This Video Made Me Snort And Is Painfully Accurate, I Wanted To Share:

Ooo this has me so intrigued! I did not see that last part coming at all. /pos

Spooky Short Story in a Forest

"This is as far as I can take you." The man driving the taxi said as he placed the car into park on the outskirts of a lush forest. A forest that very clearly has a path wide enough for a car to drive on.

"What do you mean? Can't you drive through?" The man was looking out the car's windshield, he looked like he didn't want to deal with customers anymore.

"No. Cash or card?" He says it with a finality that makes me give up on my curiosity enough to dig out the needed cash and hand it to him. I pushed the car door open and as soon as I stepped out and shut the door, he started zooming away. I turn my head to look at the forest. Hiking my bag higher up on my shoulder, I start walking towards its entrance. When there's a will, there's a way, and I need to get to my hotel at some point today. With each step that takes me farther into the forest, my footfalls get heavier and the impact my feet have on the ground makes bigger and bigger clouds of dirt on the path. With each step, I feel a greater need to go deeper into the forest. The dense fog of leaves over the tops of the trees block the light of the sun, clouding the interior of the forest in a kind of darkness that usually only comes at night. I pull out my phone and use it as a flashlight, which doesn't prevent me from getting my foot caught in a root that grew in the middle of the path. As I lay sprawled on the dirty ground, I feel my resentment for the taxi driver grow, and now, with a bruised ego and a skinned knee, I decide to take a break. I pick myself up, walk over to a tree off to the side of the path, and drop to the floor with my bag. With my back leaning against the hard surface of the tree's trunk, I take a deep breath in. I let my eyes slip closed as I take a few more deep breaths.

"Help!" My eyes shoot open. There are quick footsteps pounding against the forest floor. A young man came from the direction of the scream. "Help!" I scrambled up off the ground, briefly forgetting how to use my legs. Following closely behind the young man is a larger man dressed in black. I quickly looked around for something I could use to defend myself, the only feasible option being a branch that had broken off of the tree I was resting at. It was about the same length and width of my arm, and when I picked it up it seemed to be as sturdy as a baseball bat. During my search, the larger man had knocked the young man to the ground, pinning him with black clad limbs. The young man was struggling to get away, moving this way and that like a mouse caught in a trap. I move as quickly and quietly as I can, stopping just behind the larger man. I raise the branch up high over my head and bring it down with every ounce of force in my body. There is no impact. The branch falls straight through the man's body, hitting and creating a dent in the ground.

"What?" I gasped, forgetting about being quiet. It doesn't take long after that for the young man's screams of terror to turn into screams of agony. All I could do was watch as a knife was plunged into the young man over and over again, creating a pool of blood that just got bigger and bigger. As the man's screams die out, both men start to become translucent. My mouth hangs open as they become more and more transparent until they're completely gone. Slowly, I turn my back and head back to the tree to grab my bag. There's a jack rabbit in my chest as a bend down. At the base of the tree, there's a name. Adam.

Ooo that sounds so cool! What cybernatic implants are you thinking?

I'm late, but happy worldbuilding wednesday! Any favorite animals who've created or modified for your story?

None so far, but I do plan on having some squirrels shown in a future chapter with cybernetic implants!

Btw, I am in the process of making a more detailed survey for this.

Speaking of, tempted to make a community myself, but since I have a variety of unconnected works, I have no idea what that would be a community for. Kind of reminds me of the idea I had to try and get myself posting again, mainly making like, a sort of dating sim kind of group of characters to play around with.

Y'all want me to make object head people for you to kiss? SFUIHSFU

so this European clothing retailer decided to advertise their jean cuts on youtube and it's unintentionally the funniest shit I've seen today. why? well.

now important context here: in German, die (pronounced 'dee') is just a feminine article, it literally means "the".

but if an ad gets placed in the middle of an English video and doesn't use a single explicitly German word for most of the ad, even a native speaker is gonna think "they want me to die how?" it keeps getting funnier.

