TRANS LESBIAN FLAMING SWORD

i don't know what the fuck happened to my phone camera, but it's much more interesting than whatever i originally had planned

putting trumpets in a metal song feels like cheating. I have never heard a metal song with trumpets that wasn't an absolute banger

hey girl awesome pussy. it looks like it was expensive

World building (Literally)

In the process of working on my novel, I’ve had to create entire new planets. Fortunately for me, only one of them (currently) requires extensive planning into the depths of the environment, since that’s a two-pronged plot point. 

I’ll preface this with the fact that I am not a scientist nor particularly gifted in the sciences despite my fascination with them. So all of the resources I have I’ve found useful from starting with the bare bones and expanding into the literal process of creating a world.

Perhaps the best single resource that I lean most heavily on is Mark Rosenfelder’s The Planet Construction Kit. This book goes into more depth than I really needed, but for someone who really wants to start from scratch it’s an indispensable tool. Not only does he go into detail on creating the literal planet (and even the solar system!), but he goes further into environments, and who and what you might find there before expanding beautifully into developing cultures and the details of whatever created inhabitants of your world would need. I really can’t recommend the book enough.

Personally, I needed a little more detail before I felt comfortable assigning climates to my planet, and that’s where I drew a page out of the site worldbuildingworkshop (here) to go step-by-step through the logical development of a world. This included the application of:

wind patterns

pressure systems

ocean currents

precipitation

seasonal changes

how all of the above affect the assignment of environment to your world

It’s worth noting that this site’s explanation is inspired from a now-defunct site that is currently only available via the Wayback Machine. The Climate Cookbook goes into even further detail, but is also a more complicated read. Definitely worth a look. (It’s still available as of Jan ‘18)

I also found that @mythcreantsblog had an excellent post on their off-Tumblr site that helped further in the effort to assign climates, with exceptionally helpful illustrations. Definitely something to check out if you’re trying to pull a planet together. (Here)

My last site I didn’t use as much as the others, but is definitely worth honorable mention for the useful question-and-answer dynamic that covers much of the same information. For those needing illustrations to follow along, the text-heavy format might not be best, but it goes into details that definitely compliment the processes that the other resources go into. (Here)

Of course, I’m sure there’s lots of other useful sites and tools out there, but these were the primary resources that I leaned on while putting my new planet together.

this is so gorgeous

I drew Ruby in Arcane's art style because I miss RWBY and Arcane 😭

my life starts feeling like i'm living for sidequests again. i'm supposed to play bass for my friend's band's soundcheck later this week. slight problem here.

i have never fucking played a bass before.

so lets hope my mediocre (at best) guitar skills will save me

i'm so glad I was born in a time where we know about so many things in space and yet have so many mysteries left to unravel. I seriously don't know what kind of person I'd be without my love for black holes

i wonder

i wonder if anyone would notice

if i just stayed here

in bed

it's getting so dark outside

and I can't pull myself up

can't bring myself to leave

i wonder if anyone would notice

if i just sank into

the pillows

deeper and deeper

until the world is shut out

and all these fears can't find me anymore

i wonder if anyone would notice

if i just stayed home

with tea and a book

so i can witness

other people fighting their demons

hoping they are braver than me

i've started writing in notebooks again since it kinda helps me focus more and originally i wanted to write with a pencil so i could edit it. then i lost my eraser and even though i could easily get a new one, i refuse and continue to use my pencil. something something confining yourself to keep what you have already created or whatever

i almost forgot that it's trans visibility day today and only remembered because a friend told me. someone come and take my membership card away lol