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An Incomplete Guide to Magic in Locality Space
Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's Magic School.
Witches (magic by birth)
Can be any species and gender
Hereditary link but not a directly inherited trait
Comprise ~1% of all people
Many witches have weak abilities; a few (like Christina, Bo, and the pirate queen Althea) have more powerful/versatile abilities
Magic is in some sense about the projection of the self into new places
Types of witch
Warp: can warp people/objects to a new location, with or without touching them. More powerful warpers can move more volume of stuff for longer distances, sometimes from further away from the thing being warped, and/or can better manage the quick creation and destruction of warp tunnels involved in warp racing.
Dive: can read minds when directly touching the mind's owner. Cannot change memories or thoughts in any way and only rarely cause them to become corrupted. More powerful divers can seek out memories/thoughts about specific topics to the exclusion of everything else.
Duplication ("Dupe"): can copy memories into written marks. Almost a magicraft, except without the innate ability to access and transfer the memories, there can be no committing them to another medium. Many dupe witches don't know they're dupe witches unless they are tested or have an unusual experience. More powerful duplicators can copy longer memories into the same amount of words and/or copy memories in more detail/sharpness.
Revital: can heal by projecting their vitality into someone else, essentially giving them a temporary healing factor. This can work on any injury that the body can heal itself (e.g. a scrape, a cleanly fractured bone), because it is healing itself, just faster. More powerful revitalizers can heal more injuries at once, or heal larger injuries more completely or quickly.
Magicians (magic by learning)
Can be any species and gender
Comprise ~10% of all people (maybe more)
Accomplish their magic with craftwork of some kind. Things can be made to have many practical effects but magicraft is first and foremost an art form, with many cultural variations
New crafts are created all the time as people figure out how to harness existing magical energy into new forms, including by combining crafts
Some types of magician/magicraft
Pigment: commonly seen in designs that make artificial gravity in ships (grav patterns) or moving artworks (what if you could print a gif)
Papermaking: common paper effects include self-weighting, crisp folding, self-copying, no ink feathering
Weaving (in English, "warp and weft" magic lol): common cloth effects include self-repairing, nonfraying, neon, sparkle, moving designs (which often use Jacquard loom style techniques)
Shifters (uncontrollable magic by birth)
basically werewolves, though they are not all strictly wolves in animal form
transform when the full moon clears the horizon, or on worlds without moons, apparently according to assorted other light and night cycle factors
cannot control the transformation, though some can delay it by a minute or two by concentrating really hard
considered their own species, yet unlike other nonhuman species, can have children with humans, which is part of how people concluded that shifters are magic humans
A few in-world theories of how shifters came to be
guy saw a magic thing
guy touched a magic thing
guy ate a magic thing
guy was cursed forever by an Entity
guy was blessed forever by an Entity
guy WAS an Entity
it's the moon's fault
group curse??
Magic Education
Both witches and magicians can be taught at magic schools, and often are in tandem, even though their specific abilities don't overlap. Both are also taught at home or through apprenticeships depending on what's available/relevant. Young witches with strong powers, though, are sometimes sent to live short-term at schools that are better equipped to help them learn control. Most witches also have a specialty in a magicraft or two alongside their innate magic (and no, being a witch does not make you better at magicraft). And while some places encourage competition between magicians and witches (for group reasons or capitalism reasons), they're not inherently opposed.
Shifters get The Talk when they're children (shifting starts pretty early in life) and the conversation evolves as they get older and can understand more about why and how this happens and how to handle turning into a full on canid every moon cycle. This is especially important when they live somewhere besides their homeworld, because their shift cycle will always match the moon/night cycle at their place of birth. (As such the term "two-timer" does not refer to double-crossing but rather expat shifters, who may in fact wear dual-time watches or two separate watches to monitor both places at once.)
#this is all pretty rough overall so if you see anything sus lemme know#wip: nicea#wip: aom#set: locality space
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Xenomorph’s Caffeine Raid!
A multi-page illustrated comic commission for SupercellShark (& friends!)
Their Xeno, Timmy, causes quite the ruckus on an unsuspecting space station.
Full creds for characters on FA once I finish writing that desc.
#xenomorph#art for others#commissions#comic#alien#space station#anthroart#scifi#humor#shark#fun fact I actually went and took a ton of reference photos of my local cafe for this set piece
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I believe that is called overstimulation my dear doctor?
