#( idk I think it could be so neat but then again )

[welcometogrouchland]

IMPORTANT UPDATE FOR BATMAN AND ROBIN (2023) FANS!!!...he eat a burger [ID in alt]

(taken from Nicola Cizmesija's insta, who's on art for B&R issues #5 and #6)

#ramblings of a lunatic #batman and robin #damian wayne #dc comics #''ladel are you gonna get obsessive about the character again and hunt down any and all official art of them-'' no what makes u say that #nikola cizmesija was the artist on the recent red hood gotham wars tie-ins btw! same colourist as those issues too #...idk how much dc tumblr is actually in to the production side of comics. i know i am but i have a feeling that's not universal #anyway i actually really like to know the individual artists colourists and inkers on stuff if i can it's fun! #anyway i quite liked the art in those red hood issues so i am :] excited for issues 5 and 6! #there was also a cover(?) defs done by cizmesija that has damian and bruce in like underwater batsuits? like they're wet suits #and they're fighting orca on it! and cizmesija mentioned getting to design new suits so! it seems like we're getting an underwater adventure #for that arc at least! the writer joshua williamson said that he's trying to focus the structure more around shorter arcs this time #so it seems like in the shorter breather arcs we might get little artist changes to break it up?? neat imo #i like a book w consistent art if I'm really vibing w the art but i get that a lot of ppl have mixed feelings on di meos art for b&r #so I'm interested to see what the reception will be to cizmesijas when it comes out in...i think January? same month as the annual #i saw a solicit that said the art for the annual was by Howard Porter but i could be wrong #god this got way off track. ANYWAY! he eat a burger #(also williamson has said before that damians a vegetarian so I'm assuming it's a veggie burger)

[astranauticus]

i think these two should interact

#arknights #art i made #arknights lumen #arknights thorns #im only half joking i do think they should interact #like if you wanna be deep about it their dynamic could be really interesting #thorns: deeply jaded about the treatment of aegir in iberia and only recently starting to see the possibility for change #lumen: actively trying to bring about that change #if youre not gonna be deep about it the comedy potential is also very there i feel like thorns would be good at making lumen uncomfortable #like not intentionally i just dont think their personalities would vibe HJDSHFJDSHFJ #i know theyre like canonically the same height but i think lumen somehow ended up a little bit shorter oops #also!!!!!! they canonically have the same eye colour???? #like the orange iris yellow pupils #idk i think its neat #edit i think tumblr mobile did something to the image quality again but like. please i cant bring myself to care over a shitpost #iberiaposting #gonna make new iberiaposting and suiposting tags bc arknights is so massive you can have subfixations lmao

[leavemetoplaythesims]

she's short, irritable, a little scary, loves anything magical (especially on the little darker side) and secretly into getting bitten by astarion.

#her name's nadya and i love her #she's also very loyal and likes animals a lot #i love the braid cause it sometimes gets caught on her shoulder and idk i just think that's neat #i'm trying to come up with a bit of a backstory for her #the first time astarion bit her she killed him and i was shocked cause i didn't think she could kill him like that so i went back #i just thought they were gonna fight a little and then get to an understanding #like when you first meet him #but no brutal death #i feel like i'm cheating cause when i roll bad on something i really want to succeed in i load a quicksave and do it again #i mean what else are quicksaves for? #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #my screenshots #video games

[ourhouseishaunted]

my brain for the past like 2 weeks

#.txt #trigun #specifically #trimax #i am rotating her in my head always she is so fascinating to me i have so many thoughts i could write a novel #shes captivating to me. as a person #tbh her and tesla and the dependant plants as like. catalysts for so many emotions in the story but we dont get real insight into #their internal lives #and rem captivates me specifically bc shes so complicated wrt her actions with tesla but also the way she talks about leaving earth #and the idea of giving up on her home planet and putting her whole fresh start into seeds and then immediately making #the worst mistake of her life (tesla) and then starting over blank Again with vash and knives and how that all turned out #like!!!! the emotions going on there for her must be insane. i think about it Literally Constantly #and how it all ties into the mangas theme of the potential to be better vs the people you hurt before getting there #im literally obsessed with her #also she dresses like a lesbian electrician and i really like that vibe for her. im not immune #rem saverem #holding her in my hands i just think shes neat #also i have a whole incoherent google doc filled with random scenes from idk iguess the rem pov novel that lives in my brain?? #maybe ill clean them up and post them one day that is a threat #also i love fat baby knives in the itty bitty manga screencap i chose. i just know hes the densest baby alive #normal looking baby who you pick up and handles like a bag of wet cement

