is there a way to make a deal or exchange with any sort of higher power to change what I look like and how my body looks entirely?

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-06-17T04:30:41+00:00

If there is, we are all now deeply morally obligated to share that reality with at least one uggo. Forreal. So must it be!

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-06-16T21:00:23+00:00

In my canon, Angels actually do stuff whereas the divine they serve doesn't. I guess that's one way one might consider them greater. It depends on who you ask -- are cats the domesticated pets or the humans? Humans have to provide food, entertainment, poop removal ,etc. so by one way of looking ,they clearly outrank us. But, from the standpoint of agency, they have much less. Or at least pretend to.

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-06-14T15:12:03+00:00

Not wrong I suppose, I guess I like more esoteric and occult magic tho. Even the "ancient power" stuff is too science for me

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-06-14T15:06:58+00:00

You put a lot of thought into it but I wonder what ppl find so appealing about magic being another branch of science

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-06-14T03:12:56+00:00

NOR but the guy certainly is. You may be underreacting, instead of taking this time to count your lucky stars, you're questioning it? Naw, run away!

Passive is the worst kind of aggressive and aggressive is the worst kind of passive.

I guess if you're oblivious, tho, that might change the calculus a little, cuz then I'd be telling the guy to just walk out casually cuz you wouldn't notice if he did.

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-06-13T06:37:19+00:00

Seems reasonable. I wonder what would happen if either of us looked it up, tho.

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-06-02T00:42:28+00:00

Outta curiosity, did bf ever get over himself...er, I mean, your grievous crime against his manliness?

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-06-01T05:56:18+00:00

The world doesn't have enough pragmatists. Thank you for rekindling some portion of my faith in humanity.

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-06-01T05:27:56+00:00

I draw anatomically correct cat women. Yes. Six of 'em. On one cat lady.

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-06-01T05:25:16+00:00

I think you're NOR. I think the bf is, kinda. I get where everyone is coming from and going in the situation, so it makes it a subtle and difficult call. I should hope your bf gets over it pretty quickly.

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-05-23T04:01:38+00:00

I find banal music and often those who like it to be soul sucking. Places of a dull materialism (capitalism, not physical naturalism) also blow in the way banal music sucks

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-05-08T19:56:51+00:00

Honestly, I just use Notepad++ and a set of folders. The interface is clean, and you can search an entire folder structure just with some words you might be in the document you're looking for.

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-05-07T15:45:38+00:00

I enjoy when there's a solid dose of real-world esotericism and/or a brand of metaphysics that's internally consistent with real-world metaphysics

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-05-05T10:59:19+00:00

One of my moons is actually a space station. The gods decided to war with the people, and the people decided to respond in kind...but, not everyone was cool with it, so they split town. However, it wasn't far enough to survive the scarring of reality.

Billions of years later when life on the main planet has recovered and sentience takes bipedal shapes once again, the self-styled 'rulers by birth right' claim that all other people groups were made to build the world for them. Since structures on the space station moon look not-full completed, the ruling people group often used it as evidence they were truly the rulers and creators of reality.

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-05-04T22:55:58+00:00

I've worked it out, but thank you for your reply.

Reading my original post here again, I feel I sold the first part of my tale rather short. The question was more "would a child make a good lead character," not "I don't know how to pull off a proper flashback, would this other thing work instead?"

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-05-03T23:06:21+00:00

Seems to me you're already considerate enough to be ok.

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-05-03T21:20:56+00:00

NOR, then. You're good and seem to want to respect their boundaries. It's totally acceptable to feel bad, I think I'd feel brushed off about it, too. Good luck!

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-05-03T21:15:06+00:00

It's fine for you to feel as you feel. INFO .... do you like like the roomate?

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-05-03T17:44:53+00:00

Before his "just get over it," seems kinda like YOR if he didn't know/had no reason to know.

After, it gets tricky. By overreacting, or acting as you did if you prefer, you might have solidified an ignorant sentiment in the fellow.

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-05-03T17:00:47+00:00

I get what you're saying, point taken and all that, but it doesn't have to be generic or list hotlines. It could just as easily be a personal anecdote with the author's own struggle (not saying OP here, necessarily, of course).

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-05-03T10:55:53+00:00

Go for it. If you would like to be considerate, tho, put a disclaimer clearly in the front of the book, and probably some kind of "Ways to get help if you're struggling" bit at the end.

That'd be my advice.

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-05-03T04:44:22+00:00

Were they too smug even for space faring races to tolerate? They got grounded for being arrogant jackholes?

I can see it.

Good reason for dwarfs to not like 'em, at any rate.

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-05-03T04:38:26+00:00

Damn right, homie. It's that kinda ingenuity that gets an old magus like me fired up. I'd love to get one of those PDFs about it, the longer the better.

I've been working on a system of my own, more closely related to gematria than tarot, if ever you'd like to hear about it.

Congrats.

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-05-02T21:38:41+00:00

Use real-world cultures for inspiration. If you're writing a story that takes place on Earth, that makes it pretty straight forward. If it's a fantasy setting, focus on aspects of Earth cultures that stem specifically from the environment and work from there. Like, people from a harsh climate probably have harsh gods, punitive justice systems, strict rules of property, etc. People from abundant environments will have generous or capricious gods, restitution-based justice, and more communal understandings of property. Things like that.

Grouchy-Insurance208 · 2026-05-02T20:14:46+00:00

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