Pretty Pretty Please I Don't Want To Be A Magical Girl

born to infodump forced to constantly worry if the other person actually cares or if im making sense or if i said something wrong or if im embarrassing myself or if they want me to stop talking or

I write best at 3 AM because at that time I know I no longer have dignity so rewriting it at a sane hour is 1000% better

1st draft or nothing usually though

How do people even draft

A more wordy post because I don’t know how to draw buildings. Only one image for Drakes.

Architecture, in general, is varied due to the nature of the Feyfolks’ variety in size, body shape, and species. Most Architecture is spacious and wide, with wide areas for air landings and take-offs.

Architecture, in general, uses the land around it: growing trees into dens and homes, carving homes out of mountains, ravines, and sinkholes, and Finding sanctuary in underwater cliffs, ravines, and coralline structures. Their architecture prefers to take and give back to nature.

Drakes use a lot of fire as it’s a vital tool for them. It’s highly desired by most (if not all) of the feyfolk enjoy. They love knowing a firebreather because then they don’t have to hire a specialist, they could just exchange favors.

In the lower sections they dig out enough room for seperate rooms for (similarly aged) Children and the Parents.

Food storage is full of shelves, jars and crates to hold spices, herbs and dried meats. The extended pantry + a colder lower storage. They don’t have fridges but they do Ike to pack away snow and ice into this area and locking it away. Cooking wares and cooking is done elsewhere, such as the entrance or a Separate area completely.

Housing is a place to relax after working out and about, not really to host folks unless folks are family. It’s meant to be safe and relaxing, decorated how they want and potentially raise kids in.

Recommendations for societies with mixed halfling/human races follow. The average halfling is assumed, from demographic estimates, to weigh 30 pounds (14 kg) and stand approximately 3 feet (1 meter) tall.

All public places where people are expected to be seated need a mix of regular/small seating. Ideally, all chairs and tables will be adjustable, but this comes with cost considerations.

All doors must be accessible for people of all sizes. This presents a challenge for doorknobs and door handles, and the recommendation is a long vertical bar accessible for both, along with low "minimum force" levels for opening and closing. Problems with locking mechanisms remain, and while floor bolts are height-neutral, they're more suited to secondary locking mechanisms.

All restaurants, cafeterias, and vending machines should stock two differently sized portions. The average halfling consumes roughly a third the amount of food as a human. Because of various frictions (packaging, labor), prices are expected to be more than one third for a halfling portion. Because of this, it's best to have systems in place that allow splitting human-sized dishes, or bringing home leftovers, or making packages resealable.

Housing presents a serious problem. A single-family dwelling for a halfling family requires roughly one fifth the volume as for a single-family human dwelling, though costs do not scale down at the same rate. However, if built to halfling scale, the interior of the dwelling will only be accessible to halflings, which presents serious problems for e.g. police, firefighters, social workers, repairmen, or anyone else who might have cause to go into the interior of the home, to say nothing of friends and coworkers. Building for halfling scale is attractive for a variety of reasons, with cost being one of the biggest, but this might result in de facto segregation, and puts considerable strain on civic infrastructure and city markets due to duplication. Another social concern is that all interactions might, by default, take place inside human homes which have worse accommodations for halflings. Special note should also be made of mixed-species couples, who suffer extra burdens within the household. These problems are intractable, as some trade-off must always be made.

Tools, household goods, and clothing are naturally split into two markets. For clothing, near-complete segregation is expected. For everything else, partial segregation is expected: a halfling cannot effectively use many human tools due to differences in grip strength and grip circumference, to say nothing of brute strength. However, many consumables can suit both species, and it's expected that cost reduction efforts will inevitably result in a single offering for both in cases where that makes remotely makes sense. Purchases using refillable containers from bulk are encouraged, as each person can determine what's best to fulfill their own needs.

Due to lower costs (housing, food, clothing), halflings can in theory work for lower wages. For certain jobs, particularly those requiring physical strength, humans are more capable on average, and for others, particularly those requiring manual dexterity, halflings are more capable on average. For jobs which do not have significant differences, wage discrimination is recommended by contentious, and is an ongoing conversation.

There are a number of "segregationist forces" in society, driven by convenience, culture, and market forces. Once segregation has become, there is every expectation that it will snowball: a neighborhood which is inaccessible to humans will have businesses that cater only to halflings, and once halfling business is concentrated, any "mixed" business has less incentive to cater to halflings. Legislation can counterbalance these forces by requiring that all businesses be able to service both humans and halflings, and accommodate both human and halfling services, but this admittedly comes at enormous cost.

Overall, there are certain recommendations that are nearly costless and can be implemented as best practices immediately, and more complicated, costly reforms that will take significant political will and budgetary consideration. Beyond that, there are questions of social engineering and the level to which it is important or preferable that these things be done.

BIRTHDAYYYY!

Brimthday

Solei Thornbright, Guild leader of the Mageis!

Deservedly smug because he’s quite talented in his field.

Under cut things!

He’s a hybrid, with a drake mother and raptor father and the only successful egg in the clutch. Giving him his long figure and odd toes. And back issues. He can walk on all fours, but he prefers to have his hands free.

His tattoos were primarily done by him, as well as his father along his back.

my bugsona

What was your first spec?

I got two answers since I want to hit both instead of miss either of them,

My first *true* speculative Biology project would be for a different world idea of “what if a continent was just filled to the brim with giant fucking bugs.” I created a giant tropical jungle with megafauna and strangely large bugs. And, with my fascination with dragons I threw in giant honey-bee esq. Dragons with Spider drakes too. It’s a side project from Feys.

A general Bee dragon below after years of redesigns and settling on a more beetle-esq look.

I can’t claim to have made a first species *because* I just really liked drawing dragons and figuring out what could make them tick, and then that desire to make a bunch more dragon-centric worlds with additional look-ins to their deeper biology and social dynamics and eventually I just decided to give them a government, hah.

Hope this answered!

Also also:

Group meeting to establish the flags: just for fun.

To take a break from Griffeuxes:

Feylands Government System!

They use to hold a multitude of Monarchies across the continent, but after several riots against the multiple monarchies and a lot of cleaning up: Six organizations came about to instill order and have been working cleanly after a few hiccups.

I have unifying colors for them and Flags!

In order:

Gis (Argriculture & Rural affairs)

Thalimis (Architecture, infrastructure & Water incorporation)

Ourinis (Communication, Transportation & Imports/exports)

Nekis (Law Enforcement & Millitary matters)

Mageis (Education)

Ygeis (Healthcare)

All the original leaders commissioned or hand-crafted their flag.

(Socialist Oligarchy With six major Organizations)

Added stuff under cut

I also imagine the Feathered wyverns speak in a different manner compared to other cities. It’s very loud where they originate, so perhaps communication closer to Morse code but spoken. It’s why Elysi Uki’Hest last name has that odd Apostrophe: a written ‘click’ of the tongue.

Wyverns live with the others cities along with the other species just fine in current times.