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The citizens of Partisan Territory refer to the polity as The Outlands, and to themselves as Outlanders. Moonlitter objects to this usage, since the term historically implies a larger territory than the Partisans currently control.

I had originally assumed that Yih would not have coal or oil deposits since I assumed that required very specific biological factors (absence of certain decomposers allowing organic matter to form fossil fuels). After a little wiki walk it seems that it's most...

Here's my first self-designed 3D printed project, or at least the rudiments of one. It's the star and gear symbol. I took the SVG file used to make my avatar and imported it into Blender. I gave the shape some thickness and then exported the model as an STL fi...

Here's a 3D print of the front left paw (male). I'm surprised the claw marks managed to show up at all. I'm still learning a lot about how all this works.

So I've decided that Firefly is going to be more literally lich-like. Instead of the Eternal Womb being located in a lavish throne room, it's squirreled away somewhere deep within the cavernous capital complex, which occupies the entire surface, and possibly i...

During the first year after first contact the missionaries interact with humans online a lot because it allows them to be on equal footing rather than having to slog through the "holy crap you're one of those aliens" reactions at every turn. They don't hide th...

Lodestar serves as Ron's sighted guide. Correct posture (when the guide is a human, anyway) is to have the blind person walking behind and slightly to the side, with their hand on the guide's shoulder or upper arm. If the way forward becomes narrow, the guide ...

`sbrPrFbrg` (bonekeepers) are volunteers who maintain the bones lining the inner and outer walls of a lighthouse. They are not considered clergy, so the position is open to both men and women, though the position is associated with older men. They also serve a...

Prayer rings are intended both as meditation aids and fidget toys, with very low friction between the inner gear and outer ring, the gear can spin for a surprisingly long time. Younger pups are often given a prayer ring to fidget with during long liturgies.

Know, o little ones, that the Light, and the Light alone, has kindled thy spirit within thee. Our fore-bearers looked but did not see, heard but did not listen, cried out but did not speak, marked but did not write, felt but did not know. Act, therefor, not a...

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: 2024-12-07T02:15:57+00:00 What fun! Now it’s only a matter of time before you’re selling merch for us terraboos humans (jk of course, unless you really want to…). I've said it before and I'll say it again. On the internet nobody knows ...

A moot is a legal entity within yinrih society. Imagine all the non-romantic functions of a spouse--sharing finances, providing emotional support, care when sick, etc. Legally, childermoots are a special kind of moot, and the vast majority of moots are simply ...

Khemehekis wrote: 2024-12-24T21:12:05+00:00 Do any yinrih cultures have a concept of adolescence? I brought it up in the Commonthroat thread a bit. <scBmg> (literally "sojourners") are a close analog to teenagers. Yinrih are cut loose at around 53 Earth years ...

One Yih year is 1.47 Earth years long. One Yih day is 24.39 Earth hours long. There are exactly 528 Yih days per Yih year. Since Yih has no moons, there are no months. Rather, a year is divided into four quarters of 132 days each that align with the seasons. ...

Around the high southerly latitudes of Yih there is a cryptid known as the rcfrcfDFg b sPnqg (great snow beast), or "yinti" to humans. It is described as being anywhere from grizzly- to elephant-sized, bearing white fur and possessing a roughly cynoid body sha...

Okie-dokie, I want to tidy up Yih's biosphere. For starters, Yih life is not DNA-based, but it is based on a similar nucleic acid that encodes the same proteins. This creates a genetic firewall between Earth life and Yih life. This hopefully doesn't mean that ...

I got some white filament today and decided to test out multicolor printing. This is a female forepaw print, as well as a wind fruit a printed a few days ago. Note the obvious polygons on the wind fruit. I know now that "shade smooth" in Blender doesn't mean "...

Here's the star and gear in color. It's the largest thing I've printed so far, at about 150 mm in diameter. There were some problems on the left side you can see, but since I'm not a 3D printing veteran and can't really see the details of the process as it hap...