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#the ambitions of an eccedentesiast#dr jekyll and mr hyde#ocs#taoae#chapter one#page six#I tried to make it seem as though he gets progressively more overwhelmed.#with the clutter around the space and the brighter light and the blurry spots#which by the way became a pain in the end-#I was looking forward to them only to find they didn't click as well as I thought but I had got it all set up and it wasn't that bad-#so-#but yeah no your local doctor Is overwhelmed.#overstimulated too.#man.#FIND OUT MORE IN THE NEXT EPISODE O- *gets hit by a bus*#-sunny
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okay so EOC is FUCKED but when did it happen? pre or post ascension?
oh shoot that would have been good to mention earlier. this is all after ancient mass ascension, but before the events of rainworld. when moons superstructure collapses eoc is LONG gone
#ask#i didnt want my local groups drama to interfere with the rainworld events and vice versa so time-wise theyre spaced pretty far apart#but also i wanted the main canon cast to be able to influence the story#so everything is set way before lttm and 5p take their respective fat superstructure Ls#which means eoc is DEAD dead in the general canon present. like he is ancient history by then. naught but ashes
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Why yes I am still thinking about graphs as presheaves. Another thing you can do with functors from small categories is think about their limits and colimits. We usually think of limits and colimits as objects of the codomain category, so in this case the limit of a graph-as-functor would be a set. However, we can turn it back into a graph by then applying the diagonal functor Δ from the category of sets to the category of graphs.
Let's think about what this functor does. It maps a set X onto the constant functor from Q^op at X. Such a functor maps every object of Q onto X and every morphism of Q onto the identity function of X. So, the vertex set and the arrow set of Δ(X) are equal, and the source and target functions are the identity. The graph we get consists of one vertex for every element of X and each vertex has a single loop.
A cone under or cocone over a functor F: C -> D is exactly a natural transformation from a constant functor to F or from F to a constant functor, respectively. The limit of F is the terminal object in the category of cones under F, so in addition to the limit object we have a natural transformation from the constant functor at that object to F. Dually for colimits. Natural transformations in Q^hat are graph homomorphisms, so we can do some fun interpretation here.
The limit of a functor with domain Q^op (or Q, as they are isomorphic) is an equalizer. In Set, the equalizer of functions f,g: X -> Y is the set { x ∈ X : f(x) = g(x) } (up to a canonical bijection). It follows that the limit of a graph is exactly the set of arrows of G whose source vertex coincides with their target vertex. The set of all loops of G. Applying Δ to this we get the graph that has a vertex for every loop, and a loop on each of these vertices. The universal cone from this graph to G is the graph homomorphism that maps each loop in this graph onto the corresponding loop in G.
The colimit of a functor from Q^op is a coequalizer (surprise surprise), and in Set the coequalizer of f and g is the quotient set of Y by the smallest equivalence relation ~ such that f(x) ~ g(x) for all x ∈ X. In a graph G we have that Y is the vertex set, X is the arrow set, and f and g are the source and target functions. This means that if two vertices v and w are connected by some arrow, then they will be equivalent under ~. Applying transitivity and symmetry, we find that the equivalence classes of ~ are exactly the connected components of G. The universal cocone over G is the graph homomorphism that maps all vertices in a connected component of G onto the corresponding vertex of the graph-that-has-a-vertex-for-every-connected-component, and all arrows in that connected component onto the unique loop on that vertex.
#math#adventures in cat theory#this shows that the image of the diagonal functor from Set to Q^hat is both reflective and coreflective#just like the discrete spaces are reflective and coreflective in the category of locally connected topological spaces!
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I need to set up a kofi account too & tipping for posts. There’s some near future stuff going on where any help would be greatly appreciated.
