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I took a challenge story back on March 24, and since then I’ve
- Calculated a Hohmann transfer orbit from LEO to the Earth-Moon L4 point.
- Calculated another such transfer orbit (from Jupiter to Earth) to represent the planet-killing asteroid’s fall toward the Sun and thus the Earth.
- Looked up several minor moons of Jupiter.
- Done research into how dark matter can hypothetically collapse into small objects like planets or asteroids.
- Looked into the differences between baryonic and non-baryonic dark matter, to explain why nobody sees the object coming but it can still cause a mass extinction upon impact, and…
- Done research into a proposed space colony (the Stanford Torus) to have dimensions and structural plans for the station upon which our characters escape the devastation being inflicted on Earth.
All of this for a mostly-incest PWP where a young man, his mother, his female best friend and his elder sister must repopulate the human race.
I may have gone overboard.
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QuoteKizzy gets around it by not forming a physical sword at all, but basically a flame light sabre.
Lupa: “Wait, Kizzy likes Star Wars too?”
Shannon: “Yeah. One time, after I set up a Tinder profile for her, she made me watch the Holiday Special...”
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I took a challenge story back on March 24, and since then I’ve
- Calculated a Hohmann transfer orbit from LEO to the Earth-Moon L4 point.
- Calculated another such transfer orbit (from Jupiter to Earth) to represent the planet-killing asteroid’s fall toward the Sun and thus the Earth.
- Looked up several minor moons of Jupiter.
- Done research into how dark matter can hypothetically collapse into small objects like planets or asteroids.
- Looked into the differences between baryonic and non-baryonic dark matter, to explain why nobody sees the object coming but it can still cause a mass extinction upon impact, and…
- Done research into a proposed space colony (the Stanford Torus) to have dimensions and structural plans for the station upon which our characters escape the devastation being inflicted on Earth.
All of this for a mostly-incest PWP where a young man, his mother, his female best friend and his elder sister must repopulate the human race.
I may have gone overboard.
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- CloverReef, pippychick, JayDee and 2 others
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So, since Thundercloud brought up the sword, I figure I should at least share what I was thinking about.
First, obviously, as the one who has actually made a sword designed to be drawn from the back, Thundercloud, you’re the expert here. What I’m about to say is just the thought process that went into trying to visualize what this thing would look like. Just ignore it if it doesn’t make sense (or say Luzurial’s using magic...which she totally could be).
So, in Whore of Heaven, JayDee described Luzurial having a sword longer than her torso sheathed on her back (assuming Luzurial is 6 feet tall, that means the sword is a little more than 3 feet long). The overhand draw looked really cool in my head, so I kept that for The Woman in the Statue, but then I was like “Crap! The wings!”
Assuming Luzurial is like the majority of people, she’s right handed, so the scabbard is likely angled so that the hilt sticks out over her right shoulder. In every depiction of angels or demons I’ve seen, the wings are shown as being attached to the scapulae (shoulder blades), but where on the scapulae varies, so the gap between the attachment points could conceivably be big enough that you could get the sword to pass between them while still having enough of an angle for the hilt to be reached over her shoulder. Of course, this means that the other end of the scabbard has to pass either over or under one of her wings (the left wing, assuming a right-handed draw).
Passing over the wing is just fine when Luzurial is on the ground and doesn’t have to use her wings, but the second she needs to take off it’s gonna be super awkward, so it made more sense to me that the sword would pass under her left wing. This is where angels have a serious advantage over demons. Demonic wings are traditionally based on those of bats and thus have a wing membrane that must be joined to the torso to keep that section of the membrane taut, but angel wings are traditionally based on those of birds, and feathers maintain their shape without being glued to the torso. Assuming there’s a bit of a gap between the secondary feathers and the attachment point (angels aren’t usually depicted with tertial or scapular feathers, just the primaries and secondaries), the part of the scabbard we need to deal with should be able to fit between the wing and the torso.
