Recent content by Patrick-Leigh

Is there an online spreadsheet I can use? My current computer doesn’t have any spreadsheet programs on it.

The timing is going to be VERY important in several stories and the characters are going to be making plans based around how much time they will have before the next overlap of a full moon with an equinox or solstice. As I said, certain rites are performed during such events. Rites that may be...

They don’t need to break out the calculators, they just need to notice discrepancies in the calendar regarding when certain groups hold certain rituals, like evil, religiously fanatical Werewolves, who perform rites on the solstices, equinoxes, and full moons. That’s why I need a way to keep...

Close enough to count doesn't apply to things like Werewolves, however, unless I have them transform for the 3 nights the moon appears full instead of the one night where it is actually full. And, given that Werewolves are connected to an evil god who logically would have certain ceremonies...

So, if we go with a 29 day Lunar Cycle, we get a Full Moon on the Summer Solstice every 12 years?

I don't need the reader to figure this out, I just need a way to help myself keep track of these things because moon phases, equinoxes, solstices, and the appearances of comets play important roles in certain events. I think 13 Full Moons is too many. I'd like to keep it to 12, even if it's...

Are you saying the lunar cycle is 25 days + 3 full moon days or 25 days total? Because I was proposing we switch it from 30 days to 28 days, not 25.

What about a 28 day cycle?

Would there be some way to have it be less frequent than that, like, perhaps, only on Leap Years?

That doesn't work for my setting. I need there to be some variation so that it's not too common an occurrence for the Full Moon to fall on a Solstice or Equinox. I also want to have Leap Years so that the extra day in each year is a special event called Fool's Day or Feast of Fools (because...

I'm struggling a bit with the calendar system for one of the Planets in my story setting. I specifically need to determine how to map out the lunar cycle and the time between the Solstices and Equinoxes because there are holidays that are held on the Full Moons of certain months as well as the...

The Mermaid protagonist of my current project is a foodie. Her bioluminescence changes depending on how much she likes or dislikes the food she's eating. I'm trying to make her as adorable as possible in the scenes where she's eating. She can also eat a lot due to having two stomachs (one in...

Yes, the reason I started this thread was because I have a naming ceremony in the story. I need to nail down the conventions of it in order to show how the ceremony for my Mermaid character differs from the norm. The point is that there are “irregularities” during her’s that mark her as somehow...

You do have a point. Baptism may be the only word that describes the ceremony in a way that people will understand. I've been looking for other terms, but none of them really fit.

Yes, the reason I want a word other than baptism is because I want the term used to somehow tie into receiving a name. "Baptize" means "to dip, immerse, sink," so it does fit the act, but not the purpose. Further, "baptism" is more associated with purification, renewal, and redemption, a...