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solarsavoy · 2 years
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My World Monday, Theran specific words
Since Stag has an account now, I figure I should explain some of the words specific to Thera, as he may end up using them occasionally. To start, the words gay, lesbian, bisexual, and straight do not exist. I wanted something different for Thera, something more inclusive. So here we go!
Thera is a more hunter based society than Earth and the gender roles expected of each person are very different. Instead of defining a person's interest by what they are and what they are into (ex: gay = man -> man) they use different words to describe what a person prefers to "hunt".
Keet. If you remember from the zoology post, keets are herbivores that are nearly extinct. Also, in order to be prey on Thera and survive, you have to be really fast, agile and evasive, making them tricky to catch. So if a person says they are a keet, what they are saying is that they are interested in women.
So to follow the equation above, keet = person -> woman. Deshi is a keet. You haven't met her, but Valin is a keet. (A woman who likes women.) Thera cares less about what you are and more about what you "hunt", so both Deshi and Valin are keets despite them being different genders. They see no difference between a man interested in women or a woman interested in women. They both like women. What else matters? **Joke at the end.
Mers. Mers were carnivores that are also nearly extinct on Thera. They were wily and patient and strong. If a person is a mers, they are into men. The princess is a mers, and so is Master Diette, who is in the Second Fragment and no one knows yet, haha. Mers = person -> man.
Zoiya. The last word they use to describe sexual preferences is zoiya, which is an omnivore on Thera, and as that implies, this means you either like both men and women or have no preference. Zoiyas are very versatile, hunt and are hunted. Stag is a very proud zoiya. And later, when she's older, so is Panko. ^^
A little bit of history.
Thera was trying to raise awareness for the species close to extinction and started using keet, mers and zoiya to describe many aspects of life. Clubs actually grew the most attached to the terms and started using them regularly and it stuck. The only club I've named using the words is "Mers Merriments" (a place Stag hits up a few times in his origin book) and it is now weird if a club doesn't have one listed. You are either a keet club, a mers club, or a zoiya club (which is generally most of them).
A side thing: Thera doesn't have terms like asexual, aromantic or hypersexual, but it is assumed that if you are not in a club that specifically caters to "hooking up", then you're probably not interested in finding a special someone at that place and time. Clubs are very common and will often contain a bar, a sizeable dance floor, a sort of stage for various forms of entertainment (anywhere from live music to strippers), and some of the fancier ones have rooms for rent. For, you know, reasons. (Deshi totally accidentallys himself into one in book 5… Great scene. 😆) They often have age limits and restrictions to these clubs.
Then there are two other words to describe the in-betweens.
Keezo. Used to describe people that for all intents and purposes prefer women, but may occasionally be with a man. This is Mythren.
Zoimer. Used to describe people that for all intents and purposes prefer men, but may occasionally be with a woman. This is... technically a spoiler so I can't tell you. 😏
Other words.
They have comparable technology to Earth made with much less metal and also have different names for things. There aren't any vehicles in Thera (that I've made yet, maybe later but they won't be cars. I do have ideas for a type of train though…) because of how rare metal is. The only things I've named are MDPs, mobile data processor which is the standard computer/laptop/ipad type of item and displayers, our televisions/monitors. They also have "internet" but I can't remember what they call it. I think it's the network.
Unlike on Earth, every electronic device is automatically connected to the network and you actually have to get a specially designed MDP to not be on the network. Hummes runs the network like Google runs the internet on Earth. For the most part, they have their hands in nearly everything in some places, if not most.
I won't go into it here because it really deserves its own post, but Therans will occasionally refer to heteronormative couples as traditional and homosexual couples as non-traditional when it comes to raising children, but only in the case of raising children. More on that later.
And last but not least, devocha.
I played around with Google translate for hours to make this word. It is an insult. It was created by Hummes to try and create tension within the kingdom of Solara during wartime. Devocha specifically refers to a non-magical person, hypocritically aligning themselves with magical people. For example, the Solara royals are all devocha because they are non-magical, and yet they rule Solara, the magical capital. Hummes infiltrated Solara and spread around the word devocha by saying things akin to "a devocha has no right to rule persons with magical abilities. What sense does that make?" This gave a lot of Magics an inflated sense of importance and this tactic nearly worked in creating a civil war within Solara. But then the first Carroll came by, bestowed with the Peace Bringer, and brought an end to that. Even so, the word stuck around and non-magics receiving training at Solara castle were often teased for being "devocha". People often forgot that the Solara royals were also, technically, devocha, but royals were always different because they're royals. And Stag was among the ridiculed. (Small piece of Second Fragment for ya!)
And that's about it. I'm sure more words will come up eventually, but I don't foresee too many of them.
