Monday Update 10-29-18

[ysabetwordsmith]

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Recipe: "African Goatloaf 1.0"
Recipe: "Buddha's Hand Basil Chicken"
Gay Penguins Hatch Egg
Today's Adventures
How to Build a Novel from Themes and Symbols
Voting Guides
Thursday Yardening
Emotional Intimacy Question: Start a Business
Recipe: "Buddha's Hand Beef"
Read some stories!
Wednesday Yardening
Medications That Cause Memory Loss
Hard Things


I wrote some big meta posts this week. Easterns as a Genre introduces a type of entertainment popular in Terramagne-American television and movies. They're the mirror image of Westerns: set in the same time period in Eastern cities instead of Western wilderness.

I've also been mulling over inclusivity in games, and versatility of games that could be played in different situations. I started with an exploration of Games for Blind People or Blackouts, where I mention some extant options and lament the fact that very few games like this are available in local-America. I went to sleep with that in mind, and I woke up with a headful of T-American games that are optimized in those directions. If you read Inclusive Games from Terramagne on Saturday, check it again because I added more stuff late Sunday night. Most of these could be replicated with locally available materials.

As you can see above, we've also been doing some more adventurous food -- we've got a guest this week and Samhain is coming up. I may have more to share, depending on what ingredients we find.


Poetry in Microfunding:

There are three open epics. We're full until at least one of these concludes.

"Energy, Made Visible" belongs to Polychrome Heroics: Shiv and has 3 new verses. Shiv really wants to keep going with the therapy questions.

"Only If It Is Embraced" belongs to Polychrome Heroics: Damask. Pain's Gray deals with Ham picking on Keane.

"A Cave Swarming with Strange Forms of Life" belongs to Polychrome Heroics: Iron Horses. Kenzie goes to Pretty Ears for counseling.


The weather has been cool here, sometimes very windy, other times beautiful.  We got some rain.  Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a big flock of goldfinches, a flock of sparrows, several house finches, some dark-eyed juncos, a male and a female cardinal separately, a Bewick's wren, and three squirrels.   In bloom: salvia and sedum.  The crabapples and pears are ripe. Leaves are falling off without turning colors, although there's a little more color on a few trees. 

Comments

[zeeth_kyrah]

I found an article that seems right up your alley, regarding the long-term preservation of human knowledge and history: The Time Capsule That’s as Big as Human History - a guy is putting etched ceramic plates into a hole in a salt mine, expecting them to be revealed in a million years or so.

Aww ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

You found one of my peeps! :D I wonder what space exploration team I know him from. There are just so few of us with this habit of baking or carving things and then purposely chucking them into a hole in the ground or a midden, because we know what future archaeologist will look for. Patterns. And you can see us in strange lands dancing around a muddy hole in the ground, mostly over strangers' garbage, but every once in a while we find notes we wrote to ourselves or each other thousands of years ago.

It doesn't matter if it's on the other side of a planet, or time. It doesn't matter. I remember. <3

Re: Aww ...

[zeeth_kyrah]

I'm still a relatively young soul, and most of my memories are either from outer space or as a small animal hiding myself, but I've already been doing some of this. I'm a world forge when I can be, and I like to leave a signature mark (and usually some lines of poetry in sigil form) on every world I build. If I can, I like to place a hidden temple near an ideal city-founding place, though they don't always survive. Or a small village which is actually a permanent work camp or religious camp near a set of standing stones. Look for a kiln (usually an in-ground kiln) in that village and look inside. If you see a seven-pointed star, or seven star symbols near each other, you've usually found it; underneath that you'll find a small archive on ceramic (usually glazed). Or in the temple, if the carvings in it survive you'll find samples of advice for past, present, and future civilization from the Awakeners who work for the Blueprinters' organization.

That said, what I usually do is much less permanent in physical form, but I should admit to being an Awakener. We're usually more about the people than the stuff, but having good tools generally makes everything easier.