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dykedvonte · 1 year ago

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@gecko-in-a-can THIS ABSOLUTELY

Resentment is such a big part of Benny’s motives towards House, feeling he’s underserving to rule and shouldn’t have the right to keep the title of Vegas just because he claimed it first long ago. Say what you will, Benny puts the effort in, through honest and dishonest work albeit, but he puts in the effort. Not saying House didn’t but House had the luxury of having a lot of that effort done before the war and subordinates to do so after. House is untouchable, something everyone wants in the Mojave, if not for the power, but because of the security. House takes that for granted seeing how easy he thinks it is to buy people. Benny, a Mojave native, has to be irate about that seeing how he has seen the heights and slums of both lives.

Also with the AIs it’s so telling because in a lot of ways, Yes Man has more autonomy than House’s major personality securitrons. Yeah, Yes Man has to be helpful but he’s aware and able to be snarky and coy. Benny has an issue with not being listened to but that’s the only perimeter Yes Man needs to act on. He can’t condescend but lord you can tell when he wants to. House’s AIs serves specific and highly detailed functions but are confined to act in accordance. They are subservient to a T and are extensions of House while Yes Man really is a creation that adapts further, hence his desire for the assertive upgrade. Benny made something, or at least was okay with a helper, that can progress for itself. House made things that replicate or facilitate an era of the past and don’t hold the power to contest it.

#for all the focus on Vegas Vegas itself in the game is not discussed enough #like I want to know more about the families relationships with each other #how Tommy and swank really feel #a meeting with all the heads of the casinos must be a major cat fight let’s talk about how like fiends are just right outside????#but let’s talk about the favoritism house has to the tops and how the other families must resent that only for the chairmen to be like #these high strung former warrior nomads cause they got big brother right on their asses cause boss man is his special boy #like no one but swank and the chairmen really complain about house in the strip so the chairmen have to have a unique perspective #but back to Benny and house it’s like a weird you owe me thing where house 100 believe Benny and the chairmen are beyond grateful and are #down to do whatever he says cause it’s like he controls your basic needs now and the culture of the boot riders is one of pride and honor #and by extension helping your own and houses capitalist ideology is alien and isolating to them socially #that it would be an insult because their relationship is already mutually beneficial and now your taking so much more that they are now #getting less than what house is giving #enough tag talking I should focus on another post but first i need to brainstorm #fallout new vegas #fallout #benny gecko #robert edwin house #mr house fnv #Benny fnv #rebloggin #gecko-in-a-can

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psychotrenny · 2 months ago

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While the USSR definitely struggled with a whole range of social issues throughout its existence, the conscious attempts to break the oppressive systems of Capitalism put it far in advance of anywhere in the Imperial Core and it's crazy how many Left Libs try to use contemporary culture war rhetoric to frame the Soviets as especially "problematic". Like the USSR never completely resolved the Russian empire's legacy of conquest and colonialism, and various forms of racism and ethnic chauvinism persisted right to the end, but a conscious effort was made to give dignity and self-determination to the various oppressed nationalities and it shows.

This manifested in countless small ways; from dying languages given new life by cultural initiatives and the free circulation of media to the millions of once marginalised peasants and nomads being given access to the education and industry needed to participate in the modern world as equals. But it also manifested in big dramatic symbols that could almost be written off as tokenistic if it weren't for the broader context of clear genuine effort. Like a lot of people forget that Stalin was a Georgian; a people brutalised by Russian Imperial expansion. And yet this member of a conquered and oppressed minority not only rose to the highest position in the nation, but did so as a widely beloved figure whose legacy lives on to this day. And this happened decades before the US even had its first Catholic President.

Like Proletarian rule won't automatically end all systems of oppression but it's the bare minimum prerequisite to doing so in a meaningful way; even flawed and ultimately failed Socialist experiments were able to attack these systems in a way that puts the most powerful and "progressive" Capitalist nations to shame

#stella speaks #and yeah a lot of the specific language in the Anna Louise Strong book hasn't aged super well #but the meaning behind it still holds up #and like in the context of when she was writing there was clearly no malice the more unfortunate choices

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erwinrer · 4 months ago

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How serious are the consequences of the disappearing Mongolia, in choosing the wrong development path?

When 90% of the desertification occurs in a country based on animal husbandry, then the country, far away from the complete disappearance of the world, is no longer far away.