For future My World Monday posts (send an ask if you'd like to see something sooner rather than later, but I'll go through them all eventually):
-The Council of Marka
-Economics of Thera
-Dynamic of Hummes (the city)
-Dynamic of Kares
-Dynamic of Marka
-Dynamic of Estes
-Dynamic of Solara
-Education system of Solara - including Earth age comparisons
-Fighter types among the kingdoms
-Traditional vs non-traditional children
-Hummes/Solara conflict
-Magic system
**Bonus joke: a woman dressed up like a cowboy walks up to a bar. A cowboy turns to her and says "well what are you supposed to be?" And she responds, "I'm a lesbian. I think about women, I dream about women, and I have sex with women."
The cowboy thinks about this for a while and eventually leaves the bar. Later, someone walks up to him and says, "what're you, a cowboy?" And the cowboy responds, "nope, I'm a lesbian. I think about women, I dream about women, and I have sex with women."
I knew this joke before I came up with the sexual preference terms of Thera, and it didn't necessarily inspire the idea, but it incorporates it really well, I think. Again, what does it matter if you both like women?
Have a good day, everyone. And thanks for reading! ^^
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chitinleg · 1 year
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got him off-balance!
#my art#ds9#star trek deep space nine#julian bashir#elim garak#garashir#watercolor#image desc in alt text#i normally post on mondays but. today im breaking my pattern! getting a little silly. getting a little wild. garashir jumpscare#“tumblr user chitinleg garak would neot easily let himself be swooped off his feet into a hug like that” yes i know BUT!#look at his expression. look at how his arms r pinned. he didnt let this happen LMAO julian just surprised him. grabby huggy human behavior#if you look really closely you can see the tiniest frown in the world on Garak's face. because he's like “EEP !”#cant see bashirs face at all in this only his body but i think we can all imagine that whatevers going thru his head. he needs this hug bad#ALSO. for anyone wondering what the fucked up shadow is that starts at the juncture of the teal sleeve-cap where its set into the armhole#the jumpsuits have a bit of a fold of extra fabric (called an Action Pleat) there which allows for a little more maneuverability of the bod#AND creates a really sleek and flat back panel#because you can see the fabric twists along the side arent grabbing the flat back fabric theyre grabbing the fabric folded beneath it#often times i think about drawing out a dissection of kiras first uniform and this voy era one for other artists to use. bc god knows#i struggled at first to find full body references#they like to shoot ds9 very close to peoples heads. and the camera is so blurry. they smeared butter on that thing. god bless
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nottheweirdest · 2 years
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Somehow this meme just keeps getting more relatable...
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zack comes home
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happy moody middle-aged man covered in blood Monday to those who celebrate
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welcome to the mr men show fandom mclooy rudboys <33
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someone's impressed... (2/3)
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itsrheasgirl · 5 months
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ᴍᴀꜱᴛᴇʀ ʟɪꜱᴛ
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ɪ ᴊᴜꜱᴛ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴀᴋᴇ ɪᴛ ᴄʟᴇᴀʀ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴀʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴛᴏʀɪᴇꜱ ɪ ᴡʀɪᴛᴇ ʜᴇʀᴇ ᴀʀᴇ ᴀᴜ. ᴛʜᴇ ᴜꜱᴇ ᴏꜰ ʀᴇᴀʟ ɴᴀᴍᴇꜱ ᴅᴏᴇꜱ ʜᴀᴘᴘᴇɴ ɪɴ ꜱᴏᴍᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴍʏ ᴡᴏʀᴋꜱ ꜱᴏ ᴊᴜꜱᴛ ʙᴇ ᴘʀᴇᴘᴀʀᴇᴅ.
ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇᴛᴇ
ᴡɪᴘ
ᴏɴᴇ ꜱʜᴏᴛꜱ
ᴇʏᴇꜱ ᴅᴏɴ’ᴛ ʟɪᴇ ( ʀᴀQᴜᴇʟ ʀᴏᴅʀɪɢᴜᴇᴢ)
ᴛᴀʟᴋ ʙᴀᴄᴋ
ᴀᴄᴄɪᴅᴇɴᴛꜱ ʜᴀᴘᴘᴇɴ
ᴘʟᴀʏ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴍᴇ
ᴛᴇᴀᴄʜᴇʀ’ꜱ ᴘᴇᴛ
ʏᴏᴜ’ʀᴇ ꜱᴛɪʟʟ ᴍɪɴᴇ ( ʟɪᴠ ᴍᴏʀɢᴀɴ )
ʙᴀᴅ ɢɪʀʟ
ʀᴇQᴜᴇꜱᴛꜱ
ᴄᴀɴ’ᴛ ɢᴇᴛ ᴄᴀᴜɢʜᴛ
ᴛʜᴇ ɢɪʀʟꜱ ɪꜱ ᴍɪɴᴇ - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 1 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 2 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 3
ʟᴏᴠᴇ ɪꜱ ʙʟɪɴᴅ
ʏᴏᴜ ʙᴇʟᴏɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴇ
ʜᴀᴘᴘɪʟʏ (ɴ)ᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴀꜰᴛᴇʀ - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 1 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 2
ꜰᴏʀʙɪᴅᴅᴇɴ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ꜱᴇʀɪᴇꜱ
ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 1: ꜰᴏʀʙɪᴅᴅᴇɴ ʟᴏᴠᴇ
ᴘʀᴇQᴜᴀʟ: ᴅᴏɴ’ᴛ ʟɪᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴇ
ᴘᴀʀᴛ 1 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 2 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 3 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 4 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 5
ᴘᴀʀᴛ 6 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 7 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 8 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 9 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 10
ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏʀɴɪɴɢ ᴀꜰᴛᴇʀ
ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 2: ᴀɴ ᴜɴᴇxᴘᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ɢᴜᴇꜱᴛ
ᴘʀᴇQᴜᴀʟ: ɪ ᴅᴏɴ’ᴛ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴅᴏ
ᴘᴀʀᴛ 1 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 2 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 3 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 4 - ʙᴇᴛʀᴀʏᴀʟ
ᴘᴀʀᴛ 5 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 6 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 7 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 8 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 9 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 10
ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 3: ᴏɴʟʏ ʟᴏᴏᴋɪɴɢ ᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜ
ᴘᴀʀᴛ 1 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 2 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 3 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 4 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 5
ᴘᴀʀᴛ 6 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 7 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 8 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 9 - ᴘᴀʀᴛ 10
ᴡɪʟʟ ʏᴏᴜ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴍᴇ ᴛᴏᴍᴏʀʀᴏᴡ
ᴍɪɴɪ ꜱᴇʀɪᴇꜱ (x ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ)
ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 1 - ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 2 - ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 3 - ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴛʙᴀ
ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴏᴄᴋꜱ
ᴛᴇᴀꜱᴇʀ
ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 1 - ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 2 - ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 3 - ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 4
ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 5 - ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 6 - ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 7 - ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 8
ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 9 - ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴛʙᴀ
ʜᴀʟʟᴏᴡᴇᴇɴ ᴏɴᴇ ꜱʜᴏᴛꜱ
ᴏɴʟʏ ʏᴏᴜʀꜱ (ᴠᴀᴍᴘɪʀᴇ!ʀʜᴇᴀ)
ꜰʀɪᴅᴀʏ ɴɪɢʜᴛ ʙɪᴛᴇꜱ (ᴠᴀᴍᴘɪʀᴇ!ʀʜᴇᴀ)
ᴍᴀᴋᴇ ᴍᴇ ꜱᴄʀᴇᴀᴍ (ɢʜᴏꜱᴛꜰᴀᴄᴇ!ʀʜᴇᴀ)
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crescentfool · 1 month
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persona nui havers! in the tags, talk about your nuis like you're writing a review of them on a website!
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cloudysfluffs · 2 months
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If you do art for Little Shop of Horrors, I think lee!Seymour would be adorable :3
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when youre trying to get ready for an interview but your strange and unusual plant is demanding attention 🙄🙄
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solarsavoy · 2 years
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My World Monday, the solar system
Today, I'm going to talk about the solar system and a bit of how the planet and moons of Thera are set up. I'm a bit of a space nerd and love looking up information about how stars and planets are formed and I've watched the extraterrestrial worlds documentary on Netflix and I just find it all so fascinating. So, I did a little research and really got into how my planet, Thera, was formed.
A lot of stars expel things that eventually form planets. A lot of the metals and rocks collect closer to the star, making the more rocky planets, and then a lot of the gases actually get completely expelled out of the solar system. What sticks around collects and forms what are called the gas giants. Then usually any other objects past the gas giants are collected from things expelled from other solar systems including but not limited to asteroids, comets, blackholes and dead stars.
For Thera's solar system, the stars actually reabsorbed the gas giants because there are two of them. It isn't uncommon for gas giants to fall back into their star. If it weren't for Saturn, the same fate would have befallen Jupiter in our own, but the gravity pulling Jupiter the opposite direction was enough to stabilize our solar system into what it is now. With Jupiter and Saturn together, the other rocky planets have stabilized as well. It's also the reason most asteroids collect in the asteroid belt.
Some gas giants will get really close and develop a super fast orbit if they aren't absorbed. (There's a star out there with a super Jupiter orbiting the sun very closely every six minutes or something insane like that.)
Anyway, the solar system for Thera is a binary star system, which means there are two stars. There are many forms of binary star systems, but most stars have what's called a habitable zone and most binary star systems have habitable zones that overlap and then cross over to the burn zone (where water evaporates) and the cold zone (unofficial term, I'm just calling it that, but it's too cold to live there is the point).
