FAQs

A number of things:

• Birds.
• A personal vendetta about humans only basing fantasy creatures off cats and dogs.
• I studied paraphilias for a while.
• Then I studied gay history.
• Then I got really into the history of male sexual assault.
• Anime.
• Hentai.
• Yaoi.
• Cults.
• Shipping Wars.
• Horny things people post online.
• The insulting fact the Omegaverse is based on a bad scientific study of wolves, when it could have been based on ruffs–which is all the more insulting, because you don’t know what I’m talking about because you’re all too horny for werewolves, dicks, and Supernatural fan fiction when you could actually be out their educating yourself about birds.
• This one hentai where the premise is that r*pe is legalized to fix the declining birthrate in Japan. It ended with, “once the women all settled down, they realized they liked it and every man has a harem horny of pregnant woman.” And for some reason, in the comment section of this hentai, people were having fights about whether or not feminism has destroyed society.
• This manga where two boys discover their penis has turned into a horny girl with the identical likeness of the girl they have a crush on. When they discover they have the same condition, they decide to make their penises have lesbian sex. And the only way to make their penises turn back, is to confess to the girl they like, and she has lesbian sex with their penis as well. This is the straightest gay story I have ever read.
• I have really bad imposture syndrome and have never had anything going for me in life except for my creativity. Because of this, I will have a panic attack and try to come up with a new story idea to prove to myself I’m not creatively bankrupt.
• When you try to become an Indie Author, that is largely the advice they give you: Don’t expect to make a profit unless you write erotica/romance. Because I don’t enjoy writing those things, marketing my stories has been extremely difficult–and if your book happens to have LGBTQIA+ characters, but no romance, you’re just shooting yourself in the face because–straight women having zero interest aside–not even the queer community seems to be interested in stories like that.
• American history.
• Greek mythology.
• How Americans talk about Greek mythology.
• Genocide.
• Insects.

We can be here all day.

So if by the question you mean: “What the hell is wrong with you?” I’m just trying to maintain my sanity in a world I don’t belong with no desire to read the stuff I like to write. And I need money. This was unfortunately the best compromise I could come up with.

That’s because it legit depends on the place and magic/technology in question. Rules of “reality” (for the sake of simplicity) are subject to change depending on the territory and respective “god.”

Let’s use gold as an example. Image two types of gold. One is a malleable precious metal. The other can be ground into a powder and tossed in the fire to speak to the dead.

• Rule of origin: Gold from a country where it is malleable will still continue to be malleable if exported to another country. Gold mined from from a country where is it “magic” can still be used to speak to the dead if exported elsewhere to the world.
• Rule of agreement: The rules essentially merge. I take malleable gold from one country and move it to a place where gold is magic, or magic to malleable, it becomes both.
• Rule of rejection: The rule of origin is essentially rejected, and in many cases, the thing in question ceases to be. If you try to take malleable gold out of a country, it might turn into a random rock. If you try to take magic gold out of the country, you can probably grind it to dust, but the magic part won’t work.
• Rule of region: All gold in one country is a malleable precious metal–irregardless of its origin. All gold in another country is grindable magic. Move gold from one place to the other, it loses its old properties and gains new ones.
• Rule of individual: A person from malleable gold country can take any gold and hammer it into whatever shape they want. A person from magic gold country take take any gold, grind it, and speak with the dead. People of different bloodlines do not have the ability to learn this.

Got all that? Good!

The a base rule for tangible things is “rule of origin” and the base rule for intangible things is “rule of individual.” However, some territories may randomly apply rule of agreement, rejection, or region. It depends. If you don’t know, default to the base rule.

Thus, magic and technology are understood to be “non-transferable.” You can’t do the same thing everywhere (like growing vanilla). Local resources are finite and can absolutely be depleted into oblivion. There is the very real possibility you simply can’t take it outside the territory of the god who made it, or into the territory of a different god with different cosmology opinions, without the consequence of it not working the way you want or vanishing completely. Only rules related to wind/air and water are universally consistent–though some gods will presumably block rain to cause drought if they are upset or divert a bad storm as a blessing.

For living things: Gods/the rules of a territory generally don’t have the capacity to change another’s god’s living creation without some kind of consent, or they are otherwise disinclined to.

“Human” is anything with a “human” shape that equally possesses the capacity for language.

Some gods are real. Some are not. It is not anyone’s individual capacity to verify with absolute certainty what god is and isn’t real.

It is generally accepted beings called gods do exist, they have territories within the realm of physical space, and some of them made islands with their unique concept of “people,” plants, and other living creatures within the expanse of their territory. These territories may additionally come with specific rules or features unique to them that are non-transferable (ie. they cease to exist outside the territory, or they only apply to the god’s personal creations). However, people emigrate or become diaspora. Empires come and go. Gods can presumably be killed or replaced or just stop carrying.

Another way to think about it is an apartment building or a suburban neighborhood.

Wow, you’re a nerd. Lucky for you, I wrote this as one of the first questions without anyone directly asking me because it is an extremely important things to consider if you are writing fanfiction! The fact that Nos’ekon is the center of its own universe obviously doesn’t translate well to our heliocentric solar-system feature a planet with four major seasons.

So to start:

• There are seven suns every “year.”
• There are thirteen moons every “year.”

“Do I enjoy being difficult? Most definitely.” — Alastor, Hazbin Hotel

• 7 x 13 = 91 possible combinations of sun and moon that span a single year, and each combination lasts “one week.”
• A week is roughly 7-8 days, which is the span a given sun and moon co-exist.
• Total days in a year are 673.

No, this does not mean a 12-yo child on Nos’ekon is a legal 24-yo adult in our world. It means if you lived there, you would age slower and if they were here, they would age faster.

• Matare’ekon and Nos divides their calendar year by 16 months, or 42 days a month.
• A 45-day month, 15-month calendar is also popular.
• There is also the 225-day “merm” (1/3 of the year) which is just another unit of measurement.
• The sun and moon move separately on their own cycle, not respective to one another. Every sun appears 3 times a year (ie. once a merm) and every moon appears 7 times a year.
• Seasons do exist and are referenced, but they aren’t really what they sound like or universally applicable as they are another thing respective to territory and the rules of whatever god created it.

Many cultures do have folklore and mythology related to this, but it isn’t really relative to Nos’s mission to record them and much of this is common sense to the vast majority of people, so don’t worry about it too much. :p

I put this here, because skin color is apparently a big deal in the world of art.

So to make this as easy as possible: I have a really f*cked up joke Nos is Armenian. Nos and the people of Matare’ekon are not, in anyway whatsoever, based on or intended to reflect Armenian culture/history. They’re formally this trope of nymph-like creatures inclined to stab colonizers that began appearing in my stories all the way back when I was six years old. But if you’re familiar with Armenian history, you’ll probably be able to guess why I make that comparison.

Otherwise, their “natural” skin color is light wood (ash, beech, maple, pine, bamboo…) and their bones are almost black. They also have two sets of eyes they switch around. One set has round pupils, the others are round. Color spectrums, light sensitivity, and general acuity differ.

Everything else, you have to figure out yourself from reading the journals.

To the degree any academic can be.

Nos is actually pretty xenophobic and has a very sex-negative view of the world. To a certain extent, you can say their journals are akin to a True Crime podcast. But they also have a strong sense of personal integrity, which is their driving motivation for their mission in life.

Equally so: The people they meet have their own biases, worldview, and limitations. Nos cannot meet everyone, nor observe everything, and there is the muddle of language translation and willingness or safety to talk. If you know anyone with a background in data science, I’m sure they’d be more than happy to ellaborate.