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Pro-writing tip: if your story doesn't need a number, don't put a fucking number in it.

Nothing, I mean nothing, activates reader pedantry like a number.

I have seen it a thousand times in writing workshops. People just can't resist nitpicking a number. For example, "This scifi story takes place 200 years in the future and they have faster than light travel because it's plot convenient," will immediately drag every armchair scientist out of the woodwork to say why there's no way that technology would exist in only 200 years.

Dates, ages, math, spans of time, I don't know what it is but the second a specific number shows up, your reader is thinking, and they're thinking critically but it's about whether that information is correct. They are now doing the math and have gone off drawing conclusions and getting distracted from your story or worse, putting it down entirely because umm, that sword could not have existed in that Medieval year, or this character couldn't be this old because it means they were an infant when this other story event happened that they're supposed to know about, or these two events now overlap in the timeline, or... etc etc etc.

Unless you are 1000% certain that a specific number is adding to your narrative, and you know rock-solid, backwards and forwards that the information attached to that number is correct and consistent throughout the entire story, do yourself a favor, and don't bring that evil down upon your head.

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#this is an attack

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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#oh fffs #have they learned nothing #why are you like this

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It's okay guys! Freddy's just nervous

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...and it's going quite well, actually.

#the sojourn audio drama #sci fi #3d modelling #blender

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It begins anew...

#the sojourn audio drama #sci fi #3d modelling #blender

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Once more for those in the back.

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Update Update: I still didn’t like how big the Nikita was, so I upped it by another 10 meters. Tempted to make this a running gag. Also the Aderyn has been through half a dozen revisions and I’m still not happy with it, but them’s the breaks.

Warships of the Signet Coalition

Didn't stay up all night to do this one, progress! Again, only lengths are accurate, turret sizes are not.

#3d modelling #sci fi #worldbuilding #tales from the rim

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Update: I didn’t like how small the Nikita was, so I upped it by a few meters, and tweaked the Aderyn’s design so it wasn’t so stick-like.

Warships of the Signet Coalition

Didn't stay up all night to do this one, progress! Again, only lengths are accurate, turret sizes are not.

#tales from the rim #size chart

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Warships of the Signet Coalition

Didn't stay up all night to do this one, progress! Again, only lengths are accurate, turret sizes are not.

#3d modelling #worldbuilding #tales from the rim #size chart

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[Image ID:

A picture that says “A student once asked anthropologist Margaret Mead, “What is the earliest sign of civilization? The student expected her to say a clay pot, a grinding stone, or maybe a weapon. 

Margaret Mead thought for a moment, then she said, “A healed femur.”

The second picture is a news headline. It is bolded and a much larger font. “27-year-old who couldn’t afford $1,200 insulin copay dies after trying cheaper version.”

The third picture is the same font and size as the Margaret Mead quote. It’s a continuation. It says, “A femur is the longest bone in the body, linking hip to knee. In societies without the benefits of modern medicine, it takes about six weeks of rest for a fractured femur to heal. A healed femur shows that someone cared for the injured person, did their hunting and gathering, stayed with them, and offered physical protection and human companionship until the injury could mend.” 

The fourth picture is another headline. It is in a large and bolded type. “Dying man who couldn’t afford to go to hospital after vomiting blood"

The fifth picture is a screenshot of the Margaret Mead story.

Mead explained that where the law of the jungle—the survival of the fittest—rules, no healed femurs are found. The first sign of civilization is compassion, seen in a healed femur. 

The next screenshot is of a slightly different font. The letters are pointier and the lines are a little curvier. It says, “Susan Finley returned to her job at a Walmart retail store in Grand Junction Colorado, after having to call in sick because she was recovering from pneumonia.

The day after she returned, the fifty three  year old received her ten year associate award — and was simultaneously laid off, according to her family. She had taken off one day beyond what is permitted by Walmart’s attendance policy.

After losing her job in May 2016, Finley also lost her health insurance coverage and struggled to find a new job. Three months later, Finley was found dead in her apartment after avoiding going to see a doctor for flu-like symptoms. 

A screenshot of a bold, bigger headline. It says ‘The house always wins’: Insurers’ record profits.

A final screenshot of smaller text with a slightly gray background. It says “We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.” /end ID.] 

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Warships of the Axius Alliance

Was up all night making this, still refuse to go to sleep. Note that only the lengths are accurate, the turret sizes are definitely not.

#3d modelling #worldbuilding #tales from the rim #size chart

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/Warning. Unauthorized fleet movement detected. Opening report log./

/Confirming.../

/Confirmed. Deviations from standard patrol routes detected. Offenders - Line Group 14 - Line Group 23 - Carrier Group 25./

/Attempting hail.../

/Attempt Failed./

/Warning. Detecting termination of transponder signals. Tracking failed./

/Marking last coordinates. Summoning Sovereign Commander. Declaring high alert - Protocol Syjen-One./

#stellaris #stellaris rp #peritainia

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Fact File: Kenshaw-Fell

The manufacturer known only as Kenshaw-Fell, or, in official documents, the Kenshaw-Fell Group, was founded in 0322 as a subsidiary of Kair-Blitz Systema (pronounced Kyar-Blitz), a munitions manufacturing group primarily producing autocannons for the Axius Alliance Navy. After the collapse of their parent company in 0354, Kenshaw-Fell, now independent, took over the weapons contract with the Alliance, and hold it to this day.

#tales from the rim #worldbuilding

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Reblog to give an asexual a treat

#me me i want one

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I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say

#attacking fascism is cool