" seems a little short for Peggy Shippen. (Also this book is dismally written, but I realize it's my own fault for buying self-published e-books. Let me tell you about The King's Fuzilier sometime. It has to take some kind of talent to write every single character with so little personality. Also for some inexplicable reason that author decided John André was from Liverpool.)

Also I realize calling the Mischianza dresses "of the Polonaise kind" or "of the Polonaise sort" is pretty much a direct quote from either the thing André wrote for Peggy Chew or the thing that got published in London that was written by someone who everyone fairly reasonably assumes was André but I don't think it's actually confirmed (I forget which), but that is exactly why I wish people would stop doing it.

And my brief attempt to consult Professor Google about this is getting me a post from r/AskHistory with some spectacular hot takes, including one guy who is convinced that men aren't physically capable of growing their hair as long as women. (In the freakishly long hair online communities, the general consensus was that pretty much everyone can grow their hair down to about hip-length if they take care of it properly. Longer depends on genetics.)

And now I'm trying to remember enough context to try to dig up the source for a quote from someone saying that André wore his hair longer than average (and that he was incredibly good-looking but no one is surprised about that). I'm pretty sure it was someone who knew him when he was staying on Long Island in 1779 or 1780, so probably it's about a paragraph in one of the many books that got published in the 19th or early 20th centuries that are basically compilations of local historical gossip. Good luck me with finding it. I think it will require being smiled upon by the gods of internet searches.

[jamesjbkim]

Modern historians generally view Josephus as a valuable but imperfect historical source. Here's how they evaluate his reliability compared to other ancient historians:

Strengths:

1. Unique perspective: As a Jewish historian writing for a Roman audience, Josephus provides rare insights into first-century Judaism and early Christianity.

2. Eyewitness accounts: For events like the Jewish War, Josephus offers firsthand observations.

3. Preservation of sources: He incorporates information from now-lost sources, especially for the Second Temple period.

Limitations:

1. Bias: Like many ancient historians, Josephus had clear political and personal motives that colored his writing.

2. Inconsistencies: There are contradictions between his works and sometimes within the same work.

3. Exaggeration: He tends to embellish facts, particularly when describing himself.

4. Methodology: His historical methods are less rigorous by modern standards.

Compared to other ancient historians:

1. Josephus is generally considered more reliable than some, like Geoffrey of Monmouth, who created more fictional accounts.

2. He's viewed as comparable to other Hellenistic historians in terms of methodology and biases.

3. Archaeologists have often found Josephus's descriptions of places and structures to be fairly accurate.

Overall, historians approach Josephus critically, recognizing his value while being aware of his limitations. They use his works in conjunction with other sources and archaeological evidence to reconstruct ancient history.

Sources

[1] Is Josephus a reliable historian? : r/AskHistory - Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistory/comments/10hwtz2/is_josephus_a_reliable_historian/

[2] How Reliable Is Josephus? - The BAS Library https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/sidebar/how-reliable-is-josephus/

[3] [PDF] Life and Reliability of Josephus: An Introduction https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/448697

[4] Josephus the Ancient Historian Gets a Little Touchy https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/josephus-the-ancient-historian-gets-a-little-touchy

[5] The Reliability of Josephus: Can He Be Trusted? - jstor https://www.jstor.org/stable/43044141

[ax3olotl]

what i was trying to complain about was this phenomenon i find annoying which is "highly specialized expert attempts to answer general question but gets too academic, talks themselves in circles, and never actually answers the meat of the question". it actually pops up in a lot in the social sciences too when looking at pop academia.

(my annoyance specifically comes from browsing r/askhistory, and seeing well researched and sourced answers which stumble right past the original question to get into whatever minutia the academic in question was obsessed with at the time).

its not malicious at all, nor is it a failure of accuracy, but it does show that science communication can be a skill on its own. the internet has given a lot of very smart people the ability to talk to a large audience and some of them are really shitty at explaining themselves.

is it just me or has so much of science media become "taking this commonly held belief and painstakingly explaining tiny missacuracys that literally bother no one"

like im all for fighting misinformation but sometimes the "misinformation" is literally just that the scientific definition of a term means something different than the commonly used meaning! fucking obviously!! if someone tells me tomatoes are actually a fruit one more time im gonna go postal

[juliorichter]

