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Little things

So my oldest friend is getting maried in September and I’m going to be best woman at the wedding, which is super cool despite the nerve-wrenching aspects of it.

Except he just texted me to ask if I was available on the 25th of June for a shopping spree with his future wife (and his mother!) so that we can “dress for the wedding” and while I can’t really say no I so do not want to do this tbh.

First of all it’s too fucking early because I have no idea what my silhouette/the weather will be like in september. Second, I’m broke af. And third, the fiancée has control issues which I can sympathize with but there is no fucking way I’m letting her or her future mother in law pick my outfit for me and I know–I just know that here will be some attempts at that tbh ><

Little things

Does it make me a whiny bitch to want people to be happy that I finished my thesis before they explain everything that’s wrong with the way I plan to have it printed?

Posted on : Sun 5 Jun
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My Posts Fanfan has a life Shit from home Thesis Update When I told my parents I was done with it & that I planned to go to Paris on monday to have it printed & hand the physical copy in their first reaction was to tell me off for not planning to go to town today (which okay they *were* right on that count) it completely doused my enthusiasm and now about two hours later my dad was like 'yay celebrate' and i'm really not in the mood anymore like i actually kinda wanna cry and I just...yay maybe people can't tall me anything idk I'm just super bummed right now and I feel like an entlitled bitch and I hate it

2016 Worldbuilding June, Day 5

History

The intro post’s tip for today’s prompt is to make up three major events:

• An old one


• One that happened in the recent past (recent enough to still resonate with the world as it is in the story)


• And one that happens in the course of the story.

And I‘m going to stick to that because honestly, while I have a detailed account of how the war went somewhere in my notebooks, I’m too lazy to dig through my stuff for it right now :P

An event in the distant past

For my oldest event, and keeping in mind that I’m still focusing on the Lands of Mist here, I would pick the day a dragon ate an elf for the first time. At the time it wasn’t a very big event—some elf king with a thirst for power had a poor sod tied up and sent to the mountains that were then known as the Dragons’ Nests (now the Dragons’ Tombs) and that was basically it, until of course the information leaked.

The first elven sacrifice, while a small business in the moment, allowed the king of the time to build up his empire thanks to the dragons’ military help (because giant flamethrowers are generally helpful to win a war) and later on led to the downfall of this same empire and to the more-recent-event: the Split.

An event in the recent past

The Split, as you know/have guessed if you read my previous #worldbuildingjune posts, is the even in which the deities of the World of Mist (oh WOM for short) decided to turn the one elven species into seven elemental-linked new species.

It was a very painful event, during which more than three quarters of the elven population was lost, some instantly, some very soon after as their bodies failed to adapt to brand new kinds of magic (and biological requirements) and some several decades (elven count) after the Split, as their magic suddenly starts attacking their bodies for no identified reason. It’s still a very fresh wound at the time of the story and informs a lot of the decisions taken around the main characters (though not necessarily the ones that are taken by them, mainly because they don’t really have that option.

An event that takes place in the story’s “present”

The starting event of the story, or at the very least the one that forces my three main characters together, is actually the crash of a human satellite in the middle of the Fire elves’ capitol, which nearly kills my MCs and forces them to flee West so they can 1) get Naleesie back to her home, 2) get Yamaël back with Water elves who’d be willing to get him back to his own home (gigantic detour, but still his best bet) and 3) Get Myranael a passage for the Dragons’ new HQs.

On the larger scale, the landing of humans near the Silver Mountains is something that will definitely change the face of the world, not just by introducing a new specie to the local fauna (so to speak) but also because this is basically going to be THE reason why some of the already present elven nations will actually try to talk to each other so they can deal with the issue in a collected manner.

(And to be honest, now that I write this, I’m actually really interested about the possibilities that open up once you mix Renaissance-ish era and magic to high-tech-making humans who age about ten times faster than elves :P)