#tipping for posts & my page only because I know some people don’t like to click buttons & honestly I need to set up a stream elements too#I know I haven’t streamed a lot but I’m trying to change that a bit#partially because I also want stream clips I can use & more stream highlights#says while being way behind on uploading any of my VODs to YouTube oopsy#I’ve got some edited content ideas too in the works but need more local computer space to work with because files tend to save locally when#I’m messing with stuff#oh damn there’s also the hiveswap voice stuff too these focus meds when I take them sparingly go nutty!#mine#op
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the hyperfixation on aircraft disasters has me considering the realities of the batplane
#batman#the average person does not understand the importance of air traffic control#shit we used to have people flying into each other constantly because our best bet was ‘just see the other plane and don’t fly into them’#either the bat plane is communicating with atc or they have the worlds best anti collision technology#like for cruising just hand wave it that batman has made a plane that can go higher than any other plane that makes sense to me#but take offs and landings?#nah#yknow media always shows it just sort of setting down space ship style#(sci fi spaceships to be clear)#but most jets require miles of runway just to get into the air?#you can’t just do that in the middle of gotham#i’m not saying it’s impossible btw i’m actually interested in how that would work#also imagining ntsb investigating the bat plane crashing#local tin kicker: what in the goddamn—
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she brought him his mother's photo oh God she brought him his mother's photo and told him she was a strong beautiful woman and he cried. where are the f*cking gifsets
#tv: king the land#king the land#lee junho#junho 2pm#im yoona#girls generation yoona#yoona snsd#kdrama#local gay watches KTL (and gets diabetes in the process).txt#local gay watches k-dramas.txt#if you had stabbed me in the gut it would hurt less#i knew that was what she was going to do when she brought him to the beach and started telling him about her own mom#but hey would you look at that apparently Junho having a panic attack is milder than him nearly breaking down on the causeway#and then not doing so at the last minute bc you can tell even he doesn't know what he's feeling rn#and she is just giving him space. f*ck#give me the sets let me cry again
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Got my souvenirs
Freeze dried skittles and handmade watercolors made by the owners of the art shop i got them at
They grind their own pigments and everything
Their business card is a 6inch ruler
#we dont have any good specialty art shops in Lawrence#we have a couple of places downtown that are kinda similar but they pretty much only have name brand stuff#nothing made locally#if it wasnt so expensive to start a business in Lawrence i might have a niche for handmade paints there#im trying to figure out what oil they used in their base to make it antimicrobial#cuz it smells really good lol#like my paints smell very strongly of cinnamon#im assuming clove oil since thats most common.....but idk if i can identify clove by smell#smells christmas-y tho#if i was more outgoing i mightve asked the owner some questions about it#my mom tried to talk me into getting the watercolor kit that had some little pieces of watercolor paper and a pencil and a brush#and i was like ''i have all that tho'' and she was like ''but then you could use them now.''#''.....yea. i have all that WITH me.'' like. im not gonna travel without my favorite art supplies lol#i gave up suitcase space for my giant watercolor sketchbook just in case i wanted to paint#i have MOSTLY travel watercolor sets and brought all of them with me in my pencil bag#i specifically filled up all my watercolor brushes with water the night before we left and made sure i had my favorite mechanical pencil#(which btw if you have executive dysfunction and like to paint with watercolors i highly recommend the watercolor brushes you fill#with water. i paint way more than i used to cuz i dont have to fill a cup with water any time i wanna paint)#i have my regular sketchbook#i even brought my sudoku book and a couple pens in case i felt like playing sudoku#i dont travel without my bag of activities. i may not always do the activities i bring but i like to have options#at least its better than when i was a kid cuz i tried to bring activities AND like 5 stuffed animals#my suitcase was usually half stuffed animals#i also usually had a few shoved into my pillowcase with my blanky
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happy halloween! my costume is officially 'bitch without a cyst (or potentially benign tumor)'!!!
#as always there was drama with the IV because of my The Squeamisness and my The Fear Of Needles#almost passed out but couldn't have water bc of general anesthesia#not quite rawdogging the space between consciousness and unconsciouness. but close#the pain has not set it yet and on the way home j and i got burritos from a local place#been playing sims 2 DS for hours now#just bought a used copy for like 95 cents on sunday#it's every bit as fun and weird as a i remember#ann with an ie
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The urge to adapt my OCs into a new (third) set of OCs
#im being so normal about them#sci fi is just such a good setting! and the one character would fit so perfectly as a long haul deep space mechanic#it does mean id need to come up with a new name though which is. pain and suffering#local trash goblin speaks
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What kinda technology do people use to listen to music in the locality space setting? Is it the same as irl or is there cool sci-fi technology for it, or both? Is it different for pajiir and delphonus?
This is such a good question, Kendrick, and it helped me iron out some worldbuilding thoughts about warps. I'm guessing this came from my ask answer about Pat's old stuff, which got me kind of stuck to start - the reason he has old music stuff is because in Old Canon he was the music guy, king of the radio. The canon was weird back then, with Spinder's whole family being faeries living on Earth. I believe canonically Spinder was born in 1958, so radio and record players were a big part of his childhood. But factoring in all of the locality space worldbuilding, and keeping my timeline straight, I think it's a little more complicated.
