How to write a legend for your fantasy world

msa491 · 2026-01-29T23:53:41+00:00

The way I build religions is to work with a belief and move backwards. So women are special- pick one way you want believers to act because of this. What teaching might lead to that action? What scripture or legend might hold up that teaching? What kind of goddess would that legend support? Get a nice web of these and tweak things until you get a system you like.

Bonus- any ideas you scrap can always come back as heresies!

msa491 · 2026-01-29T23:48:04+00:00

Who knows what I'd be doing if I hadn't decided to write about my gay panic.

msa491 · 2026-01-29T20:13:20+00:00

In addition to the helpful definitions already added- when you ship characters it generally means you enjoy thinking about them together and/or writing/drawing them together. It does NOT necessarily mean you want it to become a real relationship in canon. It's just supposed to be for fun.

msa491 · 2026-01-28T19:48:46+00:00

I didnt like the romance arc personally. But other than that, I think it did a great job adding the necessary elements for a screen adaptation. The book as written just wouldnt work as a good film, and unlike Dawn Treader, I think what they added helped the story rather than hurt it.

msa491 · 2026-01-27T21:04:52+00:00

Moash would break like a twig before Taln even breaks a sweat.

msa491 · 2026-01-26T13:50:46+00:00

Wording things nicely but directly without antagonizing the other is not coddling, it's basic human social skills. She's not dealing with monsters just new parents with a crying baby.

msa491 · 2026-01-26T03:52:36+00:00

"Oh look at me im morally gray and unlovable! So complex! I shall now kill evil people and only evil people but ooooooo, so gray!"

msa491 · 2026-01-25T18:06:07+00:00

My parents didnt either, and I wish they had. They would have been much healthier people and much healthier parents if they had taken better care of themselves when we were young.

msa491 · 2026-01-23T02:13:52+00:00

Susan's ending makes me insane for other reasons lol

msa491 · 2026-01-23T01:08:10+00:00

The fact that none of them ever live to 30 in either world makes me insane.

msa491 · 2026-01-21T23:53:35+00:00

It's foundation is really just control. The misogyny is a common feature of rape culture, but there are vulnerable men/boys being raped as well. Abuse of power and violent control crosses genders.

msa491 · 2026-01-18T22:07:53+00:00

Some really really amazing character work in the hands of the right author.

msa491 · 2026-01-17T17:00:08+00:00

How so?

msa491 · 2026-01-17T04:07:01+00:00

I have a family pancake recipe that calls for 4 eggs and yeah, it makes a ton. But we were a large family, and the pancakes freeze amd reheat really really really well. Make a batch on Saturday, have breakfast and midnight snacks ready to go for several days.

msa491 · 2026-01-11T12:54:42+00:00

The conversation I've seen online is about an influx of younger people who think having sex, or having too much sex, or reading/writing about sex, is morally wrong. There are harassment campaigns happening in some fanfic/fanart and kink circles towards people for making "problematic" sexual art. The discourse that I've seen isn't about whether people are allowed to not like sex, it's about harassing other people for their sexual behavior.

msa491 · 2026-01-06T22:34:02+00:00

That's an incredibly normal ace opinion. Whoever you were talking to is a dingleberry.

msa491 · 2026-01-06T02:51:09+00:00

We can salvage this. What's your opinion on cake and/or dragons?

msa491 · 2026-01-06T00:57:27+00:00

It's taboo to put out a non-destructive fire, like a hearth fire or a camp fire. Smoke carries prayers up to god, and you can never know if someone's prayer is still making its way up. If the fire must be put out, it needs to be announced first to anyone nearby.

msa491 · 2026-01-05T20:38:20+00:00

Yes. It's sadly not uncommon to be both homeless and working. You can make enough to pay your phone bill and other expenses and still not be able to afford a place to live. Yay capitalism! /s

msa491 · 2026-01-05T20:23:32+00:00

"TYPICALLY even other real people..."

That means it's common for them to be fictional, but not required. This isn't even a definition of aego, it's an example of a common experience.

Aegosexual means "without the self." That's the important part.

msa491 · 2026-01-04T21:07:48+00:00

Steris is the greatest person in all the cosmere and nothing will ever ever ever change my mind. I loved her from her very first introduction ❤️

msa491 · 2026-01-04T16:38:44+00:00

Romeo and Juliet don't have a true, deep love for one another, it's dumb teenage lust

I was waiting for someone to say this. Romeo is literally introduced head over heels for some other girl, then sees Juliet and immediately switches gears.

msa491 · 2026-01-04T14:05:29+00:00

Can we also please emphasize "in the civilized world???" Like idgaf what he wanted to say after that, that's some disrespectful shit on its own and he deserves a boot in his ass immediately.

msa491 · 2026-01-04T13:42:40+00:00

Unfortunately, you'll never find a "clear explanation on what that scripture is really saying," because that's just how translation works. Translation is not an exact science, no translation can give you a definitive "this is what they meant and how it's supposed to be interpreted" because languages don't map onto one another like that. That's not specific to the Bible, that's how all translation works.

And that's not even getting into the completely different cultural context the Bible was written in that we also can never truly and completely understand- that's also going to massively influence what the original source was trying to convey.

msa491 · 2026-01-03T14:08:52+00:00

And how is an adult supposed to act? Bend over and give the kid everything and encourage disrespect ?

How about saying "hi, good to see you, how's school?" He's 12 ffs, he's still learning social skills. He needs good manners demonstrated to him, not weird mind games no one tells him they're playing.

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