Ytos And Itaush: The Twin Duchies
Happy Worldbuilding Wednesday! Where in your setting would you most like to visit, and where would you avoid at all costs? 😉
I may have to start celebrating Worldbuilding Wednesday. (I'll probably participate in Lexember this year, though.)
Mixed feelings about most of the places in Meiste, but there are a couple I'd really want to go to, and a few I'd desperately want to stay out of.
The runner-up place to go in Meiste is...
Ytos and Itaush: The Twin Duchies
In addition to the inhabitants of Ytos and Itaush having a history of hospitability, Ytos and Itaush both occupy the North Pole of Meiste. My ideal trip would start in Ytos City, to see the Hero's Landing, then make my way North to hike to the North pole. It could also be cool to do an arctic cruise (or something like it) around the coast, but most importantly, I'd want to see the thousand-year old architecture in Itaush city. (Oh, pretty important aspect: The Ytos and Itaush have a history of treating queer people as equals in ways that most of the rest of the world really doesn't because it's in the Zenestosphere.)
(One last thing: Itaush left the Confederacy in a velvet divorce, but Itaush maintains an open border with Ytos.)
And the winner is:
The Principality of Atepsi
Atepsi is in the Zenestosphere, but they're queer-friendly as Ytos, especially outside the capital city, Atepsi City. (However, since Princess In Taguchif is out as a lesbian, and also wildly popular, that sentiment is changing.)
The climate of Atepsi is hot and humid, since the whole country straddles the equator. In fact, Atepsi city is in the middle of a jungle, deep in the headwaters of the Atepsi river.
First, I'm going to Atepsi city. Open-air markets, historic places, friendly people, extravagant architecture, public transportation, etc. Easily the best city in all of Meiste. It's not even close.
Then I'm taking a boat up the headwaters of the Atepsi river and into the mountains. They say the snakes are benign in Meiste. Definitely looking for cool snakes.
Then, I'm backpacking through the rest of the mountains to get to the Straits of Odapir to find Meiste. (I definitely won't.)
Finally, I'm taking a boat through the Straits of Odapir to the islands of L'meistek. L'meistek is an island halfway between Odapir and Atepsi which is said to be at the center of Meiste and where magic is strongest. But mostly there's a dormant(?) volcano there I want to hike up lol.
Atepsi also controls the Nendisfsho desert to the South, so if I came back, I'd love to see the sand dunes and dry rainforest.
Stay Away From:
Zeneste: Ir Nouzonif
Capitalistic hellscape. This is the capitalistic, authoritarian hellscape I talk about in previous post. Many people in the province of Ir Nouzonif are also brainwashed into hating Odapir and Odpairian citizens as a means of control. In a convoluted, twisted way, the farming economy of (Southern) Ir Nouzonif is entirely dependent on migrant workers from Odapir.
After the Fall of Ir Nouzonif (in Part 4 of Meiste), the city of Ir Nouzonif becomes fair game, since it's also a religious center and Hota and Lozef completely overhaul the government, yet xenophobic tendencies remain, especially in Southern Ir Nouzonif State.
Odapir: Odapir City
Odapir is an authoritarian surveillance/police state, and Odapir City is the place the police have the most eyes. (Not to say Ir Nouzonif isn't a police state.) Many in Odapir, too, are brainwashed into hating Zenestians as scapegoats. Not a great place to be, and many in Odapir City are xenophobic as a result (much like Ir Nouzonif.)
Outside of Odapir City, and especially in the Southeastern corner (where there are no cameras) you may find the Hero of Life, good beaches, and good hikes.
Zeneste: Tolftorrijv and Zenée
Ok, maybe you can get away with going to the cities of Tolftorrijv and Obizoe, but beyond that, don't even try. The cities themselves aren't really worth visiting, and many Zenestians beyond the cities are xenophobic, in addition to there not being anything to do beyond the cities.
This has been a massive excuse for me to yap, so I hope people enjoy this lol.
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I finally started writing my novel, Meiste, again! It’s about a rice farmer who becomes Emperor, a student at a religious boarding school searching for the secrets of spirituality, and one explosive (/literal) Princess all working together to return magical stability to their home, and fighting oppressive systems along the way.
