The Lonely Galaxy Wiki - megathread

1-Year Anniversary

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

1-Year Anniversary So we're coming up on one year of this project. I thought I'd celebrate by posting my original overview of the setting that I posted on the worldbuilding subreddit. A lot has changed since then, and there's a ton of outdated lore. The taboo regarding eating in public was hard to develop, so I dropped it. The nature of the Bright Way and the purpose of the missionaries has been greatly expanded, as can be seen

2nd Anniversary

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

2nd Anniversary It's been 2 years since I brought my various worldbuilding ideas together into this weird little paracosm. I'm afraid I don't have anything really big to mark the occasion. I will say thank you all again for indulging in this grown man's silly make-believe world. I've stated elsewhere that this has primarily been a means of self therapy for me. My joy, anger, love, sadness, fear, and melancholy have all been poured into this project.

3D Paw Print

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

3D Paw Print [image] Here's a 3D print of the front left paw (male). I'm surprised the claw marks managed to show up at all. I'm still learning a lot about how all this works. meta

3D printed Female Forepaw and Wind Fruit

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

3D printed Female Forepaw and Wind Fruit [image] I got some white filament today and decided to test out multicolor printing. This is a female forepaw print, as well as a wind fruit a printed a few days ago. Note the obvious polygons on the wind fruit. I know now that

3D Printed Star and Gear

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

3D Printed Star and Gear [image] Here's my first self-designed 3D printed project, or at least the rudiments of one. It's the star and gear symbol. I took the SVG file used to make my avatar and imported it into Blender. I gave the shape some thickness and then exported the model as an STL file.

3D Steadtree Fruit

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-07T20:34:58+00:00

3D Steadtree Fruit [image] Here's a low-poly steadtree fruit. I'm probably going to keep improving on this one since it's already so close to how it looks in my head. I'm particularly surprised I was able to get the violet sheen on the skin. food plants

32x32 pixel Yih

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

32x32 pixel Yih [image] focus

700 Posts and Counting

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

700 Posts and Counting I'm impressed I've been able to keep this up for so long. I didn't even notice the 700th post at the time. Almost nobody IRL knows about this little project of mine. I feel ashamed to bring it up. I aggressively separate my online persona from my meatspace self, which is probably why I'm so averse to sharing the Lonely Galaxy outside of the internet.

Activities during the Summer Feast

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Activities during the Summer Feast A warm winter feast for those of us in the northern hemisphere, and a merry summer feast for those of us in the southern hemisphere. I think dancing and athletic events will be a big part of the summer feast. It fits with the theme of celebrating youth.

Addendum

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-17T13:40:49+00:00

Addendum Glenn wrote: 2024-11-11T14:41:44+00:00 " Indeed! An interesting and creative (if slightly disturbing) alternative form of parental feeding of their young." An addendum: Wormcows are regarded much like Terran cattle--placid, slow-moving herd animals that aren't too bright. Their sheer girth is both a blessing and a curse, as it attracts predators but also serves as their best means of defense. Wormcows rear up and slam back down on whatever is trying to nom on them, or try to roll…

AI-generated Image of Yinrih

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

AI-generated Image of Yinrih [image] I refuse to call it art, but AI-generated images can be a good source of inspiration sometimes. This is the closest I've come to getting an AI image generator to depict the yinrih. There are some obvious discrepancies beyond the usual AI horror show. The eyes aren't correct, they should be pitch black, and the tail is neither long enough nor is it prehensile.

Allied Worlds Currency

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Allied Worlds Currency The standard currency of the Allied worlds is known as which means the rather prosaic “alliance currency” or “alliance token”. Humans have a range of cutesy nicknames for it, including “doggo dollars” and

Alternative Perspectives on the Noosphere

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Alternative Perspectives on the Noosphere The Bright Way believes that only beings that possess souls can be conscious. While all living things have souls, only sophonts are given rational souls by the Uncreated Light and possess the fullness of consciousness. The activities of all sapient beings gives rise to a noosphere, and there are as many noospheres as there planets baring sapient life. The Great Commandment tells the yinrih to unite these hitherto isolated noospheres in order to hasten t…

Amnions

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Amnions [image] This is an amnion, or suspension capsule. This is how yinrih missionaries survive interstellar voyages going slower than light. Womb ships are only able to reach about 0.1c. Since Focus and Sol are about 25 light-years apart, it took the Dewfall

Amnion Rendered in Lego Bricks

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Amnion Rendered in Lego Bricks [image] So apparently there are CAD programs for building in Lego bricks. Since my drawing skills will inevitably be capped by my blindness, I figured I'd try a different medium. Here's another take on the amnion. It's pretty simple. There's a glass dome where the traveler is harnessed in, and a reservoir in the back that holds a supply of neurogel. The gel is constantly circulated and filtered to keep it clean. Since metabolism is halted while in suspension, the…

Another Ear Guard Design

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Another Ear Guard Design [image] This one holds the cloth above the ears and allows the ears to swivel. xenoergonomics

Another rough map of Damsback

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Another rough map of Damsback [image] I think I'm going to stop worrying so much about perfect landforms and just wing it until someone complains. Damsback has an Andean mountain range (damsbackbone?) to the east. The mountains are the source of the River, and it flows westward to the sea. I'm not sure how far north the landmass extends. The River is right on the equator. I'd like a tornado alley in the southern grasslands. There's an unobstructed path between the equator and the south pole, b…

Another silhouette

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Another silhouette [image] Here's a spacer. biology

Another Tail Gesture Ring Design

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Another Tail Gesture Ring Design [image] A slightly modified tail gesture ring design. This time done in Plasticity rather than Blender. Plasticity is more CAD-like, so it makes modeling tech a bit easier. xenoergonomics

Another take on the amnion

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Another take on the amnion

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: ////2024-12-07T02:15:57+00:00 What fun! Now it’s only a matter of time before you’re selling merch for us terraboos humans (jk of course, unless you really want to…).

I've said it before and I'll say it again. On the internet nobody knows you're a monkey fox.

anti-liturgies

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

anti-liturgies This is likely not canon, but I just thought about the Misotheists having “anti-liturgies”, which is 30-60 minutes of uninterrupted blasphemy scheduled at the same times as Claravian liturgies in order to try and cancel out their prayers.

An Atavist saying

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

An Atavist saying “Some yearn for a yesterday that never was. Others desire a tomorrow that will never come. The rest cling to today as though it will not pass.” An Atavist saying. religion

An Attempt at Depicting the Bachelor's Mantle

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

An Attempt at Depicting the Bachelor's Mantle [image] biology

An idea for Newhome

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

An idea for Newhome Remember way back when I said I based some of Focus's features on outdated ideas about our solar system? That's why Hearthside is tidally locked, like Mercury was once thought to be, and why Sweetwater is so wet, like Venus was once depicted in pulp sci-fi stories.

An idea for Yih's Ring

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

An idea for Yih's Ring Rings are ephemeral on a geologic time scale. One figure I've seen is that they exist for around 100 thousand years if not shepherded by moons as with Saturn. So what if the event that formed the ring happened within a few millennia of the kindling? There's no historical record of it and no cultural imprint as it happened prior to the evolution of writing and the dawn of sapience. This would contradict my earlier idea that the Bright Way would waste a bunch of time on rin…

An Illustrative Example of the Noosphere

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

An Illustrative Example of the Noosphere Earlier I mentioned that most branches of Neoshamanism regard the noosphere as a spiritual phenomenon rather than an abstract concept as envisioned in the Bright Way. Further, Neoshamanists believe that all consciousness emanates from the noosphere, and that consciousness can manifest to a greater or lesser degree in a physical system depending on that system's complexity. The brain of a sophont is a very complex physical system, so it serves as the per…

An Updated Map of Focus

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

An Updated Map of Focus [image] The word “Focus” may refer to the star itself as well as the system as a whole. “Sol” is used in the same way to refer to humanity's home star and star system. A star with a life-bearing planet is referred to in Claravian circles as a

Archeonets and Cyberarcheology

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Archeonets and Cyberarcheology Much like humanity, the yinrih's information age dawned around the same time they achieved spaceflight. Through the millennia their internetwork has grown in size and complexity as they settled throughout Focus, and by the time of First Contact they have amassed 95 thousand Earth years of digital information.

ARROW'D!

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

ARROW'D! I've mentioned before that yinrih are not very good at throwing things, and they certainly never invented the bow and arrow, with tail slings being the go-to primitive projectile weapon. That means the use of arrows as directional markers never developed. Yinrih also don't point with their paws, they point their muzzle in the desired direction.

ASCII art of a male forepaw print

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

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Atavists and Writing

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Atavists and Writing OK, so I've established that what appear to be uncontacted yinrih tribes are actually descendants of Atavists who drank Ted Kaczynski's cool-aid and went off to live primitive lives in the wilderness. The problem with this is that yinrih are

A Bit More on Tree Dwellers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-07T20:34:18+00:00

A Bit More on Tree Dwellers [image] Tree dwellers are capable of using simple tools. They will get at the meat of hard-shelled fruits by holding the fruit in their rear paws like a vise and cracking the shell with a rock. They've also been seen using sticks to swat at misbehaving pups.

A bit on teenagers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

A bit on teenagers

Khemehekis wrote: ////2024-12-24T21:12:05+00:00 Do any yinrih cultures have a concept of adolescence?

I brought it up in the Commonthroat thread a bit. (literally “sojourners”) are a close analog to teenagers. Yinrih are cut loose at around 53 Earth years of age, which is when the ovary is fully developed, but this phase can bleed through to their later puppy years as well. This phase can last for up to a century. This is th…

A Brief History of Commonthroat and Linguistic Overview of Focus

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

A Brief History of Commonthroat and Linguistic Overview of Focus Commonthroat, or one of its ancestors, was the principle language of the area around Newmans' Dale (The equatorial river basin where the yinrih first emerged) around the end of the Age of Decadence. As such, it was also the administrative language of the Bright Way.

A day at the market

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

A day at the market Here's a bit of lore since I'm feeling a tad better (at least about my testing issues, I always have some worry gnawing at my gut). ---------- Hearthside does not have stores as they exist in the US, where you have a cart and shelves acting as both storage and display for products. For groceries, there are two separate businesses that are usually colocated. A market selling fresh produce and meats, and a grocery store selling premade, processed, and frozen items. The marke…

A letter from a patriarch to a hearthkeeper

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

A letter from a patriarch to a hearthkeeper “My dame, you have written to me on several occasions, urging me to suppress these Neoshamanists, even with violence, on account of their heresy. Each time I have given you the same response, which I reiterate once again unchanged. I, a mere patriarch, am not permitted to judge in spiritual matters. Yet it is my duty as patriarch to ensure the security of my citizens, and these Neoshamanists, heretics though they may be, are yet my citizens.

