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A large part of housecat vocalisation toward humans isn’t goal-directed communication, but rather, affiliative signaling: a simple call-and-response protocol which establishes that the participants are part of the same social unit. Amongst themselves, most housecat affiliative signaling is non-vocal, but humans aren’t really physiologically equipped to respond to such signalling in a feline fashion, and cats, well, they’re adaptable.
Which is to say that when your cat yells, and you yell back, so the cat yells again, and so forth, what you’re really saying to each other is “hiiiiii~”.
This is why it is important to meow at loved ones.
A largish percentage of human vocalizations are this, too! When your human co-worker says “Workin’ hard or hardly workin’?” or comments on atmospheric conditions or other readily-observable features of your surroundings, or generally statements that seemingly convey no useful or novel information whatsoever, the true purpose of these vocalizations is to develop and/or maintain the social unit of the workplace! In effect, they are saying, “We are experiencing this situation together. We often experience situations together. Let’s be allies!”
Some humans will even make vocalizations of this kind to complete strangers, such as when waiting in a line or using public transportation. This behavior is especially common in situation that may involve some form of inconvenience or frustration, such as waiting in a long line or experiencing a delay. In these contexts, the vocalizations communicate, “We are both experiencing the same unpleasant situation; let’s not make it worse by being aggressive to one another.”
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In the past fifty years, fantasy’s greatest sin might be its creation of a bland, invariant, faux-Medieval European backdrop. The problem isn’t that every fantasy novel is set in the same place: pick a given book, and it probably deviates somehow. The problem is that the texture of this place gets everywhere.
What’s texture, specifically? Exactly what Elliot says: material culture. Social space. The textiles people use, the jobs they perform, the crops they harvest, the seasons they expect, even the way they construct their names. Fantasy writing doesn’t usually care much about these details, because it doesn’t usually care much about the little people – laborers, full-time mothers, sharecroppers, so on. (The last two books of Earthsea represent LeGuin’s remarkable attack on this tendency in her own writing.) So the fantasy writer defaults – fills in the tough details with the easiest available solution, and moves back to the world-saving, vengeance-seeking, intrigue-knotting narrative. Availability heuristics kick in, and we get another world of feudal serfs hunting deer and eating grains, of Western name constructions and Western social assumptions. (Husband and wife is not the universal historical norm for family structure, for instance.)
Defaulting is the root of a great many evils. Defaulting happens when we don’t think too much about something we write – a character description, a gender dynamic, a textile on display, the weave of the rug. Absent much thought, automaticity, the brain’s subsconscious autopilot, invokes the easiest available prototype – in the case of a gender dynamic, dad will read the paper, and mom will cut the protagonist’s hair. Or, in the case of worldbuilding, we default to the bland fantasy backdrop we know, and thereby reinforce it. It’s not done out of malice, but it’s still done.
The only way to fight this is by thinking about the little stuff. So: I was quite wrong. You do need to worldbuild pretty hard. Worldbuild against the grain, and worldbuild to challenge. Think about the little stuff. You don’t need to position every rain shadow and align every tectonic plate before you start your short story. But you do need to build a base of historical information that disrupts and overturns your implicit assumptions about how societies ‘ordinarily’ work, what they ‘ordinarily’ eat, who they ‘ordinarily’ sleep with. Remember that your slice of life experience is deeply atypical and selective, filtered through a particular culture with particular norms. If you stick to your easy automatic tendencies, you’ll produce sexist, racist writing – because our culture still has sexist, racist tendencies, tendencies we internalize, tendencies we can now even measure and quantify in a laboratory. And you’ll produce narrow writing, writing that generalizes a particular historical moment, its flavors and tongues, to a fantasy world that should be much broader and more varied. Don’t assume that the world you see around you, its structures and systems, is inevitable.
Random things that influence culture
- Staple cropppp
- Times this place has had drastic changes of who's in power ie conquerors, colonizers, settlers etc. zero times is a little rare, and multiple times does happen
- Average number of children in a family, btw this shows quality of life
- Awareness and attitude towards queerness eg. is boys sitting on each other's laps and sharing cloths gonna come off as 1) boys being boys, boys can only be friends of course 2) look at those faggots 3) aw they're in love etc.
- Humidity
- Are boobs explicit content™, what exactly is considered modesty for women ahem ahem and was it influenced by the colonizers or similar
- Staple protein source? Fish? Livestock? Only milk?
- When does children leave the house? Eg upon turning an adult, upon marriage etc
- How accessible is education? How does it work? Eg free classes weekly by a religious head, daily classes by learned teachers which cost lots, bording school type free education but only if the teacher likes and choses the student, etc. multiple forms can exist together
- Landscape. Baby try putting that fantasy story on the plainssss
- Popular modes of travel, and how accessible by that is the current location
- Number of languages, and how much each language is integreted into society Eg. Everyone knows both languages, Native tongue only survives in spoken way and second language fully integrated because the settlers burnt all documents of the native language, Native tongue fully integrated but Merchants commonly know many foreign languages because this is a trade center etc.
How to take this forward, eg you pick rice as the staple crop, so which all people prepared rice, did the rich prefer rice? Did the poorest get to eat rice? Storing rice changes the house layout so how did it affect the games the children played etc etc.
Reminder that you can have constant anxiety and still be talkative you just have to die a little each time you open your mouth.
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Start HRT
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xie lian in ghost city
[ID: TGCF fanart of Xie Lian nervously raising his hands and saying via text post, "hey girl my penis is small i have no money my phone screen is cracked i get scared easily killed myself once sorry". End ID]
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Man, I almost drank myself to death yesterday, I can't even remember my name, if only there was someone that could help me.
The the trustworthy and saint-like lieutenant:
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Is it just me? they all sound so similar with i-e-something something and i just cant remember any of it
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bug girl who bites you with her womandibles
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if you are my online friend or mutual then i automatically assume you are transgender. if you aren't you have to come out to me as cis
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Sure it’s soulless and only exists to be a lazy cashgrab but at least now it’s a REAL movie unlike that toddler cartoon /s
oh no oh no no no no
leave my beloved httyd alone please you can have anything else please please please
see your favorites made F L E S H
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Jiang Cheng with Zidian worm on a string, 2019
Why would you put these tags under my reblog/j
How is the green bitchy guy and purple bitchy guy the same they are literally diffrent colors/j
Ya... I guess they're all twinks but... Like... WHEN WAS WIND MASTER ANGRY??? You mean his like best friend guy?... Forgot how that arc went T.T
That's cool about mxtx works I guess they somehow have wildly different arcs and still have the exact vibe. Idiots, revenge, something about demonic power, family drama, delusional mcs
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Jiang Cheng with Zidian worm on a string, 2019
Why would you put these tags under my reblog/j
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the first law of tragedies: the end is already written and inevitable. the second law of tragedies: your actions are all your own and you can choose to get off this ride whenever you want. the third law of tragedies: we both know that you are never going to do that.
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people always talk about evil clones like oooh a dark mirror oohh what if you saw what are cruel person you were/are capable of becoming. and well yes but what if you were the evil clone. what if you looked in the mirror and what you saw was so bright it blinded you. what if you had to know exactly how good you could have been.
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actually i love growing older and learning how i work as a person like realizing what kinds of fabrics feel best on my skin or what brand of yogurt i like best or how I want to be touched. watching myself change, enjoying brussel sprouts when I used to hate them as a child, understanding why I got angry in that one conversation 10 years ago… there are so many mysteries inside me that i have yet to unravel and there will always be more and sometimes i think maybe its all worth it