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And then it's really funny to think of like Eridian scientists getting mad and embarrassed as hellll that it was ROCKY of all people to make first contact.

YEAH so it has a fictional bibliography, and one small thing that made me quietly happy as I was coming up with names and articles was to just... let the majority of them be apparently-female names.

....would u like to see my whole fictional bibliography. would you like to read a weird alphabetized list of names and articles that don't exist???? :)))))))))))

Alannal, Vitri. 5975. “A New Estimate of Dates for the Sa’amuda Settlement.” Glass, Sun, and River Studies 11: 62-79.

aj-Hesia, L. 6010. “The Jeweled Gates of Xereccio: An Argument for Stabilizing Conservation.” Xerecci History 31: 28-37.

aj-Malid, Amar. 6018. Handwritten Hegemony. The Free City.

aj-Tehrli, P. 6011. “The Jeweled Gates of Xereccio: An Argument for Reparative Conservation.” Xerecci History 32: 66-89.

aj-Yevinni, J. 6012. “The Jeweled Gates of Xereccio: An Argument for Complete Restoration.” Xerecci History 33: 142-177.

Apiana, Bea. 6003. “Five Letterforms of the Talian Hand.” Paleographica 27: 104-118.

Apiana, Bea, Chant-of-Ancoux IV, et al. 6034. “A preliminary examination of the Salyra Manuscript.” Chantry Orison Records, vol. 2071: 318-340.

Ashun, B. 6018. A Survey of Insect Life Across the Sea of Sun. Khabi.

az-Fahal, Lillia. 6031. The Ashiryat: A New Translation. The Free City.

Baker, Melissa, Valentine Davirra, and S.L. Patrio. 5972. The Empire of Sex. The Free City.

Bartoleo, Corella. 5998. “Enduring Scars: How the 56th century North Avashan pine blight impacts modern forestry.” Climate and Ecology 6: 21-70.

Bazarci, Yasemin, Amatio Orlanti, and Chant-of-the-Salt XI. 6039. “Araşti metal synaesthesia (touch-tasting) in the examination of the Salyra Manuscript and chronology of its components.” Chantry Orison Records, vol. 2099: 318-340.

Bellino, Maria. 6033. “On the Edict of the Faissal Women.” Classical Studies 105: 229-263.

Bergen, Sibella. 5997. “Chapter 4: Stuprum.” Morality and Mindset in the High Lausan Empire. Iza Farask.

Budang, Agujam. 6027. Shamanism, Sky-Worship, and Sex: Tripartite Gender Expression in the Ancient Umakh Khatunates. The Free City.

Budang, Agujam. Spring 6041. Personal interviews conducted by the author, University of the Free City.

by-Lauri, Amira. 6010. “Identifying documentation of LRTE in ancient texts.” Journal of the Thaumological Society 91: 56-91.

The Census of the Dead. 6020. 24th edition. Third Archive of the Immortal Lands, University of Dvecce, Wirsaztal.

Chant-of-Ancoux IV, et al. 6035. “C&P Department Report: Additional notes on the Salyra Manuscript.” Chantry Orison Records, vol. 2076: 210.

Chant-of-Red XII. Summer 6039. Personal interviews conducted by the author. The Chantry, The Free City.

Chant-of-River-Rushes. Spring 6037. Personal interview conducted by the author. The Chantry, The Free City.

Choulet, Bethia. 5962. “The Pezian Nudge: A timeline of literary references.” Association of Pezian Scholarship 54: 100-137.

Conditto, Isabella, Amatio Orlanti, Cassio de Civita, et al. 6033. “Applied statistical modeling in the paleographical analysis of the Talian corpus.” Journal of Paleography 14, 110-143.

Csera, Maritze. 5997. Edible Etiquette: A History of Table Manners. Ancoux.

Davirra, Valentine, ed. 6017. Ancient Genders. The Free City.

de Atrio, Felix, 5982. “Phryctoria and Pyrseia: New Findings from the Ancoux Excavations.” Association of Lausan Scholars 13: 79-101.

de Atrio, Felix. 6030. “Reply to Levisi 6029, ‘A Census of Documents, Materials, and Deterioration.’” Journal of Lausan Scholarship 79: 112-120.

de Vries, Ursula and Jacken Massou. 6023. A History of Lausania in 20 Recipes. Heyrland.

des Feu, Bernat. 6030. “Employee retention as cost-cutting: A statistical analysis.” Journal of Contemporary Economics 50: 412-451.

Edwards, Iduna. 6035. “Acquisition Age of LRTE in Pezia/Borgalos.” Journal of the Thaumological Society 116: 397-431.

Ekheb, Ubayda. 5984. Mysteries of Antiquity 3: Sa’amuda Tor. Desso.