A Monument to Our Sins

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

A Monument to Our Sins Deep in the jungles of Newman's Dale lies a massive slab of metal and concrete, with a few crumbling ruins dotted on and around it. These are the remains of the Bright Way's “corporate headquarters” during the Age of Decadence. It was originally a massive skyscraper extending upward to become a space elevator. The High Perch, the symbolic seat of the authority of the High Hearthkeeper, was also originally located here before being moved to The Eternal Hearth in the City o…

A Much Better Geopolitical Map of Focus

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

A Much Better Geopolitical Map of Focus [image] Here's a much nicer geopolitical map of Focus focus

A picture of Welkinstead

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

A picture of Welkinstead [image] Here's Welkinstead. The floating cities are clustered along two subtropical high pressure belts where the subsiding air helps keep the poisonous gases from upwelling into the breathable layer where the cities can be found.

A Rough Ideological Timeline

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

A Rough Ideological Timeline A rough ideological tree showing the relationships among the major belief systems of Focus. It's not scaled for time. [image] history

A Spacer Doing what Spacers Do

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

A Spacer Doing what Spacers Do [image] ...move and manipulate objects at the same time. Here's another attempt at depicting how the yinrih are supposed to look. The proportions aren't very good, but the rear paws are supposed to be able to rotate like that. Their wrists and ankles are like ball joints, which helps them brachiate through the trees like a gibbon.

A symbol for the Farspeakers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

A symbol for the Farspeakers [image] Here's a possible symbol for the Farspeakers. The gear motif is present and accounted-for. The inward-pointing arrows* represent introspection while the outward-pointing arrows represent communication. * recall that they're not really arrowheads, they're stylized depictions of a yinrih's head, since they use their muzzle to point.

A variation on the symbol for the knights of the sun

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

A variation on the symbol for the knights of the sun [image] Here's a different version of the logo for the knights of the sun. It's more obvious that the arch in the center is Yih's ring. religion

A Yinrih Playing Human Video Games

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

A Yinrih Playing Human Video Games [image] Apropos of nothing, here's how I think a yinrih would play human video games. Kinda makes me wish I had five prehensile extremities too... humans

Baby Steps toward a Map of Yih

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Baby Steps toward a Map of Yih [image] A very, very preliminary sketch of Yih. It doesn't really say anything I haven't made known already. Yih has an axial tilt of exactly 30 degrees, and a ring that casts a shadow on the subtropics and mid latitudes in the winter. Yih is slightly larger than Earth, but is a little less dense, giving at surface gravity of 0.88g.

Bachelor's Mantle

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Bachelor's Mantle Yet another possibly non-canon post. ---------- A Bachelor's Mantle is an anatomical display structure present in male tree-dwellers who have reached adulthood but have yet to lay an egg. It's a mane of long, flowing hair that starts on the top of the head just ahead of the ears and continues down to the middle of the back, also draping over the shoulders and ending at the chest, giving the appearance of a cape or mantle.

Backpack take 2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Backpack take 2 [image] I think I'll keep the other picture up just to show progress, but the legs and tail were really bugging me. I also want to redo the picture of the amnion. The harness is way to simple, as is the main body of the capsule. It's not literally a sphere, I just suck at drawing.

Better Illustration of Balanced Ternary Paths

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Better Illustration of Balanced Ternary Paths [image] As you may have guessed I've decided that these paths are used by the Mindseekers. It is unclear for what purpose. They may have used them as clever aesthetic touches, or they may have held some spiritual significance. Mindseekers would often hide such patterns in plain sight, in the brickwork on the side of a building, in the abstract pattern of a tapestry, and so on. It became popular to create such paths as hidden messages, even long aft…

Binomial Nomenclature

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Binomial Nomenclature human zoologists eventually have to tackle the taxonomy of life on Yih. The first thing to do is give the yinrih a scientific name. Tree dwellers are in the same genus as yinrih, so they share the first scientific name. For the genus, several names have been put forward.

Xenoergonomics: A Bottle of Nose Balm

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Xenoergonomics: A Bottle of Nose Balm [image] OK, let's wash that digital abomination out of our brains with an attempt at visual art by a human. This is a bottle of nose balm. It's fairly representative of pill bottles and other similarly sized containers. The only real curve ball compared to its Terran equivalent is the ring on the cap. The ring serves two main purposes.

Bright Way Epistemology

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Bright Way Epistemology [image] The Bright Way's approach to epistemology can be summed up as follows: 1. All animals' intelligence is limited. 2. We are animals. 3. Therefore, our intelligence is limited. An example often cited is how pet Forest Flyers are afraid of thunder. They'll cower in a corner trembling as a storm rolls through even though they're safe inside. No attempt by their owner to explain to them where the sounds come from, what lightning is, or why they shouldn't worry abo…

Bright Way Eschatology

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Bright Way Eschatology Wayfarers see the evolution of life as a teleological process, and only a small part of the evolution of the universe as a whole. They believe the universe is progressing to an ultimate point of perfect convergence. They also believe that it is their divinely mandated duty to actively help bring about this convergence by uniting the noospheres of all the other sapient races through First Contact.

Broad Strokes History between Sapience and First Contact

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Broad Strokes History between Sapience and First Contact The hundred millennia between the dawn of sapience and First Contact can be divided into three ages of roughly equal length. The first age, sometimes called the golden age of the Bright Way, is characterized by the expansion of both the Bright Way within yinrih society, and the expansion of the yinrih themselves, first throughout Yih, and then into the rest of Focus.

Butter Analog

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-07T20:28:25+00:00

Butter Analog The word /yip, short low strengthening grunt, short low weak growl/ refers to any number of edible plant products in the form of a cream or spreadable paste. The substance fills a role similar to cheese or butter, and the natural flavor can range from savory to sweet. Humans find the unmodified product satisfyingly flavorful, but yinrih use it mostly for its texture, as a base to add other flavors to, or as a binder.

but_what_do_the_missionaries_do_anyway

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

but_what_do_the_missionaries_do_anyway There are several different ideas about what it means to fulfill the Great Commandment. Everyone agrees that the yinrih have been chosen to find other intelligent species, but different groups within the Bright Way have their own ideas about what that looks like.

By the Palms that Nursed Me!

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

By the Palms that Nursed Me! [image] The palms of the forepaws, demonstrating sexual dimorphism. Male is on the left; female is on the right. Both males and females have digital pads (on the fingers and thumbs). Males have a single palmar pad, while females have several smaller palmar pads that surround a lactation patch.

Carrying the Tail

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Carrying the Tail [image] From left to right, top to bottom: The Dinosaur The Husky The Monkey The Chameleon How the tail is carried while walking might depend on culture and personal preference, or one style could be normal across the species. The “

Chunky Monkey Foxes

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Chunky Monkey Foxes Yinrih are arboreal animals. Their limbs are built to pull their weight against gravity and are naturally dense with musculature. This is a trait made obvious with healers since they have no fur. The surface-dwellers of Sweetwater tend to have more body fat than other yinrih, an adaptation to their marine environment that allows them to swim more easily. This makes them more prone to obesity, especially when living off-world.

Claravian Angelology

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Claravian Angelology The Bright Way is ambiguous regarding the existence of what humans would call angels. The current prevailing opinion is that they must exist in some form or another, since The Light itself is utterly unknowable and inapproachable, any interaction between The Light and its little ones must be made via a Metatron-like figure, not by The Light itself.

Climbing and leaping

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Climbing and leaping If endurance running and throwing things accurately are the quintessential human sports, perhaps climbing and leaping are the quintessential yinrih sports. biology

Clowns

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Clowns [image] (from a post on Lemmy criticizing what Mozilla is doing with Firefox) Now I'm thinking about yinrih clowns again. I said before they wouldn't wear makeup, but perhaps distinct perfumes. Doug from the Multiverse Inn is perhaps the closest to what I'm thinking of.

Coat Patterns

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Coat Patterns So here's what fur patterns have come up in the lore so far: - solid black (Stormlight) - solid red (Sunshine) - red with black ears and black socks (Tod) - assorted brown shades * fawn with black mask (Sunshine's original coat color before I decided to make her red)

colossi

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

colossi A colossus is a cynoidomorphic structure with a full-sized lighthouse on its back. The word for these structures in all major yinrih languages has gone on to mean giant or titan, and is used to indicate anything imposing or intimidating. The first Colossus was built at Moonlitter by the Knights of the Sun as a war memorial honoring the knights who joined the Pious Dissolutionists at the plea of Iris the Hearthsider. It's a fully working mech, much larger than normal, powered by the Sta…

Commonthroat's Original Autonym

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Commonthroat's Original Autonym Languages don't usually have names so on the nose as “Commonthroat”. Sure some official dialects have such names, like Putonghua for Mandarin, but those are introduced later. Commonthroat was originally spoken around the River on Yih, so

Connecting the Terran Internet to the Monkey Fox Ansible Network

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Connecting the Terran Internet to the Monkey Fox Ansible Network As a Farspeaker, Stormlight sees it as his duty to connect the human Internet with the monkey fox ansible network. In order to do this he has to figure out how the human Internet works. So he audits some net admin classes at the local college and attempts to get some networking certifications. He doesn't

Curiosity and Caution

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Curiosity and Caution I've made the Lonely Galaxy Mediawiki instance public. It can be found at . I don't know how long I can keep it up for, but there it is. ---------- Before I forget: “Curiosity and Caution” is an artistic motif, usually depicted in statuary, of a young yinrih bounding forward while an old yinrih holds the other back by the tail. It represents the ethos of a research monk, a sense of wonder and exploration tempered by prudence and caution. The …

Cynoidomorphic Human

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Cynoidomorphic Human [image] Maybe yinrih draw humans like this just like we draw animals with human characteristics. humans

Xenoergonomics: The Desk

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Xenoergonomics: The Desk [image] 1. Perch 2. Writing surface 3. Table 4. Drawers 5. Shelves This is the most natural “sitting” position for a yinrih. This piece of furniture, most similar to a human chair and desk, emulates a branch. The drawers and shelves are accessed by the tail and rear paws. The yinrih make greater use of tactile information than humans, as they use their rear paws and tail almost as much as their front paws to grasp objects. Items are made to be more tactily distin…

Dielectric Chrism

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Dielectric Chrism Hearthkeepers use dielectric chrism instead of blessed milk when performing rites of blessing on electrical equipment. Since yinrih milk is water-based and organic, it may interfere with sensitive electronic components. The chrism can take the form of a liquid that is sprinkled on an anointed object or a paste that is smeared.

Divine Adoption

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Divine Adoption After the dawn of the information age, as the Neoshamanist Mindseekers made strides in artificial intelligence, a debate emerged within the Bright Way. The Claravian magisterium regarded true conscious AI as impossible, but it acknowledged that something that perfectly mimicked a being with a rational soul was looking more and more likely.

