#fantasy enhancing

[trevlad]

For the birds 018

13.09.2024

For the Birds. Your weekly dose of avian related adventures.

Intro 00:00 Julia Gjertsen & Nico Rosenberg–Anillos (Varispeed) 01:35 marine eyes + IKSRE–Full Moon in Marengo 08:18 Dylan Henner–We Lay Down in a Field of Orange Flowers and We Listened to the Birds 12:02 Lionmilk–the gift of sunshine 30:46 SYMBOL���Shapeless Burst 31:59 MO~DU–CERULEAN VINES 35:45 Mode 7 Project–Quiet Reassurance 40:00 Lee Hannah–River Island 45:58 MLO–Birds & Flutes 50:16 Olan Mill–Grounding 55:11 sleepercub–An Introduction 57:37 Florigenix–Jungle Rusted Plasma Temple 59:19 Ellarald–Riversong 1:02:05 David Cordero–Milford sound 1:08:38 Outro 1:10:47

[trevlad-sounds]

Sleep Space 4

02.09.2024

Autumn Of Communion-Beneath Jupiters Clouds 00:00 CERMINARA-GROUND CLOUDS & NAP TRAP 13:40 TheAdelaidean-Under the Bright Cuernavaca Sky — with Sam Rosenthal 18:07 Andrea Castiglioni-After New York 26:50 Floating World Pictures with Ocean Moon-Soft Dusk Rising 28:20 salvatore mercatante-invincible sun 37:22 Polar Moon-Ode to the Lady in the Water (A Fond Farewell) 44:06 Panama Fleets-Monsoon Sun 47:45 Lunaria-Amber 49:00 THE GAYE DEVICE-All My Stars 54:12 David Cordero, Rhucle-On 1:00:00 David Cordero-Melodies of water 1:04:43 Christopher Hanlon-Shelter 1:09:10 Joachim Stiller-Radiophonic Sound Bath #2.2: And To Let The Weather Decide Whether To Wear A Sweater 1:11:53 arovane-Dere 1:21:14 Glåsbird-Snodrommer 1:24:00 The Green Kingdom-Silent Stars Above 1:27:32

[jitterbugbear]

Lesson no. 274859: NEVER EVER STEAL FROM A WITCH. YOU ABSOLUTE BUFFOON 💥

[haunted-xander]

Shadowbringers is about learning how to live.

Your enemy is stasis- everything and everyone is stagnant, they wait and wait for something to happen, but don't do anything to make it so (because the ones who tried before failed, because they don't know what to do/how to do it). People don't change, they don't try, not really. The crystarium is doing well, it's independent and sustainable, but it doesn't have the reach or power to do much outside of Lakeland. The Exarch is more-or-less confined to the city (because of the tower, because he's waiting for you), so even if he had power elsewhere, he'd be limited with how much he, personally, can do.

Eulemore is filled with mindless indulgence, there's no hardships or labour or anything but luxury for the free citizens, and the bonded only have to worry about fulfilling the task(s) they were brought for. The outside world doesn't matter, hard work doesn't matter, personal fulfillment beyond indulgence doesn't matter, everything exist solely in the moment. The people out in Kholusia have pretty much given up, they stay close to the city in the hopes that this time they will be picked, this time they will be saved. They wait and wait and do nothing but wait. The ones who try to live on are dying out or eventually give up and join the rest in waiting.

Ahm Areang, Rak'tika, even Il Mheg are all just waiting for something, anything to happen. They go day to day, surviving simply because it's all they can. Nothing changes.

Until, of course, you should up. You, who causes a ripple of change simply by existing, who can move the immovable by sheer will. You showed them that things can change, that things can, and will happen, if they just try. You show them that they can make things better, that there is an option besides waiting for a slow death, if they'd just grab fate by the neck and tell it "No. We are doing this my way".

And they do. They rally up together and do what they thought impossible. Not all their efforts succeed(not immediately), but they tried. They tried, they failed, and they got up and tried again and again until it did work. They take the chances, not knowing how it'll turn out (because it's not about whether it fails or succeeds, it's about having tried).