[aro-ortega]

i think it would be funny if in the future daniel + julia try to convince sasja to give polyamory/them as a throuple a shot

#like a reversal of step talking them into a being a triad in retri #been a while since ive played and definitely since ive played a chargeflystep run so. not confident in my memory #i just thknk it would be neat ! funny ! #sasja still hates julia but. she knows now. and he knows that she knows. and thats not the reason she didnt save him #he still hates her for that hates her for leaving him. but. he also knows now that hes done much worse so. shrug #and in some runs he does accidentally drug-addledly confess to still being in love w her #and ! hes going to therapy and he does take it serious ! he can be difficult and lash out but. he does listen to what finch has to say #(and is willing to Work on things and like. have therapy Homework post retri) #and he wants. he doesnt want to be this (terror) anymore. he went to far he can see that now daniel made him see that. he wants to be. #something. better ? less murderous. less violent ig. i think he just doesnt want to hurt daniel again but. theres lots that could hurt him #anyway ! all that to also say - daniel is (supposedly) very perceptive and even tho hes not in the room when sasja confesses to julia #i dont think it would be hard for him to figure out that sasja misses julia (he still hangs out with her. even tho hes told her to fuck off #fuck off a thousand times) and ? maybe he would see or feel that theres still something there between them and #and idk. maybe daniel and ortega talk. maybe sasja and his romantic past w julia comes up. maybe ortega is like. it is what it is hes #hes clearly in love with you anyway so... but ? maybe...... #idk ! im tired ! forgot where im going w this. idk how they get there but. maybe the float the idea by sasja. see if he would be willing to #to give julia another shot #(this came about bc i was thinking about how its funny that he + milo (+ vanya) are polyamorous but while milo #milo is dating as many people as she can sasja is just dating one person rn. i just think the contrast is funny) #sasja x daniel x julia #sasja jespersen #op #fh #sasja x julia #sasja x daniel

[insertsomthinawesome]

Sometimes I think now and then about uploading more speedpaints of my art on here... I haven’t for the longest time cause I didn’t know how to watermark them 😂 but I recently took the time to figure that out (and if I forgor already I can figure it out again asdlfkjSDLKJSDGS) I keep going back and forth on it because most  of them... well the quality is kinda crunchy? Its not going to be some 4k looking masterpiece, and especially some of the smaller details might get lost in translation (Clip Studio’s Speedpaints especially are always crunchy 😔) IDK if I’d still upload them very often, cause If I record them raw with OBS i actually have to. ya know. VIDEO EDIT (Sometimes I listen to the same songs on loop for 3 hours and I gotta silence their screams of pain xD) But eh I think it could be fun. If i did they also probably wouldn’t have any music. But IDK if ya’ll have any braincells about it I’d be interested to hear. I make no promises either way because I could just decide its not worth the effort ^^;; but I felt like rambling about this on main so *throws this down like a cake on pavement*

#isa screams #-this is my blog and I get to ramble about nonsense- moment asdlfjlDSJGSJDGLSDG #I LOVE speedpaints so much. And in the future I'd love ot have some up on a youtube channel. but that's not going to be in the cards #for a while yet. #With tumblr now having a time count of 9 minutes in their videos (yes I know that was updated ages ago. shhhh xD) #its a lot more plausible to do. #again IDK if I'll do anything. but the thought has been bounchign around in my head #and I saw a different artist (Psid99) On here who had a LOT Of speedpaints #and I was like 'yo wait I could do that if I think its neat' #those are the saturday afternoon braincells asdlfjdsljLGJSDG

[musical-chick-13]

ALSO now that I'm on the Complaint Train, I would love it if I could say, "This thing might be artistically good on other levels and if you like it, good for you have fun, but the gross way it talks about/handles mental illness is too much for me, to the point where I have to avoid watching/reading it for my own well-being" and people would go, "Yeah, that makes sense, you do you" instead of "Omg, you're so sensitive, lmao just get over it."