Dogtors

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Dogtors

thethief3 wrote: ////2024-01-02T09:49:18+00:00 Probably as humans are discovered we see a push for the clergy to enter secular politics. And more men will feel as though they need to enter the clergy.

Yinrih society's attitude toward gender roles can be summed up as

Drinking Bowl

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Drinking Bowl [image] Here's a typical drinking bowl design. A flat bottom to allow it to rest on a tabletop, a flange around the rim and a smaller ridge around the middle to help the tail wrap around the bowl for easy carrying, and a broad bottom to allow the muzzle to comfortably reach all the way to the bottom.

Xenoergonomics: Drinking Vessels

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Xenoergonomics: Drinking Vessels [image] Humans have very nimble lips compared to yinrih. We are capable of making an airtight seal with our lips (for all practical purposes, anyway), but a yinrih's chops hang loose like those of a dog. Yinrih drink by putting the tongue in the liquid, forming a spoon shape with the tip of the tongue, scooping up a bit of liquid, and drawing the tongue back into the mouth.

Dumb Black-ears

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Dumb Black-ears Dying one's fur began as a practical way to adapt to different environments. Hearthsiders often dye their whole coat white, or just their ears, in order to reflect more sunlight. They also may adopt a black mask pattern on their muzzle and around their eyes to prevent glare. In colder climes or on planets far from Focus, thermally absorbent black coats, whether on the whole body or just the ears, are preferred for similar reasons.

Early Claravian sermon

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Early Claravian sermon The stream that quenches also drowns. The tree that gives shelter also crushes under falling bow. The fire that cooks the food also burns the flesh. Why revere these things? They care not a wit for you or I. Has even a great gross of offerings moved the River not to flood?

Early vulpithecine metallurgy

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Early vulpithecine metallurgy I went down a rabbit hole that started with a youtube video about smelting iron, which lead me ultimately to this Jewish ethical text. The relevant passage is thus (emphasis added):

Ten things were created on the eve of the Sabbath at twilight, and these are they: [1] the mouth of the earth, [2] the mouth of the well, [3] the mouth of the donkey, [4] the rainbow, [5] the manna, [6] the staff [of Moses], [7] the shamir, [8] the letters, [9] the …

Ear Guards on a Healer's Cloak

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Ear Guards on a Healer's Cloak [image] Here's a possible solution for how the ears would be protected with a healer's cloak. Draping cloth directly on the ears would be irritating, so a cardboard or plastic band is sown into the cloak with ear guards that are supported by the band, keeping the cloth from rubbing the ears. The only drawback is that it keeps the ears from swiveling, but that's also true of the ear guards on powered armor.

Ear Notch

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Ear Notch The term /long rising strong growl, chuff, huff, late high weakening whine, huff, short low weak growl/ literally means “ear notch”, and is used as a derogatory term for a firearms enthusiast in an analogous manner to the English term

Elephant Sanctuary

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Elephant Sanctuary I've been thinking that the bright way would take an interest in elephants given elephants' apparent reverence for their dead. They'd probably want to set up an elephant sanctuary similar to the tree dweller sanctuary in Newman's Dale.

Epistemological-Cosmological symmetry in the Bright Way

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Epistemological-Cosmological symmetry in the Bright Way There is a symmetry between cosmology and epistemology in the Bright Way. A species' noosphere is paired with the epistemological Realm of the Known, the physical universe with the Realm of the Knowable, and the Empyrean with the Realm of the Unknowable.

Equirectangular map of Yih

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Equirectangular map of Yih [image] After playing with Blender's texture painting tool on a sphere, I got what I think is a good map of Yih. There are two large continents, one at each pole, and an Australia-like landmass between them to the West. I may relocate the northern polar continent to be closer to the equator and have most of the northern hemisphere as ocean.

Erickson, TX

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Erickson, TX Time for some more mundane worldbuilding. Erickson is the small Texas town that the Dewfall lands in. Rather, a park outside of town. It's just large enough to justify the presence of a small college. The residents are very protective of their little guests, and it's largely thanks to them (and their many, many guns) that the missionaries remain unmolested.

Exorcists

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Exorcists Some sects of neoshamanists employ exorcists to expel evil spirits from places and objects. Some wayfarers also seek out the services of an exorcist, but as with everything surrounding demons, the Claravian magisterium frowns on discussing them at all, even negatively, as they see it as a Morton's fork of

Exovoviviparans and Forest Flyers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-07T20:28:01+00:00

Exovoviviparans and Forest Flyers Exovoviviparans are a clade of animals roughly as broad as Earth mammals. They're known for reproducing via womb nests, hence the name. They also bear fur, although they're not the only animals to do so. Yinrih and tree dwellers are members of this clade.

External history of the setting

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

External history of the setting Random factoid: very early on, when I was just starting to explore the Pious Aliens concept, long before I merged the idea with my main conworld to create the Lonely Galaxy, I was also interested in octopi, specifically the giant Pacific octopus. I often pictured the aliens as aquatic and octopoid. They had to wear environmental suits to go on land, which consisted of the alien's octopoid form haphazardly flopped on top of a vaguely humanoid robot body (the form …

Face Blindness

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Face Blindness Idea: Yinrih may have a hard time recognizing one another by sight, preferring odor as the principle means of identification. Humans, on the other hand, are great at picking up visual patterns and can recognize yinrih at a distance.

Farspeakers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Farspeakers In the days when the Bright Way controlled interplanetary communication, farspeakers were responsible for maintaining that infrastructure, much like hearthkeepers maintained the power grid. Unlike hearthkeepers, farspeakers were not descendants of the old shamans and thus were not considered clergy, meaning both males and females could become farspeakers.

farts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

farts Yinrih have microbes in their gut that aid in digesting food. This process produces gas as a byproduct. Monkey foxes have a similar taboo (and consequent humor) about farting as humans do. This humor is indulged in by both child and childish alike. In particular, pups (and pups at heart) play a game called rMPqg, which literally means the hem or fringe of a cloth. In this case, it refers to the hem of a curtain hung in a doorway. Upon farting, a pup must yell

Fasting

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Fasting In the Bright Way, fasting consists of abstaining from solid foods. Fasting and other forms of self denial are considered highly sophontic (virtuous), as only a sophont would willingly deny their instincts for no immediate survival benefit.

Fellwinds

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Fellwinds Tornadoes are called , from (wind) + (fell, evil). This term is the standard word referring to a tornado in Commonthroat. Yinrih synthesizing English often refer to tornadoes as fellwinds. The word comes from a particular branch of Misotheism. The misotheists, as mentioned earlier, believe that the ideas, beliefs, and emotions of sophonts manifest as entities with agency from the noosphere, with particularly potent emotions or widespread beliefs having more age…

Firefly

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Firefly Firefly was hatched on a dwarf planet in the outer belt in the waning centuries of the age of decadence. His sires and dams were active with the missionaries. Although none of them had been selected to go on a mission, they assisted in other ways like mission control and wayfinding (searching for potentially habitable planets to send future missions to.) It was their greatest hope that one of their pups would be selected to go on a mission someday.

First Contact Brainstorming

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

First Contact Brainstorming I don't think I've given much thought to how humanity handles First Contact, so here's some brainstorming: This is how it plays out for Bob and the other hams in the park with him the night of First Contact: -Bob attempts to make a contact through a recently launched amateur satellite (What hams call

Floor Icons

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Floor Icons After the War of Dissolution, it became popular among hardcore Partisans to place icons of Claravian saints on the floor at the entrance to their homes, so guests would have to trample the icon under paw in order to enter. It became so popular, in fact , that special floor mats were manufactured for this specific purpose. The images used on these floor mats were almost always pre-existing icons found on the ansible network rather than specially commissioned pieces.

Fly Like A Brick

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Fly Like A Brick Womb ships don't do atmospheric re-entry the same way as human spacecraft. They fully engage their reverse force projector array to bleed off all their kinetic energy until their ground speed is zero, then they drop like a stone into the atmosphere over the intended landing spot, using a parachute to slow their vertical speed.

Focus is a star, too

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Focus is a star, too From Newman's Dale, Yih's ring is only visible as a thin line stretching from east to west across the sky. As yinrih began following the Bright Way out into the southern grasslands, the ring appeared to widen, dominating the northern sky as the pilgrims approached the mid-latitudes. This celestial prodigy made Wayfarers even more curious about the world above them.

Food Caching in Presapient Yinrih

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Food Caching in Presapient Yinrih Presapient yinrih would cache food in communal larders shared by single families and sometimes entire shires depending on local culture. Communal food caching is very rare on Earth (only two species are known to do it according to Wikipedia).

Force Projector Brainstorming

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Force Projector Brainstorming Force projectors ground Newton's third law to its room without supper. They consist in a molecule-thin sheet of crystalline material that experiences a reactionless force normal to its surface when a voltage is applied across it. The higher the voltage, the stronger the force.

Forest Flyer Musings

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-07T20:36:00+00:00

Forest Flyer Musings I haven't really given much thought to what forest flyers actually look like. Considering they're likely the most common house pet among yinrih I think I ought to change that. I describe them as having many of the same cultural associations as cats, so subconsciously I've pictured them as cats, perhaps with a potagium for gliding.

Fortress Monastery

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Fortress Monastery [image] This is the transit of one of the Knights' orbital monasteries. The reason why they're called the Knights of the Sun is because many of these monasteries are inside the orbit of Hearthside very close to Focus. They're located where they are so as to better contemplate the life-giving icon of the Light that is the Hearth Star.

Fossil Fuels

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Fossil Fuels I had originally assumed that Yih would not have coal or oil deposits since I assumed that required very specific biological factors (absence of certain decomposers allowing organic matter to form fossil fuels). After a little wiki walk it seems that it's mostly a question of time, heat, and a lack of oxygen. Yih and Earth are about the same age, and since Yih's biosphere (present and past) is like Earth unless noted, I'll go ahead and give our space tree doggos some Texas tea.

FrathWiki Articles

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

FrathWiki Articles I have started organizing the Lonely Galaxy into articles that I'm posting on FrathWiki. I also have a separate self-hosted private instance of Mediawiki that I'm pulling those articles from to form a Lonely Galaxy wiki. I may or may not make the LG wiki public. For now it's just a backup.

Friendship is Magic!

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Friendship is Magic!

Arayaz wrote: ////2024-05-14T23:05:42+00:00 That's a wonderful insult ─ it looks like it's straight out of Calvin and Hobbes! It does seem too long to be a regular-use slur, though.

