Recent content by tantric

i would like to propose that there is a significant difference between bad grammar and creative grammar. correcting mistakes is one thing - enforcing elitist standards is another. i promise you, i am very well versed in english grammar - along with spanish, japanese and swahili. i remember a...

Are you asking about the sixth and seventh books of moses? They were present. I have tons of this, and i'll never use it - it was for a sequel to Ubantu, which is also unpublished. This is from my notes:

More to the point, reading GG&S really gives you the background to create believable but completely fantastic cultures. You know to care about their crops and animals, the climate they live in, how their religion limits their options at adaptation.

Out of curiousity, why sand? Couldn't he just as easily control carbon and make diamond swords?

Nope, no relation. Bored to tears by those books. 'tantric' comes from my buddhism and predilection for 'edging', having to find a screen name for stupid gay chat rooms (tantric4hrs) and, of course, the BareNakedLadies..."like Sting, I'm tantric"

The core of my project is the idea of using RPGs to preserve vanishing cultures and mythologies. For this, I've created a world called Refugium, where cultures which on Earth got steamrolled by colonialism get a second chance on a world where magic works (and by some great coincidence, all these...

You're going to have to support that. Pandemics are fairly easy to model and they work across a wide range of situations. Evolution can be modeled. Why can't you deduce general rules, or at least trends in human social development? For instance, beyond the tribal nation state, based on ethnic...

I know a RIDICULOUS amount about traditional iron working in Bantu africa. Blacksmiths were wagnagna, mages, and their every act with steeped in ritual. I recall that they were ceremonially married to their anvils, for instance. If you want that, PM, cause you probably don't.

Doing research without journal access is a nightmare. Most people have no idea how much information is availabe in scholarly journal (check Google Scholar). Are y'all familiar with Aaron Swartz's story, the guy the feds literally hounded to suicide because he tried to download a part of JSTOR...

I've read these books before, but never all in a row. The truth is that there are some paragraphs were I have NO IDEA what he's talking about. Is that on purpose?

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive Am I alone in considering this critical?

I love this place! This just came up in a character sketch of my geisha today:

I have three years of grad school in epidemiology going - if anyone wants a consult, i'm here. In my Ubantu setting, which is an RPG guide, not a novel, I did this: And lots more babbling no one will ever read.

There is an outdoor elephant sanctuary in TN: The Elephant Sanctuary. I came on this in grad school from a colleague who was trying to reconstruct the re-human ecosystem of N. America. In truth, there would be elephants and elephant like creatures all over the northern hemisphere if humans...

I'm once again working on my book, having the time and inclination to do so. I'm going deep into the new weird here, psychedelic fantasy. In summary: a take on post-colonialism, set in a magical version of the Amazon, where biology and mythology are inseparable. Ultimately, I want to explore...