Now it’s true, of course, that when beating the wings, the scabbard could mess with some of the secondary feathers (those closest to the body) on the downbeat. Thing is, because the wings are attached to the back of human scapulae, they actually don’t have the full range of motion that bird wings would; they can’t drop more than a few degrees past the horizontal because a human torso gets in the way. This would mean that angels and demons would produce less thrust with each wingbeat, but I’m fairly certain magic is being employed here, since the wingspan generally isn’t big enough to loft a human-sized being anyway. TL;DR, because the wings don’t actually have to go down that far, the scabbard shouldn’t interfere with the secondary feathers too much.
As far as what she does when actually drawing the sword, I think the scabbard is likely to have a non-traditional design, similar to the back scabbard from Shadow of Mordor, which covers the point and the edges of the sword, but is partly open so that she doesn’t have to draw the sword through the full length of the scabbard.
Drawing and sheathing it (especially the latter) would still be pretty tricky, but given that Luzurial is fourteen billion years old, I’m willing to bet she’s had so much practice she’s got it down to a fine art by now.
Again, I’m not pretending to be informed about this. This was just what I was kind of picturing in my head.
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- JayDee, Sinfulwolf and BronxWench
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I took a challenge story back on March 24, and since then I’ve
- Calculated a Hohmann transfer orbit from LEO to the Earth-Moon L4 point.
- Calculated another such transfer orbit (from Jupiter to Earth) to represent the planet-killing asteroid’s fall toward the Sun and thus the Earth.
- Looked up several minor moons of Jupiter.
- Done research into how dark matter can hypothetically collapse into small objects like planets or asteroids.
- Looked into the differences between baryonic and non-baryonic dark matter, to explain why nobody sees the object coming but it can still cause a mass extinction upon impact, and…
- Done research into a proposed space colony (the Stanford Torus) to have dimensions and structural plans for the station upon which our characters escape the devastation being inflicted on Earth.
All of this for a mostly-incest PWP where a young man, his mother, his female best friend and his elder sister must repopulate the human race.
I may have gone overboard.
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- CloverReef, pippychick, JayDee and 2 others
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I have been trying to design armour for succubae, that might get a few sentences of description, and have been just pouring over so much armour through history, fashion, to make it practical, sexy, and work with them damn wings.
That’s similar to what I’m experiencing. Most of the science was just done because I wanted to be able to throw a number in there and wanted it to be accurate. How long does it take Abaddon (the dark matter asteroid) to go from Jovian orbit to Earth? If I give Abaddon a certain mass, how big will the explosion be upon impact given its mass and impact velocity? I just wanted the numbers to be real (or as real as I could make them) instead of being pulled out of thin air. The only part that will actually come up in multiple chapters will be the Torus, since it’s where the characters will spend pretty much the entire story.
And I really sympathize with regard to armor and other equipment working on a being with wings. I actually spent a long time thinking about Luzurial’s sword for The Woman in the Statue, specifically because it’s supposed to be sheathed on her back, and I kept trying to figure out how it would be angled so that she could reach back and draw it, but also so that it wouldn’t interfere with her wings. That never even gets discussed in the story; I just wanted to be able to visualize it so that it made sense to me.
QuoteI researched life in Wales at the end of the Roman occupation for one story, and wound up using a soap recipe based on horse chestnuts for another story. Yes, I overthink things….
It’s really cool to see that you all do this too. Not only does it make me feel better, it’s just awesome to know how much thought all of you are putting into your stories.
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I took a challenge story back on March 24, and since then I’ve
- Calculated a Hohmann transfer orbit from LEO to the Earth-Moon L4 point.
- Calculated another such transfer orbit (from Jupiter to Earth) to represent the planet-killing asteroid’s fall toward the Sun and thus the Earth.
- Looked up several minor moons of Jupiter.
- Done research into how dark matter can hypothetically collapse into small objects like planets or asteroids.
