No For Real I Need You To Understand How I Experienced This

no for real I need you to understand how I experienced this

How can I gaslight my parents into thinking I’m a stripper? I mean how can I instill just a hint of the possibility into their minds I miiiigt be one? Like not enough for them to ask about it, but enough for them to question it and wonder if they’re reading into things or not? I’m a young lady who still loves with them. I have a good job, have never gotten a speeding ticket, kissed someone, or really often into any trouble, but that’s boring. I need to spice stuff up

........ ma'am I am a worldbuilder?

For those of you wondering what "tor" means and why I use it: it's a fictional oath I made for Sphaera!

Watsonian explanation: "tor," often used in conjugation as "snowing tor," derives from the name of the Temoran underworld and is grammatically used equivalent to "hell." "Snowing tor" is an emphasis modifier -it could never snow in tor, thus the phrase is used primarily to express incredulity.

Doylist explanation: "tor" is derived from "torrid," since the underworld is a hot place, but it also has a more entertaining meta origin: the Rush song By-Tor and the Snow Dog! I've been a fan of Rush for a good decade now and their music has influenced the development of Sphaera -in particular its mythos. The Prince of Hell in that song is called By-Tor, so I interpreted it as a title and took the "tor" half as the name of hell.

“YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL.”

(152830) 1999 VD57 is a small, stony main-belt asteroid 700 meters (2,300 feet) in diameter. It was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) survey at Socorro, New Mexico on 4 November 1999. This asteroid was identified as a flyby target for NASA's Lucy mission in January 2023, which will approach 450 km (280 mi) from the asteroid on 1 November 2023. 1999 VD57 will be Lucy's first and smallest flyby target and it will become the smallest main-belt asteroid visited by a spacecraft yet. It was identified as a target by Raphael Marschall, mission collaborator of the Nice Observatory, only after Lucy had launched, due to the asteroid's small size.

1999 VD57 has not been named yet, but the Lucy mission team has proposed the provisional name Dinkinesh, after the Ethiopian name for the Lucy fossil after which this NASA mission is named.

Dinkinesh translates approximately to “You Are Beautiful.”

Trou noir

Alien cultures have mythology too! Every civilization that humans have encountered within the Diaspora canon has a cultural history with some sort of mythological tradition –often multiple different mythologies, in fact. Sophontologists generally agree that while specific religions are not universal, evidence shows that the concept of belief systems (created to fill in the gaps of a culture's knowledge) is common to most sapient species. Some examples:

A certain ziirb culture, the Driizunn, once believed in a great deity representing order, wisdom, and protection. This deity, Nzmarri, became the namesake of the powerful artificial intelligence which now administrates all of ziirb civilization.

Like humanity, the shyxaure named the planets of their home system, Aelycah, after mythological figures. The chief deity of the Elashareyu, a prominent shyxaure culture, was the god of the sky, Haaçayor. However, very close behind them in importance were Vymara and Valimora: love and death. Those are the two constants of the world in Elashare myth; the compromise between the need of nature and the desire of the sentient being. Valimora assures the cycle of nature keeps going, while Vymara allows the most important parts of a person to exist forever in the flock: their family, their legacy, their love.

In the ancient rimor civilization of Ilen, the sun was embodied by a mother goddess named Alai, who made the world Volkh as a nest for her children: the rimor themselves. This belief helped to drive the rimor's pursuit of spaceflight as an instinct to leave the nest and explore on their own.

Unfortunately, we do not have very good records of the skgri mythos, just names from which xenoarchaeologists must derive mythological roles based on context.

OP here. Yes, very salient points, thank you cyle! Absolutely didn't intend for the post to read as minimizing or making light of the very real problems we have here, but then again I didn't anticipate this would make it outside the small circle of people who know me and understand my intentions. (ngl after this started really getting around I was anxious about exactly that for days.) It was a clever pun cooked up by my subconscious, that's all.

Obviously I don't expect this to be legitimately implemented, even as an April Fool's one-off. There are numerous practical problems standing in the way. But someone in the notes suggested tribbles as an alternative, and I LOVE that, so y'know... maybe getting whacked by that particular Apollonian dodgeball wouldn't be so bad.

had a fucking hilarious dream that tumblr replaced the "block" function with the far funnier "glock" function, which did the exact same thing except whenever anyone blocked you a random bullet hole, like a png of a bullet hole, would appear on your blog. discourse blogs were unreadable bc you'd go to the page and the sheer amount of bullet hole pngs stacked over the blogs obscured everything. I woke myself up laughing