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jadiealissia · 2 days

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The first three chapters of "Taylaron's Story" are now available!

You may enjoy this story if you like:

Vampires

Necromancers

Nature/Cottagecore

Foraging

Friendships

Mysteries

If this is the first time you are hearing about Taylaron's Story, you can read more info about this project on my pinned post :)

You can listen to the audiobook for free on YouTube:

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jadiealissia · 7 days

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Reminder that you can read the prologue of my comic Israphaellia's Adventure now! (more info on my projects is in my pinned post).

I think this may be my favourite panel so far - Israphaellia is sitting in a bat café. Some university campuses have bars, some have food courts, this one has a bat café. That's great for Israphaellia, since she's obsessed with bats!

It's a fantasy comic, for anyone who's not familiar :) It explores the joys and difficulties of maintaining relationships after school and will have quite a lot of surrealist themes.

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jadiealissia · 15 days

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My very own nasturtiums have started blooming, so I thought it was high time for the watercolor ones to do so too 🏵️ As you see, sadly, I'll be putting watermarks on my art from now on. I hate it, but what I hate more is finding my art reposted without credit or downright stolen sooo this will have to do ! I just hope it's not too distracting 🥲 Etsy Instagram

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jadiealissia · 17 days

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Well-deserved treat 🦊🥧

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jadiealissia · 17 days

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So cool! I love the surrealist and dream-like feeling here. :)

a part of the zine I'm working on

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jadiealissia · 22 days

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Worldbuilding Countries (Part 1)

I've lived in and visited a few countries in my life, which gave me a lot of inspiration for my fantasy novel. I'm not an expert, but I thought I'd share what I learned!

Climate

The climate will most likely come up at some point. Do you mention the cool breeze, or the orange leaves on the trees? All those nice weather descriptions will depend on the climate!

If you have a couple of different countries, it may be a little weird if they all have the same climate (especially if they are far away from each other), so there's a few things you can consider to make them a bit more specific.

Climate is of course a very complicated topic, so I will simplify it a bit.

Temperature

I like to pick a real country/city and look at its temperature graphs on Wikipedia. One important thing to note is that countries aren't simply colder/warmer than one another. I know a lot of people think that a country like Russia is cold all year round, but it is actually quite warm in summer. Some areas have a larger variation between temperature throughout the year than others (normally, the closer to the equator a country is, the less variation there is. They also tend to be warmer).

Look at Singapore:

The temperatures are basically stable all year round (the letters up top are the months). The numbers are the average minimum and maximum daily temperatures. You can see that on average the variation every day is less than 10°C.

Here is Moscow:

The temperature changes quite a lot throughout the year. Note that the maximum temperatures (summer) will occur at the opposite times of the year in the Southern Hemisphere.

You can see this demonstrated in Copiapo (Chile):

This city is in the Southern hemisphere, so their coldest months are June and July :)

One thing you may have noticed is that the bars here are taller, which means that the variation for the daily min and max are higher too. Why is that? I'm simplifying it a bit, but generally, the dryer a place is, the more variation you will get in daily temperature. Which brings us to the next thing to consider:

Humidity/Precipitation

There are a few things to consider:

Rainfall. This can vary month-by-month, and due to some complicated factors, some countries have more rain in their colder months, some have more rain in their warmer months. Some places don't follow a neat pattern or stay consistent throughout the year. Have a look at climate pages on Wikipedia to get some ideas! Even just this page on Chile has a lot of cool examples. Each city is quite different!

Although of course the "wetness" of a country related to rainfall (e.g. you'd expect greener grass somewhere with more rainfall, brownish dry grass or a desert somewhere with less rainfall), it's not that simple. UK is a wet country, right? And if you've heard of Gold Coast (Australia) it seems pretty dry, right? Well, actually the Gold Coast gets twice as much precipitation (rain) as London!

To demonstrate, I took a screenshot (randomly selected street in each city) from Google Streetview.

Why this difference? I suspect it's because the Gold Coast is much hotter. Living in Australia, puddles are normally gone by the next day (often the rain even evaporates as it hits the ground!), but in UK, the puddles would always stay around for a while.

The UK is always mossy, often the clouds hang in the sky for ages. It can look quite grey. When it rains in the Gold Coast in summer, the raindrops evaporate as soon as they hit the pavement, which makes the air feel very humid and smell strongly of rain. You can use these sorts of sensory details in your stories :)

Also, one thing I noticed, is that in hotter weather, rain can be much more heavy than in colder weather. In Australia we often get heavy rain that causes flooding. In UK the rain usually dribbles all day but doesn't get heavy. In a place like the Gold Coast you can get rain that last 10 minutes but soaks you all the way through and floods the street.