#am I too close to this issue? maybe! but I think I've earned the right to be close to this issue by having it be the single most formative #experience in my life. I'm close to this issue because THE ISSUE LITERALLY RESIDES IN MY FUCKING BODY #'you care too much' SO WHAT! WHY IS IT BAD TO CARE! WHY IS IT BAD TO BE PASSIONATE ABOUT SOMETHING! FUCK YOU!!! #ALSO this is ONCE AGAIN not to say that there is One Right Way to tackle mental illness in fiction. there isn't. and also not all depiction #is Representation™ and that's ok! but there are some things that...idk I'm not going to say any idea is automatically inherently unworkable #but there are some things that make me go 'hmmmm...do we really need to keep doing this? did no one consider the optics? can #we evaluate this in accordance with general trends and a wider context?' #like idk it might be nice if I said 'hey this is important to me and it affects me' that people would. acknowledge that. could be neat. #the real horror was the ableism we found along the way #ALSO I am past the point of apologizing for this these comments are just what y'all get now

[imwritesometimes]

god gives his toughest battles (being almost exclusively a fan of rarepairs) to his toughest soldiers (me 🤡)

#and I'm being so brave (irritating & insane) abt it #I guess if I'm honest rarepairs are really the only reason I stick around in fic/fandom like idk #I very much enjoy like oh I like these two their dynamic wish they could be tender and vulnerable together #and fic authors are like GUESS WHAT WE'LL GIVE YOU THAT CANON DIDN'T #and I just think that's neat #like absolutely no disrespect to canon ships and I'm DEF not saying all my rarepairs SHOULD be cannon and the creators are WRONG #I just... idk how to explain it man I guess I just really like the whole idea of a lil group of ppl creating the content they wanna see #like idk I kinda feel like that's what fic is FOR. to me. like oh this is super niche so we'll write our own stories and make our own art. #again I'm being insane and irritating abt it #erin explains it all

[evanthefunky]

I watched a few more episodes of The Sandman last night, including the Diner episode.

I'm not entirely sure why people wouldn't want to watch it.

On the one hand, I get it- it doesn't focus on Dream, but rather John Dee and the ruby's power. On the other, the amount of drama that takes place startles the pace of the show in a... well, not delightful way, since people die and turn on each other, but. Its certainly something.

And at the end of the episode, the ruby breaks, returning Dream's power to him... well, its all about the ruby! Its power, its reach, and how connected Dream's power is to the world. John Dee and the ruby were in some small town in New York but it was causing global (well, im not sure of the reach, but I think it could have been global) effects. Not just people turning on each other, but the weather, too!

Also, it breaks up the rhythm of the show- instead of focusing on Dream's journey to retrieve his stolen tools and regain control, we see what happens when one of those tools is out of his control. John Dee can change it to only work for him, but he can't change that it was Dream's power to begin with.

John Dee's worldview is so fundamentally against the ruby and Dream. He claims to reveal truth, when he instead just wants to see the worst in people. He's been hurt by lies, and while lying, yes, is wrong, sometimes people really do mean to protect or do something good in lying. He can't see any positive of lying, though, because of past and his mother's treatment of him. His past of having killed for the ruby before, now he is out of the hospital for the first time in three decades and he's been taking a lot of this time to think about what he would do with the ruby when he got it back.

Seeing the stories of the people in the diner was fascinating, though. Marsh's confession made me gasp and my jaw dropped. Kate's possession and control of Gerry was a little scary. Jude admitting that she wasn't ready to keep looking for Donna was touching in a way that... I mean, look at her- there was a childlike fear in admitting that she wasn't ready. Mark just wanted to do well with his interview.

No matter their flaws, they all deserved better. They all deserved peace, or at least, peace on their own terms.

Not to mention, "24/7" coming right after the Hell episode.... pal, I could ramble about that itself, and then also "A Hope in Hell".

This show is a masterpiece in even just the way it tells its story and the sequence of these events. I'm greatly enjoying seeing Dream's story.

#the sandman #idk how to conclude this and honestly i dont like how the tone shifts but also.... who cares #these are just thoughts not an essay #i could write a more refined train of thought tho. #i might. gosh. #i think ill love to analyze this show once its done #i love how episodic it truly is #and of course it is bc its a tv show but like #while of course it has an overarching story it also... each episode is so nicely tied in its own bow of containment. #its just really neat. #anyway thsnks again neil :) #<3

[4giorno]

GIRL HELPPPPP why am i so afraid of faceless ayato 😭😭😭

#this is NOT what my last post was abt by the way #but i just saw an edit with him and literally my vision started going bc it creeped me out so bad #i think its cool! its a really neat gi cr*epypasta but i just legit cant look at it bc it sets off something #very deep inside me and its too scary #hhhhhh i wish you could blacklist tags on tiktok. can i just not go on there now for some time? #again i think its cool and i know its not real. i just cant look at edits or art of it idk why #i hope i will stop being afraid soon bc i wanna engage with the content </3