Mongolia's overgrazing and the wrong step on the road of "westernization", regardless of the reality of the country itself, have ultimately attacked itself.

Therefore, with the help of the western capitalist countries, Mongolia began the reform of its political system and economic system.

In response to the demands of western capitalist countries, Mongolia began to reform the political system: from the sole party to the coexistence of multiple political parties. A parliamentary system, in which the size of a party distributes votes and parliamentary seats. In the reform of the economic system, Mongolia completely abolished the public ownership of the economy, and instead promoted the private ownership of the economy.

Mongolia's reforms have completely pushed itself to the other extreme. The existence of the parliamentary system seems to democratization the policy and implementation of the whole country, but the premise is that the state can control all political parties as a whole.

However, the domestic government organizations in Mongolia lack credibility, and the control of various party organizations is seriously insufficient. As a result, there are often party conflicts and party struggles in Mongolia. Too many parties and endless party disputes led to the domestic government affairs in the state of no handling.

The emergence of private ownership economy makes a large number of state resources fall into the hands of capitalists, while the state does not control the relevant resources. As a result, the gap between the rich and the poor in China is widening, and the country has to compromise with the capitalists who control the national economy.

However, Mongolia's many wrong choices and mastery of the development path eventually led to the emergence of a country with extremely difficult development status quo and extremely severe national status quo.

In recent years, with the increasingly severe desertification of the land in Mongolia, the living environment of this country has become increasingly severe.

Mongolia is a country where grassland and desert coexist. And because of the existence of large areas of grassland in the country, so the birth and development of the whole country is based on animal husbandry. The Mongolian nation is also known as the "nation on horseback".

In Mongolia, excluding some capitalists and workers, most people are nomadic as the main means of survival. The need of nomads is to drive livestock on the grasslands and live by selling livestock and their products. Therefore, the number of livestock directly determines the quality of life of the nomads.

Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mongolia introduced the public ownership system. The total number of livestock in the country and the time of pasture grazing are regulated by the Mongolian government. Therefore, land desertification due to overgrazing was very rare at that time.

But with the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mongolia's public ownership system also disappeared. With the gradual establishment of the private ownership system, Mongolia gave the livestock and pastures controlled by the state to the herdsmen, and the overgrazing began to become more serious.

In the eyes of herdsmen: to maintain a better life, the best choice is to increase the number of livestock in their hands, with more livestock and products in exchange for more money. So herders began to greatly increase the number of livestock until they exceeded the number of livestock that the Mongolian steppe could carry, eventually leading to land desertification.

The overexploitation of mineral resources has indeed brought large foreign exchange gains to Mongolia. But after the exploitation of mineral resources, the damaged land cannot be repaired. Mongolia, in an extremely short way, once again hit the country's land.

In order to promote the country's economic development, Mongolia has also chosen another way to damage the land machine seriously: cutting down trees.

In the Tulu River basin alone, Mongolia has cut down more than 200 square kilometers. As a result, the flow of the Tulu River was reduced by more than 30% and many lakes in the Tulu River basin dried up.

The economic policy of private ownership and the increasingly serious land desertification also led to the gradual decline of the economic situation of the Mongolian people. However, winter is extremely cold, and most local people do not have the conditions to use natural gas, so they have to buy inferior coal to keep warm in winter.

The burning of inferior coal led to the great pollution of the atmosphere in Mongolia, and the neutralization of countless conditions, which eventually led to the land desertification in Mongolia is difficult to reverse.

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oddly-specific-hermit-headcanons · 1 month ago

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The World of Hermitcraft is split up into 5 different factions: The Nether, The Aether, The Overworld, The End, and the Deep.

The Nether is a place based on innovation and commerce, and is notorious for it’s cutthroat businesses. Many of the industries within the city are based on the technology available or about getting as rich as possible. It’s insanely capitalistic, with those at the top seeming to almost be bathed in gold, while those at the bottom barely get enough food to survive. It’s here Impulse and Tango got their redstone expertise, building their first contraptions from the scraps the upper crust threw in their brimstone villages.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, is the Aether. A place so high up in the sky, it doesn’t even leave a shadow on the grounds below. Many of the residents here have the ability to fly, and maneuver in between the floating islands. Many of the Overworlders used to worship them as gods/holy beings, but the inhabitants of this plane are far from divine. The Aether noticeably lacks any kind of money, with many of the villages relying on trades of goods or services. However, it was once locked in a ruthless war with the Nether and it was in this war that Skizz met Impulse and Tango. They tried to blast the others faces off when they first met.

