#musing on stuff

But also Idk if I want to put in the effort to draw them if I'm kinda just ragging on them; also I don't want to draw possibly racist designs.

…refers to a portal dolemn.

A large amount of Moonshadow culture is based on Celtic culture, and dolems are incredibly common in Ireland and Scotland (as well as further a field).

Dolmens are mysterious structures. No-one really knows the true purpose of them. They are generally assumed to be burial mounds, but it is not conclusive. Many of them are older than the Pyramids and the civilisations that built them are long gone, leave no clues as to what their true purpose was.

There’s a lot of lore surrounding them, and some people view them as a passage to the other side. A way to pass between the land of the living and… beyond.

I loved seeing the Moon Henge, but it would be amazing to see some other Celtic structures in later seasons.

Then they launched into a Spanglish tirade, in that black and white way children have. Just as passionate about the US election as any adult but without fully grasping the implications or meaning.

Again, without overdoing it.

Although I feel it's important to show that; the big flashy sci-fi military setting with space ships and space marines and stuff, well. This is what happens after a battle. Two sides meet, and people die. Often, lots of people die. The defeated ship explodes brilliantly, is boarded and captured, or just left to die a slower death as the victor jumps away. That's what war does. You win, or you die. Or you could do both. Or lose and live. But you know, that kind of stuff. Trying to convey that in a short story.

Without laying it on so thick as to have people kneel on the deck and pray to God for salvation as sad piano music plays in the background. For one thing, I can't have a piano playing in the written word the same way I could score a TV show or movie. Which is a damn shame, a soundtrack would be awesome for books. And with ebooks? There's no necessary reason you couldn't embed sound files in the pages and data or whatever...

Anyhow. I guess at the root of it is, I often admire various forms of layers, subtlety, and complexity. It doesn't always have to be high-falutin, in your face, artsy-fartsy complexity. I simply mean that writing accomplishes multiple things, or says multiple things. Particularly, I admire and want to emulate the idea of dialogue saying more than one thing, while only saying a single thing. The idea that sometimes, silence says more than words. That people can say things without saying them. You know, those kinds of concepts. But how to translate that into a story without just going 'it happened, deal with it, the end'?

I'm all for expressing yourself. Blogs are so you can say whatever you want. But also, when you have a blog on tumblr, people will probably follow it, and read what you say. So reading, constantly, that you are horny, want to fap, have just fapped, just had a great fap, want someone to do... things with... it's not cute. I'm 18. And yeah, I might get horny sometimes, and I might do some things, but I never felt comfortable with it.