So, with the elves again...Mine have thin, hollow bones (which is the reason for their gracile statures) and only adults have wings (which are partially magical and a secondary sexual characteristic, with males having long narrow ones for speed and endurance, female round and slightly concave ones for power lifting and maneuverability with more androgynous individuals having something in between. Their fleshy areas tend to be, in adults, slightly stronger than in humans.) How would corporal punishment work in such cultures, when they don't want handicap the person. Also, the shoulder blade area is a universal taboo to harm (kind of how all human cultures have some form of music ). I think of martinet on the laps and irritants applied to non-sensory essential but pain-sensitive areas.
Hmmmm okay so. If we are talking about corporal punishment on a law enforcement and military type of level, I’m not so sure they would be concerned about preventing disabling injuries or avoiding a body part that’s usually off limits.
Corporal punishment is not an effective behavioral correction tool. Its only purpose is causing harm and inducing fear, and often times “making an example” out of someone to frighten everyone else.
Historically, you might see such punishments as cutting off a thief’s fingers, whippings, various forms of torture. These are not punishments done with the intention of letting the victim heal up and continue living a normal life with a few scars.
In the case of having a “taboo” against hurting a specific body part, I can actually see that becoming a high level form of corporal punishment. If someone is intentionally seriously injured in the one place you’re never supposed to hurt, isn’t that a great way to mark them as particularly terrible criminal? Or a great way to show your power by doing it to your enemies? I would think any authority that uses corporal punishment would actually cause disabling injuries on purpose to make an example out of the people they hate the most. Even to the point of cutting off whole wings, or at least enough of the wing to ground someone without fully killing them, leaving them horribly maimed so anyone who sees them will be terrified of ending up with the same punishment. Death sentences are also a form of corporal punishment.
The less disabling punishments like the ones you mentioned above would likely be used for smaller offenses, or torture tactics.
If you’re writing a society where corporal punishment exists at all, you should really think about why the people in charge of ordering and executing those punishments would only want to cause mild harm. And if the answer is that you as the writer are uncomfortable making a society that allows harsher corporal punishment, then perhaps you need to rework the worldbuilding and avoid writing any corporal punishments.
I would recommend researching how criminal rehabilitation works, the psychology around positive reinforcement, and which countries have the lowest crime rates and how they manage it. That will give you an idea of some better alternatives to corporal punishment if it’s something you’re not so comfortable keeping in your worldbuilding.
And if you are comfortable keeping it in your worldbuilding, then don’t hold back so much. It’s a method of punishment that intentionally causes harm, so write it that way. It can be used to show what the political climate is like in your world, how the societal hierarchies work, and what sorts of crimes are considered the worst in this culture based on how horrible the punishments are.
looking at the bust of Saint-Just, I saw a striking resemblance between Saint-Just's hairstyle and these two. It turns out that he was the first to set the trend
CARBONNIER, Youri, Maisons parisiennes des Lumières, Paris, Presses Universitaires Paris-Sorbonne, 2006, 512 p.
DUBY, George. Histoire de la France urbaine. Paris, Seuil, 1985, tome 3
Lemerle, Frédérique, « Émergence de l’hôtel particulier à Paris ; entre ostentation et intimité. » dans Marquer la ville, Signes, traces, empreintes du pouvoir (xiiie-xvie siècle), Boucheron, Patrick et Genet, Jean-Philippe, 2013, p. 109-123
ROCHE, Daniel. Histoire des choses banales. Naissance de la consommation XVII-XIXème siècle. Fayard, 1997, 330 p
All of these books, if you read French, will give you a solid understanding of Parisian material culture. I have way, way more…But I don’t want to give you a behemoth bibliography.
Are you unsatisfied with the available information on 18th century beds ? Do you want to write hystoricaly accurate smut of Robespierre and Saint Just? Or I guess Charles Henry Sanson (there are like 10 ppl in this fandom I swear) , or of your OC's ? (Hahah definitely didn't base my research paper that I need to graduate on learning more about how my ocs would have lived haha )
I HAVE A SOLUTION!
My notes from Paradailhé-Galabrun's The Birth Of Intimacy (privacy and domestic life in early Paris) !
(this post is definitely not a way for me to brag about my notes)
This is a joke I'm shit at research and my paper is incredibly unfinished, but this book is so much fun to read and more ppl should buy it
I am more familiar with French historiography and primary sources. Do you want my aborted master’s degree bibliography ?
