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Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

Not To Carp or Criticize - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/03/31/not-to-carp-or-criticize/

A fish story, with audiobooks.

The Associated Worlds · 4dNot To Carp or CriticizeAmong the most notable features of the Celestial Garden are its multitude of ponds, brooks, and other water features, many of which are devoted to the raising of koi, the noble brocaded carp. These include the famous Aqueous Pavilion (accessible through the Empress's Gallery), a semi-submerged conservatory where one may

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Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

Contains No Ents -
https://eldraeverse.com/2025/03/20/contains-no-ents/

The Associated Worlds · Mar 20Contains No EntsI saw this image on Xitter: I didn't think that what the 'verse would be adding today is the Blue-Green Ecociates GR-00T Treehammer orbitally-launched forestation cluster notbomb, but it turns out that's just the ecopoesis tool no-one knew they needed.

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Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

Maybe's Daughter -
https://eldraeverse.com/2025/03/16/maybes-daughter/

The Associated Worlds · Mar 16Maybe's DaughterIt is legend, it is rumored, it is whispered: That among and beyond those rare and curious cosmozoa which stretch their being along time and across space, there exist a set rarer and more curious yet which dwell a-straddle worldlines and in the gaps between, where Is dances its eternal

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Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

Electives -
https://eldraeverse.com/2025/03/15/electives/

Be careful what you study.

The Associated Worlds · Mar 15ElectivesBE ADVISED: The Department of Exotheology does not study exotic religions. (That would be the purview of the Department of Exoreligiology in the Faculty of Memetics.) Rather, the Department of Exotheology studies exotic gods. Advanced courses in this department invariably involve the study of things mortals were not meant to

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Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

Intent -
https://eldraeverse.com/2025/02/18/intent/

Because we actually care quite a lot about your motives.

The Associated Worlds · Feb 18IntentSo, today you get another worldbuilding post as part of answering a reader question; specifically, concerning the accidental/deliberate distinction and other questions of guilt and innocence in Imperial jurisprudence. This is, as you might expect, a mite complicated. So the first, and the easiest, part of the Curial court's

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Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

And a Bottle of Sun - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/01/30/and-a-bottle-of-sun/

It's always sunny on Esilmúr.

The Associated Worlds · Jan 30And a Bottle of SunThose of you who are old enough to recall the original publicity campaign surrounding Extropa Energy's pet project - or who have dug it out of the archives in the years since - might remember the first renders of the Esilmúr Sphere: a diaphanous veil cast over hot white Esilmúr,

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Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

No Step On Snek -
https://eldraeverse.com/2025/01/19/no-step-on-snek/

When amateurs get creative.

The Associated Worlds · Jan 19No Step On Snek"So. To recap. You designed a system of self-replicating robots in the shape of snakes..." "In our defense, the network disruption had lasted years and we couldn't run the idea past anyone." "...which you equipped with an artificially-intelligent recognition system for coercive actions and proposals..." "We were particularly careful with

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Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

A Knob On The End Is Optional - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/01/14/a-knob-on-the-end-is-optional/

The Associated Worlds · Jan 14A Knob On The End Is OptionalSo, let's talk about the glitterstaff, that favorite prop of half the anime characters to come out of Delphys's own Kyo Aziris. If you are familiar with the history of nanotechnology - which I admit, gentle reader, is unlikely given that you are reading this book - you will be

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Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

Eldraeic Word of the Day: velle - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/01/12/eldraeic-word-of-the-day-velle/

Today I feel riparian.

The Associated Worlds · Jan 12Eldraeic Word of the Day: vellevelle: river (SUBJECT is a river of land mass LOCATION, draining watershed SOURCE into DESTINATION) This word also provides the -vel root found in many of Eliéra's river names of historical Alteníän origin, including most famously the Maethevel, which is born on the slopes of the Imperial Mountain, gathers itself

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Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

Open Government - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/01/10/open-government/

In which the way everyone does is is Problematic.