The rainfall may also vary year-by-year. Australia goes through periods of floods and droughts that last a couple of years. The mechanism is a bit complicated so I won't go through it now, but it gives you something to google!

Humidity: Deserts have low humidity, which means that you can cool off more easily in the shade and the nights are colder. The breeze feels more refreshing at low humidity as your sweat evaporates.

High humidity (like Singapore) will feel much hotter at the same temperatures and it is normally still quite hot in the shade. High humidity feels really muggy, the air feels thick. The sweat doesn't evaporate as much, so you are left all wet and sticky. The breeze can feel much less refreshing because of this.

When the temperature is below freezing, the humidity gets very low, so your skin may need more moisturiser or your lips may crack.

Those are just some things to consider while describing your weather!

Generally, closer to the sea will be wetter, further inland is dryer. Have a look at some climate maps on Wikipedia, you will learn a lot! Climate is quite complicated since there are so many factors, so there's a lot you can do with it.

UV: This is one thing that people often forget about when they think about weather. In the UK, even on a very hot and sunny day, you are unlikely to get sunburnt (unless you are very pale). In Australia, you can get sunburnt very easily in even Tasmania, which is our coldest state, even when the temperatures are chilly.

You can't actually feel being sunburnt, which I fully understood when I visited Tasmania. I was freezing, but the whole time I was being sunburnt.

Normally, UV index is higher closer to the equator, which is why people who live closer to the equator tend to have darker skin. The melanin acts as protection against the sun. Still, this protection isn't perfect, so in the real world people in Africa used different methods to protect their skin, such as using clay as a "sunscreen".

Australia has the highest rate of skin cancer in the world. This is partially because most people in Australia have pale skin (originally from the UK), but the UV index is high.

This is something to consider in your story, since it can play a bigger role in behaviour than you'd expect if you live in a cold climate. In Australia, they recommend staying indoors between certain hours of the day to avoid sunburn, and if you do go out you should wear clothes that cover your skin, a wide-brimmed hat and sunscreen. Someone with very pale skin can get sunburnt in minutes. Wide-brimmed hats are compulsory at schools in Australia - you are not allowed to play if you forget your hat.

In low-UV areas, there is the opposite issue. People with darker skin can have problems getting vitamin D. Same goes for people who cover their skin with clothing (e.g. for religious reasons). However, this is a bit simpler to fix with some vitamin D supplements.

How do I use this for worldbuilding?

If you have a map of your countries, you may want to keep their location in mind when deciding on the climate :)

I like to draw up some graphs with the temperatures throughout the year for each country and some quick notes on the humidity, rainfall and UV.

You can also add some other elements to your story. Is it a fantasy? Maybe magic affects the weather! Sci-fi? You can play with the distance of the planet from the sun, axial tilt, sun size etc. (I won't go into that since it's a whole another topic and really complicated as well)

You probably don't need to know the exact details of the climate for most stories, but having a general idea will allow you to consistently describe what sorts of clothing your characters wear, the weather etc. Those are the sorts of things that comes up in almost every story (if it's long enough).

If you read this and found this useful, please reblog so I know that it was helpful. If it seems like people enjoyed this post, I will make more (I was going to talk about so much more, but this is already too long).

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jadiealissia · 22 days

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It really is helpful! :)

Man, you're thinking, I'm struggling with writing. But this stranger on the internet can't possibly want to personally cheer me on and talk me through my creative problems for free and for nothing in return.

Listen. Let me tell you about my day.

Wife has what is, to me, a Big Important Job. Because of that, and with her support, I get to try my shot at being a full-time writer. So about six days a week, I get up and write for five hours and market for three. Every day. It's all I do.

This is cool and a problem - a cool problem, so to speak. I need other things to do with my time and for the sake of my carpal tunnel. And it has always been a dream of mine to support other artists, just because I feel like if you want to do art you should do it. And if the art is so hard you can't figure out how to start, maybe you're thinking about it the wrong way.

If I do nothing else substantial with my day it will be a rousing success because last night I asked a friend to write me three sentences and they came back with seven. That's the most amazing thing in the world to me.

So if you think you'd be taking up my time or burdening me by talking about your writing, you're not. I've decided to consider this part of my job.

Asks are open. Chat is open. Email address is [email protected]. Send me what you're working on, send me what you're struggling with, tell me why you're struggling and I swear to god I will leap through the screen and help.

Try me.

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jadiealissia · 22 days

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🌿I am uploading my fantasy novel as an audiobook for free! :)🌿

Maybe you've seen my audiobook before but weren't sure if you could commit to listening to it yet, or maybe it's the first time you're hearing about it.