Front Paw Print (Female)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Front Paw Print (Female) [image] Here's a left front paw print (female). The writing claw is straight, so it doesn't leave a mark on the ground. I might have to redesign the male forepaw pads, as a single large pad would make it hard to flex the thumbs. biology

Front Paw Print (male)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Front Paw Print (male) [image] I think this is the new arrangement of palmar pads for male forepaws. On another note, after doing tons of research into apes and monkeys (by which I mean reading Wikipedia articles and watching bunches of YouTube videos) I realize that comparing yinrih to possums is redundant as the features of possums I was borrowing (prehensile tail, furless digits, and carrying young on the back) are already present in monkeys, hence why I've settled on

Garlic and Onions

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Garlic and Onions

Visions1 wrote: ////2025-12-18T16:50:46+00:00 Do yin have chemical weapons? Bioweapons? Do they eat onions and garlic? Most animals can't stand them because of their smell (for example, onions contain a chemical that's basically tear gas, and the smell of fried onions is a component in skunk spray). Do they hate them? Do they like them? Because they're strong and funky?

Getting Closer to a Mapping Yih

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Getting Closer to a Mapping Yih [image] I'm figuring out UV unwrapping in Blender. I think my next step is to draw a model with techtonic plates, then I can sketch landmasses over that. The only set feature is that the yinrih's cradle continent, which I am calling Damsback (dam's back) in English, is taller than it is long, straddles the equator, and has a rain forest biome in the middle with a grassy steppe to the south.

Giant Enemy Crab

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-07T20:27:36+00:00

Giant Enemy Crab Tales of giant sea monsters are ubiquitous throughout human culture. The same is true at Focus. Yih's nautical folklore survived the yinrih's leap to the stars and has thrived among the salty-pelted sailors that call the surface of Sweetwater home.

Golden Hour City

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Golden Hour City Golden Hour city is a small village located on the terminator of Hearthside where the sun is frozen near the horizon. The city is bathed in an everlasting golden glow. It's notable for being the location of the clinic where the donated human cadavers were studied, and where the first living humans were examined by yinrih healers. It's also one of the smallest cities at Focus to get a dedicated mass router, installed next door to the clinic, so that the cadavers could be transpo…

Greatmouth

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Greatmouth A space elevator on Sweetwater whose foundation is at the seabed. A giant coffer dam surrounds the base, exposing the surrounding seafloor to sunlight. The city that has grown inside the dam is possibly the (de facto) capital of the planet, or at least the capital of the wealthy benthic cities who benefit from the planet's membership in the Allied Worlds.

Handy Feet

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Handy Feet [image] The rear paws are just as prehensile as the front paws. There's no sexual dimorphism present here. Both the males and females have several smaller palmar pads on the rear paws, and females have no lactation patches here. The claws may contain iron, like the teeth of a rodent. In any case, they're very hard and very sharp, designed to dig into the hard wood of the steadtree.

Hearthkeeper's Canticles

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Hearthkeeper's Canticles Hearthkeeper's Canticles are short poetic prayers that double as mnemonics to aid in a cleric's engineering duties. Anything from scientific formulae, such as Ohm's Law, to procedural checklists, such as the method for safely shutting down a star hearth, are rendered as canticles. Memorizing these canticles is part of a hearthkeeper's seminary formation.

Hearthkeeper's Wrench

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Hearthkeeper's Wrench [image] I've mentioned elsewhere that a wrench is a symbol of the clerical office. Here's what such a wrench looks like. The rings on the handle are to allow it to be held in the tail. It's as much a practical tool as a badge of office.

Hearthsider Stereotypes

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Hearthsider Stereotypes Of the major planet-wide societies at Focus, Hearthside is the most polychronic, with a relaxed attitude toward scheduling and a plethora of religious holidays off from work, this gives outsiders the impression that Hearthsiders are lazy.

Hearth Licker

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Hearth Licker [image] Kissing the glass of the star hearth is a common pious practice among Wayfarers. For yinrih, “kissing” means gently touching the wet part of the nose to a surface and quickly exhaling. Star hearths in more devout corners of Focus are covered in nose prints. This custom gives rise to the common anti-Wayfarer slur

Hexapoda and tetrapoda

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-07T20:36:21+00:00

Hexapoda and tetrapoda One idea for the evolution of land animals: There are two clades of terrestrial vertebrates: the hexapoda and tetrapoda, distinguished by the number of legs. Most Yih fish have six lobe fins, suggesting that the hexapods derived from fish first. There are few or no four finned fish, suggesting that tetrapods evolved from the already land-dwelling hexapods.

How Borders Work

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

How Borders Work A polity claims a concentric ring around Focus. The ring is normally centered on a planetary orbit, but may differ in the case of non-planetary polities (the Spacer Confederacy and Partisan Territory). The polity has exclusive economic rights within this border, and is the only entity allowed to set up permanent or semi-permanent structures (orbital colonies, unmanned research stations, etc).

How is Babby Formed

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

How is Babby Formed A yinrih family consists of an equal number of male sires and female dams that can range in size from two (one pair) to twelve (six pairs). The number of sires and the number of dams must be equal. The collective group of sires and dams may be referred to in English as a

How Lodestar got his mech

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

How Lodestar got his mech I previously said that Lodestar used the pocket change accidentally left in his impedimenta to buy the raw materials to build his mech. However, since it's sacrilegious to bring money on a missionary journey, Lodestar probably wouldn't be the one to take advantage of it. Perhaps Ron is a bit of a numismatist, and Lodestar gives the pawful of alliance tokens and SC mineral notes to him as a gift, not realizing that the money is worth millions of times what it would be b…

How Welkinstead was terraformed

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

How Welkinstead was terraformed Welkinstead was terraformed by accident. It turns out that oxygen is a byproduct of the gas refining process, meaning the more the platforms polluted, the more breathable the air became. Eventually a layer of air at normal temperature and pressure formed and is continuously maintained by the same cities the Welkinsteaders live in.

HUD Specs and Earpiece

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

HUD Specs and Earpiece [image] Here's some HUD specs and an earpiece for audio output. The HUD specs use a minimal, mostly text-based, UI. This is due to the very low data rate required by FTL communication. All the microelectronics sit in the muzzle bridge.

HUD Specs Render

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

HUD Specs Render [image] Here's a render of a pair of HUD specs. They work similar to Google glass. They're designed to sit about half way down the muzzle. The angle of the lenses can be adjusted to meet the wearer's needs, and there are brightness and contrast dials on the side. As mentioned in the post about tail rings, HUD specs are intended for both portable and stationary use.

Human religious communities on Hearthside

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Human religious communities on Hearthside The first permanent human religious institution to be established at Focus was a Catholic mission in the heart of the City of Eternal Noon, established by an order of Dominicans founded for the purpose of preaching to the yinrih. It would eventually grow to become a cathedral. The mission was originally going to be named in honor of St. Lucy, but when the High Hearthkeeper took Lucy as her human-pronounceable name, the mission's name was changed to St. …

Human wayfarers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Human wayfarers

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: ////2025-09-18T20:49:59+00:00 Have any humans ever converted to or co-opted one of the yinrih religions?

Humans raised by Claravian fostering orders like Sherman from the Multiverse Inn are raised as Wayfarers. As for adult converts, there exist two theological stances on the matter within the Bright Way. The Dativists believe in preaching the Bright Way to the species they encounter among the stars. Dativist mi…

Icon of Sin

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Icon of Sin An icon of sin is an artistic motif meant to serve as visual aid to examining one's conscience. It takes the form of a statue or painting of a yinrih holding an object in each paw and with a fifth object wrapped in the tail. What the objects are can very from region to region, but here are a few common ones along with what they symbolize:

Idea for the development of currency

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Idea for the development of currency very rough draft of how money emerges. So let's say after Wayfarers settle the southern grasslands they start agriculture in earnest. Yinrih already exhibit communal food caching behavior, which blossomed readily into simple planting and harvesting in the ample arable land south of the jungle.

If I Woke up as a Yinrih

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

If I Woke up as a Yinrih I was asked what I'd think if I turned into a yinrih. Here are my thoughts: Pros: + Extra thumbs. I could open jars with one hand (paw) because I could use a finger and my inner thumb to twist the lid, and the rest of my fingers and outer thumb to hold the jar.

Immortal

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Immortal

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: ////2025-04-19T14:38:11+00:00 And now I’m 4th [:P]

I reran the stats just for you [:)] Topic: The Lonely Galaxy Megathread (comments encouraged) By: lurker Stats generated on: Saturday April 19 2025 15:04 Time Stats (UTC) Topic Started: Wednesday November 08 2023 12:11

Improved yinrih head sprite

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Improved yinrih head sprite [image] Now the HUD specs are shiny! biology

I'm a Person and I Have Personal Space!

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

I'm a Person and I Have Personal Space! Much to some humans' dismay, yinrih do not appreciate being petted or scratched. They have a strong sense of personal space. The title phrase is seen on public service announcements reminding humans that, while yinrih may look like dogs, you shouldn't treat them like dogs.

Indigenous Yinrih etc.

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Indigenous Yinrih etc. Here's another brainstorming post. ---------- Unlike humanity, the yinrih don't have a concept of native or indigenous peoples. This is especially true on worlds other than Yih which were terraformed from lifeless rocks and populated by yinrih from scratch. There are a lot of groups that appear to be uncontacted tribes, especially on Sweetwater's many islands and floating vegetation rafts, but they all started out as bands of Atavists, Primitive Wayfarers, Neoshamanists…

Interplanetary Ferries

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Interplanetary Ferries The interplanetary ferry system is how yinrih got around Focus before the invention of the mass router, and it's still how bulk cargo is transported afterward. It was formerly run by the Bright Way before the War of dissolution, but now operates as a series of independent but interconnected spaceports and spacelines similar to how the aviation industry works on Earth.

I Choose You... For Dinner!

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

I Choose You... For Dinner! There is an entire clade of small creatures filling rodent-like niches that have evolved the ability to store an electric charge in capacitor-like organs below their eyes. They can discharge these organs into any would-be predator attempting to eat them. These critters are called `sdFrdFg`, which (very loosely) translates to

I Find Your Lack of Fur Disturbing

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

I Find Your Lack of Fur Disturbing On some parts of Hearthside, it's illegal to deliberately shed one's fur as it's considered impersonating a healer. This becomes a problem when a fad for emulating human hairlessness arises after First Contact, and a black market develops for healer's balding drugs.

I Like Trains

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

I Like Trains While the Bright Way held a monopoly on interplanetary travel during the age of decadence, terrestrial transport and logistics lay outside their control. Personal vehicles are much rarer in yinrih society compared to my terminally car-dependent hometown

I squished it, and skewed it, and turned it all around!

