Haunted Ballade

#30 of poetry when i wrote it this was entitled "ballade of the walking dead" but that's a title that's gonna be culturally unavailable for a decade or so yet.

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Kathrin's Specialty Outfitters: part 2

Raine replied, "but does it get the point across of blending fashion while also coming across as..." she searched desperately for the right word to convey the mix of intentions, politics and cultural cultural norms, before finally settling on \ "oh

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Just Breathe - Chapter 4

Rasi doesn't understand what this kind of knowledge does to you, since you aren't steeped in our culture. i don't understand your culture, but i can see what it does to you."

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Excerpt: Bestiakin

This rare practice of performing this bizarre art of transmutation is commonly found amongst gnolbolds, mainly ones who have settled for an agrarian lifestyle as opposed to the hunter-gather lifestyle that the less culturally advanced of their kind live.

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Hottest in Summer Challenge (Come On, participate!)

People in lower summer are very open and accepting, due to its blend of culture. between the two is summer sands beach, a wide birth open to the ocean to the east.

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Guardian [Poem]

The poem takes as its inspiration the statues of foxes seen around shrines of inari in japan, although the cultural references are not all strictly japanese. why do you stand in the rain, little fox? your whiskers are wet.

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Ecology of Lycanthropes 2: Origins

This sets the precedent that most lycanthrope cultures are matriarchal in honour of the first blood bearer, the huntress, and explains why they must eat hearts specifically.

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Deep Space - Chapter 7, Unfortunate

"i guess you guys do have your own cultures and stuff. your own history, and lives." [me] "our race may be a lot older than yours, but it's not as convoluted as yours.

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Boko

In short, he pushes the ideal of the conservation, cultural relativism, social integration and diversity to a ludicrous extreme. he worships vishnu, the preserver, but hanuman the creator and shiva the destroyer are demons in his eyes.

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The Angel War

I read through...his memories and met little resistance, learning things like human language and culture, which we always had to re-learn due partly to our attacks on them in the past disrupting their cultures.

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Writing Tips vol. 3

Showing or at least implying interaction between different cultures can lend your story a lot of depth and scope. just remember that, if the cultures are vastly different, the people aren't going to talk and think exactly the same.

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A Quiet Breakfast

Grace didn't see it the same way, but one person alone couldn't enact an entire culture change. in the meantime, however, she could focus on that shower sound. not alone, for the first time in so long.

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