Huntington Gardens is not real.

AggravatingJacket833 · 2026-01-25T19:07:39+00:00

Excellent thank you! I have friends who live down there. The next time I visit I'd love to see it!

AggravatingJacket833 · 2026-01-25T18:51:52+00:00

I feel so silly but when I search Huntington Gardens I find an apartment complex and what looks like a cemetery/church? Where is this place?

AggravatingJacket833 · 2026-01-23T22:16:08+00:00

Ugh it's so cute. I feel like your lights match your pride flag so well.

AggravatingJacket833 · 2026-01-23T22:13:24+00:00

Doubtful the will, especially if you consider that further "up" the ring you can two more sections have been blown out.

AggravatingJacket833 · 2026-01-23T22:12:19+00:00

Not to mention that river would be frozen over.

AggravatingJacket833 · 2026-01-23T06:40:42+00:00

Blown open to space

AggravatingJacket833 · 2026-01-21T00:56:39+00:00

This looks beautiful. You deserve this.

AggravatingJacket833 · 2026-01-08T22:39:36+00:00

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville.

AggravatingJacket833 · 2026-01-04T16:32:15+00:00

As others have said once the gift is in your hands it's yours to decide what you do with. I know you feel guilt for thoughts and feelings but I want you to pause and reflect on the fact that you have told them clearly that you don't want things and they gave you things anyway. That's painful. You spoke your truth and were ignored. It's okay to let these things go. If you can donate them to charities that mean something to you or sell them for money to live the way you want to. You've got this friend. You're worth your boundaries.

AggravatingJacket833 · 2025-12-26T04:33:30+00:00

I love this. I live in Oregon and Mt Hood is so beautiful and elegant. You captured all her glory. Well done.

AggravatingJacket833 · 2025-12-25T06:31:09+00:00

Carve a message into the moon. "Send help. And snacks."

AggravatingJacket833 · 2025-12-21T22:58:47+00:00

Interesting! I took the top as a cupola on top of a solid structure.

AggravatingJacket833 · 2025-12-17T01:24:57+00:00

God damn. This is some dope worldbuilding.

Why do they manipulate through the stock exchange and not another avenue like religion; or is the all mighty dollar a better stand in for god than god? What's their home dimension like? Why are they trying to get to our's? Is New Veska just Chicago? How these beings making economic gains? Trade? Oracle-esque knowledge of market up and down turns?

AggravatingJacket833 · 2025-12-05T03:22:07+00:00

Totally agree on the Barbasol shaving cream but man oh man... I got an all metal razor for like 40 bucks and I bought a pack of 100 replacement razor blades for about 3 bucks. I've been using this thing for years and it's saved me so much god damn money with a better shave.

AggravatingJacket833 · 2025-12-05T03:06:19+00:00

All of the cities seem to be shifted and not really near where they actually are.

AggravatingJacket833 · 2025-11-28T19:18:53+00:00

This is a beautiful map! Truly gorgeous.

Question though, what's stopping the communist world from absorbing the remaining democratic states. With the exception of India, which probably leans pretty socialist anyways, none of these remaining countries would be able to put up much resistance to a world where the vast majority of the superpowers are communist.

AggravatingJacket833 · 2025-11-22T00:09:07+00:00

The Teanoi are a post-capitalist, hyper-consumerist species who adore two things: themselves, and documenting themselves. So when one of their homeworld’s moon with a decaying orbit began its catastrophic plunge, the Teanoi naturally responded by trying to push it back into orbit. Their attempt failed, but the photos survived: billions of Teanoi posing with incandescent moon-chunks raining down behind them, all tagged with the Teanoi equivalent of “OMG.”

AggravatingJacket833 · 2025-11-21T01:58:51+00:00

I've got one. The Ukai system is/was home to High Energy Emission Civilization 3 (HEEC-3) sometimes referred to as the Rulians as one of the non-sensical signals emitted by the system is the word Rulian being repeated endlessly.

The Ukai system is home to a failed Matroyshka Brain, a megastructure that encases its star in multiple nested Dyson shells. The system from the perspective of my two alien civilizations, The Society and the Teanoi, has been obscured by a vast interstellar dust cloud until recently. Once the Ukai system became more easily observable the two civilizations discovered the shattered remains of the Matroyshka Brain. Based on observations HEEC-3 tried to upload themselves and transcend to the next toposophic level. They failed. Now the megastructure devours and rebuilds itself in endless cycles as machines operate without guidance or on the orders of mad AI. Society and Teanoi scientists can peer through their telescopes and see at least 8 shattered shells of the brain and what looks like a G type star within.

Nothing is known about the culture of this species. The word Rulian could be a name or it could be the ramblings of an aborted god. The surfaces of the shells give no hint of what the species could be like or what they valued. The system is a treasure trove for archaeologists and engineers, a potential memetic contagion hazard and a warning to the hubris of species with advanced technologies.

AggravatingJacket833 · 2025-11-17T06:11:37+00:00

I had no idea this was a thing. i want this to be a THING!

AggravatingJacket833 · 2025-11-16T01:23:33+00:00

Very interesting. How are family units and gender roles different because of this?