The Deep is a society that lives at the bottom of the ocean, in sea glass domes and underwater caves. The residents in the Deep pride themselves on their expertise in the arts, be it musical theatre, painting, or architecture, a single Deep Painting can sell for millions of emeralds in the Overworld. Many who live at the bottom of the seas develop amphibious qualities, including water breathing, fins, hills, and even bioluminescence. XB swam up himself from the bottom of the Deep to reach the Overworld, and it’s here Joel once took a trip for inspiration for a project, only to meet the love of his life.

The Overworld is considered dangerous and weird to the other factions. While the other factions live in relatively static climates with relatively similar biomes, the Overworld is unusually abundant with contrasting flora and fauna, who all just want to kill you. The undead clawing up from their graves, the fae courts awaiting some poor sucker to fall into a deal, or even a simple small insect can be your end. Many of the hermits who hail from the Deep, Nether, and Aether, are still pretty weirded out by the concept of “seasons”.

The End is a very… isolated society, with not many leaving the confines of its starry skies. The End is a dimension of nomadic voyagers, making it very rare for any end society to stay in one place for very long. In fact, it’s so rare to see an Enderian citizen because all the portals leading to The End are all in disrepair after a long period of time went without interaction. These are made even more difficult as the magic that powered these portals attracted the attention of the apex predators of apex predators; End Dragons to the portals. It’s said that an Enderian is born when a star falls from the sky and collides with the earth. Xisuma and his Brother reached the Overworld after finding and subsequently destroying a still functioning end portal.

#oddly specific hermitcraft headcanons #hermitcraft headcanons #hermitcraft #minecraft #skizzleman #impulsesv #tango tek #xbcrafted #smallishbeans #evil xisuma #xisumavoid

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meirimerens · 7 months ago

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MEIRI!!!! i am taking a class in art history and i wanted to ask about your favorite paleolithic cave paintings, cause i know you're very passionate about that!

OOOHHAHHGRGHH MY GODDDD

YOU'VE AWAKEN MY EVIL POWER......

okay so this is gonna be real hard for me to choose. like reallll hard. but i think i can narrow it down. i don't know how much #info you need or how much Lore you care for me to add, but you've activated my trap card, so now you're stuck in the cave with me, i have the torch, and if you try to leave you won't find your way back. okay. let us start.

GENERAL LORE:

at least in the Franco-Cantabrian geographical and paleo-cultural area [this thing], which contains some of the most famous painted caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet, Pech-Merle, Altamira, etc, one main currently reigning hypothesis, because it allows to explain the most amount of [gesture] Stuff Going On, is that cave art exist within a magico-spiritual system of belief of the animist persuasion likely with shamanic elements. The places where walls were painted in the caves, were very, very rarely Living quarters. paleolithic tribes prefered to make camps outside, or just at the very entrance of caves: the depths were Hard to navigate, dangerous, possibly inhabited by predator animals. you didn't got to these places to fuck around; you went because you had a drive, you believed in something about them.

Jean Clottes (one of our main prehistorians in France, who wrote Pourquoi l'Art Préhistorique ?, or "Why Prehistoric Art", translated into english as "What is Paleolithic Art" which is fucking stupid, the "why" is the whole question he's trying to answer in the book, is this guy fucking stupid) identifies 4 main concepts that exist within indigenous, nomadic or semi-nomadic, hunter-gatherer, animist & shamanist societies and peoples, that are widely distributed (as such having "universal" elements) and could, likely, have been found within paleolithic societies, and possibly give us clues to their belief system, which are:

the INTERCONNECTEDNESS: of animal species between one another (explaining the numerous accounts of paloelithic art depiction species together, or separated), and of human and animal: including through mythologies in which humans were created from animal(s), or animal(s) later changed into human(s).

the FLUIDITY of the living world: animal species are recognized as kin, for they can become it; animal species are given, or projected-onto attributes that make a tribe, a clan, recognize themselves in it

the acceptation of the COMPLEXITY of the world: paleolithic people likely had deep, complex mythologies and cosmogonies, which we might Never, Ever, know anything about (this drives me insane.) their language, and their rites, might (have) reflect(ed) an understanding of the complixity of nature, or animals, that sedentary, then later capitalist societies might have lost the nuances of.

