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tkinias

@tkinias@historians.social

Assistant professor of history & #histodon. Research race and whiteness in the British Empire (especially Queensland & British Columbia). Teach European & world history with a focus on colonialism & empire.

Previous careers include teaching English as a foreign language and a variety of IT jobs (from Web dev to pulling cables).

Linux geek & SF nerd.

Views my own and probably ill-informed.

He/him.

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tkinias, to random
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A rough thing about being stuck at an airport for going on nine hours is the constant noise.

I just want to be somewhere quiet.

Quiet and cool.

tkinias,
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@RogerBW
Heathrow is vile. Though I think Gatwick is worse somehow.

inquiline, to random
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Just accidentally read a whole mess of replies to a couple bad posts, in agreement with/filling in the thesis of the bad posts, and hoo boy there are some bad takes on here

tkinias,
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@inquiline On the Internet?!

elysegrasso, to random
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May 19. How did you settle on your MC’s appearance?

I'm not sure I have.

tkinias,
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@elysegrasso
Something I’m never quite sure how to handle, if writing in a tight third-person with only one POV character, is how to describe that MC’s appearance—unless there are noteworthy things that the character is notably either vain or insecure about, such that it would show up in their inner voice.

nyrath, (edited ) to random
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New book on worldbuilding.

Author says: "Architect of Worlds is what happens when the guy who wrote three different solar system/planetary generation systems for GURPS is told he doesn't have a word count and spends 7 years tracking every paper on exoplanet systems he can find."

Dead Tree edition: https://www.adastragames.com/products/architect-of-worlds
PDF edition: https://www.adastragames.com/products/architect-of-worlds-pdf

tkinias,
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@nyrath
It’s hands-down the best I’ve seen. I don’t think you can do much better without running fairly advanced simulations, or at least doing math that’s more complicated than will fit in a book like this.

tkinias, to history
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An addendum to my post about the 15C breviary using <ç> for <z>: It also shows up in 16C Italian inscriptions which affect a medieval style, like this one from Santa Maria Novella. But, notably, it never seems to be used in inscriptions which use roman letterforms.

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