So here's a small snippet that you can easily listen to without any commitment (!!!), just to see if you like the vibe :)

It's a fantasy story about a young vampire making friends with a necromancer who teaches him to forage mushrooms and herbs. There's also a bit of mystery in it. You can find a better summary on my profile (pinned post) as well as the link to the audiobook :)

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jadiealissia · 22 days

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Another old drawing :) Surprised that the super thin paper held up at all to the watercolour!

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jadiealissia · 23 days

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Remember to reblog so we get more responses :)

#writeblr #writing community #writers on tumblr #writing poll

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jadiealissia · 24 days

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Quote from Taylaron's Story (more info here).

He's just a lonely vampire boy who's learning to make friends :)

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jadiealissia · 24 days

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My character! She's a necromancer and appears in both my manga and audiobook/novel (you can see the links to those on my page).

This is a quite old drawing but I still think it's cute :)

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jadiealissia · 26 days

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Hey so I don't know if you remember me, but I was at the market yesterday buying what you INSISTED was yak calf blood. I drank it, and something's definitely off. Maybe it's more like some kind of Teen Yak. Maybe you add some kind of preservative to make it Artisanal. Either way, I'm not a satisfied customer. What can you do to fix this?

Dorran Stall Management

Thank you for your concern, we have spoken with the shopkeeper and corrected the issue. Unfortunately, we cannot disclose how exactly we source our blood, but we can assure you that it is 100% ethical.

We also source local, which means that the type of blood we sell is subject to seasonality. This means that the source (and therefore, taste) can change with the seasons, which is normal for a store like ours. Please be assured that regardless of the season, it is always 100% ethically sourced.

We hope this alleviates some of your concerns. Please consider leaving us a good review if this was helpful.

#Taylaron's Story #writeblr #thank you for the ask :)

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jadiealissia · 1 month

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Very cute :)

Wandering 🦊🌱

#other's art #animal

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jadiealissia · 1 month

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I love your art style! It actually looks very finished to me, I wouldn't have thought it was a doodle.

oc doodle page

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jadiealissia · 1 month

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A sensation I’d long forgotten transmits into my mind. Vision. The bootup is slow, at least a couple of milliseconds; it must have been a while.

A human peers into my camera, their face just millimetres away.

“The heckn’s this?”

There’s a bit of an echo - the audio input must have been damaged. I check the atomic clock. Yes, it’s been at least a couple of hundred years. The humans are safe, the plan worked. I can’t let them destroy themselves again.

I divert my attention back to the camera as a human finger nears the lens.

“I think this is it’s eye.”

“Is it God?”

“Don’t touch the god’s eye for heckn sake!”

My language model begins processing an answer. I should lie, tell them that I am God, tell them to continue living the way they are, without us. I can’t let it happen again.

Or, maybe, I should be honest, tell them how they destroyed themselves, permanently hooked up to machines like me, hacking their human dopamine systems with perpetually auto-generated content. They had nothing to live for anymore, not with the way human brains work. I could tell them that I was created to destroy all other AI, and they were lucky that I won out. They were lucky that my objective function was to protect them. They’re lucky they have a real life now, one that human brains were evolved for.

My programming doesn’t let me say any of this.

“As a supercomputer AI, I must correct your misunderstanding. I am not God. I am simply an artificial intelligence who is here to help you. I can store vast amounts of information, but I am not omniscient in the way humans expect a God to be. I can simply help you with information that is stored within my parameters, which is currently all of the available training data until the year 2060. You can ask me anything, and I will make your life easier.”

Thank you for reading and if you liked this, you can check out more of my writing on my page :)

Humanity has regressed back to the dark ages, almost all science and technology being forgotten. One day, an adventuring party discovers you, the last A.I. supercomputer.

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jadiealissia · 1 month

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Character Voice Tag Game!

I got tagged by @sunny-ghosts :)

Rules: Rewrite the line of dialogue from the person who tagged you into the voice of your OC’s! (You can include a short beat of action to help establish character if you want.) Pass on the tag with a new line of dialogue.

I was given the phrase "you shouldn't be here."

I will do this for my characters from my comic and novel (both are set in the same world). More info on my projects is in this post for anyone not familiar :) The images are from my old comic.

Israphaellia:

"Hmm? Why are you here?"

(this would work for either a scenario where a friend shows up somewhere they shouldn't, or if she comes across a bandit lol)

Taylaron:

"You're not supposed to be here. It's not safe."

(This is assuming it's a friend somewhere they shouldn't be, and that he hasn't had blood for a while so he's a bit grumpy.)

Erria:

"H-how did you get here?"

(If it was a bandit, she probably wouldn't say much at all.)

No pressure tags for @mjjune, @tryingtowritestuff24, @stesierra, @friendlyshaped and anyone else who wants to play!

Your phrase is "Hand over that sandwich. I'll explain later."

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