worldbuilding
Randomness: Iâve just rewatched Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Thus, for anyone who wasnât around the first time it came up, this is your reminder that wuxia is a good model for what classical melee combat looks like in the âverse â only glowier, since space magic, unlike qi, has
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Fantastic Time Management: Averted. The preferred solution to âyou donât have enough timeâ is not to make more time, itâs to make more you. Which is much easier, it turns out.
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You Cannot Grasp The True Form: Averted in the general case, mostly because the things of which You Cannot Grasp The True Form are also things of which you cannot sense the true form either. The process of grafting the senses you need into your brain obviously includes the grafting
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Pals With Jesus: Subverted, at least while youâre still alive and therefore not part of the Transcendent soul-ocean; while you can have a much more personal relationship with an eikone than most people can have with their gods â they have e-mail addresses, for one thing â itâs still a