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The last two races of this year are Mongolians and Filipinos!
If you are of Mongolian or Filipino ancestry, please contact the front desk to be entered into our grand prize drawing for your chance to win your very own horde of amphibious steppe marauders.
Although admittedly the complaints that “WHY WONT WOMEN MARRY A STACK OF HUSBANDS SO THAT I CAN MARRY A STACK OF WIVES??!!” would be funny. But on some level the people that would want polygamy would either know this or be too huffed on the moral justification for it, so they would never agree to this weird ideological compromise.
So when’s the “multiamory is bad because it will result in polyandry” discourse? I mean, the arguments write themselves: Women can easily find partners, men can’t; therefore men should settle for being one of many. Toss in some just-sos to explain why women would want a stack of husbands, and bam.
@mitigatedchaos get on it.
I’ll believe in polyandry risk when I actually see it. Male and female dating behaviors are not actually the same, which is part of why normies doing polygamy is (non-SJ) problematic.
Also, pro-poly is not going to propose “poly, but only to the degree that a given generation’s gender ratio is out of balance”. Or “poly, but only to the degree that the other sex is poly”.
So when’s the “multiamory is bad because it will result in polyandry” discourse? I mean, the arguments write themselves: Women can easily find partners, men can’t; therefore men should settle for being one of many. Toss in some just-sos to explain why women would want a stack of husbands, and bam.
@mitigatedchaos get on it.
I’ll believe in polyandry risk when I actually see it. Male and female dating behaviors are not actually the same, which is part of why normies doing polygamy is (non-SJ) problematic.
Anonymous asked:
I may have to, although I suspect “it’s been tried before” includes “…and they botched it”.
(I did read about the Hulme Crescents, although that may not be close to what you have in mind.)
But as for right now, I’m focusing on my (largely unrelated to urban planning) fiction writing, and for reading, I have that book by LKY arriving soon. (I don’t actually read that much. I’m not really a good person, you see.)
today’s been a busy day (for me) in modestly moderating the shithole that is this tumblr’s discord chatroom
(Ghost in the Shell: ARISE, 2015)
“Why do we have to meet in person? You telling me my cyberlobby is bugged?”
It just occurred to me that, assuming the cyberlobby is hosted locally, this someone their cyberlobby is bugged occupies a strange space in between telling they have the flu, telling them they have a bad apartment messed up by previous guests/habits, and telling them they have an STD.
Which makes it insulting, which is low-key hilarious.
Huh,
You know, I just realized, the Ghost in the Shell: ARISE movie would have been better
as a book.
Every time I see one of those posts about “where are the fantasy stories with even remotely realistic economies and politics!” I glance over to the scattered notes and snippets I’ve made for Exactly That Story and get wracked with those why-aren’t-you-following-your-dreams shivers.
For the third edition of the Exalted rpg, they went to a lot of trouble to cajole the guy who developed the first edition to come back and write some material for the book, and he totally didn’t give a shit since he’d been doing other things for ten years at that point. He’s an economist now, so the biggest contiguous contribution he made was like two pages that just talk about about currency denominations, coinage, and seignorage in the game’s fantasy setting and how those things related to factional politics, and they cut basically the entire section because people do not want to read two pages of that in the core setting chapter of a high fantasy adventure game.
This was the same game line that hired an actual marine historian to write the book about seafaring and thus got a huge amount of material about shipboard chains of command, hull and rigging types, naval watch scheduling, and so on. I loved that book unironically, but you basically can’t use that sort of material because 95% of people will just totally skip your weird Moby Dick style digressions into whale physiology or whatever.
Anyway, regarding your specific story: if the Silmarillion teaches anything, it’s that sufficiently detailed worldbuilding can overcome the need to actually write readable fiction.
Misread this as “whale psychology”.
