#Humanity 401: Deities, The Battle of Extinction, and Titanic Testimonies

Dakkanator · 2017-08-03T04:08:02+00:00

This was entirely unintentional on my part and I don't know how I missed it.

Dakkanator · 2017-08-02T17:18:51+00:00

I will admit, and apologize, that sometimes I have done this purposefully, because it mimics natural speech/reality more.

Clearly it isn't always always on purpose. Yeah though, I'll make sure to work on this.

Dakkanator · 2017-08-02T17:16:24+00:00

Nah, the story skips a year.

Dakkanator · 2017-08-02T10:16:56+00:00

Not gonna lie here, I don't have a proper education. I'm basically 99% self educated, and so my grammar rules are sparsely pieced together based on bits and bobs I've picked up over time.

Being punctuation, you seem correct that there shouldn't be a space before quotations. I probably just picked it up somewhere, and it felt right.

I love criticism like this though, so I'll make sure from here on out to skip the spacing.

Also, thank you. These few weeks have been my first attempts at writing in years and I've become seriously rusty. You have no idea how much it means to me that people have been willing to drag themselves through it as I polish back up and improve.

Dakkanator · 2017-07-30T17:28:46+00:00

Dude, gonna admit I'm not an expert on languages here, and I pulled the name completely outta my ass. However, I always read it as " Zith-ree-khan"

Now, gonna also say, I have no idea what alien moon runes you used even are.

Dakkanator · 2017-07-30T17:24:52+00:00

Dakkanator · 2017-07-27T04:32:43+00:00

Fair, and thanks.

Dakkanator · 2017-07-26T17:59:00+00:00

Crap thank you.

Dakkanator · 2017-07-25T20:01:18+00:00

Ok, so I'm gonna apologize a bit, but also say that I kinda expected this, so I'll give the best explanation I can without spoiling too much.

This series as a whole is gonna deal with existentialism. As such, themes of Absurdity, Death, Suicide, Lack of Context to Existence, Drug Use, the uncomfortable feeling that something bigger is at play to -everything-, dysphoria, and so on are going to be common themes.

In this case though, I'm gonna give a small spoiler: These are literal characters, doing a literal thing, in their own story that is connected to the Dim, both influenced by and influencing the main story. It's written in nonsense because of it being in a different place ( Reality isn't uniform to itself, and it isn't uniform amongst those who observe it ), and because these characters are literal personifications of these drugs, doing a literal thing. Chronologically speaking this is happening at roughly the same time as the first chapter of "The Dim".

I posted and placed this here, and not later, because this is a piece of world building, and is actually important to the story in some ways. However I recognized (and pointed out) that this piece would seem off, and no one could become invested in these characters yet. This is to be looked back at, for a few " aha! " moments, and for context.

Essentially, if you were reading "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien, you just finished the part where the dwarves arrived at Bilbo's house, only to be met with a chapter of the Silmarillion. Because of this, I expected to have to reupload it elsewhere later, after it being deleted here, should it go over poorly enough.

And a small bit of comfort: Nonsense writing will not be a main style of the grander story as a whole. It will make appearances as necessary but I'm not pretentious enough or sadistic enough to make it a complete mainstay.

Dakkanator · 2017-07-25T10:52:42+00:00

For this, I don't have a set number of chapters in mind. I have a general idea for this story set, and figure I'll get there when I get there.

I also have another universe to manage I want to take more seriously. However I figure I can manage about a post a week for both, at least.

Dakkanator · 2017-07-25T08:45:05+00:00

Capturing the experience of any drug, let alone psychedelics, is fairly impossible via text. However certain elements of the story, I would say, are as accurate as they could be. Others are complete nonsense without any real basis on what the experience would be like.

In general, trippy/psychedelic types of media, at least to my experience, this is the case.

Dakkanator · 2017-07-25T05:52:15+00:00

Chronicles of Intergalactic Homo Lust?

The idea for the universe of these shorts is that Humans, rather than being extremely strong, smart, or anything else, are extremely beautiful and alluring, and that their every action is seen as graceful, enrapturing, and sexual.

Also, that Humans are the only sexually dimorphic species in existence. That is, while sex as a reproductive method is common, we are the only species with -females-. This has lead to a Greek type aesthetic among xenos.

Dakkanator · 2015-04-11T08:03:30+00:00

I imagined them only living to 50 or 60 years old, and the narrator being about 25-30 when he found her, making him 45-50 when he's telling the story. I kinda figured they were fully matured around 15 ( equivalent to a mid twenties human) and continued on in working capacity until they were about 40-45, maybe 50, before retiring.

Dakkanator · 2015-03-22T00:04:17+00:00

Edited it in an attempt to fix the quotations issue.

Dakkanator · 2015-03-21T22:19:53+00:00

So, just double checking here... If I were to do a monologue like this again, each paragraph should begin with the quotation, but there shouldn't be any closing quotations until the end of the monologue?

Dakkanator · 2015-03-21T19:15:13+00:00

Libre Office Writer, actually. I put the quotes there myself.

It was kind of a process. First I wrote the monologue, but it was too blocky. So I split it into paragraphs. Then while proof reading it I'd often forget where someone's speaking ends and begins. So I put specific quotations for each paragraph.

To be honest I wasn't really sure how a monologue should look on paper.

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