The Associated Worlds · Jan 10Open GovernmentA little meta note on worldbuilding, inspired by - well, okay, it's January, so you can guess what the annoying discourse has been for the last four? - four - days. Now there is a thing that while it's hardly been a major theme, here, is made plain in various

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Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

Today in 'verse history, the launch of the inevitable Admiralty Intelligence prowler

CS _'); DROP TABLE contacts; --_

Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

Yes, Virginia - https://eldraeverse.com/2024/12/31/yes-virginia/

It's a wonderful time of the year.

The Associated Worlds · Dec 31, 2024Yes, VirginiaToday’s question for Dr. Science is from one of our younger readers. It’s actually a little more suited for Dr. Theology, but since we don’t have him on contract, I’ll try and fill in. You are all familiar, no doubt, with the legends attached to the

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Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

Yearning - https://eldraeverse.com/2024/12/28/yearning/

The Associated Worlds · Dec 28, 2024YearningWe have seen, in recent years, many attempts to explain the Empire's immigration policy. All of these have foundered on the rocks of the assumption that it is, indeed, an ends-driven policy - which is not a reliable guide when dealing with people who see themselves as merely revealing certain

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Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

https://eldraeverse.com/2024/12/09/eldraeic-words-of-the-day-3/

For the forests are both dark and light.

The Associated Worlds · Dec 9, 2024Eldraeic Words of the Dayhalla: forest, specifically a tamed forest used for dwelling, silviculture, lumbering, coppicing, hunting, parkland, etc. Oppose loth. loth: forest, specifically wild forest not used for any purpose. Oppose halla. (Note that this is a very important distinction on Eliéra, which has a lot of forest cover, and it is important

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Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

Unproblematic Armor - https://eldraeverse.com/2024/12/07/unproblematic-armor/

Well, hopefully so, anyway.

The Associated Worlds · Dec 7, 2024Unproblematic ArmorIn today's recommendations, I should like to draw y'all's attention to The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor, over at A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry. Why? Well, apart from being interesting in its own right, it is one of the latest and best posts whose predecessors are responsible for the design

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Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

At one point in the development of organic/biotech computing devices, it was necessary to provide indicators of their internal state for their operators.

The resulting bioluminescent demi-fungus was named, inevitably, "blinkenlichen".

Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

Nom - https://eldraeverse.com/2024/11/24/nom/

The diet of states.

The Associated Worlds · Nov 24, 2024Nom“Consider, gentle reader, that even as the flesh of an Emperor, or of any man, is constituted of what he eats, so then is an Empire, in bones and sinew, constituted of what it eats. “Therefore, to maintain the health, and to avoid the manifestations of ill-nutrition, unseemly bloat, or

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Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

As I migrate more posts on 'verse computing, I observe:

Those people with buttsticks about "byte" and "nybble" being too silly are going to have to continue to suffer post-contact through "playte", "dynner", "feyst", and "banquyt".

(Industry-standard word lengths in the seventh millennium are banquyts. Conveniently, this means that IIP addresses are still quadwords.)

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Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

My To-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours

https://eldraeverse.com/2024/11/09/my-to-fu-is-stronger-than-yours/

The Associated Worlds · Nov 9, 2024My To-Fu Is Stronger Than YoursPressed bean curds are a common item in many Eliéran cuisines, in recipes both savory and sweet. I refer to them using this long description since, despite being identical in many ways and produced from the same small group of plants, they are one of the very few foodstuffs to

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Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

Crazy Eddie - https://eldraeverse.com/2024/11/04/crazy-eddie

The Associated Worlds · Nov 4, 2024Crazy EddieAs a brief cultural note, today, I happened to be looking something up on the Atomic Rockets Future Mythology page, and was reminded of Crazy Eddie. (The one from Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle's The Mote in God's Eye, obviously. Even if, sad to say, that is no longer the one

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