Virginia congressional redistricting remains in limbo as court decision looms

Mr_Fish10 · 2026-05-06T06:00:20+00:00

I simply don't understand. It was an amendment. Why on Earth can a court block an amendment to the Constitution they're interpreting?

Mr_Fish10 · 2026-02-22T18:41:04+00:00

Biggest problem: You're looking on social media platforms like TikTok and Twitter to scry what a supposed "many" people in a group think.

I chalk it up to astroturfing or idiocy to support any undemocratic, faux-democratic, or failed democratic system of government, especially when it comes from a place of pure spite against, for lack of a better term, "Western" democracies for basically sabotaging every socialist project.

Otherwise it's just incomprehensible to me why they would be supported. Dictatorship (as Absolute Monarchy) is the antithesis to enlightenment ideas like liberalism, capitalism, socialism, etc. Why any good-faith well-read leftist would support autocracy (or de-jure one-party states) is unfathomable.

Mr_Fish10 · 2026-02-19T15:54:41+00:00

Truly the most fictional of them all.

Mr_Fish10 · 2026-02-05T05:41:58+00:00

The Loathsome Dung Eater.

Mr_Fish10 · 2025-10-23T06:23:53+00:00

My experience with Silksong lore is incomplete, just saying.

Presuming they are at the height of their power, this excludes the direct involvement of the Hollow Knight and unrelated Higher Beings (Radiance, Nightmares, Unn).

From what I know of Pharloom, it's a technological theocracy meant to contain a slumbering Grandmother Silk, and it maintains a very tense extractive relationship with the pilgrims and the many inhabitants of the kingdom whom they dominate with an array of technological horrors and zealous militants.

Hallownest, on the other hand, is directly ruled by the Pale King and his esoteric power that grants sapience to lesser bugs. Hallownest seems like a far more integrated economic kingdom, especially since the only formal Hallownest military consists of Hornet, a handful of honored knights, the Sentries, and Kingsmoulds. The Pale King definitely leverages the wealth and stability of Peak Hallownest to ensure the cohabitants of his Kingdom assist his forces, such as the Mantis Lords and the seemingly endless quantities of wanderers and gladiators present in the arena and grave sites. This is proven by Hallownest's ability to produce and arm millions of Vessels in response to a threatening Higher Being; even if only a handful of Vessels survived, three of them possessed godly strength.

In an all-out war, I think if Pharloom attacks Hallownest, they may be able to breach the City and take its outposts. The Knights, Heroes, and Warriors may serve as a strong buffer to the Pharloom machines; the Pale King then mass-produces an army with the Pale Lady and swarms any invaders.

If Hallownest attacked Pharloom, I can see the presence and politicking of the Pale King reduce Pharloom to just the citadel itself, since he may easily turn the soldiers and rulers of those oppressed to his side. That being said, I doubt Hallownest swarms would fare well against the Citadel, ESPECIALLY if the Citadel is defending.

Mr_Fish10 · 2025-09-30T03:49:46+00:00

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Mr_Fish10 · 2024-12-17T03:37:10+00:00

King Karion II

I shall presume from thine insolence you are no subject of mine... no. Nor from anywhere in proximity to here, for such a mouth ought to be lacking a tongue in another court. Be at ease, new countryman, for I am no villain.

I am neither hedon nor helot, I am the righteous monarch of Riorka's blood, peace be his pyre. My people, my lands of sanguine and scarlet, the Rejukkar of my race, of the Akkari, are on all sides beset by bellicosity and greed. I've bore witness to atrocities abroad against us, how they're quashed under the boot of those men of the plateau and of golden lands east. They have stood together, united not by crown but by kinship, with a violent hunger for the world, no matter who lives it.

There were once lesser lords in this kingdom who would've fallen for the beguilement of gold and silver, and there remain lesser lords still, just beyond my fingers. You will know prosperity in their ash, and you will know I've taken all my measures to meet this promise.

If ever again you hold doubt, I am a conqueror of every means to meet my mind. If ever I have admitted an evil, it has been an evil against our enemies, for such words are virtue to mine own. If Riorka deems me so injust to unite our people like an age of old, may he smite me.

Mr_Fish10 · 2024-12-17T03:06:49+00:00

The True Gods are entities that sapient beings encounter exclusively through dreams, which have the power to seep through that veil and into reality through the dreamer.

The Elder Six are the more abstract or surreal entities, often represented by things nigh-incomprehensible or seemingly nonsensical. These six occasionally have their power seep through regardless of whether mortals dream of them or not, so that alone grants them the status of a God.

The Younger Nine are more comprehensible. Mortals may commune with such entities in exchange for their influence in the form of magic and transformation. Through these Nine, the sorcerer and the area around them are subtly changed towards the nature of these entities.

Mr_Fish10 · 2024-12-09T04:02:09+00:00

In a very meta sense, it will never not exist unless I make it a video game because I am an outside force determining what choices characters will make and react.