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

I squished it, and skewed it, and turned it all around! [image] I tweaked the Star and Gear a bit. It has a different color palette. The star is now gold instead of pure yellow, and there's an arch representing the Claravian halo. The normal star and gear sans arch is still the traditional holy symbol for the Bright Way, but I like the idea that icons would be framed like this.

Just a Yinrih Face I Guess

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Just a Yinrih Face I Guess [image] biology

Ladder Wells

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Ladder Wells [image] Going up, analog style. Since yinrih are arboreal, climbing is second nature to them. While stairs may exist, for example, separating the nave and sanctuary of a lighthouse, ladders are the preferred way to ascend when elevators aren't available.

Latin Names for Yih

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Latin Names for Yih Since the yinrih's star has been given a Latin name (Focus), here are a few candidates for a Latin name for Yih. Yih /jIh/ or /jI/ (like “yip” without the p) comes from the Commonthorat word /yip, short high strong whine, huff, short low weak growl/. The word refers to earth or soil, but also to the planet Yih itself, meaning is very close semantically to English Earth and Latin Terra.

Leaseminds and Fabricators

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Leaseminds and Fabricators Fabricators are what you get when you take a really fancy 3D printer and stick an AI art program inside. Yinrih have a form of machine learning algorithm known in Commonthroat as [yip, early falling weakening whine, huff short low strengthening whine, short low weak growl], or

Lighthouse boundaries

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Lighthouse boundaries Lighthouses have geographical boundaries. During the golden age and the age of decadence, the moots within a particular lighthouse's boundary were powered by that lighthouse, and paid tithes to it in turn. Wayfarers were expected to attend liturgies at their local lighthouse rather than 'shop around' for one they preferred.

Light Sculpture

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Light Sculpture Hearthside is a tidally locked world, meaning the sun is frozen in the same place in the sky, with its elevation determined by latitude. This lack of movement makes it easier to incorporate sunlight into art and architecture. Hearthside is famous for light sculpture, which uses reflected, refracted, filtered, or diffracted sunlight in interesting ways.

Liquid Breathing

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Liquid Breathing I've already established that neurogel acts as a ventilation medium, and the widespread use of recreational suspension implies that the general public is comfortable with the concept of liquid breathing. So instead of scuba gear, yinrih divers fill their lungs with a fluid similar to but distinct from neurogel, which allows them to dive extremely deep and ascend back up without worrying about decompression sickness.

Liturgies and Timekeeping

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Liturgies and Timekeeping The three major daily liturgies at sunrise, noon, and sunset may have been inherited from Shamanism. Between these major liturgies are shorter (likely private) prayers conducted at specific times.The names of these rituals have lent themselves to the names of Yih's equivalent to daytime hours.

Lodestar in his mech

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Lodestar in his mech [image] Here's the final update to my drawing of Lodestar in the cockpit of his mech. To the previous image is added a bank of tail-actuated switches at the base of his seat. people

Looking at the Yinrih's population growth

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Looking at the Yinrih's population growth Yinrih live on average around 724 Terran years and mature at around 53. Since they're semelparous, once they lay their egg they're out of the running, so the cohort size is only dependent on the size of the previous cohort.

Lucy

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Lucy Lucy is the human-pronounceable name of the high hearthkeeper in office at the time of the Dewfall's arrival on Earth. She is the successor to the High Hearthkeeper who tried to once again put a stop to interstellar mission work that caused Pascal to lapse out of scandal and Iris to go in with the traditionalists among the missionaries.

Ludd Laws

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Ludd Laws Despite bearing a Terran name, Ludd Laws are laws put in place on Hearthside, the Allied Worlds, and other yinrih governments to prevent the export of monkey fox technology to Earth. They are so named because they were the brainchild of Dr. Staples and other academics at Erickson College who were the first humans to interact with governments at Focus, first with Wayfarers' Haven, then, via the missionaries, with the High Hearthkeeper on Hearthside.

Making Mistakes

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Making Mistakes Many offices in the Bright Way have a master-apprentice dynamic. Hearthkeepers have acolytes, Knights of the Sun have squires, Farspeaker anchorites have apprentices. All of these have a similar tradition when showing a newbie the ropes. While demonstrating a routine task, the master will deliberately make a small but visible mistake. A senior squire may strip a screw head, a hearthkeeper may replace a fuse with one with a lower current rating causing it to blow, an anchorite m…

Making the Galaxy Less Lonely

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Making the Galaxy Less Lonely Before mass routers were perfected, interstellar travel was strictly the domain of missionary Wayfarers seeking other intelligent species. The logistics of setting up a colony on a barren world outside of Focus were just too costly, both in economic and personal terms.

Mech

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Mech [image] Here's a typical mech used by the Knights of the Sun. science_and_tech

Mech Cockpit

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Mech Cockpit [image] Here's a mech cockpit. The forward seat is for the pilot, who drives the mech and handles main weapons. The rear seat is for the squire, who maintains the mech's systems and sometimes handles secondary weapons. The paw keyers may have gyroscopes and accelerometers to allow for a degree of motion control, although not to the extent afforded by paw gauntlets, which aren't used because there's a lot more going on with a full-sized mech compared to a micro mech.

Medi-mechs

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Medi-mechs Here's a possible resolution to two mutually exclusive taboos: 1. Males may not work in medicine. 2. Females may not be in the military. So what answer is there for military medics? The same answer I seem to have for pretty much everything: Mechs!

MFSK: Monkey Fox Shift Keying

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

MFSK: Monkey Fox Shift Keying Because yinrih language relies very heavily on subtle chances in volume, analog radio telephony--voice communication--proved much more difficult for monkey foxes than it did for humans. When radio signals bounce off the ionosphere, they can experience fading, which sounds like fluctuations in volume to the receiver.

Micro Mechs

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Micro Mechs Micro mechs are remotely operated robots used in medical procedures. They range in size from smaller than a blood cell to the size of a grain of rice or a small pill. They're designed to enter the patient's body and aid in surgeries that would otherwise require invasive incisions. They're most widely used for endoscopy and removal of small tumors, calculi, and foreign bodies.

Mind Candy

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Mind Candy Humans use anesthetic to make the blindingly painful and mentally scarring experience of having your eyes sliced open, viscera exposed, or limbs hacked off more tolerable. This is accomplished by inducing unconsciousness in the patient.

Minnows

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Minnows Minnows* are a class of mass-produced submarine used on Sweetwater. They're more of a sub “chassis” or rather outer and inner hull design with a small set of standardized components with an interior that can be customized by downstream manufacturers. Discarded minnows are a frequent site floating above the larger benthic cities. Some of the more plutocratic cities are so scandalously prodigal that they'll think nothing of abandoning them to the surface at the slightest inconvenience. Th…

Minor update to Hearthside's political system

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Minor update to Hearthside's political system Minor update to Hearthside’s political system: the werenoot is the only house that can propose legislation, but all legislation must be approved by the wifemoot. Further, the two houses aren’t considered higher or lower, just as the US house and senate aren’t generally considered as such (at least I never do).

Miscellaneous Art

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Miscellaneous Art [image] Not much justification for this one. I'm just playing around with InkScape. meta

Missionary in an Amnion

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Missionary in an Amnion [image] Much better than my first attempt. meta

Mitigating solar wind

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Mitigating solar wind [image] I read an article that proposes deploying a really, really strong magnet at the first Lagrange point, between a planet and its star, in order to shield the planet from solar wind. It occurred to me that you could create a mini sun with a magnetic field and provide naturalistic daylight as well as protection from solar wind.

Monkey Fox Linemen

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Monkey Fox Linemen Random factoid: As you would expect from an arboreal species, monkey foxes make excellent linemen, well, linewomen. The lowly task of maintaining utility poles and transmission lines is usually the domain of acolytes and seminarians, but some ordained hearthkeepers make a point of continuing this work after attaining the clerical state in order to keep themselves humble.

Moonlitter Symbol

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Moonlitter Symbol [image] Here's a symbol for Moonlitter, a large circle with six smaller circles orbiting around it, symbolizing the planet Moonlitter itself and its many many moons and outlying dwarf planets. The planet itself isn't very economically important other than being the big lump of mass that keeps all the moons together. There are a few sky cities in the planet's atmosphere, but it doesn't have the exploitable gasses that Welkinstead has.

Moots and Inheritance

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Moots and Inheritance A moot is a legal entity within yinrih society. Imagine all the non-romantic functions of a spouse--sharing finances, providing emotional support, care when sick, etc. Legally, childermoots are a special kind of moot, and the vast majority of moots are simply childermoots whose pups have grown and whose members have chosen to stay together as empty nesters. Moots can persist across generations, with younger members joining to fill the ranks left by those who have died or l…

More 3D Printing Nonsense

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More 3D Printing Nonsense More 3D printing nonsense. Here's an improved star and gear... coaster? IDK it's way to big to serve as a keychain. The old version is on the left and the new one is on the right. I used a different coloring method and larger layers to make it print faster.

More Details on Funeral Practices

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More Details on Funeral Practices The practice of defleshing the body and putting the bones on display is common across yinrih cultures. Besides lighthouses, other institutions of societal importance such as schools, libraries, and government buildings are also common places where bones are displayed. The use of non-religoius buildings for this purpose began during the Age of Decadence when hearthkeepers charged exorbitant funeral fees to have one's bones hung in the lighthouse.

More external inspirations

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More external inspirations I have a mild fear of losing consciousness. It's mostly related to anesthesia. I often have nightmares of being anesthetized in preparation for surgery. The second part of Beating the Heat originally had Sarah awake but unable to move or speak as Sunshine attempted some

More Lego: Retribution Field Generator

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More Lego: Retribution Field Generator [image] Here's another take on the retribution field generator. Did I mention I love neon translucent plastic? science_and_tech

More Mech Musings

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More Mech Musings The more I think about it, the more the idea of knighthood being linked to mechs in the same way it's associated with horses in European culture makes sense. I've also decided that mechs as a concept evolved out of powered armor, with armor getting bigger and bulkier slowly over time until it wasn't a person wearing a suit but a pilot driving a machine.

