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The Big G Progress Report
Welcome to the Ocean
Is this your first time visiting the ocean? There's plenty to explore. Here's a good place to start, with an overview of the region and what's been happening here recently.
Languages of the Ocean
The world's sapient species communicate in a wide variety of ways, from human speech to tkevsa footsigning to the chok tapping language.
Floating
Water Seekers practice a type of meditation that brings them closer to the stillness of the ocean.
Tides
The moon-driven fluctuations of the ocean affect the natural and civilized world, and are referenced in many common expressions.
Island Energy
Civilization in the Cluster Islands runs on steam and lightning machines powered by the heat of volcanoes.
Standards of Time
With the development of immediate remote communication between islands came the need to standardize the measurement of time. The proclamation issued by Stolc's Worthies 600 years ago established the units that all the Cluster Islands use today.
Air-Wave Communication
Air waves are the primary means of communication between islands, ships, and Gap outposts.
Air Waves
Although air waves are produced in every lightning strike, they are so low in energy that only for the past six hundred years have we known they exist.
The New Eddy
From the island remnant of the eruption that destroyed the old Eddy, a new one is growing.
Exact-Image Reproduction
The creation of perfect visual copies of scenes and people is an Eihlarian art form unappreciated anywhere else.
Moving-Image Media
A hundred years after they made exact-image reproduction a practical art, Eihlarians experimented with creating sequences of images taken in immediate succession to create active scenes.
Speaking with a Vastlander: An Interview
An easily-distracted chronicler meets an enthusiastic linguist. Between the two of us, will we ever get to the important questions?
Deeps' Draw
Fair warning to readers--Deeps' Draw is a condition often leading to self-isolation and thoughts of dying.
White middle-aged cis female aro-ace American...and very shy, especially online. Also ADHD and ASD, which isn't useful information as that describes a sizable percentage of World Anvil users, but at least provides context.
Interests & Hobbies
Cats. Knitting and crocheting. Procrastination. Languages--I'm learning Scottish Gaelic, with the goal of being proficent enough to write in it someday. (Will probably not happen.) I don't really watch TV or movies anymore. I don't have the mental bandwidth to engage in my hobbies and also do social media, so I've opted out of the media.
Favorite Movies
There are a few movies which if you told me you'd never seen them I would immediately invite you over for a pizza and movie night so that I could be there when you experience them for the first time.
Apollo 13 (based on true near-disaster space mission)
Blackbeard's Ghost (1960s Disney slapstick)
A League of Their Own (women playing professional baseball in the 1940s)
The DIsh (Australian comedy about the first moon landing, with brilliant characters)
Favorite Books
In the interest of keeping my author profile to a reasonable length, I decline to answer this question. I can't even pin myself down to a genre because I don't care as long as the writing and characters draw me in. I blame it on the children's librarian I live with.
Favorite Games
This is where too much of my time goes. I don't seek out new games anymore because when I play I play obsessively. (I've been running the same Animal Crossing town for nine years.) I have enjoyed far more games than I can name off the top of my head, but the subset I have cared enough to make spreadsheets (and sometimes fanfic) for is smaller: Animal Crossing New Leaf, Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 (not 3--never, no way, I don't dare), Earthbound, FFVII (also I-VI to a lesser extent), Fire Emblem (mostly Awakening, nothing more recent--again, I don't DARE), Pokémon (Blue, Crystal, Emerald, Pearl, Sun, Shuffle), Tales of Symphonia, Tales of the Abyss, Ultima 4 and 6, Wind Waker. Please do not suggest to me any games you think I would like. You are probably right, and the answer is NO.
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