They learn how to try, little by little, and every step they learn what it means to really live.

Endwalker is about learning how to love life.

Your enemy is nihilism- the idea that nothing matters, that there is no real joy to be found that isn't snuffed out by misery. A concept that denounces greys in favor of a black-and-white view where black is all encompassing. Everywhere you go, people are doing what they can to survive, but refuses (or maybe are afraid to, or maybe never knew they could) try to actually save themselves. The Forum plans for escape, to leave their homeworld behind and take whatever they can afford. They will live on, but they won't be saved, no one is saved(and even with escape they aren't safe, Despair is everywhere and She will not stop until all has become Nothing).

The Loporrits love Etheirys, but in the way Winter loves Spring. They know about it, they are so close to it, but they are distant. They're strangers, they've never met. It's love, and it's pure and true, but it's also just love. It's surface-level(because the surface is all they had). Their love is pure but it's instinctual. Programmed. They love because they don't know how to not love. They want to save it's people, save us, but they don't know what it really means to save, so they create refuge instead(because that's what She told them to, because this is how love works for them).

The people of Garlemald are terrified, they are victims of extreme indoctrination, the (deserved) push-back their army got proved them "right"(that we are savage beasts to fear, that they are but prey in the maws of rabid dogs). They want to be build-up again, but what's left for them now? The world hates them(and it's all their fault, the ones who see past the propaganda know this, but who will listen to them?) and they are dying. It's so cold and the fuel is running out. They won't accept help, because they've been filled with the idea that there is no such thing as pure kindness from "savages"(and they are too prideful to question it, to break apart from the illusion that they are surperior, because they're terrified to face the truth).

The sky screams, the earth wheeps and the foundation of existence is overtaken by Despair, misery is around every corner and who knows what will happen now? Where do we go? What do we do? We live and live but for what?

What's the point of it all?

That's the question, and the answer is everything. We live because there is joy to be found. Because there is beauty in the world. Because there are stars in the sky. Because flowers bloom in spring. Because cats purr. Because waves crash against the shore. Because of every single little thing we can see, hear or feel. Because we love and are loved. Because there are things to do and discover. Because why not?

And you tell them this, by letting them see that there is more to life than the little they have seen. The Forum has closed it's eyes to anything but it's own kith and kin, everything outside of Old Sharlayan is irrelevant(non-intervention, always non-intervention) and it takes the entire world coming and telling them "We are here. We are alive, and we will make tomorrow happen." for them to realize they have slowly been killing themselves and what they stand for(you pride yourself on knowledge, but where is your wisdom? What do you truly know of things outside your own bubble? You do not know that which is lived because you refuse to aknowledge anything but the written word).

The Loporrits see Etheirys itself, they experience it's corners and valleys and learn what love can really be. They want to save it, truly save it, because they love and this time it's informed, it's personal(I love you, I love you, and I want you to know I love your loves too).

In Garlemald everything is slow, unsteady and complicated, but it's changing. They're changing. With every person who accepts help the illusion of supremacy and "purity" melts away just a bit, and the wall standing between them and us breaks a little(it will never vanish completely, years upon years of oppression and subjugation and conquest don't disappear like that, but it's a start).

Shadobringers is about learning how to live, but Endwalker is about learning how to love life.

[daisywords]

So annoying when people try to hold alternate-world fantasy to "historical accuracy" standards like. if I wanted historical accuracy I simply would have read/written historical fiction.

The only thing that should matter is if the alt world feels internally consistent/believable. Not "oh but back then" THERE IS NO BACK THEN. IT'S NOT REAL

and just because some aspects of the world (fashion, systems of government, levels of technology) feel consistent with a particular time period in our history doesn't mean that the author is obligated to stick to all other characteristics of that time period. The POINT of alt-world fantasy is to create a world in which the story they want to tell can work, and that's the metric I'm holding things to

[audible301]

I might be on a weird lil conspiracy but are Mary Ann’s tamagachis and squishmallows magic items?

This is based solely off of Brennan making a point to say Mary Ann checks on her Quokki Pet after initiative has started.

