Karmic Acumen
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Nope. They have plenty dung already. Also, the farms are far inland because sea raiders, and fishermen are too busy catching fish to dive after seaweed.Say, do they use seaweed as fertilizer/mulch?
Nope. They have plenty dung already. Also, the farms are far inland because sea raiders, and fishermen are too busy catching fish to dive after seaweed.Say, do they use seaweed as fertilizer/mulch?
You don't have to dive for them. There are enough of them that wash ashore. There were communities who made a living solely out of washed up kelp harvesting.Nope. They have plenty dung already. Also, the farms are far inland because sea raiders, and fishermen are too busy catching fish to dive after seaweed.
I guess it's already being done where it's lucrative then. It's one of those things that got lumped into the "it's either not part or predates the SI package" box.You don't have to dive for them. There are enough of them that wash ashore. There were communities who made a living solely out of washed up kelp harvesting.
Say, do they use seaweed as fertilizer/mulch?
Charcoal and seaweed potash can be used in making explosives, detergent, and fertilizer.I once readed about using it as one component of blackpowder,but i am not sure on that.
Thanks.So,once they "discover " fireworks,they openly would use seaweed to made it.And secretly,to build ammo for mother of all guns.Charcoal and seaweed potash can be used in making explosives, detergent, and fertilizer.
It was mostly me deciding to post the bait and the switch apart, since I was going to lose readers either way and wanted the break to be as clean and quick as possible. This is spoilers, but at this point I don't care anymore.This honestly read more like a character assassination then anything resembling the previous chapters. Just what was the plan with this direction for the story?
To a large extent this kind of reveal needed a much larger lead up. Coming into this cold and on such a standard hot button topic is just bad form. As it is, it comes across as an info dump, with the exposition character dropping a bunch of self contradictory sexual nonsense and everyone else looking on in helpless horror. As they should because what the fuck was that.It was mostly me deciding to post the bait and the switch apart, since I was going to lose readers either way and wanted the break to be as clean and quick as possible. This is spoilers, but at this point I don't care anymore.
The SI's natural inclinations were conventional, but mind-melding as a pre-teen with various men and women as he played psychopomp affected that (when his neuroplasticity still hadn't allowed his mental age to catch up to the decades he has from his past life). Left alone, he wouldn't have indulged his acquired tastes and it wouldn't have come up in the story. Unfortunately, 'taking part of the wolf in you' overcharged his urges ala Dragonriders of Pern, and certain parties that consider him an enemy have been trying to use that (and various other things) to corrupt him like a discount one ring because these are the same entities that spent canon creating monsters (which includes getting Ned's son Bran to commit all but one of the skinchanging taboos by the time he makes it to Bloodraven).
- Mindmelds that let you experience the full lives of both men and women as a pre-teen don't come without consequences - some expansion to his natural predilections was the tamest consequence I could think of
- Brandon's missing half (why he's bisected), for the past several years, has been (without anyone this side of the Wall knowing) living as a sentient member of a non-human species that goes through periods of heat periodically (No, there is no bestiality in this story)
- When you can't prevent or destroy a man's work, you try to destroy the man. In real life, this would mean corrupting him into degeneracy, tricking him into friendships with degenerates, or, failing that, to slander him as a sexual predator in an effort to unperson him. In ASOIAF, what Martin decided to pass as higher powers like to spend their time turning young children into Euron Greyjoy.
This has mostly been him using his expanded options in terms of fellow consenting adults to discharge what he could of the heightened urges and shunt away the intruding influences while Marwyn prepares to do a soul surgery. You may or may not noticed he even tried to turn it to the service of healing, but evil turned to the service of good is still evil.
Incidentally, that thing about him bedding Marwyn isn't real either - he's not attracted to him at all, nor is the reverse true - Marwyn is his teacher ad healer. It was just mind fuckery getting through at a bad time because he was bound to suffer some bad luck at some point. Even that will be noticed and corrected by the end of the next chapter. Rickard's summons caught the SI on one of the days he tried to compartmentalise instead of process the shit being done to him (so he could have some peace in ignorance for a change). Unfortunately, his ability to compartmentalise isn't very good, thus the uncanny valley.
Tl;Dr: This isn't going to be a gay romance story, his inclinations aren't plot relevant, but the reason why he's coming out is, and I wasn't going to pretend all the stuff he did without guidance comes without consequences.
I guess all that's left is to see whether or not this is the hill I die on.
1: I did build it up - you were explicitly told in-story that the MC was heading towards deviance on several occasions. Even in those exact terms.To a large extent this kind of reveal needed a much larger lead up. Coming into this cold and on such a standard hot button topic is just bad form. As it is, it comes across as an info dump, with the exposition character dropping a bunch of self contradictory sexual nonsense and everyone else looking on in helpless horror. As they should because what the fuck was that.
Generally I immediately drop any story that has the male lead suddenly turn gay without build up or warning. It’s usually a sign that the story is suddenly going to decend into slash depravity soon. While a never expect something as crass as tags, I also generally expect decent enough characters that aberrant sexuality is noticed by the people in-story.
Few people would fail to notice someone so sexually voracious for men that they are involved in multiple gay relationships simultaneously.
Having characters die of dysentery or infected wounds is also a natural occurrence. It just makes for a poor story. Having a lead character be so spiritually rolled and willpower deficient that he’s engaged in multiple homosexual encounters, formed emotional bonds through said encounters and announces that he’s saving himself for a formal relationship is certainly something, but it makes for a poor story.4: I'm certainly sad to see you go, but I knew this was going to lose me readers. Ultimately, your last argument doesn't apply because it ISN'T a natural progression, that's the point. It's spiritual warfare with the express purpose of exactly what you called it: character assassination. Ironically, it seems to be working better metanarratively than in-universe.
Yeah, it's a heavy topic and my delivery was far from ideal. What's done is done now, though. I didn't say it was the only direction, but it IS the one I chose, so now I just have to live with it.Stating that this was the only possible direction the story could have gone is also amusing. This was hardly a corner that needed to be written out of. You basically made your male lead be as unlikable as possible to the broadest possible audience of readers. If nothing else, that kind of coverage is impressive. True bipartisan hatred. On one side for asserting that sexuality can be effected at all and is not set in stone and the other for having a bisexual degenerate who seems to lack willpower, awareness and self-control.
I like the idea. Probably could have given more context earlier on in the story.To those leaving anyway, I'm sad to see you go, but I won't apologise for thinking that spiritual warfare with the express purpose of character assassination was an interesting plotline to explore.
What I do regret is that it seems to have worked so much better metanarratively than in-universe.
Hey, the worst that could happen is the MC becoming Better Slaneesh.