Ezevorotha, Msalu. 6011. “The Lineage of Milk: Modern descendants of ancient goat breeds.” Glass, Sun, and River Studies 47: 87-142.

Floros, Kyrillai. 6009. Chronos and Kairos: Holidays and Holy Days in the Oisso-Lausan Calendar. Thorikou.

Farrier, Angharad. 6020. “Lausan Economic Expansion of the 5th-7th Centuries.” Journal of Economic History 26: 287-323.

Faskova, W. 6030. “Personal names found in Oissic Empire ruins at sites in Qeteren.” Avashan Archaeological Association 72: 301-312.

Galta, P.L. 5980. “Chapter 4: Ancient Wages and the Cost of Living.” Economics of Antiquity. Kasaba.

Geordux, Eliraressinia. 5981. “On Honey and Honeybees.” Association of Lausan Scholars 12: 112-131.

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Hanua, Poema o, Ngaio Montblanc, B.T. Harper, and Adrian Tamo. 6036. “The Walker of the Wall hypothesis and comparative geologic analysis of the Wall of the World and the Tilted Coast.” Journal of the Thaumological Society 117: 312-339.

Hao, Hongmei. 6034. “Comparative sap-flow rates across four acacia species.” Biologika 18: 207-218.

Havissiya, C.N. 6014. “Ancient Lausan shrines in modern spiritual practice.” World Religions 56: 201-239.

Heluo, Parvifana. 6034. “Life in the Sands: Indigenous Agricultural Practices of the Sea of Sun.” Anthropology of the Desert and Equatorial Riverlands 36: 186-211.

Ibsen, T.W. 6029. “Annual variation in dune formation and transformation.” Planetary Sciences 73: 528-535.

Jardin, Maritta. 5989. The Old Ways Endure: Rural Folkways of Central Lausania. Borassa.

Jessenerit, Lovon. 5981. The Tunnels ‘Neath Xereccio: A Biography of My Great-Grandfather. Norqu.

Kaiako, Atatū, Puarangi o Tiliona, Birdie o Itiiti. 6025. “Methodologies of Oral History Transmission in Onendogo and the South Ammat Archipelago: A Conversation.” Journal of Island Studies. 80: 32-79.

Karnimrast, M.T. 6025. Crossing the Sea of Sun: A History of Trans-Desert Trade. Khabi.

Korav, Ivan. 6026. “Attribution and Authorship in Lausan Imperial Records.” Journal of Lausan Scholarship 71: 140.

Krisith, V. 6015. “Bookbinding in the Lausan Empire.” Document History 52: 129-40.

Kyesset, Lillio. 5988. “The Atusa Shackles and the Early Roots of Lausan Slavery.” The Vintish Journal of Archaeology 87: 434-471.

Llanfil, Meilyr. 6007. “An Argument for Sky-Burial Practices at Sa’amuda Tor.” Glass, Sun, and River Studies 43: 67-94.

Levisi, Fortuna. 6005. “Victims of Their Feelings: Musings on Grammar and Culture.” Journal of Lausan Scholarship 26: 136-161.

Levisi, Fortuna and Amar aj-Malid, et al. 6029. “A Census of Documents, Materials, and Deterioration.” Journal of Lausan Scholarship 77: 38-59.

Maddith, Enna. 6013. A History of the Ancient Scypathian Tribes.

Maisa of Merasanth, 5613. Personal diary. Third Archive of the Immortal Lands, University of Dvecce, Wirsaztal.

Massen, Hyacinth. 6001. “Hortanticula: Speaking the unspeakable.” Journal of Lausan Scholarship 21: 201-232.

Mezinto, Fahra. 6013. “The Use of Modern Technology in Mapping Ancient Xereccio.” Xerecci History 34: 62-87.

Misusu, Afea. 6036. “Surveying the Oases: Water Management in the Sea of Sun.” Technology and Engineering 29: 1-96.

Misusu, Oba. 6013. “Chapter 2: The Lighthouse.” Desert Travel in Distant Antiquity. Thorikou.

Nesceri, Zara. 6009. Ecological Catastrophe. Wirsaztal.

Neshasky, S. 6032. “Paper and Empire.” Journal of Economic History 38: 122-148.

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Oda-Usseya. 6020. A Clone of His Ancestors: The Psychology and Obsession of Lausan Anti-Individualism. The Free City.

Oryankla, Annet. 6022. “The course of the North Avashan pine blight in letters and literature.” Biohistory 21: 31-50.

Osoo, Imyana. 5978. Of the Water, Of the Sun: Religions of the Riverlands. The Free City.

Patrio, S.L. 6017. “Chapter 1 – Those Who Shake Their Bottoms: On the Cinaedi.” In Davirra 6017: 1-29.

