Say, just asking because one of my best friends is dyslexic and I’ve started recording an audiobook version of my first novel for her to beta read listen, I find myself wondering if anyone else who wanted to beta read a satirical steampunk melodrama but prefers audiobooks would be interested… I’ll be recording new chapters roughly a week apart, I think.
Oh, fair warning: The foreword contains some of the worst fake accents you’ve ever heard. They’re even worse in the text version.
Say, just asking because one of my best friends is dyslexic and I’ve started recording an audiobook version of my first novel for her to beta read listen, I find myself wondering if anyone else who wanted to beta read a satirical steampunk melodrama but prefers audiobooks would be interested… I’ll be recording new chapters roughly a week apart, I think.
Imagine this: you’ve just poisoned a healing potion and left it in a chest for adventurers to drink, but instead of drinking it, they just cast “DETECT POISON” on it and immediately throw it out!!!!!!!! UGH my poison!!!!!!! Well,what if there was a way to make that potion NOT read as poison, and still be just as deadly? Consider the following options I’ve come up with, and feel free to add your own!
Healing potion that makes lightning seek the drinker (could also work while sitting in their inventory!)
Healing potion that makes the drinker smell like meat, attracting large nearby predators
Healing potion with centuple-americano
Healing potion made with peanuts and a transmutation effect that turns the drinker into someone who is allergic to peanuts
ADD YOUR IDEAS BELOW!!!!!
Acid! Acid isn’t poison, and no one thinks to cast “detect acid”.
THAT IS A REALLY GOOD ONE…. 📝
Healing potion that’s cursed. They always cast detect curse on the sword and detect poison on the potion. Well jokes on you, contact potion on the sword and the healing potion opens your soul to possession by otherworldly forces.
Ahh that’s smart! What w- WAIT A SECOND, WHO ARE YOU???? ARE YOU ME FROM THE FUTURE????
i like borrowers stuff and all that but as someone who has made doll clothes i will say i think it’s funny to look at some like- outfits and props and stuff people will give borrowers and thing “at that scale that shit would NOT be laying like that.”
because like- when you get small enough, even for say a monster high doll- fabric in most cases will not lay like it does on a person scale. i made a circle skirt for a frankie once and i had to do extra sneaky stitches too get it to sit down right which i highly doubt borrowers are doing.
and borrowers i’ve seen people are not monster high tall! they’re more in the realm of like- equestria girl mini dolls or like the shoppie minis, sans Big Head. they fit in your palm so the margins are even thinner and the fabric even stiffer. at that scale ever stitch and every little fold adds bulk bulk bulk. and god forbid any fraying of fabric!
AND I KNOW THOSE BACKPACKS WOULD BE A BITCH AT THAT SCALE ARE YOU KIDDING-
needless to say. while i don’t give a shit because i’m glad people are having fun and i appreciate the rule of cool. i just think it’s fun to be dramatic given my tiny tailoring experience.
OP are you familiar with the BBC adaptation of The Borrowers?
The costume designer took into account this issue and used heavier fabrics for all the clothes to make them look doll-sized. Now that I’ve had this brought to my attention unfortunately I cannot unsee the issue in other adaptations!!
Yeah, sure, seeing new things is helpful as a fantasy writer. But. Don’t make the mistake of assuming that exposure to new things is the same as traveling. You know what else exposes you to new things? The internet. Documentaries. Books. Freaking Youtube. So when you’re bored of cats and cooking tutorials, go on an adventure!
TRUTH. What you need is imagination, and you don’t need to go anywhere to use it.
The best thing about the internet is that it means its not just the fortunate sons that get to learn, and explore and imagine and write. We get to see stories from all over the place, from all sorts of people, who bring All Kinds of New Ideas.
Day 286 of quarantine I have discovered www.webstaurantstore.com
It is, I BELIEVE, a website intended to be used by restaurants for bulk ordering food and utensils. And this is bringing me such unbounded delight scrolling through and recognizing that I, a single individual, ALSO can order ridiculous obscene enormous offensive-to-all-common-sensibilities shipments of BULK FOOD, to my LITTLE LITTLE APARTMENT, for PENNIES on the dollar. I have this god given power to flood my entire living space with bulk grains and it is one single button click away from my reality.
30 POUNDS of chocolate for $100. 20 POUNDS of peas for $13?? $13!!!! I will wake up every single morning from now on knowing that a box of donuts and a sack of dried split peas heavy enough to bodily injure someone both carry equal monetary weight. 25 POUNDS OF ONION POWDER for $50. Do you understand the enormity? the accessibility? the potential here? With the single click of the button I can put myself in a position of bequeathing more than a humanly comprehensible amount of onion powder in my will. AND IT WOULD ONLY COST ME $50 TO MAKE THIS A REALITY.
But what gets me
What truly gets me
is the 50 POUND BAG OF RICE
FOR LESS THAN $20
Do you know how much that kills me? How much I’m losing my mind? that I can order MYSELF WORTH OF RICE for something to the tune of $50? I can OUT-RANK MYSELF WITH RICE, DEMOCRATICALLY OVERRULE MYSELF WITH RICE, IN MY OWN APARTMENTfor the fucking PENNIES that is $50
I’m so sorry for the normal person I’ll be after quarantine because the cabin-fever version of me I’m inhabiting right now is perhaps just uninhibited enough to follow through on this dream I’ve just discovered of out-ricing myself.
real talk though, if you had a large number of people in your community who wanted a particular food item and couldn’t afford it (for instance if you’re in a food desert and need produce or if you’re a part of a large disabled and/or overworked community who all need prepared frozen food), you could pool funds and get an order from a supply store like this.
it requires organizing for finance management, ordering, transport, and distribution, but if you build a stable mutual aid network, it’s genuinely within the realm of possibility.
This idea is called a buyers club (or buying club, buying coop, etc) and it’s a great time-tested method of mutual aid. And there are guides and tools for starting your own at managemy.coop
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