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[birbs-in-space]

<- guy who just went on desktop and is not having a good time

[roukabi]

the gang's all here

[min-play]

got the chance to try some FX and gattai

Full sponsored vid here

[cultoftheswag]

Narinder would absolutely be feminine but also masculine at the same time. Both and neither all at the same time. You expect the god of breaking convention and tradition to adhere to gender roles? That horrid old man would be GNC af.

[technofinch]

do you remember how we used to run...

[serpentface]

WARDI KINSHIP STRUCTURE: AN OVERVIEW

Important notes for the diagrams below:

please click full view for marginally better legibility.

graphic design is my passion.

KINSHIP

Sample family tree illustrating degrees of kinship down the male and female lines.

Wardi kinship is patrilineal and defined around the male line primarily. The word for 'Family' here exclusively refers to some (but not all) members of your father's side of the family, while 'kin' refers to the broader scope of your relatives. Effectively, anyone who shares your surname is your family.

It's important to note that you aren't family Just Because you share a name, rather that the family name is the way this kinship system manifests and is reinforced.

A phrase equivalent to 'in-law' is used for kin who are from or are married into a different family. Your married biological sister is a 'sister in law' because she belongs to another man's family, she no longer shares your name. Conversely, people who are not biologically related to you but married into your family are referred to as 'kin by blood' (of covenant). Your brother's wife is your 'sister by blood'. Every single member of your mother's side of the family is referred to as an 'in-law'.

An additional dimension of kinship is 'blood of womb'. Colloquially, this refers to any direct biological relatives, but in terms of the family structure it acknowledges a person's special status in relation to you after they have been married out of the family. You might be married into another man's family and no longer share a family name with your siblings, but they still share blood of the womb with you, and you still maintain mutual obligations. This status is retained for one generation after the last shared paternal relative (ie your married paternal aunt is blood of the womb to you, but her children are not), and is applied to all of your grandparents.

Kinship gets more complicated if you're one of the vast majority of women who get married. In receiving your husband's name, you are joined into your husband's family and integrated into its structure. You are considered kin by blood of covenant to his family (those who share his name) and effectively lose kinship ties to most of your own (aside from parents, grandparents, and biological siblings, who are still considered your blood while no longer your Family by name). This does not mean bonds with your former family cease to exist on social levels, but those who are not your kin by blood cease to have familial obligations to you (and vice versa), and there is also a good chance you will no longer be living in proximity to any of them.

Each family is divided into houses (which may or may not entail Literal households). These consist of each man and all of his dependents [his wife, all subadult children, unmarried adult sons living on his property, unmarried adult daughters, sometimes unmarried sisters or aunts]. Each house patriarch has legal jurisdiction of his own house and its members, and is considered the owner of the house's land, property, and assets. A house patriarch makes and has the final say on marriage arrangements of female dependents (and also effectively those of his sons) whether they're adults or not. He has absolute authority over all subadult children- he can unilaterally send them to a school or priesthood or sell them into servant positions, and they will not gain legal autonomy to leave until adulthood (and even then, will still be under his household if not male).

Each house in a family exists in a hierarchy based upon the age of the house patriarchs, with the eldest man to a name being considered the family patriarch. This has legal dimensions when multiple houses are living in the same Literal home, as the family patriarch is the legal owner of their property and assets. He does not have legal authority over the men beneath him and their dependents, but has tremendous social power within any given family and is generally expected to be deferred to by its members.

MARRIAGE BETWEEN RELATIVES/INCEST TABOO

[obvious content warnings apply below, there's non-descriptive mentions of sexual abuse]

This diagram illustrates what relations are generally considered incest and given taboo status (red through yellow), and which relations are legally marriageable and have lesser or no associated taboo (green through purple).

The definition of what is and isn't incest is somewhat complicated, and also has different dimensions of taboo and legality.

Incest as a form of sex crime applies only to sexual acts between immediate relatives (parent-child or between siblings), though cases between more distant relatives can usually be charged as rape or adultery (given in most cases it will be the former and often technically the latter). Incest is considered among the absolute most severe interpersonal crimes and can be punishable by death. This is sometimes applied to Both parties when the abused party's victimhood is not 'proven' or imagined to be possible (particularly for male victims). Female victims may be spared capital punishment, but still often suffer disownment from their families and social ostracization.

By law, marriages cannot be performed between any relatives who share a family name, though exceptions are known to occur and are not legally punishable in of themselves (though can be annulled if discovered).

So generally speaking, people will not marry anyone in their family, though sharing a family name does not necessarily mean incest Taboos are applied to the theoretical relationship. The lines for incest taboo roughly stops at the distance of the first cousin- first cousins on your mother's side are outright considered marriageable. It's a little more complicated for first cousins on your father's side- many will share your name and thus would be a marriage into your own family, and those who don't are still cognitively understood as Too Close in a way maternal cousins are not (many people only have close relationships with/live in proximity to their father's side of the family).