Anonymous asked:
You do write innocent specific fics right? (Hope I didn't send this to the wrong person 😅)
Idk I have some info you might find useful? As part of graduating from college I need to write a research paper, and while doing research I've found some discriptions that could be useful for u
(mostly bed specific ones , fabrics , how they looked in general, structure ect, mostly focusing more on the working classes, in which I think the Sanson family belonged at that time) I can scan my book and send you these pages if you want
(hope this wasn't weird, my English isn't the best )
I occasionally write the Innocent fanfic, but I currently focus on original works.
As for the descriptions, I do have most existing documents in my possession, but if you have something, I am interested. The most important description of the Sanson house is document Z_1j 1045 in “Archives Nationales de France”. The Sanson were wealthy outcasts through and through in matters of child rearing and attitudes to their mentally ill. The best book to understand their time and the cultural norms of their time is :“Histoire de la France urbaine, tome 3”.
Si, I do think that Sadean or isolationist philosophy is probably the most toxic ideology imaginable, probably only close to persecution ideologies. Seriously, it's bad for the psychy, the countries unfortunate enough to be plagued by this turn to demographic black holes regardless of time period, it's bad for society and is fundamentally against any transcendence, and in fact viscerally hate any attempt of spiritual elevation. Porn is popularizing this crap, and seriously...It needs to be studied and observe in the same way other evil ideologies are.
So you can avoid them stealing things from you, the artist/writer, etc.
Pro GenAI websites/Programs:
Facebook
Instagram
X/Twitter (Remember, Grok gives people cancer)
Threads
Pro Writing Aid
Grammarly
Duolingo
Google Docs
Microsoft Word/all Microsoft products Takes from and will feed their machine.
Youtube (taking advantage of people who are hearing impaired. ==;;)
Adobe Products. All of them. If you HAVE to use them (Some businesses require it), save offline because there is a film of at least some privacy protections there, so if you have to sue, you can say it violates US privacy law. Remember, contracts do not circumvent US law.
Corel won't feed the machines, but still uses AI stolen from other artists. Which sucks since Corel Draw is the second best overall for vector programs. (Plus I love Painter, but I bought the offline version to avoid AI). (Canadian company)
Canva Takes and feeds their machine.
Deviant Art Not only supports AI, but put a tool in and said they are going to steal your work if you like it or not for their machine.
Sketchup went Pro-GenAI. The thing is that you can do the same thing in Blender these days with precise measurements.
Autodesk has stated they are Pro-Gen AI here. It is not clear if they will use your models to feed their machine. But be on guard. They make Maya and 3Dmax. You can replace it with Blender.
Etsy allows GenAI, but still has some (minor) restrictions. I'd still be cautious. (Also be cautious of drop shippers). Complaints about too much AI and AI images+patterns made by Ai still exist on the website. They lean slightly more pro-AI, but still won't let it run completely amok, say like Facebook. They won't feed your work into a machine, but also don't ban it through robots.txt.
Bluesky They don't use an AI algorithm except for in the "Discover" section of their website, but while they are anti-GenAI strongly, they don't seem to block the Gen AI bots from entry, so you'd still have to use Nightshade or Glaze (links below). There is no opt-out because they don't need an opt out. (Leaning towards strong position on AI, but I wish they would block GenAI bots).
Searxng- If you super want to screw over Google, in general, and have some tech savvy, you can set up your own search engine through searxng. It's easier on Windows and Linux than it is on a Mac. (Mac you need Docker), but if you're determined on privacy, Searxng adds a layer of privacy. Some of it sometimes uses bits of AI, but most of it doesn't and you can fuss with the settings so it doesn't spit out AI results. At sheer minimum Google will stop spitting out weird videos on Youtube at you because in your private browsing, you searched for the origin of ball bearings while not logged in for a book and Google likes to break privacy laws.
Strong positions against AI:
Scrivener (Creator vowed against AI) Writing program. There is an active forum, and versions for Mac, Linux and PC. It is paid, but at ~60 USD, it's cheaper than most programs. There is usually a holiday sale around Christmas. It has a learning curve, but with an active forum with the programmer of it there to ask obscure questions it's not a dead zone. They often take suggestions and implement them over time. (Especially if you rank the importance, applications, etc) US company.
