Thousands Of Years Is A Long-ass Time But This Provides Serious Worldbuilding Opportunities To A Motivated

Inspired by a post about that particular Microsoft logo, here's my laptop's custom boot screen. Just imagine the spinning dots are there too.

devil's bargain; they will love you as a daughter, but it will be love.

Concepted this character, named the species a 'Zurg' and ended up 3d modeling it for vrchat

2022 in review :) not a lot of art this year, but I'm happy with the things I was able to make (even if a few are a little squashed by this layout) and hopefully 2023 is kind

A very ethical spell you can always feel good about casting

if you ask me wizardry is about hubris.

wizardry is about someone who was once merely a man and now she's a vessel to insane cosmic power.

wizardry is about calling forth the demonic hands of Zulmanos to go put away your laundry because you can't be asked to do it and then getting shocked and annoyed when the foul miasma of the lower planes starts spawning imps in your changing room.

wizardy is about picking fights with dragons and kingdoms and small planets and having 50/50 odds of winning, or of your pathetic mortal frame pop like a fresh grape because you fucked up your defensive runes and now you're a smear of red wearing a very nice robe.

wizardry is the ultimate expression of human power, our ability to shape the world around us to suit our deep desires and our petty whims, and at the same time human weakness, both our physical vulnerability and the various foibles and quirks that make us make mistakes but also make us who we are.

its also about going "heehoo" and scuttling around your tower like a gecko.

pov: you just woke up

The other day, me and a few others were talking to a teenage cousin of ours who had just entered the work force full-time. Incidentally, he had also just come back from his week of vacation. He was incredibly upset and near tears, saying that it is terrible how he has to spend every day working and his only "life" gets to happen in his designated 1-2 weeks off per year, and, in his words, "then you die."

A lot of the people listening in started laughing at him and saying that he needs to "grow up and get used to it." How brainwashed do you have to be to say these things, especially to a kid in distress? And especially when the kid is right? He is absolutely, 100% right.

We have so much evidence that this set up is not healthy physically or psychologically. We could absolutely find better ways to ensure things get done without making people feel like overused machines. Everything we do as humans should be about making our lives happier and easier so that we can enjoy this precious little time we have. Everything we do now is instead about making the select few happier while everyone else suffers.

Don't "grow up and get used to it." Keep that youthful feeling of injustice when you realize how unfair it all is. This is not natural. People made society this way and we can unmake it.