I mean, holy shit

i will use these as reaction images until i die

Original characters are really just a random assortment of personality traits and physical features taken from myself, from people I saw on the street, and from my favourite characters from other people.

This world sounds super interesting so far!

Lumoria - Nation of Light

Capital: Lumoria City

General Overview

Lumoria is a society based heavily on intellectualism which thrives on reason and research, many of which are interested in the studying magic or magical studies. Lumoria believes in the power of research and study, ignoring their military and artillery. Lumoria retains strong relations with other nations and makes its large sum of the wealth from trade and selling inventions. Lumoria has the highest amount of magical technological advancement and often share their advancements for a hefty price tag.

Government System

Lumoria is run by a council made up of the 4 core research principles, titled the "4 Pillars" these are :

Imagitrix - Humanities & Literature

Lumina - Magic & Alchemy

Illumidemic - Mechanics & Arithmetic

Glivant - Politics & Economics

The council is made up of the respected higher ranks of the 4 Pillars and members voted in by the public.

This system has been in place for around 200 years making it fairly recent. Before the 4 Pillars Lumoria was once ruled over by a monarchy. Due to growing tensions between the citizens of Lumoria and the royal family, the royal family were over thrown in favour for the 4 Pillars and the council.

Due to this fact, any building referring to royalty or the old royal family, now refer to the status and ability of the researcher or scholar. Lumoria now use royalty to refer to those who achieve a high distinction of intelligence. For example, the Royal institute of Magic and Alchemic studies is a highly regarded institution which is extremely hard to get into for work and study, People who go there may be seen as "intellectual royalty" and are viewed with great respect.

Many scholars argue, that putting these people on a pedestal and treating them like "royalty" is no better then what was done with the actual royal family over 2 centuries ago.

Diplomatic Relations - Simplified

Calei - Relatively Neutral, though in constant positive trade relations.

Leineen - Estranged but Peaceful

Fetta - Ally

Lunora - Ally

Brovano - Ally

Froshhelm - Neutral, constant positive trade interactions.

Mewl - Neutral

Sten Vallter - Neutral

Lattice Archipelago - Neutral, distant relations

Currency - Brilli

Types of magic used

Every magic type is used all over Lumoria, Luligh magic is used the most.

Main Exports

Lumoria mainly exports the following:-

Buckwheat

Wheat

Seafood products (Fish, muscles, clams, etc.)

Magical machinery

Magical devices

Religious Beliefs

Many citizens of Lumoria do not follow any sort of God or deity, a large population, however, do follow 'Mi' and the late* God of order 'Null'.

*The death of Null is a highly debated topic within historical institutions as no historical evidence from the time period specifically states Null's demise mere stating that Null just stopped appearing, historians believe that Null just not appearing anymore is a primitive way of indicating Null's death. While many historians believe that Null, dissatisfied with his people, had abandoned them and is now waiting for the time when is people will become "ideal" and then he shall appear himself to them.

Character Residing in Lumoria

Lion Fernspore

Ariana Pliffnur

Rita Lalm

Visiting Characters

Rye Fleign

Omg I hope you guys enjoy these short breakdowns with tiny pieces of history and lore sprinkled in. I'm kinda busy so I might release one for each nation once every other week then in that same week I'll add in some fun character interactions. How about that? - K

Ooo. I'm excited to see that too! I hope you manage to get a new laptop!

Happy storyteller saturday! What are you most looking forward to writing in your current WIP?

Currently I'm most excited to just be able to continue my writing in general, gotta get a new laptop or spend my writing time on my partner's PC.

As for specifics though, I'm super excited to continue writing the intricacies of Jesse and Lira's adventure through life together! I have a few vaguely planned ideas but nothing super concrete yet!

Beta reading isn't about turning someone's story into your own vision, it's about helping someone make their story into THEIR vision