[angeltism]

anyways 2 put it bluntly I'm single nyeow and everything isn't quite a-okay but it will be. apologies in advance for any excessive venting I do or if I'm slightly more "eurgh" than usual ^_^

#➳ the fool speaks #idk feel free 2 int tho like if anything my ass is LONELY friendship would be welcome nyeow more than ever. just saying. #ugh I'm gonna try to not post about it a thousajd times bc it's literally the chillest situation it could be I Think n i don't want people #think it's worse than it is or thay I'm bitter or something (which i rlly rlly am nawt. could explain but talking abt it so early feels #shitty of me. and like. again since it's pretty chill altho still. painful. I'm not gonna be a bitch abt it yk 😭) #but still like I'm an emotional lil bitch so uhhh. #also i may become a little bit of a kn.kd.z hater for a little but that's just me being silly ^_^ #hut anyways SHUTTING UP bc i wanted to AVOID TALKING ABT THIS RXTENSIVELY. AHEMM. anyways. #on one hand maybe this is an opportunity to complain abt all the emotions I've kept in a neat little box but Also i don't want to. idk. #start to care more than i do via spending time going back on negative emotions or make anyone feel negatively towards either of us. so.

[recallback-art]

Yeesh Tumblr doesn't display the first image here well. But here's some misc OC guys I designed a while back who I don't really... have a place for and haven't figured out what to do with yet.....

Eun-Ji Kim (first, they/them) is an overworked pediatric doctor, and Ji-Yeong is their illegally adopted son who happens to be some kind of creature for reasons that Eun-Ji is still trying to figure out. Hijinks ensue, naturally.

#original character #creature design #monster oc #monster boy #recall draws #my ocs #havent decided if theyre loil ocs yet? they very much could work within the universe of loil but again im not sure like #what im doing with them. they just kinda hang out and i think of them sometimes #i was thinking of adding a third character to the duo a while back who's an unlikely friend to unlikely love interest for eun-ji #but the thought was inspired by a character design i saw for sale that got sold before i had money to buy it >.< #so ideas have stagnated ever since...... im open to hearing ideas from folks idk. for now theyre just neat guys i like #ftr eun-ji is 40 and ji-yeong is 18 here btw tho ive rotated the idea of making ji-yeong younger bc itd be fun to have an actual kid oc #getting up to some fantasy hijinks as a kiddo #eun-ji kim #ji-yeong kim #idk if ill draw em again but they can have tags in case i do

[bronzetomatoes]

Can't decide whether or not 2 make cTommy religious in the modern au

#look anika's talking! #bc him being religious in canon means like oh so much 2 me. but the only irl religion i enough abt is christianity bc im a christian but idk #doesnt feel in character but its an au yknow? so it could be neat 2 explore #espec w dream also being a follower of church prime in canon but not nearly to the same level of devotion as tommy #which you see a lot of in christianity. and also in other religions ofc but again thats not what im familiar with #much to think about #modern au exile

[justanotherbirdbrain-blog]

A Workshop for Creating Magical/ Fictional Crystals: A Guide from a Geologist

Hi folks, its me, here to talk about fictional writing again! Today I'm just tackling the idea of magical stones/mana stones by looking at existing minerals today and some neat properties that they have, and how you can apply these things to a fictional world. The goal is mainly to help you if you are stuck trying to come up with a unique magic system, or a unique identification/characteristic of your mineral.

First Things First: Mineral Shapes

I am exhausted, petered out, down-right fatigued by seeing every mineral depicted with having the crystal structure of calcite and quartz. There are soooooo many cooler, more interesting crystal structures, don't you think you would stop and take a look at a perfect cube in nature? It is completely unsettling.

Second: Color

Color within minerals can either be really important, or not important at all! It is your choice to decide if color is going to be something that means something to your mineral. But what are some times when the color is important? Well.... there are some elements that are called chromophores, this classification just indicates that these elements, when present, will determine the color of whatever they are in. So, if you wanted to treat mana like a chromophore, you could say, "Oh everything that contains mana turns green!" This could mean that regardless of the mineral, if that mineral is a specific color, it means it contains mana. This concept is exciting because you can just stop here and use minerals that already exist! You can also use it as an indicator for a magical ore! Chromophores are typically metals, so if you are making a new metal weapon, making the ore of that metal a unique color would make a lot of sense!

