Alicornutopia

To cast a spell, a magician needs to construct a spell knot- an arrangement of knotted thread, wire and beads which can be thought of as representing an "instruction to magic" in the "language of magic". … A magician can sense when a spell knot they have made is usable, and can cast it by speaking t ...

Author Name: Unbitwise Constellation: Unbitwise — https://www.glowfic.com/users/53 Discord: Unbitwise#6483 — #unbits Alicornutopia: Unbitwise — https://alicorn.elcenia.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=446 Openness to Contact: I do not feel that you have an obligation to meet specified criteria before ...

if it's a new ritual then no-one's ever done it and gotten a different result … there's less weight of precedent against you from that direction - it puts you in a narrower category that is less heavily weighted to contain counterexamples … For a wizard, this means that the longer their ritual, the ...

I think that the answer Vanda Nossëo is expecting is "do not attempt to prevent violence by doing violence; let public safety and the courts and the resurrectors handle it".

There are also some unedited links to Dreamwidth at the ends of early Silmaril threads.

ooh right ALL those things

i don't even have a glib suggestion for how to slightly denormalize to improve that situation

Expando are annoying because they mean you can't "find in page" or skim for that thing you vaguely remember and if they load stuff you have to wait. (I always get the impression that things are really slow for the amount of computation they theoretically ought to need, but I'd be unsurprised to hear ...

Given Calado's coherency problems, how does it successfully implement population controls coherently enough to not run afoul of international law?

How do Elves feel about hair that is neither loose nor braided; in particular, ponytails or other styles which tie up only part of the length?

“Keep your nose on”?