Otherworldly Historian

@kathleenramm

Yeah, it’s been down for a while, and the formatting is being a little weird again.

@jonas

Cool! So you were able to make it so that the calendar could mesh with earth time just enough so that you could fit your birthday into it as a significant day. It also makes sense that the months follow the Eivir.

@rae

Wond makes an approximate rotation of 357 Earthling days, but I’ve not decided if it’s off that number by a day or just a couple hours. Notice my use of the word Earthling, for I haven’t even totally decided if a Wondian day is different than ours (most likely is). I’ve only been working on the origin planet of Wond for about a year, so it i…

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@hybridlore

Yeah, I missed your conversation with @jonas until now, but if I’m understanding you correctly, your wanting to power spaceships with sound. Sound as a force has been used to manipulate objects in precise ways, but they would have to be ridiculously light, and the cases where we have done such a thing, it’s an object surrounded by…[Read more]

@rae

This sounds fun, I’m in. It might help me churn out some actual writing for once😂

@rae

Also, who are the Nameless Things. That title is already used by Tolkien to describe the indescribable creatures at the very bottom of Arda. Are you describing something similar?

@rae

That’s really cool! So does the Wondian planet make a perfect 357 day rotation around it’s sun? We have leap year on Earth to account for the slight error in the 365 days. So is the planet simply perfectly placed for simplicity, or is there some analogue of leap year. Also, what about seasons? Are there four standard seasons like Earth, or…[Read more]

@jonas

Sorry, I’ve been inactive all week.

Personally, I think that a character that won’t be well understood inside or outside may still be an interesting main character to see the prospective of. Despite not being able to understand the character’s motives, as the character doesn’t understand them himself, that can still be a relatable…[Read more]

@jonas

That would make sense. Although that would also mean that I likely wouldn’t be able to see mine accepted before my mission in a few months, so I wouldn’t be able to agree to it being published. We’ll have to see though.

@savannah_grace2009

Well that’s just the way things are sometimes. When it’s a business, if you tell someone that their rejected, your expelling energy that isn’t really adding to your company in any way, so in most cases, they just never get back to you. It should be a common curtesy to tell them, but that’s just the way it is. I would think it…[Read more]

@jonas

I’m not too concerned about being arbitrary, but maybe I should be more. I mean, I have a planet whose culture resembles medieval Europe. That would probably be way less likely than a planet developing a similar musical scale to our most commonly used one.

Yeah, and of course you don’t have to be, as this is your world, there’s no law t…[Read more]

@savannah_grace2009

So another short story has been published. So I don’t know whether or not that means ours has been set aside or if there’s perhaps a line.

@savannah_grace2009

That’s entirely up to you. It’s probably been long enough if your just waiting for arbitrary lengths of time, but I don’t know.

@jonas

Interesting, I do think that would make more sense, but that also makes the 12 far more arbitrary, though once again, you could put it up to some form of fancy. This could be interesting to explore though, because perhaps different cultures might work with different systems, so they can do all the same things, but they can’t read one…[Read more]

@savannah_grace2009

This is a good chapter. I don’t really have any comments for this one.

@jonas

Great point! The math behind it is most definitely there, with patterns that can easily be analyzed in most cases. And I personally regard math as magical in its own way, though just in a different way from music. That could be a cool duel magic system with soft and hard elements with the analytical side, and the perceptual side.

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@jonas

Music as magic has been a concept that has been around since the concepts of both music and magic individually were first dreamt of. It’s played out in history through myths and tales to contemporary fantasy, so there’s a lot of inspiration you could draw from. Common themes are good vs bad, beautiful vs ugly, happy vs sad music, ect…[Read more]

@otherworldlyhistorian

Yea, Junior year has been pretty crazy this year. I’m not so sure six AP’s was as good an idea as I had originally thought 😬 (it is a lot of homework but I will probably be fine, just takes away time from other things). Currently my main novel has been on pause (I still do world building and keep notes of ideas but am not…

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@otherworldlyhistorian @folith-feolin

Hey Historian and Folith! Long time no see!

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