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ysabetwordsmithThese are the topical footnotes for "What Makes the Feast."
Privacy layers in a multipurpose building go from public to semi-public to private. At home, the public parts are outside, the living-dining area is semi-private, and the bedroom is private.
See Calliope's party outfit. Know how to dress for a party.
Housewarming gift cards are reliably welcome. Think about how to deploy gift cards effectively. Calliope put hers into a housewarming card.
Party manners include talking and listening. It can be daunting to meet a group of people who already know each other. Thus it is the host's responsibility to introduce friends to each other. Vagary actually does pretty well, even though it's mostly a memorized script with details added. Calliope is trying to get along with his friends. In case of cape politics or other issues, there are tips for coping with incompatible friends.
This is Calliope's tentacle sculpture.
Collecting is a popular hobby. Superheroes and supervillains often collect battle trophies, sometimes enough to fill a whole shelf -- or even a room. Here are some tips on how to start a collection.
Gendered tastes can affect how much sugar people want or whether they enjoy bitter flavors.
Public housing in local-America is patchy at best. It tends to concentrate poverty. Terramagne-America tends to prefer mixed-income housing. Arcadia East places several dozen extremely cheap apartments in an otherwise high-rent area. The retail floor provides immediate opportunities for employment, resources, and interaction with the general public. Consider a comprehensive plan to reduce poverty through affordable housing and other means.
Food deserts are areas with little or no access to fresh, healthy food. However, it takes more than building grocery stores to solve this problem. Notably, T-America has many more corner stores than L-America, but these are usually mom-and-pop shops rather than chain stores, and many of them are ethnic grocery stores catering to local tastes. One reason why Amy's Apples works in its location is their emphasis on fresh produce that can be eaten out of hand (most fruits) or made into salad (many vegetables) without needing elaborate preparation or complex kitchen equipment. Another category, including things like potatoes and chopped stew meat, caters to crockpot cooking which many residents use often. Think about how to bring better food to poor neighborhoods.
Transpecific is a polite term for people who are no longer fully human, but incorporate features from another species.
Transmorphic dysphoria is a mental condition resulting from unwelcome alterations in body shape. It's common among shapeshifters who can't control their changes, as well as people who change once and hate the results.
Similar issues are sometimes described as species dysphoria, which I call dysfuria, about people with animal instincts. And yes, I remember those early-1990s conversations about therianthropy, species dysphoria, and transpecific issues; I started plenty of them myself. Among the more blatant cases of transpecific identity involve imprinting, such as the Ukranian girl largely raised by dogs. There are ways to manage species dysphoria and therianthropy. This article comparing species dysphoria to gender dysphoria raises the idea of separate accommodations. In most cases, the human body shape prevents the need for separate facilities -- and people who can't or won't pass for human are typically caged in institutions anyway -- but in Terramagne, the need to accommodate animal features is very real, but largely ignored. I've known people who were so reflective of their inner species that the only reason they passed for primates is because people see what they want to see, not what's really there.
Many children cross-dress as exploration. However, some transgender children show a strong attachment to it from a very young age. Calvin sneaking in to wear his mother's dresses was quite a clue.
This is the Peshawar dress that Calliope finds at Goddess Closet while accompanying Vagary to a moving-out party at Arcadia East.
A coffee club is a subscription service for sampling different coffees.
Many reasons can drive people into homelessness or housing insecurity. Although homeless shelters exist, they cannot meet the demand, and many are so bad that people prefer risking death on the streets. What homeless people really need is sheltered housing that meets their particular needs, and especially, they need housing first and other services after they have a stable home. Kraken runs this facility because they seek out troubled youth, and not all of those make good supervillains or minions, so there has to be somewhere else to put them. Ways to help the homeless also generalize well to helping former homeless people who may still be struggling.
Food sharing communicates intimacy, which is why people prefer not to do it with people they dislike. It tends to promote happiness and connection.
See the Pizzazz Pizza tabletop pizza. The Farm Fresh Pizza has a whole wheat crust.
This is Lucy's bunny suncatcher.
Children with differences need toys that look like them, and other children benefit from diversity too. People try everything from campaigns to bespoke toys. There is even a transgender doll now. T-America has many more toys that represent a wide range of traits, and lots of toymakers support this with a diverse lineup.
Pimps come in various styles. In T-America, a Dribble Pimp is one who controls his prostitutes primarily by means of street drugs.
• Finesse Pimp/Romeo Pimp: One who prides himself on controlling others primarily through psychological manipulation. Although he may shower his victims with affection and gifts (especially during the recruitment phase), the threat of violence is always present.
• Gorilla (or Guerrilla) Pimp: A pimp who controls his victims almost entirely through physical violence and force.
Lucy's pimp was called All-Star Stamm.