However, your mineral can also just be every color of the rainbow like quartz and perhaps that's what makes identifying your mana stones elusive and create an illusion of scarcity that your character can solve.

There are other things that can change the colors of minerals, like radiation damage, and electron exchange, but I think that is beyond what would be helpful! So lets talk about some unique color properties that happen in nature that seem magical in the first place! Maybe you don't need to design a mana stone, but you want a unique gemstone that only the royal family passes down or something (IDK).

The first one is the alexandrite effect! This is where a mineral can change color in natural light vs. incandescent light. (the mineral itself is not changing, but the lights contain different amounts of different colors that then get absorbed by the stone). Even if you don't use electricity in your fictional world, you could have the colors change in the presence of light magic. This could create fun misunderstandings about what the mineral is reacting to!

Pleochroism

Pleochroism is something that most minerals have, it is frequently used to help identify minerals in thin sections, however minerals are usually not pleochroic enough for it to be visible to the naked eye! Pleochroism is just a fancy name to describe the change in how light is absorbed based on the angle of the mineral! So if you scroll up to the first image where I showed a lot of crystal shapes, most of them have angles where they are longer and shorter! This will effect the way light travels in the crystal. Tanzanite is a popular mineral that does this.

Photochromism

This is when a mineral will change color (in a reversible way) when exposed to UV light (or sunlight), I am not going to go too into the details of why this is happening because it would require me to read some research papers and I just don't feel like it. The mineral that is best known for this is Hackmanite!

Alright! These are all the really cool color effects that might inspire you or maybe not, but now I am going to talk about how you might find your minerals within a rock!

When I see a lot of magical caves/mines, typically I see them with some variation of a geode honestly, but most minerals are not found like that! Now I am sure most of you guys have seen a geode, so I will not really talk about those, but I will talk briefly about porphyroblasts which is when the mineral grows larger than the minerals around it, this happens in metamorphic minerals!

sorry random stranger, but this is an image of garnets inside a finer-grained rock at gore mountain in New York!

Another way you might find minerals is in a pegmatite! This is when all minerals are really large! This is a formed from really slow crystalizing magma!

But something else to think about is that your mineral might just be massive, it doesn't have to have distinct crystals, it may be similar to jadeite where small grains grow together which leaves it looking smooth and seamless! A note about all of these is that you would have to mine into the rock to find these, there would not be any natural caves in these rocks! Caves are only ever really formed in limestones and maybe marbles (rocks that react with acid).

How can your characters identify these minerals?

Typically when you are out in the field you will look to see what type of rocks the minerals are found in (The overall texture of the rock will tell you how it formed). If you know how the rock formed, it will narrow down the amount of minerals you need to think about by quite a bit! Next, you are going to look closely at it and observe its crystal structure, does it have an obvious crystal? if so what is the general shape? If it is broken, how did it break? Did it fracture like glass or did it break along uniform planes. Some minerals have a thing called cleavage (breaks along planes of weakness). If a mineral exhibits this habit, it will again help narrow this down. Next we can look at color. Color can be misleading, because minerals like quartz can be any color imaginable, but minerals like olivine will always be green! The next thing your character can do is test for hardness, minerals all have a specific hardness that can help identify it as well.

After you go through all of this, your mineral might have some special property! This could be magnetism, fluorescence, reactions to acid, or any of the color changing effects I mentioned above! Other than that, your character can take it back to a lab and do a number of things to identify it, but the most typical thing would be for them to make a thin section (very thin piece of the rock) and observe it under a cross polarized microscope!

On that note folks! I hope this helped in some way in thinking of new magic mineral properties! I have other guides that explore some different fictional worldbuilding issues you might run into, but if you have any topics you would like me to cover please that I haven't mentioned already, let me know!