- Looked into the differences between baryonic and non-baryonic dark matter, to explain why nobody sees the object coming but it can still cause a mass extinction upon impact, and…
- Done research into a proposed space colony (the Stanford Torus) to have dimensions and structural plans for the station upon which our characters escape the devastation being inflicted on Earth.
All of this for a mostly-incest PWP where a young man, his mother, his female best friend and his elder sister must repopulate the human race.
I may have gone overboard.
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- CloverReef, pippychick, JayDee and 2 others
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haha. Reminds me of just looking up underground rivers and six hours later I was reading equations for nuclear physics.
Out of curiosity, what did the nuclear physics have to do with the story?
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- JayDee and BronxWench
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I am back, and slowly getting to the point where I’ve picked everything back up again. Which means, if you’re wondering why I haven’t been reviewing lately, it’s because I’m just beginning to catch up on my reading.
I love holidays, but they do tend to make me lose my way when they’re over. Never literally as yet. I mean, I’ve always managed to get the train back eventually, though if the service degrades any further that might change.
Looks like I won’t be holidaying in Brunei anytime soon. What a world.
I am back in Wales at the end of the month, though. They putting a bit of opera on.
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Writing a sex scene with a female dog means I can use “The bitch” as a descriptor and it’s not problematic. Which is nice, considering the entire rest of the scene is problematic as hell.
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Writing a sex scene with a female dog means I can use “The bitch” as a descriptor and it’s not problematic. Which is nice, considering the entire rest of the scene is problematic as hell.
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My Scrabble app does not recognize “jahoobs” as a word. Those 88 points were rightfully mine.
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- InBrightestDay, JayDee, BronxWench and 3 others
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The funniest speech of 2019.
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The funniest speech of 2019.
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Desperation is the mother of tyranny. Dark days incoming.
Article 11 and Article 13 have passed.
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Watched this with my little niece then this happened. When Disney goes dark they don’t kid around.
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Feeling like rewriting some of the oneshots I formerly had up here and took down, possibly reposting them. Maybe. Possibly.
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So, there is something very wrong with the universe when my 24-year old niece is undergoing chemo for Ewing’s sarcoma.
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Google “Naked Man Orchid”. Just do it. Now you know that’s a thing that exists. You’re welcome.
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Did any of the pre-raphaelite lot ever paint a maelid? I can just reference the style for the drib-drab prompt, but I was sort of curious if there was one to see in that style!
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I am away for a week and will be without internet… wish me luck!
Hopefully, I will get some writing done. I plan to extend and write more of an original story that @CloverReef has helped me with – thank you so much!
If all goes well, I may start posting that upon my return.
Later!
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Did any of the pre-raphaelite lot ever paint a maelid? I can just reference the style for the drib-drab prompt, but I was sort of curious if there was one to see in that style!
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I told myself I’d wait a week in between posting more. Then I told myself I’d wait a day. Now I feel like waiting an hour is stretching my limits! I want to rain gratuitous porn upon the world!!!!!
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I think the dark pit might be breaking to see some light. A tiny sliver, but that's enough, right? Pull myself back through, carry on. Despite what has happened in that time, I want to say thank you, to all you guys. I appreciate it.
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For the first time in ten years... this depression has gotten below the worst of anyone seeing it... It's been a long time since I've lost interest in writing... Or anything…
That's a scary thought...
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Day UK leaves the EU: 29th March.
Day UK government bans internet porn: 1st April.
Nothing can go wrong here… nothing at all!
Seems you will be able to visit porn websites if you go into an actual shop and physically purchase some kind of weird licence for a fiver, which you’ll need to use within 24 hours. This will be sold to you by the very last person alive that you want thinking of you and sex. Though even getting to the counter may well mean having to fight your way through a violent melee involving people fighting over toilet roll AND people who left it too late to buy bread and are now battling it out for the last Soreen.
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Update, premade covers aren’t going to cut it Dx
If I have to shell out the money I want it exactly as I pictured it.
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