All Star − User of multiple drugs
-- Street Terms
Hopp-R is a zetetic street drug intended to cause intense sexual arousal, which works on both sexes. Unfortunately, it has a variety of dangerous side effects, such as allergic and autoimmune reactions. It can damage the heart, sexual organs, and several important glands. It also causes some people to manifest animal traits. The vast majority of those come from domestic animals used to create the drug such as rabbits, sheep, and cows. However, some others such as cats, dogs, and wild animals have been reported. Most manifestations happen to the user, but it also raises the chance of giving birth to an infant with animal traits.
Zoop is a derogatory term for people with animal traits, shortened from "zoo soup" (which is also derogatory). A more polite term is "primal soup" or "prime."
Soups with animal traits may have just a few, a moderate amount, or a lot. Animal soups may be almost human in personality, somewhat human, or not at all. Catgirls and playbunnies are widely considered to be sex maniacs. This is a serious problem, considering that most of them did not choose those traits and some feel horrified by their own bodies. It contributes to one of the more common categories of soup also being among the most determined to stay in the fuse box.
Anyone can have a panic attack, especially after a stressful experience. In this case, Calliope relates the experience of people with animal traits to the very scary challenges faced by transfolk, which produces a spike in anxiety. When they happen frequently and/or without a credible threat present, enough to disrupt everyday life, that becomes panic disorder. Breathing disruption (shortness of breath, hyperventilation, etc.) is among the more common symptoms. There are many ways to stop panic attacks and deal with panic disorder. Know how to help someone through a panic attack. Vagary is able to recognize Calliope's stress but doesn't have a complete toolkit for handling it yet.
Transgender youth face serious difficulties. They have higher than average rates of abuse, homelessness, substance use, human trafficking, prostitution, suicide, beating and murder. Calliope isn't wrong -- primal soups face similarly heightened risks. Ways to help transgender people generalize well to helping disadvantaged soups too.
Value-added goods and services are improved in ways that make them more attractive to consumers and/or justify a higher price. In Lucy's case, personalizing a stuffed bunny at a party makes it much more valuable than one purchased at a store; add in the entertainment value of her appearance and performance, and it's turning into a lively business. There are various ways to add value to what you do or make. In fact, that's what we're doing here with crowdfunding -- letting people prompt for favorite ideas is a way of making customized poems more valuable than random ones.
Enjoy a recipe for Big Italian Salad.
Salad Palace is a healthy fast food chain in T-America. They serve a wide variety of vegan, vegetarian, omnivore, and carnivore salads. They also do rolls and sandwiches with things like tuna salad, turkey salad, or egg salad. Desserts are variations on fruit salad.
Privacy layers in a multipurpose building go from public to semi-public to private. At home, the public parts are outside, the living-dining area is semi-private, and the bedroom is private.
See Calliope's party outfit. Know how to dress for a party.
Housewarming gift cards are reliably welcome. Think about how to deploy gift cards effectively. Calliope put hers into a housewarming card.
Party manners include talking and listening. It can be daunting to meet a group of people who already know each other. Thus it is the host's responsibility to introduce friends to each other. Vagary actually does pretty well, even though it's mostly a memorized script with details added. Calliope is trying to get along with his friends. In case of cape politics or other issues, there are tips for coping with incompatible friends.
This is Calliope's tentacle sculpture.
Collecting is a popular hobby. Superheroes and supervillains often collect battle trophies, sometimes enough to fill a whole shelf -- or even a room. Here are some tips on how to start a collection.
Gendered tastes can affect how much sugar people want or whether they enjoy bitter flavors.
Public housing in local-America is patchy at best. It tends to concentrate poverty. Terramagne-America tends to prefer mixed-income housing. Arcadia East places several dozen extremely cheap apartments in an otherwise high-rent area. The retail floor provides immediate opportunities for employment, resources, and interaction with the general public. Consider a comprehensive plan to reduce poverty through affordable housing and other means.
Food deserts are areas with little or no access to fresh, healthy food. However, it takes more than building grocery stores to solve this problem. Notably, T-America has many more corner stores than L-America, but these are usually mom-and-pop shops rather than chain stores, and many of them are ethnic grocery stores catering to local tastes. One reason why Amy's Apples works in its location is their emphasis on fresh produce that can be eaten out of hand (most fruits) or made into salad (many vegetables) without needing elaborate preparation or complex kitchen equipment. Another category, including things like potatoes and chopped stew meat, caters to crockpot cooking which many residents use often. Think about how to bring better food to poor neighborhoods.
Transpecific is a polite term for people who are no longer fully human, but incorporate features from another species.
Transmorphic dysphoria is a mental condition resulting from unwelcome alterations in body shape. It's common among shapeshifters who can't control their changes, as well as people who change once and hate the results.