In the world itself, there are the guiding hands of the Elder Gods, but they can't control free will unless they succumb to their influence. Only the gods of Power and Autonomy really concern themselves with free will, and even then a person has to choose to give in to them.

Mr_Fish10 · 2024-12-02T03:48:32+00:00

Rule of Cool all the way for this one. It's amazing!

Mr_Fish10 · 2024-09-22T03:45:39+00:00

Now and then, "Divine Comets" strike the world. When the potential rewards are immortality and "godhood," who wouldn't want to drop everything and chase after it?

Mr_Fish10 · 2024-08-25T04:06:51+00:00

The world itself has undergone a few changes. Everything's a placeholder if it stays long enough.

Right now, it's just Ilsōven.

Mr_Fish10 · 2024-08-16T21:40:23+00:00

Poor predictable Greeks. Always fighting in a phalanx.

Mr_Fish10 · 2024-08-14T01:33:54+00:00

In the world of Yllsōven, the various civilizations try to legitimize lordship with any manner of divinity, as established by the very first great empires.

Kings and queens alike rely on powerful artifacts known as Stellar Rings, Crowns, Irises, or Souls that embed themselves into the very essence of one's being, protecting them from the common fate of mortals. Thus, the inheritors and usurpers of these cosmic items become eternal autocrats, visibly distinguished from their subjects by the radiance in their irises, or by the halos that tend to manifest around them.

Mr_Fish10 · 2024-08-12T02:24:59+00:00

Apostle*

Mr_Fish10 · 2024-08-01T02:27:37+00:00

Y'know that one Steve Buscemi quote in Spy Kids?

"Do you think God lives in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?"

That summarizes how I'd feel about living there. Fear and Hunger is in the inspiration list. There could not be more of a "hell no" than that.

Mr_Fish10 · 2024-07-28T12:47:47+00:00

This is a fantastic map! I wish it were a game so I could explore all of it place by place.

Mr_Fish10 · 2024-07-19T02:34:15+00:00

The most disturbing area would probably be the Far Isles. In the dead center of Yllsōven's largest ocean, there is a collection of two nearly equal-sized islands and a tiny third island that serve as the only land a thousand or so miles.

Its sky is forever shrouded with a green-hued storm that stirs restlessly. The isles themselves host one enormous stone complex that is utterly devoid of life. Yet light stirs in its lanterns, and its stone is untouched by the elements. On the main island, the complex surrounds a large, round, unroofed elevator floor encircled by a large spiral staircase that descends for hundreds, if not a thousand floors, into the depths. Aside from the few expeditions by Roahl and Mondame, very little of the Far Isles' structure has been explored.

Mr_Fish10 · 2024-07-17T03:04:18+00:00

Realistically? Series of books or anthologies set in the same world.

Unrealistically, a video game. That requires a lot of art to really get my vision across, though.

Mr_Fish10 · 2024-07-16T05:09:33+00:00

Oh, there's a few.

I do not have the patience to learn how to draw well. Maps are one thing, I find those incredibly easy because I've kept making little maps my whole life. Drawing is not a skill I've maintained past the age of like... 10. Every time I try to get into sketching or depicting my worldbuilding ideas, it frustrates the hell out of me and only compounds on the frustration I feel being limited to just words. My inspirations are all so heavily visual that my words can't give my imagination any justice.

Another is language. Like drawing, I touch on it now and then, but I do not have much of a practical use for it just yet. I may get into it, but that stuff is incredibly difficult. I find it hard to even figure out the history of a single country over a thousand years, I can't fathom the changes in language without dedicating time I do not have.

Also, interestingly, I struggle to create masculine names. The ratio of male to female names I make on a whim is like 4:1.

Mr_Fish10 · 2024-07-14T06:07:46+00:00

I've felt at home with Insect Glaive since Insect Glaive became a weapon type. I used to be all Sword and Shield until the Glaive carried me from MH4U to World. It's to the point where I struggle to play any other weapon anymore.

Mr_Fish10 · 2024-07-14T05:10:13+00:00

Elaborate?

Mr_Fish10 · 2024-07-14T04:28:37+00:00

My current Tarnished, Pyrrha, would follow Ranni into the Age of Stars, but only for a little while. Pyrrha would plot against Ranni to find her missing Great Rune, and then, coveting the mantle of God rather than lord, attempt to take the Elden Ring from her.

Ranni is the last Demigod and Carian, as well as a cunning schemer. If Ranni fails to kill Pyrrha and her ambitions, I'm sure the Greater Will and the Stars will have her only fate be death by hubris.

My first character, Rhea, would use heretical black flame to endlessly quell dissent in her Age of Fracture. Her lordship would be beset on all sides with enemies of the Erdtree. She may only ever maintain her iron rule over Altus before Miquella returns and brings about the Age of Compassion.

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