I do have a general idea from Reddit’s r/AskHistory booklist, that including Pierre Souyri’s “The World Turned Upside Down: Medieval Japanese Society” for my introduction to Japanese history, and Bernard Bailyn’s “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, but frankly there wasn’t a great many titles in their American Revolution section that caught my fancy

[lungfuls]

Imagine working really hard on a good, informative comment on r/askhistory and it gets removed bc it's not "in-depth" enough 😭 I haven't necessarily seen this happen but I'm sure it does. Their standard is so high

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[loominggaia]

Idea de cultura marienna: los marienna desarrollaron la práctica del uso de cremas naturales para protegerse del sol y de la sequedad del desierto

(Translated with Google Translator)

Idea of ��​Marienna culture: the Marienna developed the practice of using natural creams to protect themselves from the sun and the dryness of the desert.

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Ah good point, I forgot to address this in my last answer! The ancient Marienna's territory spanned across the Serkel Desert, which is an extremely hot and arid region. Skin protection is important for everyone to prevent dryness, sunburns, and cancer.

The Marienna used olive oil or coconut oil to protect their skin, depending on what was available in their tribe's region. These oils are still used by their descendants in that region today, but they are not the only solution for sun protection.

The Marienna traditionally wore large hats and cloaks made from woven palm fibers to shade themselves. These loose weaves allowed air to pass through, so heat would not become trapped in their clothes. They also drew thick black lines around their eyes using charcoal, which protected them from the bright light.

Over time, the Marienna began wearing more sophisticated clothing items invented by the Odazi humans, which were usually made from linen. Local Marienna often traded food for processed textiles in these early times, because humans had mastered technologies that other peoples had not, like processing flax into linen.

The Marienna elves came to enjoy the humans' inventions and eventually adopted these technologies for themselves, but by that time, these cultures were assimilating quite a bit anyway. The Odazi humans, Vankza goblins, and Marienna elves were commonly seen living peacefully together by the 2nd Age. They shared their ways of life, and together they had mastered the art of surviving in their extreme climate.

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[solitaryfossil]

Some good history books here.

[mr---cringe]

Taking part in Hstory Ask in VK (take a look, it's really cool place, where you can ask your favorite historic figure any question, and we, artists will answer https://vk.com/askhistory ) makes me go away from my zone of comfort and draw animals

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[nadirelsabio]

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https://librotea.com/explorar

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https://epublibre.org/

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/

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http://bartleby.com/

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http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/

http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/

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http://bookzz.org/

http://www.rinconcastellano.com/

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http://www.gutenberg.org/

http://www.hislibris.com/

http://www.abretelibro.com/foro/ind…

http://sedice.com/portada/

https://electricliterature.com/

https://lamilanabonita.com/

http://librosdeolethros.blogspot.com.es/…

http://www.poesi.as/poesia.htm

http://www.lecturalia.com/

http://www.ciencia-ficcion.com/bien…

http://www.librosyliteratura.es/

http://www.theparisreview.org/inter…

http://guialiteraria.blogspot.com.es/…

http://carlosmanzano.net/narrativas…

http://lecturasindispensables.blogspot.com.es/…

http://comoescribiruncuento.blogspot.com.es/…

http://comoescribirtunovela.blogspot.com.es/…

http://revistadeletras.net/

http://www.forodeliteratura.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori…

http://www.elaleph.com/

http://www.letraslibres.com/

https://www.entrelectores.com/

http://letralia.com/

[askhistory-blog]

Dear AskHistory, I know of a disturbing individual named Paul. I cannot fathom his existence even. He does not bathe and has died his hair several dull colors. His demeanor is atrocious. Manners are unknown to him and at times his rudeness seems superhuman. What advice does history offer on dealing with a man such as this?

Dear Anon, 

    History has sadly seen many men like Paul. I’m sorry that you have come across one of time’s trolls. Luckily for you, history has answers! Emperor Hadrian dealt with a similar problem with the Picts. The Romans also found their customs to be unruly and unfathomable! Hadrian dealt with the problem by building a great wall and naming it after himself. Consider constructing a wall between yourself and this Paul. It may require expensive building materials. Local law enforcement may halt your progress as well, but it will be worth to protect yourself from the menace of Paul!

 Sincerely, AskHistory

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