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

UNTITLED

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[blogfanreborn777]

Upgraded by juliedillon

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Ozzy Osbourne - I Just Want You

[trevlad]

Mixtape 330 “Initialize Tidal Memory”

2023-06-28

Electronica

Apologies for any artists I missed. I lost my show notes after I recorded the session.

Wednesdays, Fridays & Sundays. Support the artists and labels. Don't forget to tip so future shows can bloom.

Francesca Guccione-Utopia II-00:00

log(m) & Laraaji-Be As You Will Be-04:24

Paul Cousins-Relative Memory-07:40

Johnny Woods-Maze Of Time-10:44

Correlations-A STRANGE REOCURRENCE-17:24

Everyday Dust-Detached-22:32

Gribbles-Beautiful Cool-30:05

World Circuit-Tidal-33:50

Warm Binary-Initialize-38:58

Wings Of An Angel-Discover My Kafkaesque Ironic Cataclysms-39:50

Suryummy-Lenticular Glide-42:18

Benn Jordan-Planet Nine-46:50

Pollsign-Pre-Form-49:09

Plankton Wat-Evening Sky-57:40

Kosmischer Läufer-Unterwasser-1:01:50

[trevlad-sounds]

Invisible Waves 31.

04.08.2024

🎧 https://trevor.se/2024/08/03/invisible-waves-031/

Intro 00:00 The Green Kingdom–Endless 00:14 Absent Without Leave (George Mastrokostas) Chapter 1 04:02 DJ SpaceTerrapin Dark Train Moonbuilding Weekly Ogle–Room World 09:24 Bucla Music Easel Scanner, Neil Leonard–Muster Assemblage 11:41 Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute Chapter 2 15:00 Sven Wunder, Drumetrics–Free Time 18:46 Mike Dickinson–Red Ruth 22:33 The Pennymans of Ormesby Hall Chapter 3 27:40 Ishqmatics–Starfish (acid mix) 30:14 Nala Sinephro, Lyle Barton–Ada 42:26 Chapter 4 43:43 Jo Johnson-Unfolding and folding 47:47

[alackofghosts]

lost & found

[absolxguardian]

I started the college visit episode, and I know that even though he broadly follows Planescape/spelljammer cosmology, he does make changes to the outer planes (like Gorthalax/Fig being archdevils when they're dukes/duchesses at best. Although I think Emily could have done cool riffs with Fig becoming a "Princess of Hell"). But until I get further in the episode all I can think of for Astral Plane State is that it's founded and funded by the Githyanki Empire. Because that's the closest thing the Astral plane has to a state. And that Vlaakith wants to help istik become inter-planar adventurers for....reasons? Idk, maybe she got bored only eating the souls of powerful Githyanki.

[aigeneratedfun]

We all have a dark side, and I love expressing mine through creating visuals of things I know aren’t real. Here’s a dark, yet intriguing piece I made using the ChatGPT app. I think it’s fun, and I hope it captivates you in some way. Let me know what you think! 🖤✨

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

Like all I want is someone to love and adore, but with the smallest inkling that they actually care about me as a person too and won't drop me the first time I'm an inconvenience. If I had that we'd fuck nasty every which way all the damn time and I'd send them cute nudes to fluster them when I was feeling flirty. It shouldn't be so damned hard to find that 😔

[reallyexists]

Too many fantasy societies based upon Homo Sapiens. What about the other great apes, huh?

Chimpanzee: Hedonistic id-driven community. Constant power struggles within & without keep leadership structure churning in a way that could be considered stable if you don't think too hard about it. All neighboring clans simultaneously at war & hooking up with each other, relatively chill with outsiders (but watch out!).

Gorilla: Roving polygamous family unit, with moderate rates of exchange between groups. Highly ritualized conflict resolution procedures generally prevent fatal in-group violence, but individuals expelled from the group commonly succumb to the elements or are killed by beasts. Notoriously proud & squadded up, do not smile at them!

Orangutan: Loosely-connected web of hermits. Complex individual relationships make for interesting chance encounters. Conflicts occur over land rights, the winner sometimes undergoing a strange metamorphosis that deepens their territorial and isolationist tendencies. Obviously wizards.