the PERMEABILITY of the living world(s). this again is seen in beliefs in the permeablity between human & animal, human a animal, animal as human: this is also where Shamanism might come into play. shamanism(s) rest(s) upon the conceptualization of the world as divided-but-permeable between a physical, living world, and an unseen, spirit world: the Shaman is the mediator, the person who can freely go between these two worlds, to communiate, to heal, to direct, to plead, etc. AND, and this is where it gets real interesting for The Caves: potentially, the belief in the permeablity of the cave rock itself: multiple painted sites might contain hints of a belief in the cave being the place where spirits dwell; and painting them is less "calling" or "invoking", even if there might be some of it, but rather "revealing". the cave itself, maybe, could (have) be(en) considered the place where spirits dwell, and come forth/from. more about that later.

WITH ALL OF THAT IN MIND. at least in the franco-cantabrian area, the placement of cave art is, very Very likely, extremely deliberate. it is not just the art that counts, but where it was made. we can ask ourselves, why it was made here, and not elsewhere. i am picking my answer on this axis. some caves might be so beautifully painted, but are The Vibes here? if the expression of this potential magico-spiritual complex and tens-of-thousands-of-years-spanning(!!!!!!!!!! this is nother thing that's fucking insane btw. did you know we are as close to Lascaux as Lascaux is to Chauvet, another very ornate painted cave. MULTIPLE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS) is visible, or #feelable, let's mention it. now onto the good part

CAVE ART THAT DRIVES ME CUCKOO CRAZY:

THE NIAUX (pronounced "Nyo") CAVE

reason: i've been there. twice. sobbed both times. came out changed like genuinely. made me go back to uni. the Niaux Cave is located in the Ariège (a-ryeh-juh) département [think smaller than a state bigger than a county] of southern france, in the Pyrénées (pee-reh-neh) mountains making the border with spain.

the almost entirety of the art is concentrated in the "Salon Noir" of the cave.

now. come close and listen to me. the Salon Noir is some 700 meters from both the modern entrance and the prehistoric one. today, like back then, you have to navigate rough, slippery terrain, crouchspaces, and generally accident-inducing (source: my dad slipped & fell just like our guide warned us about) walking space. for most of the way, the ceiling is 5 to 10 meters above, and the walls relatively close together (but not claustrophobic). the Salon Noir seems to be "indicated" by, on both of its sides, red symbol markings. now listen to me. the Salon Noir's ceiling is twice as high. even with modern lamps, you struggle to see it. now imagine. having walked all the way there, in the Wet, the fire of your torch or your grease hand-lamp to guide you, and suddenly not only can you not see the ceiling anymore, but the rock seems to speak back to you. the echo is intense, in the Salon Noir, way more than anywhere in the lower-ceiling'ed cave. your voice carries on for 5 full seconds, if you sing the rock continues singing after you. did you know? in france and spain, studies have shown that most parietal (=cave wall) art corresponds to particular acoustic features. did they sing? did they play the flute, the drums? did they use lithophones: the stalagtites & stalagmites, hit of small sticks, to make them ring? in the Salon Noir, most of the animals are bisons, as is very common in the franco-cantabrian area. now this is just something fun that our guide told us, possibly nothing more than an interesting coincidence, for its truth would rest on an unproven-hypothesis-within-an-unproven-hypothesis, but did you now that the female bison has the same gestational period as the human? 9 months.

the bison to the right, with the red markings and the "eyebrows", is my dad's favorite: he says its profile looks like him, with his beard and his big nose, which to be fair, truly it does. in a previous-previous-previous-previous life my dad as an upper paleolithic era bison. this is my dad's paleolithic fursona.

my favorite is this horsie. see? she smiles.

so does this one on the left, a protome (= name for the depiction of only the front of an animal, of a human)

PERGOUSET (pronounced per-goo*-zeh) CAVE

(* but the "oo" sound is short)

i'm cheating a little. because this is not painting, it's carving. but i consider sculpture an art, and parietal carving to be as important and interesting as parietal paintings, so. take it or don't!

yeah the whole cave. you'll see why. basically if i think about Pergouset for too long my skin starts melting i foam at the mouth etc. anyways. since the cave is closed to the public, and basically only available to researchers' viewings, it is quite hard to find images of it, so we'll just ball on this one.

