OK, y’all know I’m all about xenoergonomics around here. Let’s point out everything wrong with what Fox is wearing in this picture and what I would do instead.
This fragment has been sitting in my stories folder for well over a year and I’ll probably never finish it. It’s about one of the first instances of funerary ritual among the yinrih.
Thinking about other crops that spacers can grow independently. Intuitively I’d lean toward things that are all or mostly subterranean, with peanuts and potatoes serving as inspirations. Like Leasemeat I imagine them growing in a gel matrix made from reclaimed sewage, though likely treated to account for differing soil preferences.
I’ve always had an odd relationship with “hard” magic systems, that is systems that seem to be… well systematic, stuff you could analyze and explain almost like a hard science.
It was a tower of crap. Well, OK, it wasn’t exactly crap, more processed solid waste suspended in a gel matrix. And I suppose it wasn’t exactly a tower either, though I’m not sure what you’d call it. There’s no “up” in zero-G, so it could just as easily be long as tall. I was floating at one end of a long cylindrical shaft, the “tower” in question extending along the shaft’s center for what had to be half a kilometer.
This is a repost of a write-up I did over on the CBB forum about how I came up with the phonology and initial vocabulary of Commonthroat, my principle yinrih language. I thought it might find use here as well.
I figured someone might find this useful. I never intended my conworld to be a speculative biology project, but part of me is always striving to put everything in its place. So I usually think of random critters first and only later try to cram them into some sort of taxon.
The nannerpus (plural nannerpi, nannerpods, or nannerpuses), is a member of a group of terrestrial soft-bodied invertebrates that has evolved a thick skin similar to the peel of a banana.
Vreem are a bug like sophont species roughly the size of a crow. I figured since they have crab claws they would have a hard time using cylindrical writing tools so I came up with a stamp like pen instead. This is an example of Khlhk one of many vreem languages in my setting. It uses a vertical script of lines and dots and is an agglutination heavy language, so an entire sentence or phrase is also a single word.
This is a quick sketch in Plasticity of a stereotypical dense urban center. Buildings sit on pylons above the ground, and there are pedestrian walkways between buildings on the level of the real first floor of the building.
Excerpt from my latest edited chapter "Disrespecting the afterlife". In this scene Lyeasrakardsul finds out why the Knomes don't mind the fumes surrounding their caverns... 😁
This is somewhat more specific than I think I can fit in a title. I don’t mean giving “bad guys” traits that most people would consider evil. Do you give otherwise sympathetic or neutral people or groups characteristics that you would find annoying or bothersome if you had to deal with them?
The Yinrih Ansible Protocol (YAP) is used to communicate between ansibles over the Underlay. YAP is a human-coined term, and the pun on the word yap referring to sounds made by various canids is almost certainly deliberate. Yinrih themselves call it simply Ansible Protocol.
Yinrih lack the raging hormones seen in human teenagers, so what’s an adolescent monkey fox to do with all that extra time and energy? Why poke his pointy wet nose where it doesn’t belong, of course.
I sometimes feel embarrassed by this hobby. I’m a grown man playing make believe, and I don’t have the excuse of saying it’s for a book or game. But occasionally I gain useful skills through the course of my conworlding.
Some branches of Agentivist Neoshamanism believe that every species of living thing has a pool of mana distributed across the entire population of that species. Consuming members of that species grants you its portion of mana. The fewer specimens, the greater each individual’s portion of the overall mana pool, and thus the more mana granted to the consumer.
RE: mstdn.party/@Crystal_Fish_CaveWhat if it's not in the unlocking the secrets of the multiverse at all? 🤔 What if instead the every increasing complexity of the questions we ask ourselves increases the complexity of the multiverse? That would mean thoughts create reality as much as reality create thoughts.Anyway that's the theory of my fictional multiverse 😁@worldbuilding @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world@philosophy @joinin#Thoughts #Guide #To #The #Multiverse #Philosophy #Theory
YIP (Yinrih Internetworking protocol) is used to address nodes on the realspace internetwork. intra-planetary links are made with optical fiber, and inter-planetary and interstellar links are made using FTL Underlay tunnels.
Balanced bace-27 (BB27) is used in vulpithecine computing in a similar manner to hexadecimal. Yinrih computers are based on balanced ternary instead of binary, where each digit can represent -1 (written T), 0, or 1. Balanced base-27 uses 27 digits which can represent the decimal range -13 to +13. The Yinrih Internetworking Protocol (YIP) uses BB27 to represent YIP addresses.
Diarcesia, officially the Monarchy Diarcesian, is a sovereign entity composed of self-governing administrative units called diereses in western Bronte and overseas.
The Lonely Galaxy is not a speculative biology project. I come up with flora and fauna as I need them, nevertheless I feel a bit sloppy about it. Yih’s biosphere isn’t terribly different from Earth’s. Some of this is deliberate. I want yinrih culture to be more relatable while still being different, so their environment has to follow suit. Some of it is laziness. “Eh just stick an extra body segment on a bug and call it a day”.
I differentiate between “figures” and “characters”. Characters are given more of a personality, and might be someone you could identify with, as you’d expect from a literary character. Figures are people primarily known through their effect on the world around them, the stories told about them, etc.
Post image: a human artist’s impression of the Claravian afterlife, the Empyrean, depicting a blessed soul immersed in the Uncreated Light. The Empyrean is sometimes derisively called “The farm” by irreverent humans.
TL;DR, you need a magnetosphere to keep the solar wind from stripping your atmosphere. You could create an artificial magnetosphere by placing a really powerful magnet at the first Lagrange point such that the planet is shadowed by the object’s magnetotail.
The Claravian Order of Farspeakers were responsible for building and maintaining the yinrihs’ telecommunication infrastructure prior to the War of Dissolution, which ended the Bright Way’s monopoly on much of Focus’s economy.
Welkinstead is the anglicized name of the innermost gas giant of Focus. Its Commonthroat name is LLpLg /long low weak grunt; long low weak grunt; early falling weakening grunt; short low weak growl/, derived from LLg (outpost, colony or homestead) and pLg (cloud), “Welkin” being an archaic English word for cloud or sky.
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