So, how do I make a habitable zone that consistently sustains life (and doesn't constantly phase in and out of the burn and cold zones) in a binary star system? Well, I decided to make the second star similar to a super Jupiter closely orbiting the main star. The smaller star revolves around the bigger one so that its habitable zone never crosses the habitable zone of the bigger one. The small one's fast enough that the heat it gives off adds to the main star and extends the habitable zone a little further out. And there you have it! I made a planet!
So now, why don't Therans have the word planet? (If you read the book, Deshi mentions the word and the people there are just so confused by it.)
Now, I made it so that Thera is habitable with five moons, but how are there no other planets? Well, I modeled this solar system after our own, believe it or not. If you add a second star to our sun, this really messes up the gravity balance and orbits of our solar system. All the gas giants got absorbed by one star or another and all the rocky planets collided and came together, making moons for Thera and Thera becoming a super Earth. (Earth is roughly 40k miles around and Thera is roughly 60k miles. Yes, I thought up the miles because at some point, someone circumnavigates the arctic circle and I needed to know how long it would take to make it realistic.)
If you've heard the story about our moon, it is suspected that Theia, a twin planet of Earth, shared Earth's orbit and later collided into Earth. (Believe it or not, I called my planet Thera before I learned the twin's planet name was Theia. Just more of my muse being a genius without me…) This gave me the idea to have Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, our moon, Mars' moons, and a few of the rocky moons of the gas giants all combined to make Thera and its five moons.
Following how stars that eat their own solar systems like this one, what made it stop is actually the second star. Stars are always expelling energy, most commonly known to most people in the form of different types of rays. There's actually more than just rays, but it's not necessary to get into all of that. With the second star whipping around the main one, it's actually expelling more than normal. This is what keeps Thera where it is.
Okay, so we have the stars, the planet, the moons, and all of it works. Except now, the planet is getting double blasted by radiation and other things.
What protects Earth from radiation isn't just the ozone layer, but also the magnetic field. Now, I didn't feel like getting into physics just to figure out my planet, so I just winged the technicalities on this one, but magnetic fields vary just as much as solar systems do. What makes our magnetic field is the concentration of iron in the planet's mantel. However, I have a problem. Iron is rare on Thera. But, I have a fix for that.
The Hummes moon, while small, has a retrograde (opposite the planet's rotation) orbit because it is fast. It'll orbit Thera roughly 2.5 times in a Theran day. This is because I decided to create the Hummes moon with an extremely high concentration of iron. This also lines up with the lore (see last week's post) about Hummes "seeing treasures and seeking to claim them". Since iron is rare, it is seen as a treasure. They have a knack for tracking down the element. Like I said before, I didn't feel like working out the physics to see if this was possible, but it sounds legit enough to me. The moon is fast moving, creating a sort of magnetic field around Thera, and this protects the planet from enough radiation so that life can thrive, at least in places.
There's a lot more I've researched for the specifics of the planet and I thought this was going to be shorter than it was and continue on into how Thera is set up ground level, but I think I'll save that for next week.
On a sidenote, I'm now completely in love with making planets. If you want help making your own make sense or have questions about it, let me know. It's super fun for me. ^^
Thanks for joining me on My World Monday. See you next week for more specifics on the planet itself. If you have questions about what I have here, let me know. Or if you'd like to hear about something else, send an ask.
Suggestions for future My World Mondays:
How the planet works. (May combine with below.)
The types of biomes featured on the the planet and how Thera itself works.
Weather on the planet.
The great Hummes/Solara conflict.
A bit more about Marka, the kingdom with a perpetual sunset. (I'll do a map and explain how time works on Thera too because they kind of go hand in hand.)
Excluded the previous last option here because I've decided it might have more spoilers than I'd like and only describing two out of the five just seems unfair.
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piratekane · 3 months
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Kate pauses, the coffee pot titled over her to-go mug as the freshly-brewed dark roast starts to fill it. “Another undercover assignment? For both of us?” Lucy carefully takes the pot from Kate, leveling it off before all 8 ounces end up on the counter. “Cool, right? A joint undercover operation. Thelma and Lousie, teaming up to take on the bad guys.”
i do, you do, we do - the imagined opening and closing scenes of NCIS: Hawai'i season 3, episode 4 (aka The Newlyweds episode).
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Babe, wake up, new thirsty gym pic from Rhea just dropped
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scumbag4scumbag · 1 month
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I'm so fucking sorry. But also not sorry... but also should REALLY be more sorry.
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Fanart for a sonic fan comic I’ve been reading for the past couple of months. Thank you @the-heart-of-a-monster for all your wonderful art and storytelling!
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