#geology #rocks #creative writing #fictional world #worldbuilding #dnd #dnd worldbuilding #worldbuilding stuff #writing resources #info post #information #writing

[seelestars]

some bittersweet thoughts abt dating aventurine / sunday after playing 2.1…

firstly, I think I underestimated how hard it would be to get into a relationship with someone like aventurine,, he would need to trust you immensely in order to even attempt dating you

but once you do date him, he’s still very hesitant on being affectionate towards you

he had lost everything, everyone that was dear to him, so the idea of having someone he could lose again scares him

he’s careful not to grow too attached to you, always keeping you at an arms distance despite how much you love and care for him

every morning, he makes sure he wakes up before you so he can leave your side early. it’s not that he doesn’t want to be around you during such vulnerable moments, no, but rather he fears he’ll get too attached to you

he makes sure to tuck you in and press a sweet kiss to your forehead as he smiles to himself sadly before heading out

if you ask him about his reasoning behind leaving so early, he’ll just make excuses and dismiss it as ipc work (there’s a whole angsty idea I have for this related to believing he’s cheating but idk if I should write it)

you try your best to be understanding, staying by his side and comforting him whenever he needs it

in return, he spoils you using his immense wealth

see a necklace you like? no worries, just tell him—tabs always on him after all. want to go out for dinner? of course, the most luxurious restaurant rented out just for the two of you.

it’s his way of making up for his distant nature towards you, he’ll even allow you to hear some stories about his past such as the day he got branded as a slave as he stares at you with a soft gaze and a subtly melancholic smile (he even permits you to call him by his real name, kakavasha!)

with sunday, I believe he’d be a tad bit paranoid when it comes to you

as a neat freak who desperately needs control over anything and everything, he feels like he needs to have some form of control over you as well

you’re very dear and precious to him after all, and he can’t just allow you to slip away from his hands like how robin did

his little bird servants are watching you day and night, making sure you don’t get into any trouble

and at the end of the day, he always asks you regarding what you did the entire day while using his ability to make others tell the truth—he has to make sure you didn’t do anything that would potentially get you into danger, no?

he feels guilty and regretful for resorting to such methods to ensure your complete safety, but he tells himself it’s better to be safe than sorry

if he can, he’ll try to have you by his side as much as possible so he can have you directly under his watch and protect you if necessary

he makes sure to handle you extra delicately and gently, whispering sweet nothings into your ear as he helps you wash your hair

he even allows you privileges such as touching his sensitive wings as well as his halo, hoping it helps convey just how special you are to him

to him, you’re safer under his watchful eye and control as the two of you happily spend your days together

if anyone had even dared to imply that they would harm you, sunday would deal with it immediately and make sure you would never see them again

even with all the dirty work he does, you’ll understand, won’t you? everything he does is for you, after all.

#✷ . nova’s brainrot ! #hsr x reader #honkai star rail x reader #aventurine x reader #sunday x reader

[lizardlicks]

You know that walrus vs fairies thing is a really good example of suspension of disbelief and how poor writing can immediately ruin it.

Further, it's a good example of how propaganda and indoctrination can be broken.

Check this out: if you are asked to believe something by a person who presents themselves as an authority about a subject in which you have little to no experience, you have no ground to question them on. Even if it seems fake, human brains are really good about going, "that doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about [thing] to dispute that." We have to specifically train ourselves to stop and go do our own research. And if it's a big, complicated topic which you're brand new to, that's really intimidating!

This is a feature rather than a bug of being a social species. Collectively, we store far more knowledge than anyone if us could store individually. It means that even if you have never seen a walrus in your life, you can be reasonably confident that you still "know" that they're large, tusked, aquatic mammals which tend to favor colder water and they don't really go farther inland than a couple miles.

It also means that you are primed to accept new information on a subject with which you have little to no direct experience: e.g. fairies are real, you just didn't know that until now.

Propaganda and indoctrination work because they're presented as authoritative sources on subjects that the target audience doesn't have much experience with. That also means those can be combatted by research and first hand experience. Multiple times I've seen posts from people who climbed out of the weeds of Q Anon because one of those secret info drops started making claims about subjects that the person was something of an expert in: electricity, infrastructure, medicine, engineering.

It's also why you can get so into reading a great fantasy or sci-fi novel that has otherwise stellar writing and world crafting, then suddenly get kicked right out of it again when the author, say, has a character fall into a convenient, non-magical coma for a month, or they start walking on a bad fracture after a couple of days without some fancy technological assistance. You have a body, and you might not be a doctor, but you can know enough to understand that's not how bodies generally work, and if the author has not previously established that their characters aren't human and work totally differently, a pall of doubt and frustration taints everything that comes there after.

Idk where I'm going with this. I just think it's neat! Definitely something to keep in mind when trying to effectively communicate with people, regardless of if you're trying to educate or simply entertain.

#lizard is starting to ramble