Cultural Crossovers
Y’all know how this goes by this point in the series, so let’s get right into it… * I love the smell of science in the evening. * Ooh, Asgard is shiny! And flat! When did they start filming in our neck of the woods? (Seriously, feels familiar.) * Oh, that’
worldbuilding
It’s known that the eldrae (and Imperial culture generally) place a premium on rational belief, but they also place a great amount of value on preserving extant diversity of beliefs and opinions inasmuch as they can be reconciled with rationality. Given this, what do they make of Aumann’s
Resplendent Exponential Vector (Imperial Core)
If you’re coming to the Vector, your first stop is going to be Axiom Station, the tip of the beanstalk descending to Asymptote, the Vector’s capital, jack city, and safe harbor. Everywhere else in the system, from the solar corona to the Shards, is full to the gunwales
eldraeic language
serev (n.): Blood, or other primary life-fluid (e.g., myneni crystalplasm, codramaju suspension, mezuar sap, etc. – even, to stretch a metaphorical point, digisapience electricity.) A word notable for its use in many metaphor-based compounds and etymological cousins, notably seredar (“blood-person”, or paramedic); seredhain (“blood-war”, or war of extermination/genocide); seredáné
culture
A quick question with a quick answer: How would a virtuous eldrae answer the eternal question “Does this dress make me look fat?” Honestly and accurately. But then, if you had spent any time at all in their cultural sphere, you’d know better than ask damn silly questions that
Cultural Crossovers
Wow, our watching cycle is short these days. Maybe I’ll start dribbling these out, oh, once a month or so, so they don’t eat the blog. Once again, I live-blog in-culture: * Oh, yeah. Tony’s entrance to the Expo is exactly how they do it in Mer Covales.
Ley Accords
Hey, folks, guess what? Super-busy-development-crunch-time is done, and back to regular development-crunch-time. So while it may not be full-time writing for me, at least I might get some fiction done this month. Anyway, on to the questions… Under the heading of “the laws and customs of war”: Do the Associated
Cultural Crossovers
So, remember this? Well, now that our long-delayed rewatch of the MCU is restarted, we’ll be getting the rest of them, starting with The Incredible Hulk. What do our merry protagonists think of this, the hurling of popcorn at the screen to yells of “Gamma rays do not work
Guardians of Our Harmony
So, you wanted to know about the Guardians of Our Harmony? They’re the thought police. Well, okay, not like that. That’s what paranoid outworlders would say, but really, they’re more like the thought paramedics. There’s a quotation from their ur-founder which I think appears in Vignettes,
worldbuilding
I commented on this post of Charlie Stross’s before now – about when it was first posted back in ’16 – on G+, but while I wait for compilers to compile and linkers to link, I thought I’d post a commentary on the giant list of hoary and terrible space
Senate
So, remember back last December I made this quick post, pointing out how the baroque formality of the Imperial Senate served as an effective Schelling fence against certain kinds of bullshittery? Well, given the fun that is the current 2,300 page-plus, two-hours-to-print omnibus spending bill, I feel the urge
sport
So, it occurred to me that in my comments on sports here I missed one very large elephant in the room that makes competitive sports… difficult. Namely, the number of species, and then the number of clades of those species, and that’s before we start getting into individual-level modifications,