The space era that they live in, with relatively easy access to space and permawarps, came to be about 90-100 years ago, which means that's about when there started to be a major shift in music delivery, because you could then receive music via warp from just about anywhere. I think there was already essentially a galaxy-sized Napster network, because warp witches and also starships existed before the launch era, but in terms of radio/streaming formats that's when things really took off. The only problem was you needed a warp receiver, and at first the only stable mechanical warps were those generated by enchanted machine song, which meant that all of your music was delivered with extra noise, something like how CRT TVs make high-pitched whining noises. Not ideal, but extremely popular. Then someone figured out how to besmallen the technology used for warp gates, and true hi-fi warp radio was born. Which is a long-winded way of saying by the time Pat was born 40 years ago this was a solved problem. The thing is, I always imagined him having vintage stuff because it's stuff from when he grew up, not because he's a collector (though he could be that too). So what makes his music paraphernalia outdated?
Partly it's that it still relies on midsize receivers, which are still small enough to fit in a stereo, but fill a very different niche than the much smaller receivers that became available when he was a teenager and that he probably still owns instances of. I also think he's kind of a nerd about music stuff and was into amateur radio, warp and otherwise, for a while, so he has that stuff too. Also, despite the fact that magic allows most ship environments to be fairly planet-like, oh boy is it easy to market a music storage format to planetsiders based on the fact that it could work in zero g. Don't ask me how it works in zero g, but it does, somehow. Maybe not even well, because that's not the point - 99% of buyers are going to be using it in an environment with gravity. But in general formats did get hardier. I think it would be extremely funny if current music storage formats are just like. cuboids. and you put them in the player slot and its suspension-laser-refraction array can read a shit ton of data out of it, sort of like encoding things in diamonds. I'm not totally sure about that one but making the jump from "space CD" to "music cube" or something similar would make a lot of stuff outdated. So I guess to answer your second question it's kind of the same, especially for planetsiders (radio waves never became obsolete &c.) but there's some weird scifi stuff in there somewhere beyond warp receivers, which are pretty everyday.
Now for Pajiir and Delphonus I do actually have a more solid answer, which is: it's mostly the same as real life, with some 1920s-30s flavoring, though a lot of technology is circuit mycelium on the inside, and the internet has been around a whole lot longer so the concept of streaming/digital files/internet radio is even more established. That said, there is one fictional format that actually is integral to the whole plot of Icepith: the twist. (I swear I had a cooler name for it but this works.) The basic concept is that pieces of music tracks are recorded on metal wires and twisted together as essentially an industrial cable segment. A player can play them all in tandem, but importantly, you can untwist the twist and replace parts of it, which makes remixing easy and has led to a huge remixing culture among imbrath (the underground bat people, like Rolf), and by extension nswl. This is the basis of Snap and Rolf's doomed music career, and of Oruga's pirating. Rolf's friends/lovers who supply Oruga are wire producers.
#one day I'm gonna talk about imbra culture. it's not even super duper built out I just enjoy it#set: locality space#set: pajiir and delphonus#c: Pat#asks
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@talesimagination said: 035. a haunted mansion, ancient paintings watching every footstep. (Gold and Rift)
>>From this meme
❝Are you meant to be a ghost?❞ Bored tone, flat stare.
One of the lab crew they were less familiar with had gifted Rift some books of ghost stories and magazines of supposedly-haunted locations. Another attempt to stir something within them, no doubt. As stimuli the books of fiction had proven the same as every other attempt; nothing, save for this time a comment on humans being strange for willingly choosing to frighten themselves.
Yet the magazines had fared marginally better. Are these locations truly haunted? Does the supernatural exist in any capacity? Will an answer to either of these questions make Rift less bored?
This mansion is the third location. Until moments ago the same as the others, and the plan was falling apart. Another moment of the same and Rift would have been gone, back at the facility to no doubt flip through more encyclopedias about space.
Yet a change had occured.
The man in the golden coat does not share any similarities to human reports of apparitions. Still, Rift steps forward to casually poke their arm.
Not a ghost. Well this was a bust. Leave now and continue to be bored? Or stay for the possibility of something stimulating? They'll stay for now.
❝You're bad at it.❞ Being a ghost, that is.