LibreOffice Open source and free Spreadsheet and Word processor program that can replace Microsoft Word. Some people might have seen older versions where it was called Neo Office (now extinct) and Open Office. LibreOffice is still populated, plus the forums are super helpful if you get stuck. The UX is pretty intuitive if you've used Microsoft Word. Scrivener, BTW, supports exporting to odt (the native file) as well as .doc, and this can open both. The slight thing is that sometimes it doesn't export to .doc smoothly. And I DO wish more magazines, and agent (big clue here) supported .odt files since it is free. Part of the reason .odt isn't as supported is because Microsoft and Adobe have a deal with the devil with each other, so Adobe's Book formatting program InDesign doesn't support ODT. (BTW, if you have a good open source replacement for InDesign that supports ODT, let me know.)
Dabble (as suggested by SF stories, see reblog) is a writing program. Similar to Scrivener. Has vowed against AI and to resist it. 108 dollars a year for Basic. It is almost twice the price of Scrivener who lets you update for fairly cheap. 29 dollars a month, v. 59 dollars for the whole program (Scrivener) for the same features of Premium. You choose.
yWriter is a free Writing program and like Scrivener, and has vowed against AI Last I looked it had some UX issues, but some people swear by it. The learning curve is higher than Scrivener which is saying something.
Ellipsus is an online writing program and vowed against AI. The main feature I like (which Scrivener doesn't have) is the ability to change spellcheck based on region/language. It is a requested feature of Scrivener, but lower priority. So if you have a Brit, you can get the spelling for the character. They are a British-based company.
Cara.app (The creator of the website sued GenAI there is no chance they'll convert) is an artist website. Cara is trying to institute an auto Glaze/Nightshade into the website if given enough funds. People see it as a soft replacement for deviant art. (which went fully AI) If you believe in human art, please donate if you can. Zhang Jingna, the Creator,is Chinese-Singporean. She lives in Singapore.
Clip Studio Paint added AI, but saw the light and decided to protect artists instead because of protest and removed it. There are tutorials and a good forum if you get super stuck. Based in Japan, so the UI and UX is really clean.
Davinci Resolve Pro is a film editing software that's super good. There is a free version and a paid version. The forums are responsive. The programmers aren't always present. There is a healthy group of tutorials. US company. Clean UX. It does take a little bit of time to remember the shortcuts.
Tahoma2D is anti-AI and open source animation program. Takes a little getting used to, but is good for animations and doesn't crash as often as Animate. Programmers are in the forums and some bugs are fixed within hours. The forums are super responsive and helpful.
Kritaopen source and free, no AI. I'd rank it secondary to Clip Studio Paint (which is paid) I haven't tried the forums, but it's pretty intuitive and can stand for a lower level replacement for Painter, and do a lot of the basics of Photoshop. It's usually ranked higher than the equally open source Gimp.
Writer P AKA Writer+ (app for when you're on the go) is a simple word processor app for your phone that doesn't use AI. The original programmer stopped updating, so Writer+ person took over and isn't out to make a profit since it's free in the spirit of the original app. It has subfolders you can use. Since it was programmed before GenAI it doesn't have AI. Intuitive, easy to use. Fairly easy to upload the files through three dots->share. The files can save to your card or phone with some settings fussing. Simple word processor.
Inkscapeis a free vector program and no AI. It is harder to use than illustrator and has less features. But if you're doing smaller vectors for one-offs with less complexity, it'll do you after some learning curve. Best of the lot. I hate Affinity Designer which is the same thing, only paid. (Neither Affinity program was worth the money paid)
Affinity (Designer, etc) swore to be AI-free and does Vector and Photos. The UX is messy, I dislike the program and regret paying for it. Inkscape and Krita are better UX and do the same thing. The forums aren't as friendly since there has been an onslaught of people seeing it's supposed to be a replacement for Photoshop and Illustrator, but the programmers aren't present. The people on the forums are often on edge about this assertion. And the capabilities of the program don't outshine basically Krita or Inkscape capabilities (both free). What is usually intuitive is not. UK company. If you're going to pay for a program, go for Clip Studio Paint which rivals Corel Painter.
Blender is a 3D art program and does not use GenAI. It can do 2D animation, but Tahoma is easier to use in this regard. It's open source and free. Plus there are plenty of tutorials. The forums can be touch and go sometimes, but there are plenty of sub Blender communities that might be responsive. It can also do animation.
Handmade vowed against AI and promised to never sell itself for stock prices to prevent AI (as a replacement for Etsy.)
Proton (to replace Google Suite) as suggested by SF Stories (see reblog) Vowed against AI. They are missing a spreadsheet, but have online and offline capabilities, plus a built-in VPN.
The thing is you think you doing it alone will do nothing, but the more AI feeds on itself, AI images, the worse they become, and the less detailed so, denying it the images, adding poison or not being able to read the human text is eventually going to lead to an AI collapse.
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