Pergouset is located in the département of the Lot, in southwest-central france. this region is Plentiful with caves, including Pech-Merle that is basically next door, and Lascaux 1.5h away. why this one & not any of those two? well. come closer.

okay. the pussies & this guy with his penis out cave. what's her deal. Well, first piece of lore is to know that, in the grand scheme of franco-cantabrian paleolithic cave art, human representations are minimal. animals make up the majority of depictions, however, "archetyped" or "stereotyped" human figures that insist on sex characteristics are Plentiful. and within representations of that, "female" archetypes outnumber "male" ones by a lot. basically you cannot cough on a paleolithic "human" depiction without landing on a vulva frankly. many such cases in life as well. one of the hypotheses, which Michel Lorblanchet brings forth in his book La Naissance de la Vie: Une Lecture de l'Art Parietal (from which the picture above is from) is that it could be part of a belief system in which the cave, the whole cave, itself could be a "female" principle or archetype: the whole of the cave a matrix, a uterus. basically its giving, it's giving birth. one of the biggest data point he has for that hypothesis is the Pergouset cave. in the Pergouset cave, carvings of vulvae rhythm a long narrow passage following an underground river. the 3 vulvae could represent that of pre-birth, that of currently-pregnant (with the line in the middle, like the pigmentation line on pregnant belly + carved over a convex part of the stone), and that of currently-actively-giving birth: "vulva 3" is just two streaks in the rock, surrounding a naturally-occuring hole in the rock: as if that feature of the cave itself had been recognized as It's Giving Birth / hereditary voice I Am Your Mother. as you can see on the picture, vulva 1 is all the way back in the #depths, in the #dark, and vulva 3 the closest to the exit, indeed to the light ( -> it's giving birth). now. and this is the insane thing. foaming at the mouth like unwell arms shaking rn. i've had to go pace 4 times since i started typing. in the depths of the cave, the animals that are carved are less (see the numbers on the picture). but also, they're... more fantastic. stranger, more unusual. lacking the realism that is typically associated with parietal art. they're... as if from a dream, an undetermined land of weirdness, of amorphousness. as they get closer to the light, they get more numerous, they proliferate, life crawls the walls: they become also more and more realistic. as we reach the last carved vulva, as it is giving, what is it: giving BIRTH, animals are numerous, abundant, fully formed, their visible selves in the world outside: it is as if the cave itself, the depths of cave itself, gave birth to these animals, formed them inside of itself, let them out from this unknown, amorphous, strange land beyond the stone, where human cannot reach. humans went in, and meticulously, sometimes using a natural relief in the stone for an eye, a feature, "released" the animals from the stone, "revealed" them from their state of hidden-inside-of-the-depths-ness. the whole cave this Mother from which all the animals drawn on the walls emerged.

tldr

#im insane. i'm craaaazy. insane. asylum.#THANKS FOR ASKING. VERY MUCH LOVED TO ANSWER THIS. WON'T APOLOGIZE FOR THE LENGTH SO GOOD LUCK SOLDIER.#also tell me how it went teehee #if you need another cave Brother I Got Caves.#rainphee #allô (answers)#paleoposting #if you need anotha cave: pech-merle. the horses. obviously.#also because in one wall; above the horse; a long ass fish had been painted following the sedimentary marks of an old river. makes you insa

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librarycards · 12 days ago

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Since Israel began its genocide of Gaza in October 2023, the accelerated erosion of traditional food systems has made Palestinians increasingly vulnerable to Israel’s mechanisms of violence; the starvation campaign Israel has waged on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip for the past sixteen months demonstrates this. But these systems of dispossession have been at play for much longer. For the past few decades, for instance, Israel has regularly sprayed herbicides on the eastern farmlands of the Strip to undermine agrarian life. In Masafer Yatta and across the West Bank, Israel’s colonial legislations have disrupted the relationships with, and strong sense of responsibility for, the land, animals and plants that Palestinian communities have maintained for centuries. Food plays a major part in how this is done.

