Sometimes I Feel Like A Black Hole

putting trumpets in a metal song feels like cheating. I have never heard a metal song with trumpets that wasn't an absolute banger

i almost forgot that it's trans visibility day today and only remembered because a friend told me. someone come and take my membership card away lol

World building (Literally)

In the process of working on my novel, I’ve had to create entire new planets. Fortunately for me, only one of them (currently) requires extensive planning into the depths of the environment, since that’s a two-pronged plot point. 

I’ll preface this with the fact that I am not a scientist nor particularly gifted in the sciences despite my fascination with them. So all of the resources I have I’ve found useful from starting with the bare bones and expanding into the literal process of creating a world.

Perhaps the best single resource that I lean most heavily on is Mark Rosenfelder’s The Planet Construction Kit. This book goes into more depth than I really needed, but for someone who really wants to start from scratch it’s an indispensable tool. Not only does he go into detail on creating the literal planet (and even the solar system!), but he goes further into environments, and who and what you might find there before expanding beautifully into developing cultures and the details of whatever created inhabitants of your world would need. I really can’t recommend the book enough.

Personally, I needed a little more detail before I felt comfortable assigning climates to my planet, and that’s where I drew a page out of the site worldbuildingworkshop (here) to go step-by-step through the logical development of a world. This included the application of:

wind patterns

pressure systems

ocean currents

precipitation

seasonal changes

how all of the above affect the assignment of environment to your world

It’s worth noting that this site’s explanation is inspired from a now-defunct site that is currently only available via the Wayback Machine. The Climate Cookbook goes into even further detail, but is also a more complicated read. Definitely worth a look. (It’s still available as of Jan ‘18)

I also found that @mythcreantsblog had an excellent post on their off-Tumblr site that helped further in the effort to assign climates, with exceptionally helpful illustrations. Definitely something to check out if you’re trying to pull a planet together. (Here)

My last site I didn’t use as much as the others, but is definitely worth honorable mention for the useful question-and-answer dynamic that covers much of the same information. For those needing illustrations to follow along, the text-heavy format might not be best, but it goes into details that definitely compliment the processes that the other resources go into. (Here)

Of course, I’m sure there’s lots of other useful sites and tools out there, but these were the primary resources that I leaned on while putting my new planet together.

Love you (ALL)

You are important

The world would be a worse place without you in it

You matter

I care

There are other people who care

You will find people who care in this very thread

You matter more than you know

Don't give up on yourself

ALSO DRINK YOUR MEDS AND WATER and at least try to eat something today if you haven't already

If you can, please put one thing away, one clothing item in your closet, one piece of trash in the bin

You are doing good

Take care of yourself

You deserve good things

I finally started playing life is strange (only almost ten years late to the party I guess) and I love that the game warns me if an action will have consequences cuz well I'm always second-guessing everything. but why did it warn me that watering my houseplant will have consequences?

When will my life begin?

Counting life in appointments

One week, one month, one year.

Horrified of what there is to come

Glad that what was is over.

Putting everything on hold

Friends, emotions, youth.

I have to wait for the new me

Wait until she's me.

I'm trapped inside this body

Or maybe it's her who's trapped?

What even is the difference

when we'll never be one another?

I don't know how to feel, what to feel

The hope of getting there is like a candle

in the midst of a storm at the coast.

Please end this waiting

Why cry if it doesn't change a thing

Why hope if the appointment turns into

a disappointment

Why try to build up something

if it's gonna be for nothing?

I'm here

nothing more, nothing less

there really isn't anything that hits quite as hard as hearing the singer of the band that helped you through some of your worst years sing "it's okay to cry" from the top of his lungs. like technically i know. i don't know how many songs of yours made me cry already. but hearing you say it made me feel something i haven't felt in a long time

i'll never doubt my cable drawer's importance again. just now i thought: man, an aux extension cord would be just what i need. and guess what was at the bottom of the drawer

I love my job, but maybe it'll help someone else

stayed up to listen to the new sleep token song and holy fuck it's worth every single moment of its four minutes and fifty seconds of runtime