More messing with Universe Sandbox

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More messing with Universe Sandbox More messing with universe sandbox. I put a copy of Earth in place of Yih and messed with the density and radius to match Yih. I was previously trying to do it from scratch. This is much easier since Yih is “like Earth unless nnoted

More on Bonekeepers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More on Bonekeepers `sbrPrFbrg` (bonekeepers) are volunteers who maintain the bones lining the inner and outer walls of a lighthouse. They are not considered clergy, so the position is open to both men and women, though the position is associated with older men. They also serve as chaplains for the dying, especially those who would otherwise die alone. They learn as much as they can about the lives of the people they help and act as living obituaries, relating the deeds of the otherwise forgott…

More on Ferries

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More on Ferries [image] Here's a possible concept of what interplanetary ferries look like: a ring of engines surrounding a passenger cabin in the middle. The engines consist of two main force projectors. One is active during the first half of the journey, accelerating the craft forward at a constant 1 g. Halfway through, it switches to the forward force projector, decelerating at a constant 1 g. There is a ring of smaller force projectors around the engine for lateral movement, and each engi…

More on Firefly

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More on Firefly So I've decided that Firefly is going to be more literally lich-like. Instead of the Eternal Womb being located in a lavish throne room, it's squirreled away somewhere deep within the cavernous capital complex, which occupies the entire surface, and possibly interior, of a dwarf planet. It's true location may have even been forgotten over the millennia, or may only be known to an inner circle that perpetuates the myth that the Eternal Womb's location is lost to dissuade people f…

More on Gender Roles

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More on Gender Roles Pre-theophany gender roles were simple. Men had worldly authority and women had spiritual authority. In the Bright Way this developed into a spectrum, with “women only” on one extreme and “men only” on the other. Strictly speaking at the time of First Contact the only occupations that are absolutely gender-locked are hearthkeeper (female) and soldier/law enforcement (male). Historically politicians also fell into the

More on Hissing

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More on Hissing Hisses have some paralinguistic functions similar to human sibilants. They can be used to silence someone. Some cultures use hisses as an attention-getter, but the Commonthroat-speaking world uses a yip for that instead. A soft trilled hiss is used to catch the attention of small animals like forest flyers, similar to using /pspspspsps/ to catch the attention of cats. It's thought to mimic the dry stridulating sounds made by the insects they eat.

More on Incubators and Prenatal care

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More on Incubators and Prenatal care A womb nest incubator consists of an inner capsule into which the male and female eggs are placed. The capsule is transparent to allow visual inspection of the nest's exterior. The capsule sits atop a suspension system to cushion the womb nest against sudden movements. The capsule and suspension are encased in a ruggedized outer chassis that also contains a number of other components.

More on Mechs and the Knights of the Sun

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More on Mechs and the Knights of the Sun The martial aspects of knighthood are largely downplayed outside of Hearthside, but some, such as Lodestar, undertake mech pilot training as a way to maintain tradition, and besides, who doesn't want to stomp around in a big metal robot?

More on Micro Mechs

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More on Micro Mechs [image] Here's a healer's micro mech. The device above the mech is a biopsy capsule. They're stored on the mech's back in those pods, and expand outward into a ring. Starched over the ring is an elastic polymer that engulfs the mass or tumor or polyp or whatever the healer needs to extract, and can re-attach to the back once collected. The mech's muzzle has whiskers that translate tactile information to a helmet worn by the healer, and there are also olfactory relays on th…

More on Moots

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More on Moots Moots fill the same social niche as the nuclear family. Childermoots are a special kind of moot, but moots can be formed without the intent to raise a litter. Biological factors limit childermoots to twelve members divided evenly between the sexes, but moots generally can have more members (though at least two people are required to form a moot), and moots don't need to have a particular gender ratio.

More on primitive society, the Kindling, and language

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More on primitive society, the Kindling, and language Just some brainstorming on how vulpithecin social structure works and how it handles conflict. Just as a reminder, The childermoot is the basic reproductive unit of society. It consists of up to twelve sires and dams. The resulting offspring are called a

More on tactile writing

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More on tactile writing Sighted yinrih may use long-form tactile writing in a few circumstances where a text must be recited while the eyes are focused elsewhere. This may be done where humans would use cue cards or teleprompters, and in worship aids to recite prayers or hymns while the eyes are focused on the star hearth.

More on Terraforming

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More on Terraforming The processes used in terraforming lifeless planets were pioneered not by the Bright Way, but by the Lifebringers, a sect of Neoshamanists. Whereas the Bright Way sought sapient life dwelling among the stars, the Lifebringers attempted to recreate sapient life anew through artificial selection. They never achieved their goal, but did contribute tremendously to the fields of biology, ecology, medicine, and planetology along the way.

More on the early Bright Way

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More on the Great Commandment

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More on the Knights of the Sun

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More on the Knights of the Sun [image] Here's a symbol for the Knights of the Sun. It plays on the Claravian Star and Gear. The spikes represent both sun rays and a spiked tail weapon, which as stated in the Commonthroat thread, has similar symbolic value to yinrih as swords do for humans.

More on the seasonal feasts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More on the seasonal feasts The association of the seasonal feasts with life stages may be a Hearthsider practice that spread system-wide after the war of dissolution. Hearthside itself may reckon the feasts based on perihelion and aphelion (and the midpoints between), as I don't think a tidally locked planet has seasons

More on torpor

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More on torpor I'm pretty sure yinrih get tired just like humans do, after mental stress or physical exertion. They may or may not go into torpor after such events. I've already established (via Doug from the Multiverse inn) that semi-spontaneous torpor is a possible reaction to strong emotion or overstimulation, either positive or negative.

More ring stuff

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More ring stuff OK, let's assume Yih's roche limit is 1.42 Yih radii (from the center of Yih). This represents the outer radius of the ring. Let's further say that the inner radius of the ring is 1.21 Yih radii (again measured from the center of Yih), making it half way between Yih's surface and the roche limit. This gives us a width of 0.212 radii or about 851 miles for the width of the ring and another 851 miles between the surface and the inner edge of the ring.

More story ideas

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More story ideas I've mentioned the idea of a previous missionary team landing in North America prior to the arrival of humans before. Here's another spin on this idea: Yinrih arrive in the New World during the ice age, but for whatever reason humans never migrate across the Baring land bridge, leaving monkey foxes as the only sophonts in the western hemisphere until the arrival of Europeans during the age of exploration. The missionaries decide to set up a colony. More womb ships arrive, child…

More Subfactions of the Atavists

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More Subfactions of the Atavists Radical Atavists (the ones who reject sapience) are further divided into two factions: the Atheists and the Misotheists. The Atheists are straightforward: sentience is a random fluke of the blind purposeless process of evolution, one which they find undesirable and wish to correct.

More thoughts on Terraforming

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More thoughts on Terraforming Before i forget, terraforming may involve building artificial rings to moderate insolation on inner planets or even provide artificial light on far out dwarf lanets. These rings would also serve as spaceports and may be connected to the surface by a space elevator.

More Thoughts on the Calendar

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More Thoughts on the Calendar The yinrih's torpor cycle isn't synced with Yih's day-night cycle, so it's likely there are no timezones on Yih. Calendar days will likely start at solar noon over a particular meridian, likely Newman's Dale. There will likely be time divisions lower than a day that are named rather than numbered, and the names reflect an ancient Claravian cycle of prayers prayed at specific times. These times will still be numbered for purposes of collation in the same way months …

More Yih Ring Attempts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

More Yih Ring Attempts I think I'm going to go with my “consistency over realism” strategy on this one. I'd like the shadow to fall neatly inside the mid latitudes during winter, regardless of whether that's possible or not. The Earth texture is just a placeholder.

Mule Punch

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Mule Punch The great thing about having hands for feet is that you can punch someone and kick them at the same time. [image] No deep lore here. Yinrih can mule kick, or is it mule punch? biology

Myosteol

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Myosteol Myosteol is the human name for a chemical added to the potable water of orbital colonies that negates the bone and muscle atrophy that spacers would otherwise experience. It's toxic to humans. Humans can add tablets to drinking water to neutralize it. Human-friendly colonies like Wayfarers' Haven also make human-potable water available.

My Muse

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

My Muse This fellow currently cowering in fear of the scary noises outside is my guide dog. He is the inspiration for Commonthroat and to a lesser extent the yinrih as a whole. I posted a spliced-together sample of his sleep vocalizations, the ones that inspired the sounds of Commonthroat, over in that thread some time ago.

Narrativism

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Narrativism Narrativism is a philosophy that states that the truth claims of a conceptual framework, belief system, or religion are not so much assertions about the nature of reality but stories intended to produce certain desired results, and whether those stories are true is irrelevant as long as they achieve the desired outcome.

Natural Philosophy

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Natural Philosophy Yinrih don't separate the concepts of science and philosophy. They see science as depending on philosophy as it rests on what are ultimately axiomatic assertions, above all that the senses accurately reflect reality. For them this is even more of a leap of faith given that they can fake sensory input while in suspension to a degree that would make René Descartes shudder.

Negative and Lateral Numbers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Negative and Lateral Numbers Here are the negative and lateral (imaginary) number signs. A negative sign is an upper half circle placed before the number. A lateral sign is a lower half circle placed before the number. A full circle indicates a negative lateral number.

Neoshamanism's contributions to vulpithecine science

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Neoshamanism's contributions to vulpithecine science It's possible Neoshamanists monopolized healthcare in the same way that the Bright Way monopolized other industries. One of the criticisms leveled at the Bright Way during the Shakeoff may have been that research monks were so preoccupied with what was above, ignoring the earth under their paws.

Neoshamanist Medicine

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Neoshamanist Medicine Certain groups of the Agentivist branch of Neoshamanism have peculiar medicinal practices. Each species of plant or animal is believed to have a shared pool of mana specific to that species. The smaller the total population of that species, the more mana each individual has. Consuming specimens or products made from them will grant the consumer its mana. This practice is most prevalent on Yih, where trendy diets based on this belief have seeped into the secular population.

Not quite a story

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Not quite a story I sometimes post on a worlduilding community on Lemmy. It's far less active than the CBB, but I tried starting a free form roleplay like the Multiverse Inn to drum up activity. The thread never went anywhere, but this, posted below the OP explaining the concept, was my attempt to get it started. I've thought about tying up this story, but I already have a bunch of unfinished stories. Maybe I'll introduce him to the Multiverse Inn proper.

Novel power delivery method

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Novel power delivery method idea: rather than using electric current to transport power, the Bright Way uses thick optical fibers and lasers. Imagine shining an extremely high-powered laser down a fiberoptic cable and having a really efficient solar cell on the other side to collect the energy. Using light like this would be very on-brand for the Bright Way.

No Context for this one

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

No Context for this one [image] I was just playing around with the shape builder tool in InkScape. meta

No One Expects the Reverse Inquisition!

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

No One Expects the Reverse Inquisition! On Newhome during the centuries leading up to the war of dissolution, a movement adjacent to the pious dissolutionists arose whose aim was to hold corrupt clergy accountable. Its original name, if it ever had one, has been lost to history, but humans studying yinrih history often refer to it as

Noöspherics

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Noöspherics Noospherics refers to the study of the noosphere. It takes different forms depending on one's view of what the noosphere is. It's most prominent. in the nonagentivist branch of Neoshamanism, where it means attempting to map the noosphere by creating a single universal semantic web of ideas, and especially trying to predict the contents of perceived gaps in the web.