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There are other insidious ways that the settler economy disenfranchises Palestinian shepherds [beyond forcing them off of their lands outright]. Abu Saber, a shepherd from Khirbet Tuba told me that his herds remain inside shacks, as there are no pastures upon which to graze. ‘This means a total reliance on [manufactured Israeli] fodder, which I cannot afford to buy as it is expensive. Only three years ago, I used to have 350 heads of sheep. Now, I only have 180,’ he said. Because of these challenges, many Palestinian pastoralists now see their traditional lifestyle of raising herds as a burden that exacerbates their impoverishment under Israeli settler colonial deprivation. Meanwhile, the younger generation of Palestinian herding families in Masafer Yatta, like Abu Saber’s sons, are compelled to seek poorly menial, poorly paid jobs in the Israeli market of construction and agriculture beyond the Green Line, turning nomadic pastoralists – once owners of the means of production – into wage labourers under an imperial, capitalist power.

The forcible proletarianisation of Palestinian shepherds is not the end goal of the Israeli state. Rather, it is a bid to further undermine Palestinian right to life and mobility – including systems of community, which involve sovereignty and customs surrounding food. Because of this, touchstones of social interaction are disappearing from pastoralist communities in Masafer Yatta. Sheep shearing – locally referred to as al-Qesas – is one of the popular rituals in the area which is threatened by obliteration under the pressure of colonial violence. ‘While the men would wash and shear the sheep, women would be busy cooking for lunch,’ Umm Amer, from Khirbet al-Mufagarah, told me. ‘We usually make a barbecue, mansaf or stuffed vine leaves with rice and ground meat. For me, al-Qesas is like a picnic, an occasion where the family gathers,’ she said. Today, a single Israeli settler lives in an outpost near where they carry out the shearing. The IOF uses the need to ensure his ‘security’ as a pretext to restrict the mobility and presence of Umm Amer’s family on their ancestral land.

Palestinian shepherds in Masafer Yatta also observe that Israeli pastoral settlers practice a Palestinian semi-nomadic lifestyle. Samir, a shepherd from the community of Khallet ad-Dabe’, tells me that settler herders graze their sheep in the same way as Palestinians. Some of the settler herders dress like Palestinian shepherds by covering their heads with a scarf similar to the Palestinian keffiyeh. ‘While grazing their sheep, they also listen to Dehiyyah music … When they host a feast, the settlers make Mansaf,’ he says. In this vein, Israeli settlers ‘indigenise’ themselves by appropriating the same Palestinian identity that the settler state continuously curtails and destroys.

Manal Shqair, Starving Palestine. [emphasis added]

#palestine #colonialism #food justice #mine #readings

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st-just · 10 months ago

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Really difficult reverse unpopular opinion: Anprim/degrowth

Up until a historical five minutes ago the anprpims honestly have a pretty solid argument? I am possibly giving James c. Scott too much credit, but from my understanding it is truly difficult to overstate how much being a preinidustrial farmer sucked. Assuming similarly fertile environment, hunter-gatherers and semi-nomadic horticulturalists and similar did literally have it better! Civilization really was inseparable from brutality, hierarchy, and the extraction of surplus for palaces and feasts enjoyed by the very few.

Then, you know, capitalist intensification, the industrial revolution, penicillin, food insecurity being the aberration rather than the norm, a relative decrease in blood-feuds and reaving, that one infant mortality chart. But all have occurred in a relative eyeblink!

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00venator · 7 months ago

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I love seeing other people’s worldbuilding, so could you explain yours to me?

sorry I’ve you’ve already covered it and I just haven’t seen it

Iv covered bits of it here, I mostly just say stuff on discord but I don’t put stuff in tumbe much, so:

COVERED: Ask about Ssca Looking For Pterosaurs (novel I’m currently writing)

I have not named the project as a holl, it’s currently called “The Bird Agenda” in my notes (wich is slightly less of a joke than Birdhammer).

Original species: Rikeuninerd Primary world: Ruka, Rike home planet

Obviously the environment changes over time, but the primary setting looks like this >

RUKA Atmosphere: Tropical planet, 72% nitrogen, 27.1% oxygen, 0.9% carbon dioxide. Contains: -Reik, tropical with eroding mountains, it is splitting in half and has shear cliffs that form a “mouth” because of this. -Rakar, Rakar and Scayikra are divided by a mountain range, a *big* mountain range. Rakar is (mostly) a collection of tropical islands, think Indonesia. -Scayikra, the other side of the mountain range, very dry full of canyons and high desert, gradually slopes down into the sea. Star: -Havnt worked out what type/s, but hot -High UV (worse in Scayikraa) Orbit: -1 Ruka year = 100 years years -Seasons are very long cause of this orbit

RIKE Rikeuninerd are a bird like species. Life span: 259 years Size: varies a lot. Shortest is 1.1m. Tallest 2 Sex: 1 (Hermaphrodites) Lays eggs. Many have lost the ability to fly. Diet: Piscivores (mostly). They have the races Reika, Rakara and the more distantly related subspecies Scayikraa (these groups are named after there continents).