#{{ a message from afar | INBOX }}#talesimagination#{{ i'm falling through space and time | THREADS: RIFT }}#Rift V { Main } just a cosmic castaway#//Here we go! Interesting setting choice! Feel free to run with it being actually haunted or just local superstition ^v^#//Also featuring: Rift's terrible social skills xD
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I just got myself an early christmas present in the form of The Great Wave Lego wall art piece and I built it and it's amazing and beautiful and perfect and I love it so much
#noopa rambles#I put it on top of my bookshelf#and moved my whale art print on the wall next to it#said print used to be on the spot where the lego piece went so it had to be moved#I wish the print was a tiny bit closer to the wave but sadly there's a pre-existing hook on my wall#so I can't exactly put the print there in any other position bc the hook would be in the way#then I was like 'lemme put all my nautical decorations around it to fill a few empty spaces at the edges'#and ngl I ended up cackling bc I didn't even put a single compass there before it was full#I have so much nautical shit and I'm Living for it#I put my little spyglass there and I put my little lighthouse lanter in there#I already had my japanese diplomatical ship wooden 3D-puzzle up there#and let me tell you. the ship fits the vibes of the painting perrrrfectly#and then I put a littel book my mom made me that has a plants-meets-nautical theme#despite all these things I still somehow have three compasses and some other nicknacks around#I simply do not want to overcrowd the shelf#so the compasses can just keep living on my lotr shelf bc they designated Adventure#and one of them has not all those who wander are lost engraved on the lid so jfdjfd#it clearly belongs there and this way all three can hang out#the only thing I really need now is a globe#the lego set was so frigging expensive but it was on sale at my local toy store so I went yolo
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okay.
so I don't have anything against warhammer 40k (from what I've seen it seems pretty cool).
and I don't know enough about the general fanbase to have a solid opinion on it
but the subset of wh40k fans who're obsessed with barging into any discussion of various sci-fi factions and declaring that wh40k or even just the imperium could destroy said faction/universe — or in some cases literally saying "don't be salty just cus all your favorite settings get solo'd by a space marine lmao" really drive me up the wall
like. shut the hell up.
that 80-90% of the time I see someone bring up wh40k in contexts that aren't about 40k it's to announce just how 40k is so so so so much stronger than every other sci-fi series and could wipe the floor with them really doesn't paint 40k fans (and 40k by extension) in a great light
also — and I'm sorry for bringing up the Alternity every time this happens but I mean. if people are going to be stupid then so will I — have fun beating the Hytherion when it travels billions of years into the past and eats your entire galaxy (or universe) before it even forms
(yes, transformers alternity is stupid as hell. fun thing to bring up in stupid nerdfights over whose universe is the strongest though.)
#yes I'm posting this because some dickhead 40k fan decided to be an idiot in the comments of a titanfall video#also. the Alternity have a weapon called the Sword of the Heavens#which can force even the Hytherion to collapse in on itself into a single point before disappearing#and is so massive that it's ''like a knife slicing apart the galaxy''#(the Hytherion's size varies due to being extradimensional/transdimensional.#but in the story where it got SotH'd it was large enough to mask an entire quadrant of the galaxy#and the SotH was able to pierce deeply into it)#and if we're ignoring the Hytherion because it's basically a god. okay.#alternity starscream's null ray can travel back in time and space and kill you in the past and he has full on probability manipulation#and if I'm reading the translation right#alternity bumblebee can do things like reduce your z axis scale to zero/near zero by snapping his fingers and stop the local flow of time#so I'm sure your space marines who are essentially just really fast and slightly small tanks on legs can pose a threat to them#oh also the alternity are unkillable because they're higher dimensional gestalt beings who interact with the material universes via avatars#(yes. universes)#(sorry if this is too petty and stupid and whatnot.#the guy who just had to go ''a single space marine could solo all your favourite settings'' set me off)
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A Midnight, two joints, hefty edible, and five hours of helping a long time friend through a crisis thought -
Maybe this is the year i start inserting myself properly into the lives of the people i love until they tell me to fuck off, taking up whatever space i can until they set their boundaries and i can match them because I'm starting to think that no one is going to do anything around here for fear of burdening each other and it's beginning to feel like a bad goddamn joke tbqfh
#my local friend group/chosen family is all so afraid of taking up space in each other's lives that we never reach out#until it reaches breaking point and then suddenly its wow why arent we doing this regularly#and honestly im just getting to a point where maybe i need to be the one whos uncomfortable and make the plans#and haphazardly invite myself over places for a while until a standard is set and boundaries established a norm created#because goddamn we are all fucked up and nothing is going to change if we don't dp something about this shit#im so afraid of taking up space in the lives of my friends and partners that im never reaching out properly#and i know its a failing of mine i know it is#so maybe this is the first baby step i take i start with this one friend and jack up north with regular snoke nights and calls and walks#i invite myself when i can and make the schedule and take on what emotional labor i can#and by doing so set the stage for what will hopefully be an exchange an understanding that this is what we are doing now
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