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Ralph Richardson playing Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest Probably one of the first and biggest things that most folks remember about settings like Star Wars or Harry Potter's Wizarding World is the special powers inherent to those settings. Oh, fine, let's call a spade a spade: they both use magic. Same with Naruto, if we're being honest, except they call them "jutsus," and with the Avatar: the Last Airbender universe, where the powers are called "bending." The exampl

This quote, I think, encapsulates why I think we need to strive toward a post-scarcity society One aspect of worldbuilding that regularly gets overlooked is the money. No, that's not quite accurate: there's a *lot* of aspects of worldbuilding that get overlooked all the time, but we allow it as readers and watchers and listeners because we suspend our disbelief and want to just get on with the plot without having to fret about stuff like, for some examples, where does the po

Fleeing for his life again - just another Thursday - Art by Astanael - https://www.deviantart.com/astanael Before anything else, because I always forget to do this otherwise, here's a link to my book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1954094493 - I'm sorry about sharing that, but we do sadly live in a capitalist-centric society, and that means I have to spend money for the essentials of life, which means I need to somehow make money for said essentials. That bit of unpleasantness ou