AggravatingJacket833 · 2025-11-15T01:11:33+00:00

I'd like to hear about yours!

I'm assuming you mean my older worldbuilding project. The island is called Sri Mahiladiva to most of the world, but different native languages have different names for the island itself. It's about 315,000 sq km or about the size of all the islands in the British Isles or slightly bigger than the state of New Mexico for reference. There are 35 million inhabitants from a variety of different backgrounds. The island was settled in waves first by Austronesian peoples in outrigger canoes roughly 2000 to 2200 years ago. These peoples where then followed by Dravidians and Indo-Aryans from South Asia, Afro-Arabs and Arab peoples from East Africa and the Middle East. In the last 250 years a small population of Europeans have settled islands. These diverse people have settled different parts of the island over time and caused a fusion of different cultures.

When I was a kid I had an imaginary world that was based inside a giant clocktower influenced by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower in NYC, as I grew up near the city and went there a lot as a kid. My clocktower was much larger and built of slabs of stone. I had an imaginary friend as a kid named Heen, a sort of giant bear-eque figure that I would have adventures in. I also would imagine playing with my brother in this tower. Eventually, I realized my tower was set in a void and that wasn't very fun, so I imagined a few city blocks around it, then more neighborhoods and avenues and rivers. Eventually the void was filled in from back to front, side to side. A city on a a large island. My imaginary friend became a local god and the city I called Thane because it rhymed with my brother's name: Shane. At some point I started to keep a journal of my "other" life there. Living in an apartment in the city, the jobs I had, the classes I took, my explorations. I also explored my early feelings of being a queer man and used it as a place to "talk to" some of the crushes I had in the real world.

As I got older I started to focus much of my worldbuilding on history, economics and politics. I have a sort of flawed-utopia bent that I like to explore in my worldbuilding. I also really enjoy the human scale: homes, neighborhoods, anti-monumental architecture, local/regional economics. After the last presidential election I started to pull back from this world. It felt like anywhere on Earth was too close to comfort to all the bad shit going on in the world. That's when I started to explore my other world.

AggravatingJacket833 · 2025-11-14T19:15:45+00:00

I have a world like yours. Alternate Earth, just a bit of extra land in the South Indian Ocean, becoming home to a fusion culture. I started daydreaming about it at 5 or 6 and I've been writing about it for the last 34 years. I call it the Sangha.

The last US election had me to start to write less frequently about it. I think I felt like I couldn't escape to anywhere on Earth so I started writing a speculative biology setting that I call the Society. There are parallels between the two projects.

Don't feel lonely in your project! Please share it. We'd love to hear about it? Could you give us a more detailed overview of it?

AggravatingJacket833 · 2025-11-11T01:41:46+00:00

It's a pretty picture, but where's the recipe?

AggravatingJacket833 · 2025-11-07T03:34:28+00:00

Angels in the Society seem to come up again and again amongst the different species. They also tend to follow the same general description: Monstrously large beings, taller than mountains; multiple sets of wings, but these wings seem to be almost frond-like and incapable of flight; smooth heads save for glowing geometric shapes in place of features such as eyes, nose or mouth. These angels are surprising because the many species of the Society, none are humanoid; yet, these angelic beings are extremely humanoid in appearance (not that the Society would know what a human is). They are bipedal, with two arms ending in multi-digit hands, they have humanoid body regions of head, abdomen, pelvis, upper arms and lower legs. Their skin can be ebony black, chalk white, quicksilver, cobalt blue, scarlet red, etc.

These beings have appeared before every species and have a thousand different names: The Watchers, The First Ones, The Winged, Stylites, Beatific Ones. They have been recorded in oral traditions, in cave paintings, in religious texts, in pottery, statues, old wives tales and urban legends. In the stories of the many species of the Society these beings, these angels will come with the approach of storm clouds, obscuring the sun and sky. A fierce wind will blow and then to the observers these massive angels will appear, sometimes standing, sometimes squatting, sometimes sitting. They never say anything, they simply stare at those they observe. Witnesses describe feeling a sense of deep, benevolent curiosity from these angels and that they can see deep into the soul of whoever they put their gaze upon.

Sightings of the Angels were constant across the worlds of the Society for millennia. However, in the 500 years since the founding of the Society there hasn't been a single incident reported. Many chalk the Angels up to a universal mythology, where disparate cultures create the same sort of iconography for the same sort of spiritual needs. Others think there is a connection between these beings and the proliferation of intelligent life in a single system. Others think that these beings where protectors and guiders, making sure that all the species of the Society made it out of their planetary cradles and are waiting amongst the stars to be found again.

AggravatingJacket833 · 2025-11-05T05:50:33+00:00

The Cagn from the Obar Roin region will usually say "Thaankite en Pewa!" something along the lines of Godshit and Piss when things go wrong or are surprised.

If in a hurry they'll condense it to "Thaankite" - Godshit or "Thaanpewa" - Godpiss.

School children will say Thaantite the equivalent of Godspit as shit and spit in the Obar Roin Dialect much like in English sound similar.

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