Really This Calendar Bit Of 17776 Like. One Of The Best Openings Of Any Scifi Story I Have Read. Feeling

Chai tea bag + lil but of brown sugar + apple cider packet + 16 oz. mug of hot but not quite boiling water

it will not Fix You but like. maybe. maybe.

If there was a way to run SUPER MEGA AD BLOCKER on this website I fucking would

Speaking of pairings, here’s a brief exercise I’ve used in my tabletop games to quickly generate pairs of NPCs who fit a very specific archetype, but still have some variety to them:

One is tall, the other is short.

One is stout, the other is slender.

One is neat and proper, the other needs some work.

One talks too much, the other lets their actions speak for them.

One is a little bit goofy, the other is kind of intense.

Pick one trait from each row. Character A has those five traits. Character B has the five traits you didn’t pick.

Source

Another weirdly amazing piece of nature: the llareta shrubs in the Atacama Desert

Apparently I badly want to go on my “stop making fun of plague doctors, they were ahead of their time and doing the best they could with the primitive equipment they had available” rant.

I saw this step-by step tutorial of how to Gird Your Loins and it needed to be readjusted. 

dere you go

1) Risus Monkey Fantasy Language Cypher

This is amazing!!!!!!!!!!

Are you creating a fictional language? Do you need help coming up with words that sound like they fit with what you’ve come up with so far?

Just put your fictional language in the model text, type some words in the translation text, and click “translate”. It’ll “translate” whatever words you put in using patterns from your sample text.

2) Speed Distance Calculator

These calculators aren’t perfect, but they can help you figure out:

How long it will take your characters to get somewhere based on how fast they’re going,

how far your characters moved based on how fast they were going and on how long they were moving,

how fast your characters need to move to reach a certain distance in a specified time

The calculator was meant for cyclists, but you can use it to get estimates for other things too.

3) Fantasy Calendar Generator

Another amazing resource!

This can create a random calendar for you or you can input the year, the number of months, the name of the months, the number of moons, the number of days in a week, the names of each day, and more.

You can even save the data for your calendar so that when you go back to the generator, all you have to do to get to your calendar is paste the data.

4) Inkarnate Map Maker

This is a new resource that’s still in beta, so it’ll probably be updated in the coming months.

This map maker is easy to use and free. You can add different climates, mountains, trees, towns, cities, text, and notes. For an example of these maps, look at the quick map I made for this post’s header.

Beyond this, consider how these professions might vary depending on who the customers are - nobles, or lower class. Are they good at their job or just scraping by? Do they work with lots of other people or on their own? City or village?

For younger characters:

Apprentice to any of the above

Messenger/runner

Page/squire

Pickpocket

Shop assistant

Student

Looks after younger siblings

(Images all from Wikimedia Commons)