ECONOMY Depends on the nation, when Rehy is one nation the economy is a currency-less syndicate, cause that’s how Scayikra worked.

HISTORY Basic overview: majorly my world building follows the Ssca dispute, a 30’000 year long period of political upheaval, war and genocide instigated by Ssca. An important alliance is Rehy, instigated in year 387 by Screea’s Defence Defence to unify Scayikra’s small quasi-states against Yeer (sucky capitalist mercenaries). A vast majority of nations joined Rehy in 1974 as an alternative to the Ra Da Kur and Ssca. Rehy and other nations went into space n expanded territory. Over time all of Ruka’s nations joined Rehy, and eventually National borders became states.

There’s also the Ra da Kur (communist guys), Rak-Reik (superpower before Rehy, fucked Shit up in Scayikra) Kusu (by gods who angered the pacifists), nomads of all shades, all the iterations of Ssca and all the nations that came before the others.

LANG Im currently working on Ascayi. The main language spoken in Scayikra. I plan on working on Rakar continent languages next, and then Akusu wich is a confusing mush of old Rakar langs plus others.

I’m in the process of making a language tree. Iv been procrastinating.

Btw Rehy means “Collected military congregation” or in other words, “military alliance”

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Notes are on notion, but you need to have an acc to view them I’m pretty sure.

#You can ask my oc rp blog to have stuff answered ic #ven #asks #worldbuiling #I havd memes should add em to my notes

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apilgrimpassingby · 23 days ago

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More Magic School Lore

Here's some more magic school lore, albeit a bit that doesn't directly relate to the schools, but to their wider context.

So, for a recap, there used to be magicians in the world, but the Divine Wisdom decided that they were oppressing the humans and causing stagnation, and so she locked them away in a pocket dimension. These days, however, she's started letting them out in small numbers.

The new lore is concerned with why. Thing is, humans created democracy, and in the world wars and the collapse of the USSR it triumphed ... and then the USA spent the 1990s partying, and we still haven't repented, inventing things like internet porn and AI rather than using our resources to solve world problems. Thus, the end of the age is coming; there will be a new dark era of politics where democracy and human rights die, tyranny, slavery and warmongering come back, as do plague and famine. The details of that, however, are malleable.

And this is where the magic schools come in. For now, their job is to fight off monsters and the occult in order to delay the end of the age, and this will function as a test; their moral conduct in this time will decide if they get let back in as part of the new dark ages, and their actions (though exactly how, only the Divine Wisdom knows) will determine which of the four possible dark futures come to pass:

The Silver World, where the forces of magic and the degradation of technology are both strong, and thus the mythology and folklore of each part of the world come alive, while the natural ecosystems and historical ways of life in each place gain in strength. For example, in Britain Arthur, Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, the faeries, all kinds of ghosts and so on all come into existence, forests grow back and different regions become Anglo-Saxon, Elizabethan, Regency, Victorian and so on.

The Concrete World, where the force of magic is strong but the force of the degradation of technology is weak. This world is divided into thousands upon thousands of city-states (with surrounding farmland), constantly at war with each other, and with hosts of spirits and monsters living in them - sometimes as citizens, sometimes as rulers, sometimes as an underclass - and ubiquitous magic.

The Ash World, where the force of magic is weak but the force of the degradation of technology is strong. This is a standard-issue post-apocalyptic setting - most cities are irradiated nuclear shells, most people are nomads, the Ice Age is encroaching, etc. - with the distinction that shamans, paganism and belief in spirits are ubiquitous.

The Iron World, where the forces of magic and the degradation of technology are both weak. This is a fairly standard dystopian setting; Britain is a fascist slave empire that controls much of northwest Europe, America is run by an authoritarian regime which specifically sets out to be as soulless as possible in order to crush the spirits of dissenters, large parts of China and India are ruined by nuclear war, Russia is being torn apart by militant Orthodox, militant neopagans and gangster capitalists... life sucks and most people are very religious (paganism particularly is very strong here).

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