So far, I’m 4,500 words in—there’s definitely still a long way to go. Most of my research for this so far has been about two things: rice farming and religion. (Sounds like the start to a bad dad joke!) I plan to mostly focus on the (former) rice farmer, In Iziser, since the novel is supposed to be from his point of view.
Day 19 (25 in base 7) of rewriting my novel.
I wrote another 1,000 words ish. I've been adding roughly 1,000 words per day, and as a result, I'm somewhere along the order of 24,000 or so words total.
Today, I also completed a grambank table for Ipol! A while ago, @dedalvs created a grambank spreadsheet for conlangs that has been very helpful for documenting my conlangs' grammars (so I don't forget them,) and today I finished a "draft" of a finalized one for Ipol.
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EDIT: I mistakenly credited David J. Peterson with creating this spreadsheet, but he's just who I heard it from! It is actually by Jessie Peterson.
Edit 2: I knew David Peterson and Jesse Peterson were married, but I didn’t piece together that it was Jesse Peterson who created the grambank spreadsheet.
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My questions:
1. What is the most important meal of the day?
2. What drives you to succeed?
3. Have you ever gambled? (Not just with money)
Guess I’ll do Chia/Ailan. Here goes!
What is the most important meal of the day?
You’re taught in the Maidenhood to never skip a meal, but I would say Breakfast. It’s important to feed your body, especially after a night’s rest. As my mentor used to say, “take care of your body, and it will take care of you.”
What drives you to succeed?
Heh. In some ways, guilt, I suppose. I don’t need to work; I’ve got enough funds to live the rest of my life in luxury and then some. But some lives aren’t to be ignored, and… Marie, she isn’t-wasn’t- fit for the life of a Glass Maiden. That doesn’t change the fact that I killed her parents, which is why I quit. So doing Barwork, being a server… small price to pay to make sure she’s safe.
Have you ever gambled?
Oh certainly. With money, with lives: my own and others. I cheated every time, of course. What? You don’t win Gambles because you play fair.
Your questions:
1) Are you a night owl or a morning lark
2)what is/would be your favorite kind of cheese
3) whats your favorite letter?
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True hate’s kiss (only kissing your enemy can break a curse)
Dating your enemy’s sibling
Lovers to enemies
Hate at first sight
Love triangle where the two love interests get together instead
Fake amnesia
Soulmates who are fated to kill each other
Strangers to enemies
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Love interest CEO is a himbo/bimbo who runs their company into the ground
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There's something about Wen Ning kneeling to apologize for everything that went wrong, and Wei Wuxian kneeling down with him as if to say nothing is your fault that isn't also my fault. Either we'll stand together or we'll kneel together.
They are the secret third thing.
i hope im not just a mutual to you but also a really annoying stranger who is somehow always going through something
I’ve got to find my worst-spelled words sometimes, but yeah, the more tired I get, the worse I spell, too. Reblogging so I can find this post in a pinch lol.
I have made a discovery.
Apparently, the more tired I am, the more poorly I spell.
Fun fact: I'm actually garbage at spelling. A lot of people (both IRL and otherwise) think I'm really good at it just because I know how to spell most everything off the top of my head, but that's just because I've learned them over time from writing so much. Without knowing... I spell extremely poorly.
Why do I mention all this?
I tried spelling "structured" as "struckured".
And that's just the beginning.
Day 12 (15 in base 7) of writing my novel again
Today I wrote a lot more of Part Two. It's officially >5,000 words, so the whole thing is >16,000 words now. Nice.
Have another 'bagnin'' line from my alpha-reader:
Sinezo 'na asispijenen sineen Nuwrrite piste, I thought, repeating the words of the chef in my mind. When a rice farmer has become the Emperor.
Mau sispijnen, I finished. Anything can happen.
I don't know if I've already posted this translation or not, but have at it.
My alpha reader pointed out how wonky the pacing is in the first 1,000 words. And how much of an underwriter I am. Maybe once I finish Part Two, or Three, I'll go and review the whole thing.
I still haven't figured out how to deal with the ending of the story yet, but yeah.
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