Marriages in these gray areas are legal and not subject to strong incest taboo, but are overall socially frowned on. First cousin marriages in general (regardless of side of the family) tend to be negatively associated with the peasantry (with Some accuracy in that people living in small villages don't always have a lot of options) and considered a distinctly low class trait.

Incest taboo is not applied to relations with people who have married into your family (though sex in these contexts will be adultery by nature); even though they have been integrated into your family structure, kinship by blood of covenant is not considered a threshold for relationships to be incestuous in any sense of the word. It's very common for people married into a family to remarry another member if they are widowed or divorced.

In all, marriages are almost always between different Families, though marriages between relatives at the distance of second cousin or further are not outright uncommon.

[sukugo]

question!! if tumblr does go down, where are you guys going to? or at least where are u most active outside tumblr?

[synthaphone]

Finished the Royal Centibytes, in both pre- and post-conversion flavors!

I thought court jesters would be a fun change of pace from king/queen or prince/princess- there's a precedent for royals to occasionally be things like heralds and war(?)horses, and I wanted to make a royalgirl who isn't a princess, noblewoman, or queen. I got to learn a little about some historical female court jesters while looking for references, which was cool!

I agonized for a while over whether I should put eyelashes on the one that I arbitrarily assigned 'Royalgirl', but ended up deciding that they look cute.

[mariocki]

RIP Rachel Herbert (5.1.1935 - 7.3.2025)

"[On speaking a fictional language in The Prisoner:] It gives you - not to have words, which people know the meaning of - it actually gives you an added power because you're putting all your meaning through something which they don't know [...] What they receive is the impetus of what you're doing, so what you're putting over is what you feel, what you mean, it doesn't matter about the word-meaning, that's not there anymore. It's quite fun. In a way."

[somerunner]

[Video description: In Playstation 1 graphics, an old man walks onto a snowboard course with his walker. He clips the snowboard through his walker, holding it for a second, and blasts off into the sky. Electronic music plays throughout; the beat drops when he flies away.

/End description]

I beg my followers to check out Battle Tapes' music video for their song "Brand New" - since I figure most people don't click on Youtube links, I took the liberty of using some tools to clip just the beat drop.

The rest of the video is just as good as this.

Here's the link; it's inline instead of embedded because it's 3am and I'm paranoid that people on Tumblr go "ew an embedded Youtube link": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp6an4eVzP8

[oxymoronicdumbass]

if i have to sit through one more conversation in which i have to listen to someone chirp about the benefits of AI, i am going to stab someone

[seaofreverie]

GOT TICKETS FOR SPARKS IN LONDON AND BERLIN!!!!!!!!!

[johnbierce]

Magic school book sale

Into the Labyrinth, the first novel in my YA magic school series, Mage Errant, is a Kindle Daily Deal today! (November 15th.) Books 2&3 will be on sale as well for the next couple of days. Mage Errant follows the adventures of Hugh of Emblin, a young student mage whose magic doesn't want to work right- though his anxiety works just fine. Mage Errant features found family, a convoluted science-inspired magic system, a non-neurotypical protagonist, a queernormative setting, Machiavellian politics, lots of explosions, and more kaiju than you can shake a stick at. (Though, uh... I highly recommend against shaking sticks at kaiju in general.)

Mage Errant is heavily inspired by Diane Duane, Dianna Wynne Jones, Will Wight's Cradle, Andrew Rowe's Arcane Ascension, and a bunch of cheesy shonen anime. It's part of the new(ish) genre of progression fantasy, which is much more heavily focused on training and growing in power than average in fantasy. (I like to call the genre "books for people who like movie training montages way too much.")

The whole series is complete now, sans a short story anthology coming out in February. It's also getting a webtoon comic adaptation, which is super exciting! Oh, and whenever I got a bad review for having queer characters (of which I got MANY), I hit a mental button reading "make it gayer."

[kjzx]

I followed this person and I like them and stuff but they're throwing off my BS balance on twitter and now my timeline is a bunch of ai slop discourse... I don't wanna unfollow them so I'll just be abstinent from there for a while

[blaze-art]

Me: Oh boy! I can't wait to roleplay on this blog I have spent so much time setting up! All the thought and care that went into-

Tumblr: Bitch you thought! Get deleted motherfucker!

Me: WHAT?! Why?

Tumblr: Spam :)

Me: What about it said to you it was spam?! Ok ok, fine, I've sent a repeal, now give me my blog back.

Tumblr: ...

Me: Tumblr it's been two days where the fuck is my blog?

[milfbrainrot]

"cringe culture is dead!" say the tumblr users reblogging 90k note posts making fun of common fanfic flaws (aka Things They Personally Dislike) including screenshots of lines from those fanfics for everyone to point and laugh at