Oaths in the Knights of the Sun

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Oaths in the Knights of the Sun In the past, when the Knights of the Sun acted as a private security force for the Bright Way, a knight would take an oath of fialty, swearing obedience to his chapter master, and swearing to protect the clergy and the infrastructure they maintained. While not common in the beginning, chivalric romances often depicted knights errant swearing similar oaths to protect any number of people or groups from harm or injustice in addition to, or instead of, the clergy. O…

Of All Things The Light is the Measure

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Of All Things The Light is the Measure G rnL rDB-0 rLPq-p rNlr-0 hgq rLPq-p rNlrGH-p rNlrGH-p must not say-AUTH light-3D good-AUTH for light-3D goodness-3D goodness-3D Do not say "The Light is good", for The Light is goodness itself G rnL rDB-0 rLPq-p qCDr-0 hgq rLPq-p qCDrGH-p qCDrGH-p must not say-AUTH light-3D just-AUTH for light-3D justice-3D justice-3D Do not say "The Light is just", for The Light is justice itself. G rnL rDB-0 rLPq-p snp hgq r…

One Man's Trash...

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

One Man's Trash... Yet another possibly non-canon idea: Waste reclamation is a big deal on Hearthside since most of the planet is desert. A polymer can be extracted from yinrih excreta that can in tern be made into a durable plastic. Hearthsider currency is made of this plastic.

On Grooming

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

On Grooming As yinrih do not sweat, bathing is less frequent compared to humans. Yinrih from most cultures bathe weekly (about every 12 Terran days), usually before or after torpor. A comprehensive yinrih shower may take upward of an hour from start to finish, as a yinrih's entire coat of fur requires the same level of care as a human's scalp, including shampoo, conditioner, and lots and lots of drying and brushing.

On Sweetwater's raft islands

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

On Sweetwater's raft islands

Visions1 wrote: ////2025-07-29T12:37:27+00:00 How large is a typical island? What typically lives on it?

The average size is about 18-25 square miles. The substrate is firm enough to permit tree growth, and it may be that the

On the Internet Nobody Knows You're a Monkey Fox

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

On the Internet Nobody Knows You're a Monkey Fox During the first year after first contact the missionaries interact with humans online a lot because it allows them to be on equal footing rather than having to slog through the “holy crap you're one of those aliens

On The Light and Interspecies Ecumenism

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

On The Light and Interspecies Ecumenism The Light is the most common title given to the being worshiped by the Bright Way. It is a non-contingent incorporeal entity possessing a will and intellect that exists independent of the universe, outside of spacetime, and is said to have brought it into being.

On the Office of High Hearthkeeper

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

On the Office of High Hearthkeeper Not set in stone, but the office of High Hearthkeeper will likely be term-limited, with the new High Hearthkeeper chosen by lot from a pool of potential successors. One thing that is set in stone is that the office has been dominated by Hearthsiders for a very long time, possibly since the War of Dissolution.

On the Southern Grasslands

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

On the Southern Grasslands “The Bright Way” originally referred to the migration of the yinrih out of the jungle and into the southern grasslands. There were pre-theophany shires living on the southern border of the jungle, and they had the clearest view of the Theophany. Word spread north through the interstitial teenagers that the sky opened up to the south, and so yinrih began to migrate out of the jungle, with the term

On the Womb Nest and Kit Development

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

On the Womb Nest and Kit Development Oviposition in yinrih is a voluntary process. In tree dwellers and presapient yinrih it's triggered by geophagy (eating soil) which sets of a cascade of metabolic processes that results in egg formation. In modern yinrih, eating dirt is replaced by clean sanitary over the counter pills.

On yeaning and nursing

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

On yeaning and nursing Yeaning is initiated when the womb-nest’s heart stops pumping. This isn't immediately sensed by the kits as their own hearts pick up some of the slack, but the increased load on their hearts tells them it's time to go. This doesn't happen to all the kits simultaneously. The largest or most active kit is usually the initiator. Using their claws they pierce their amniotic sac and then the outer dermis of the womb-nest itself. If they weren't moved to act by the heart stoppi…

On yinrih blindness

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

On yinrih blindness

Glenn wrote: ////2025-10-14T10:46:22+00:00 I have tried to picture this setup, and I wanted to ask how the inner capsule and outer chassis are arranged: is the chassis flush with the capsule, or is there a space between the two that parents and doctors can fit into to access the capsule? I initially thought it was the former, but if the chassis is shielded again vacuum or water pressure, it seems as though it would likely be opaque, which would remove th…

Oracle OS

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Oracle OS One persistent subject of interest to amateur cyberarcheologists is the so-called Oracle OS. It was said to have been programmed by a mad monk who claimed it was a conduit through which the Light could communicate with mortals. While many pieces of software claiming to be the original Oracle

Ora et Laboratory

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Ora et Laboratory Research monasteries are where most of the Bright Way's R&D took place. They emerged during the Golden Age, and most major scientific and technological breakthroughs could be traced back to them. Tailstone, neurogel, fusion power, force projectors, leaseminds, and much more were all invented by ascetics living in research monasteries in an effort to further the Bright Way's goal of finding other sophonts.

Orbital Colonies and Wayfarers' Haven

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Orbital Colonies and Wayfarers' Haven Spacers (Commonthroat qGKqJqg, {huff long rising strengthening growl, huff, long high weak growl, huff, short low weak growl}) are yinrih who live and work primarily in outer space. As I've stated many times before, orbital colonies have no artificial gravity since that allows yinrih to use all their paws for grasping while in motion.

Oubliettes

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Oubliettes It's spoopy season, so how about some good ol' fridge horror regarding metabolic suspension? What do we know about Amnions thus far? - They halt a person's metabolism while keeping the brain active. - They can present a simulacrum to the suspended person.

Overbrooding Syndrome

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Overbrooding Syndrome Overbrooding syndrome is a psychological condition characterized by a hypertrophied parenting instinct. While it's stereotypically associated with female empty-nesters, it can manifest in either gender and occur at any age after reaching maturity.

Part of a not-so-balanced Breakfast

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-07T20:37:45+00:00

Part of a not-so-balanced Breakfast Tree dweller childermoots consume the remains of the womb-nest after their kits hatch. animals

Pascal the Wanderer

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Pascal the Wanderer Pascal is one of the crew of the Dewfall. His Commonthroat name is rLPqsgrp /chuff, long rising strengthening grunt, huff, yip, short low weak growl, chuff, short high strong grunt/ which means “ring light”, referring to sunlight reflected of of Yih's ring on summer nights. He's the odd man out among the yinrih who find Earth, as he's not a Wayfarer, or at least not a committed one. Humans might call him a doubting Thomas.

Paw Coverings

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Paw Coverings The yinrih's hatred for footwear truly knows no bounds. Hot pavement? Make concrete with a very high albedo so it doesn't absorb heat from the sun, or plant shade trees along walking paths to prevent the sun from shining on the path altogether. And what about Hearthside's Nightless Desert? Hearthsiders smear an insulating wax on their palms to keep the sand from burning their paws. Luckily, only Hearthside, Sweetwater, and Yih are close enough to Focus for this to be a problem. No…

Paw Gauntlet

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Paw Gauntlet [image] This is a front paw gauntlet used in yinrih powered armor, with the palm facing up. The purple pads on the digits and palm are force projectors (Commonthroat name TBD). They use Science™ to exert force at a distance. They can also generate a negative force normal to the surface they're pressed against to allow the wearer to climb smooth walls and ceilings.

Paw keyer

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Paw keyer [image] I've shown a couple images of HUD specs. Now here's the input to go with the output. The keyer proper looks like the molded rubber grip of a bicycle handlebar. Running across the top of the keyer proper is a cushion that conforms to the contours of the wearers paw pads. On the bottom of the keyer body are four grooves shaped to fit the four middle digits, each with a button. Flanking this row of buttons are two thumb clusters, each with a button or two as well as a trackpoint…

Perfumes

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Perfumes Here's a topic I've needed to elaborate on for some time. With the exception of healers, yinrih don't wear clothes. While they do use things like backpacks and pocketed leg bands, the communicative function of clothing is filled by perfumes.

Physical Description

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Physical Description [image] It's really hard for me to put into words what the yinrih are supposed to look like. A lot of this project has been about their ergonomics, and I have to know what their body is shaped like as well as the range of motion of their limbs, how good their gross and fine motor skills are, etc. in order to be able to come up with their tools.

Picture of a Womb Nest

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T20:04:43+00:00

Picture of a Womb Nest [image] A yinrih womb nest, a highly derived egg-sac with its own simple heart and circulatory system. A central bus artery feeds oxygenated blood to the kits, and returning veins pass through a semi-permeable dermal layer to allow for gas exchange. The arrangement of kits in the womb nest is what gives womb ships their name, as suspension capsules are arranged in a similar manner.

Polymerite

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Polymerite Polymerite is a plastic that can be cured to give it the strength of steel. It can be formed using injection molding or additive manufacturing. After it is formed, it is cured by exposing it to gamma rays, either directly or by bombarding it with positrons to selectively stimulate matter-antimatter annihilation similar to a PET scan.

Port Side View of a Womb Ship

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Port Side View of a Womb Ship [image] The hatch is at the forward end of the ship. The shroud protecting the pressure vessel has a sensor array that is fed into the simulacrum in realtime. Log summaries are sent in batches at regular intervals through the ansible back to mission control as well. The ship's leasemind will log what it thinks are technosignatures (usually non random radio emissions), but false positives are not uncommon and mission control must wait for a confirmation from one of…

Powered Armor Helmet

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Powered Armor Helmet [image] A helmet used with yinrih powered armor. A few things to note: There are ear guards. While this sacrifices some of the ears' motility it keeps them from getting damaged. Note the colored chevrons on the back of the ear guards. These aren't present when concealment is necessary. They're reflective and fluorescent, and they help identify individuals when working in law enforcement or peacekeeping.

Powered Armor Torso Jacket

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Powered Armor Torso Jacket [image] Here's a dorsal view of yinrih powered armor. The torso jacket is made of the same pseudosinew as the paw gauntlets. The helmet snaps magnetically onto the umbilical cable running along the spine. On either side of the spine near the shoulders are two drone capsules. The capsules act like the powerups from arcade scrolling shooters (I'm specifically thinking the force pod from R-Type), hovering near the operator and firing on command. They can also generate a…

Prayers for the Dead

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Prayers for the Dead It is common for Wayfarers to pray for the dead. It works a bit differently than most human faiths. While the Bright Way has a similar concept to Purgatory, where the souls of the deceased are purified of sinful attachments in order to perfectly reflect the Uncreated Light in the Empyrean, the prayers aren't directed to the Light to lessen their loved-ones period of hardship, but to the dead directly, to encourage them to persevere, so they might enter the Empyrean sooner.

