I Am Soooo Tempted…

Posted on February 27, 2012 in On Silent Suns

…to actually name Silent Suns “Pink Pegasus” instead (after the featured spaceship), but I am afraid that this title scares of the intended audience.

I like Silent Suns, but it’s a title that takes itself seriously. Might not be the right approach for something as downright space opera pulp as that particular story.

Or how does “Hunt for Pink Pegasus” sound? That might me get sued by Paramount Pictures, though.

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I Love The Style Of This…

Posted on February 27, 2012 in Thoughts & Musings

Via gillen.cream.org

Fantastic to drive yourself batty over the perfection of your lines, though.

Still, I could see Silent Suns in something like that. It would fit the story.

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Concepts Of Self In Different Cultures.

Posted on February 23, 2012 in Thoughts & Musings

In traditional Haitian culture, there is no direct equivalent of the mind. The self is made up of a three components. The corps cadavre is the physical body; the ti-bon anj or ‘little good angel’ loosely represents what we would consider as agency, awareness and memory; while the gwo bon anj or the ‘big good angel’ is the animating principle that manages motivation and movement.

“The mind is a guess” via mindhack

Cultured Bias is in the oddest places.

I have to freely admit,  I’ve never thought about the fact that our body-mind dichtomy is actually a cultural artefact, I just took it as given. I mean, intellectually I knew that there must’ve been differences, but still… It’s very interesting to see how different the answers to the age old question of “what is self” actually is and that those answers greatly influence a culture.

I’ve covered the self-soul dichtomy1 in my worldbuilding for ToC, but I didn’t even think about questioning what definition of “self” the Trarr have.

Gotta fix that. Can’t let such a juicy bit of worldbuilding just laying around.

Anyway, “The mind is a guess” is a short column, but worth a read.

Footnotes:

  1. Trarr don’t believe in an incorruptable soul, but in an “ahma”, the echo their lives leave in the halls ↩
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Mass Effect 3!

Posted on February 20, 2012 in Adventures in Video Games

Mass Effect 3!I haven’t been that excited for a game since Metroid Prime 3.

And yes, I am currently working like mad on Traces of Chaos, just so that I have enough time to happily play that game, as soon as it comes out.

Which is straight after my father’s birthday, which means I won’t be at home that weekend, because, well, daddy’s birthday. Gotta visit him.

 

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Crap.

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Worldbuilding Wednesday #04 – Chalcara’s Routine

Posted on February 15, 2012 in On Traces of Chaos, Yay, art!

Chalcara's relationship with time is kinda iffy.

Do you want to ask your own question? Questionlist, rules, and place to post here. All Worldbuilding Wednesday information is canon unless it isn’t, the story itself is trump

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