everyone keeps saying “save the bees” but ok how do u want us to do that
great question! i have a “honey honey” tag and you can go there and see post about simple things you can do like growing certain flowers, supporting local beekeepers by buying their honey (certain vegans need to stop protesting honey), and by staying interested in their well beeing 🙂
..of setting up Deep Ones as rapists, out to steal our women and do horrible things to them. (For example, in the Cthulhutech RPG, there are literal ‘breeding camps’, which what even the hell.) There are a couple reasons why this is awful, even beyond the obvious.
1st: Because Lovecraft was a horrible bigot, the deep ones are stand ins for various minority groups. Making them monstrous rapists in modern day pastiches plays into this same vein of bigotry, with the implication of non-white men lusting after white women to carry them off. Which frankly is the kinda shit that needs to go away yesterday.
2nd: It ignores that the horror Lovecraft felt as a horrible bigot was that people were -willing- to hook up with Deep ones. The dude felt existential dread over the possibility of white people having consensual relationships with POC, as represented by fish-people from beneath the waves.
In summary, Lovecraft pastiches need more consensual loving human/fishperson romances.
Nous, les gemmes de cristal On sauve le monde entier Y faut nous faire confiance On fera tout pour y arriver! C’est pour ca qu’ici tout le monde croit en nous Grenat, Améthyste, et Perle, et Steven!
The Augmented Reality Sandbox (orginally developed by researchers at UC Davis) lets
users sculpt mountains, canyons and rivers, then fill them with water
or even create erupting volcanoes. This version of the device at UCLA was built by Gary Glesener
using
off-the-shelf parts and good ol’ playground sand.
Any shape made in
the sandbox is detected by an Xbox Kinect sensor and processed with open
source software. It is then projected as a color-coded contour map onto the sand.
*dares you to write medieval fantasy without royal or noble-blooded protagonist(s)*
*dares you to write multiple viewpoint medieval fantasy entirely from women’s perspectives*
*dares you to write medieval fantasy without magic*
*dares you to write medieval fantasy with twists*
*dares you to write medieval fantasy with poc featuring a prominent role and/or without European-esque people*
Wunderbar.
More dares:
*write medieval fantasy with LBGT featuring prominent roles.*
*write medieval fantasy set anywhere but in Europe.*
*write medieval fantasy that doesn’t portray a barbaric-evil-fat king.*
*write medieval fantasy with historically accurate scientific discoveries of the time whether they are regarded as scientifically accurate or not today.*
*write medieval fantasy without a chosen one and a prophecy.*
*write medieval fantasy without swords.*
*dares you to write medieval fantasy in which time-period accurate science and technology coexists with magic*
(*dares you to write ANYTHING in which time-period accurate science and technology coexists with magic*)
*dares you to write medieval fantasy that reimagines critters like dragons and trolls and goblins*
*dares you to write medieval fantasy that deals with such things as a lack of indoor plumbing*
*dares you to write medieval fantasy without including a knight character*
*dares you to write medieval fantasy in where there are no such things as beautiful, mythic creatures who have all the power.*
*dares you to write a medieval fantasy where there is no wise old person who has all the answers*
*dares you to write a medieval fantasy with multiple and complex religions and mythologies.*
*dares you to write a medieval fantasy where the lonely, orphaned farm-boy ISN’T the lost king.*
*dares you to write a medieval fantasy from the perspective of weapons.*
*dares you to write a medieval fantasy where magic DOESN’T make your character powerful.*
*dares you to write fantasy dealing with medieval Western Europe but not entirely/mostly not in medieval Europe*
*dares you to write medieval fantasy without a war/rebellion*
*dares you to write an early Middle Ages fantasy instead of High/Late Middle Ages fantasy*
*dares you to write medieval fantasy with a rebellion that doesn’t just produce another monarchy*
*dares you to write medieval fantasy exploring the rise of the burgher class and includes secret guild wars*
Kimchi and Justice 