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Chatoyance


I'm the creator of Otakuworld.com, Jenniverse.com, the computer game Boppin', numerous online comics, novels, and tons of other wonderful things. I really love MLP:FiM.

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I am a human-shaped unicorn, and I write stories and draw pictures. My only religion is Friendship, and my only politics is Kindness. I write stories to try to comprehend the native simians that live on the planet I'm kind of stuck on. I know I'll never figure them out, but it's fun to try.

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"If you know your characters, and you know your world, then you need not fear even a thousand pages of text."

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Can't wait to see the finished product, they sound rather neat by how you described them.

When I think of strange Airships, the Dark Sun world comes to mind. With those artificial, alchemically created lifeforms that one of the races in that setting used.

I did some painting on the custom miniatures I created before I went for my surgery, today. It's the first art of any kind I have done since I was cut on.

The miniatures are 35mm scale, or a tall 25mm scale ;) and I kitbashed them using an initial base of some green plastic army men and some miniatures of fairy-garden deer, combined with assorted greeblies from sprues, bits of plastic and toys, and 'green-stuff' polymer clay. They represent a resource gathering team for a peaceful tabletop miniatures game idea I am inventing that takes place in an alien universe that features strange airships and no combat. There are four 'Cervoid' figures in total, all on custom bases:

A M.U.L.E. styled, robotic 'Micro-factory' 'mecha-deer'
A Cervoid lead deer Engineer with a 'linglossic tentacle-drill'
A Cervoid secondary deer Engineer with a resource scanner and a 'survivaltech' backpack
A Cervoid support deer Engineer with a 'quadrablade resource extractor' and a 'transmodic storage tank' backpack

I fully painted the mecha deer before I got slit up a treat, now I am painting the engineers. I assure you, there is nothing on earth that looks quite like them. Don't worry - I will post pictures when I eventually finish.

I did well, I think. Got a little shaky after two hours, but - I am out of practice. Still, good therapy for my hand, and I feel happy doing something creative. I am feeling more confident about my wrist now. Painting is low-impact, too.

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There seems to be some new/old ideas how to grow local food, but they require some collective action related to laws (who own land, at least formally), money (setting something non-standart usually cost quite a lot, land itself might be $6000 per acre but water infra, house, etc add up quickly I think), praticing something unusual and sometimes labor-intensive (so better to have enough humans, so each one will be not overloaded and some can stay out of hard physical work for reasons of age, trauma,etc).

https://www.resilience.org/food-water/

Biggest thing I personally raised was onions (if you leave them in glass of water near sunlit window they will produce long green "arrows" you can chop into salad). So, unless there will be mass migration from my city I do not think I'll try to jump into unknown.

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Supposedly making it this way was all in the name of efficiency, but I only see exponential loss all around.

It's too easy to make the usual statement that 'At least it increases shareholder value!". Consumers want perfect fruits and vegetables. Ripe and full and unblemished and full of color. Picture perfect. So, everything is picked too soon, or bred for color and transport tolerance, and both of these result in a massive loss of vitamins and nutrients. Turns out that if you breed plants that last in a truck, and keep their color and shape without bruising, those genes cause the plant to redirect its own resources away from nutrition to appearance. Thus, our markets are full of red, perfect tomatoes that have almost no nutritional value.

In a dying world of insane apes, the only thing a being can do is work out a way to survive it all.

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The ghost in you, She don't fade · 12:55am March 22nd

And she don't fade
The ghost in you
She don't fade
Inside you the time moves
And she don't fade
- The Psychedelic Furs, 1984

I Had An Arm Ghost - a (possibly) infranatural tale

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