Patrio, S.L. 6021. “Sexual Imperialism.” Journal of Lausan Scholarship 53: 51-78.

Petrescu. 5672. The Ashiryat. (L&L Press Millennium edition, pub. 5999.) Brassing-on-Abona.

Pav, N., Varra Mety, M.L. Sindaro, et al. 6031. “Bleeding Gold: Bursera fagaroides In Desert Ecologies of the Sea of Sun.” Biologika 15: 135.

Polliver, Gabrielle. 5991. “In Search of an Age of Majority: A Survey of the Corpus.” Journal of Lausan Scholarship 1: 47-125.

Qeno, O.N. 6007. “Economics of Goat Husbandry in the Glass Sea-Barqqa River region.” Anthropology of the Desert and Equatorial Riverlands 9: 18-50.

Quirk, Rose. Winter 6041. Personal interviews conducted by the author, University of the Free City.

Ravenson, Ystra. 6032. The Birth of the Desert: A History of Esuian Climate Change. The Free City.

Ravenson, Ystra. Winter 6038. Personal interviews conducted by the author,University of the Free City.

Reschal, Mathieu. 6023. “Six More Ligatures of the Talian Corpus.” Paleographica. 47: 172.

Rook, H.W. 6032. Blood and Civilization: A History of the Immortal Lands. Vilarac.

Siramandi, Pratibha. 6030. A Year On The Walking Huts: Foodways of Ondor-Urt.

Sausset, Robin. 5997. “Literacy of the Enslaved.” Lausan History 21: 182-215.

Sausset, Robin. 6024. “Men and Their Mistresses: Relationships Between Viri and Libertae.” Lausan History 48: 205-240.

Smyth, Talsyn. 6031. “Average Age of Manumission in the Imperial Period.” Journal of Lausan Scholarship 80: 275-292.

Tsukumo, Akane. 6018. Slaves for Salt. The Free City: 38-39.

Tiferri, Rashella. 5981. Xereccio, When Cabian Vanished. Lausa.

Uchimura, K. 6029. “Criminal Consequence in Antiquity.” Society of Xerecci Historians 87: 212.

Urdao, Bennu (ed). 6015. “Introduction: Reading the Talian Hand.” Talius: Collected Essays in Paleography and Translation. The Free City.

Uzun, Afennür. 6035. “Seasonal wind patterns and the impact on sandflow in the Sea of Sun.” Planetary Sciences 79: 251-289.

Vao, Ligaya. 6033. “Census data and demographics of the Empire.” Lausan History 57: 301-338.

Velanho, Penelope. 6017. “Chapter 4 – The Self-Made Man: Evidence of Transgender Masculinity in Ancient Lausa.” In Davirra 6017: 98-133.

Velanho, Penelope. 6029. “The Sacred Exception: Galli in Ancient Lausa.” Gender and Sexuality 31: 89-150.

Vries, Marta. 6009. Birds of the Sea of Sun. Kasaba.

Viasso of Merasanth. Letter to Peregrine of Ashur, Document 47, Bequest 129. 88th copy of the original (Third Archive of the Immortal Lands), accessed in the Immortal Archive of Sharingol and Dvecce, Hall of Erebka, Chantry Archives, The Free City.

Wanjiru, K. and Jasper Vels. 6034. “Water regulation in desert-dwelling dromedaries.” Journal of Esuian Ecology 91: 407-421.

Wesirra, Agafia and Giacomo Posito. 6021. “A new evaluation of the Desyrra Oasis pupfish and its species range.” Journal of Ecology & Evolution 38: 28-30.

Wheeler, Alvana. 6005. “The Imperial Retinue of the Valerian Dynasty.” Journal of Lausan Scholarship 30: 207-242.

Yarrow, C.R. 6028. Prisoners, Propaganda, and the Birth of Bendran Abolition. Anyaoh.

Yellowtree, Koa. 6036. Ink: A World History. Brassing-on-Abona.

Yildiz, Zeliya. 6029. Lausa, Through The Eyes of a Slave. Kasaba.

Zaharieva, R. 6031. “A new model for the assessment and analysis of aeolian force in extreme biomes.” The Esuian Geographical Society 102: 421-453.

Zuva, M. 6001. Field Guide to Desert Flora. Khabi.

Abluvius, Pro Tranquillo (Tranq.) (In Defense of Tranquility)

Arcerus, De amoenitatibus epheborum. (Eph.) (On the Charms of Young Men)

Aulus Valerius Agrippa I, Diurna

az-Pafei, The City of Water-Reeds

Beydamur, The Ten Pillars of War

Cavilla, Contumeliae (Cont.) (Indignities) Pro Virtuae (Virt.) (In Defense of Lady Virtue) Epistulae ad familiares (Fam.) (Letters to Friends)

Commentarii Imperatoria Cabiani (CIC) (Imperial Records of Cabianus)

Commentarii Imperiatoria Valerii, Iunior (CIVI) (Imperial Records of Valerius, the Younger)

Commentarii Imperiatoria Valerii, Maior (CIVM) (Imperial Records of Valerius, the Elder)

Eppio, De actione difficili (Act.) (On troublesome cases) Epistulae

Eutrio, Histories. (Hist.)