Similar issues are sometimes described as species dysphoria, which I call dysfuria, about people with animal instincts. And yes, I remember those early-1990s conversations about therianthropy, species dysphoria, and transpecific issues; I started plenty of them myself. Among the more blatant cases of transpecific identity involve imprinting, such as the Ukranian girl largely raised by dogs. There are ways to manage species dysphoria and therianthropy. This article comparing species dysphoria to gender dysphoria raises the idea of separate accommodations. In most cases, the human body shape prevents the need for separate facilities -- and people who can't or won't pass for human are typically caged in institutions anyway -- but in Terramagne, the need to accommodate animal features is very real, but largely ignored. I've known people who were so reflective of their inner species that the only reason they passed for primates is because people see what they want to see, not what's really there.
Many children cross-dress as exploration. However, some transgender children show a strong attachment to it from a very young age. Calvin sneaking in to wear his mother's dresses was quite a clue.
This is the Peshawar dress that Calliope finds at Goddess Closet while accompanying Vagary to a moving-out party at Arcadia East.
A coffee club is a subscription service for sampling different coffees.
Many reasons can drive people into homelessness or housing insecurity. Although homeless shelters exist, they cannot meet the demand, and many are so bad that people prefer risking death on the streets. What homeless people really need is sheltered housing that meets their particular needs, and especially, they need housing first and other services after they have a stable home. Kraken runs this facility because they seek out troubled youth, and not all of those make good supervillains or minions, so there has to be somewhere else to put them. Ways to help the homeless also generalize well to helping former homeless people who may still be struggling.
Food sharing communicates intimacy, which is why people prefer not to do it with people they dislike. It tends to promote happiness and connection.
See the Pizzazz Pizza tabletop pizza. The Farm Fresh Pizza has a whole wheat crust.
This is Lucy's bunny suncatcher.
Children with differences need toys that look like them, and other children benefit from diversity too. People try everything from campaigns to bespoke toys. There is even a transgender doll now. T-America has many more toys that represent a wide range of traits, and lots of toymakers support this with a diverse lineup.
Pimps come in various styles. In T-America, a Dribble Pimp is one who controls his prostitutes primarily by means of street drugs.
• Finesse Pimp/Romeo Pimp: One who prides himself on controlling others primarily through psychological manipulation. Although he may shower his victims with affection and gifts (especially during the recruitment phase), the threat of violence is always present.
• Gorilla (or Guerrilla) Pimp: A pimp who controls his victims almost entirely through physical violence and force.
Lucy's pimp was called All-Star Stamm.
All Star − User of multiple drugs
-- Street Terms
Hopp-R is a zetetic street drug intended to cause intense sexual arousal, which works on both sexes. Unfortunately, it has a variety of dangerous side effects, such as allergic and autoimmune reactions. It can damage the heart, sexual organs, and several important glands. It also causes some people to manifest animal traits. The vast majority of those come from domestic animals used to create the drug such as rabbits, sheep, and cows. However, some others such as cats, dogs, and wild animals have been reported. Most manifestations happen to the user, but it also raises the chance of giving birth to an infant with animal traits.
Zoop is a derogatory term for people with animal traits, shortened from "zoo soup" (which is also derogatory). A more polite term is "primal soup" or "prime."
Soups with animal traits may have just a few, a moderate amount, or a lot. Animal soups may be almost human in personality, somewhat human, or not at all. Catgirls and playbunnies are widely considered to be sex maniacs. This is a serious problem, considering that most of them did not choose those traits and some feel horrified by their own bodies. It contributes to one of the more common categories of soup also being among the most determined to stay in the fuse box.
Anyone can have a panic attack, especially after a stressful experience. In this case, Calliope relates the experience of people with animal traits to the very scary challenges faced by transfolk, which produces a spike in anxiety. When they happen frequently and/or without a credible threat present, enough to disrupt everyday life, that becomes panic disorder. Breathing disruption (shortness of breath, hyperventilation, etc.) is among the more common symptoms. There are many ways to stop panic attacks and deal with panic disorder. Know how to help someone through a panic attack. Vagary is able to recognize Calliope's stress but doesn't have a complete toolkit for handling it yet.
Transgender youth face serious difficulties. They have higher than average rates of abuse, homelessness, substance use, human trafficking, prostitution, suicide, beating and murder. Calliope isn't wrong -- primal soups face similarly heightened risks. Ways to help transgender people generalize well to helping disadvantaged soups too.
Value-added goods and services are improved in ways that make them more attractive to consumers and/or justify a higher price. In Lucy's case, personalizing a stuffed bunny at a party makes it much more valuable than one purchased at a store; add in the entertainment value of her appearance and performance, and it's turning into a lively business. There are various ways to add value to what you do or make. In fact, that's what we're doing here with crowdfunding -- letting people prompt for favorite ideas is a way of making customized poems more valuable than random ones.
Enjoy a recipe for Big Italian Salad.
Salad Palace is a healthy fast food chain in T-America. They serve a wide variety of vegan, vegetarian, omnivore, and carnivore salads. They also do rolls and sandwiches with things like tuna salad, turkey salad, or egg salad. Desserts are variations on fruit salad.