Erucian, Obscænitates (Obs.) (Obscenities)

Faucian, De ignominia (Ign.) (On Disgraces)

Felecula, Epistulae.

Galgulus, Consilia ad familiam. (Cons.) (Advice to the Household) Tempestas amori (Temp.) (Love’s Tempest)

Ghazemari, The Pastures of Paradise.

Haterius, De dignitates (Dig.) (On Dignity)

Julia Decima, Fragments (Frag.)

Labecula. De officiis regum. (Reg.) (The Duty of Kings)

De vita imperatorum. (Vit.) (The Lives of the Emperors)

Lucilius, Epigrammata. (Epig.) Epigrams.

Melinius, De honore. (Hon.) (On Honor) Epistulae ad Marcum fratrem (MFr.) (Letters to his Brother Marcus) Epistulae ad matrem (Mat.) (Letters to his Mother) Forum

Mescinia, Diurna mea. (Diur.) (My Diary) De susurris (Sus.) (On Whispers) Subvespero (Sub.)

Mypea, Ad Tationem (Tat.) (Letters to Tatio, his pupil) In centurionum cruentorum (Crue.) (Against the bloodthirsty centurions) In Orchium (Orch.) (Against Orchius) Pro Corneliae (Corn.) (In Defense of Cornelia)

Oclatius. Consuasor verecundus tuus. (Cons.) (Your Discreet Advisor)

Orcivian, De pueris. (Puer.) (On boys)

Palpellianus, Peregrinationes Caliones (Per.) (The Adventures/Travels of Calio)

Pausanius, Carmen amantium. (Carm.) (The Song of Lovers.)

Scapan, Delectationes aestatis (Del.) (Delights of Summer) Princeps Proditus (Prin.) (The Betrayed Emperor)

Talius, De re coquinaria (Coq.) (On the matter of cuisine) "Elegy for a Firstborn Son" Epistulae.

Tursid.

(Don't make fun of me if there's latin mistakes, my Latin Supervisor hasn't had a chance to beta read this bit yet)

The Chants! Whose calendar are those years from? Because Teveri's logs are 199th year of the Mahisti Dynasty. But would the Arasti calendar have been the one to get widely adapted? Are those Tashaz names? If yes, what are the implications of aj- versus Tev's az-? Linguistic drift or something else? Vintish journal! Touch tasting mention! The citation style! Bibliography as literary device! (One of my favorite things Sarah Gailey did in their short story Stet was their use of citations and just manuscript as form in general.) The things that are going to be happening here on a technical skills of writing level are so exciting for me. Interesting number of articles about bugs and plants.

Pt.1 28 Years Later

Pt.2 Bone Temple [1/2]

Pt.3 Bone Temple [2/2]

Tumblr app does not seem to recognise Youtube timestamps, so if using mobile, jump to the stated time points to avoid gore/horror elements

(@berryunhinged98 I've finally done it)

Staff has officially posted an update regarding the reblog decoupling, and while they are reversing the change for now, we need to look closely at the language they are using. This is a classic example of corporate "double speak" designed to de-escalate a PR crisis while keeping the door open for the same harmful features later.

The Post: Reblog Update: We’re Reversing the Change

The Red Flag:

"We still believe there's a better version of how reblogs can work. One that gives every voice in a chain the credit it deserves. But we want to get there with you."

The Breakdown: When they say they want to give every voice the credit it deserves, they are still justifying the decoupling of notes. They are framing the destruction of the original creator's attribution as a feature for the rebloggers or the loss of community. Their goal hasn't changed. They just realized their current execution was a technical and social disaster.

They also mention working "directly with some of you." This often means selecting a small, curated group of "power users" who may not prioritize the accessibility or safety needs that we have been fighting for.

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

We rolled out a significant change to how notes work on reblogs, and the reaction has been strong. We're not going to pretend otherwise. 

First things first: We're reversing the change. Your feedback in comments, emails, and especially reblogs, made clear that the rollout created problems we need to address before moving forward. We also should have communicated this differently from the start, and we didn't.

We still believe there's a better version of how reblogs can work. One that gives every voice in a chain the credit it deserves. But we want to get there with you.

In the coming days we'll share more on how we plan to do that,  including ways to work directly with some of you on this and future changes before they ship.

My cousins... when I worldbuild, I worldbuild. :).

The post at Out of Ambit will spell it all out for you.