Prayer rings as fidget spinners

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Prayer rings as fidget spinners Prayer rings are intended both as meditation aids and fidget toys, with very low friction between the inner gear and outer ring, the gear can spin for a surprisingly long time. Younger pups are often given a prayer ring to fidget with during long liturgies.

Puke Paws

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Puke Paws Military nicknames are, I am told, not terribly flattering. They usually stem from inside jokes or embarrassing incidents. Here's how Tod got his. He seems to embellish more and more details each time he tells the tale, but it usually unfolds like this. He's hanging out with some other recruits after hours. While many of them are moonies like himself, some are from cosmopolitan urban centers on Welkinstead proper. These city folk have tasted the many and varied delights and temptatio…

Quick sketch of Wayfarers' Haven

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Quick sketch of Wayfarers' Haven [image] It's a toroidal structure encircling an asteroid. The Torus is the main axis. There should be greebles on it as it's far from smooth. Remember, it's a refugee camp that turned into a city-state over time, so there's all sorts of ad hoc stuff bolted to the axis.

Raw Tailstone Crystals

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Raw Tailstone Crystals [image] Here are some raw tailstone monocrystals. I haven't decided if tailstone can only be found naturally or if it can be synthesized. In either case, the best way to get tailstone currently involves going through the Partisans, since the Outer Belt has the highest concentration of tailstone (or tailstone components) in the system.

Rear Paw Print

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Rear Paw Print [image] Here's a left rear paw print (both genders). It's not too different from the forepaw, although the palm (sole) is slightly longer and there's a regular claw on the index finger analog. When walking bipedally the thumbs are perpendicular to the rest of the foot, and the four middle digits are spread further apart. If the ground is soft, the claws will be dug into the earth like cleats to maintain balance. The tail is also held pressed against the ground to act as a third …

Recreating a yinrih meal

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Recreating a yinrih meal Random idea for a human dish that replicates typical yinrih cuisine. Take smoked shredded beef brisket, dill relish, and diced white onions and mix them together into a dry stew. Add salt and pepper and serve in a bowl. Humans use a fork or spoon to eat, yinrih bring bowl to mouth or mouth to bowl. Make sure the relish is fridge-cold, the onion is room temp, and the brisket is hot to provide a contrasting temperature profile. Salt should be large-grained rock salt to pr…

Redfruit Image

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-07T20:38:05+00:00

Redfruit Image [image] Heres a redfruit (CT qfBqg /huff, early falling weakening whine, huff, short low weak growl/). As with many other words referring to fruits, this word also doubles as a color term. There are two species of tree that bear nearly identical fruits. One is a delicious treat designed to induce seed disperses (including yinrih and their tree dweller cousins). The other is extremely poisonous, killing small animals with a single bite and larger animals in just about enough tim…

Rediculously Sour Breakfast

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Rediculously Sour Breakfast [image] Steadfruit juice and some steadtree fruit. Size may not be final. culture

Reject Yinrih. Return to Tree-Dweller

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Reject Yinrih. Return to Tree-Dweller The Atavists are a diverse collection of related ideologies that encompass the idea of going back to nature. The original, and most extreme, Atavist group believes that sapience is a curse and wishes to be rid of it. This group is opposed to the Bright Way, as they reject the Bright Way's belief that sapience is a divine gift. Their reasoning is pretty simple: animals aren't gnawed by existential dread, and they don't set up impossible moral standards for t…

Representing Balanced Ternary numbers visually

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Representing Balanced Ternary numbers visually [image] I'm not sure yet what this will mean in-universe, but I've thought of a way of representing balanced ternary numbers in 2 dimensions. Here are the rules: 1. You draw a dot as your starting point. 2. Start drawing a line in any cardinal direction.

Retribution field

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Retribution field [image] What it looks like when a projectile strikes an active retribution field as seen from the inside. Also an accurate representation of what retinal traction looks like. science_and_tech

retribution field generator

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

retribution field generator [image] Bit of a lazy one today. This is the retribution field generator featured in one of my stories. When activated, the cube creates a force field that absorbs the kinetic energy of incoming projectiles. Then it unleashes that energy back at the attacker. Honestly it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I was originally going to explain it as a cultural quirk stemming form the Bright Way's just war doctrines, a weirdly quantitatively literal interpretation of the …

Ring Bounce and Other Radio Stuff

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Ring Bounce and Other Radio Stuff If it exists, a ham will either try to bounce radio waves off it or use it as an antenna. While Yih has an ionosphere that can be exploited for radio propagation at frequencies between 3 and 30 MHz, it also has a ring, which can reflect signals in the VHF and UHF ranges. As a much larger, closer, and most importantly, stationary object, Yih's ring is a much better reflector than Earth's moon, meaning ring bounce is a practical propagation mode, not just a

Saintly Cynoid

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Saintly Cynoid [image] religion

Say the Black and Do the Red

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Say the Black and Do the Red The hearthkeeper walks down the central aisle, striking the ground with the aspergillum held in her tail as she walks. When the hearthkeeper reaches the sanctuary steps, an acolyte pulls back the sanctuary curtain obscuring the star hearth. The hearthkeeper ascends the steps. Without turning away from the hearth, she recites the opening prayer.

scripturally_acurate_claravian_angel

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

scripturally_acurate_claravian_angel Scripturally accurate Claravian angel? Of course I've noted before that in the Bright Way angels are more solutions to certain theological problems rather than tangible entities. “If the Light is utterly unknowable, it must communicate to its little ones through some intermediary

Seasonal Feasts: Winter Solstice

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Seasonal Feasts: Winter Solstice So it's the Winter solstice. Seeing as how this is supposed to be one of the high holy days in The Bright Way, I should probably flesh it out a bit. The Seasonal Feasts are meant to be considered together, as though they are in fact a single discontiguous celebration. They are preceded by a week (12-day period) of fasting and prayer.

Shoes

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Shoes Yinrih are not accustomed to wearing shoes. They find the loss of tactile information unpleasant. Yinrih that have to walk while wearing something that covers the palms of their paws initially react about how you'd expect a dog to react when wearing boots for the first time. This includes donning paw gauntlets when wearing powered armor.

Shower Thought: Yinrih in Warhammer 40K

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Shower Thought: Yinrih in Warhammer 40K The Algorithm has been serving me a lot of “What if [character from other franchise] was in WH40K?” fanfic readings on YouTube, and I've been listening to them as background noise at work. That naturally made me wonder how monkey foxes would fare in the grim darkness of the far future. I'm not sure it would go well. Just as a comparison:

Sighted Guide

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Sighted Guide [image] Lodestar serves as Ron's sighted guide. Correct posture (when the guide is a human, anyway) is to have the blind person walking behind and slightly to the side, with their hand on the guide's shoulder or upper arm. If the way forward becomes narrow, the guide puts their hand behind their back, and the blind person slides their hand down to hold the guide's wrist and moves to walk directly behind the guide. When handling a guide dog, the dog is on the left and the person's…

Silence

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Silence Academic childermoots are moots set up as schools, where the sires and dams are educators who conceive their own students. Ideally, the future parents receive pedagogical training in preparation for forming such a moot, and seek out potential mates with similar skills.

silhouette

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

silhouette [image] I remember reading somewhere that the key to good character design is to have a distinctive and readable outline. So here's an attempt at a yinrih's silhouette. biology

Sketching the rest of Focus

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Sketching the rest of Focus I've been stumped for the longest time trying to lay out the rest of Focus, so I decided to take the Elder Scrolls approach and think of cool-sounding names and fill in the blanks from there. Just for review, I'll go over the inner system first, although as you'll soon see, dividing the system into

Sketch of a knight in his mech

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Sketch of a knight in his mech Will post improvements if I feel like it. [image] Here's a knight (Lodestar specifically) in the cockpit of his mech. Note the preference for a HUD visor rather than output displays ---------- [image] science_and_tech

Sketch of a Yinrih Bathroom

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Sketch of a Yinrih Bathroom [image] 1. curtain 2. washing pool 3. dirty area 4. tiled floor designed for tactile aesthetics 5. perches 6. latrine 7. stall partitions 8. grate for flushing the toilet and sanitizing the stall. xenoergonomics

Sketch of a yinrih in a tree

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-17T13:21:32+00:00

Sketch of a yinrih in a tree [image] This is probably the last edit I'm making to this drawing. I was bothered by the fact the branch his left forepaw is holding was thicker than the trunk. lurker wrote: 2023-08-02T16:09:36+00:00 " Visions1 wrote: 2023-08-02T07:08:14+00:00

Slavery

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Slavery There are a number of socieoeconomic conditions that could reasonably be called slavery around Focus. One practice during the age of decadence was a form of debt servitude whereby those who could not pay their tithes to the local lighthouse would be pressed into service in order to pay their debt. The alternative was to have the power to their home cut off.

Somewhat Realistic Sketch

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Somewhat Realistic Sketch [image] still not sure about their back legs. This pose definitely puts the “monkey” in “monkey fox”. biology

Some Body Language and Paralinguistic Vocalizations

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Some Body Language and Paralinguistic Vocalizations There's a bit of a shibboleth between spacers and yinrih who live planetside regarding body language. Spacers are more prone to gesticulate while talking. They may do this with only their front paws, or use all four paws and their tail at once. When on a planet's surface, they'll often stop and rear up when having a conversation in order to free up their paws to move around. Sometimes their rear paws and tail will even twitch as though they wo…

Some Clarifying Comments on some of my stories

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-17T13:28:02+00:00

Some Clarifying Comments on some of my stories YoungConlanger wrote: 2025-10-11T16:39:06+00:00 " Above is quite cool! Plus I think it give more “cool reference” bonus points because I at least was not aware of how we misconceptualized the Solar system.

Some Early Claravian Moral Precepts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Some Early Claravian Moral Precepts Know, o little ones, that the Light, and the Light alone, has kindled thy spirit within thee. Our fore-bearers looked but did not see, heard but did not listen, cried out but did not speak, marked but did not write, felt but did not know.

Some economic musings

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Some economic musings On Hearthside, it is illegal to use terms such as “buy” or “purchase” (rather their Hearthsider equivalents) unless a transfer of ownership is taking place. If you're paying for time-limited access (even if that time limit is measured in centuries) terms such as

Some Effects of First Contact on the English Language

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Some Effects of First Contact on the English Language Here are a few subtle changes that First Contact has on the English Language: * The words “person” and “people” no longer refer only to humans, but to humans or yinrih. * The term “

Some Pictures

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T19:55:59+00:00

Some Pictures [image] A musical instrument played by the tail. [image] A spacer terraboo. xenoergonomics

Some Snippets from the Discord server

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-17T13:31:52+00:00

Some Snippets from the Discord server Here's some stuff I wrote on the Discord server. Responding to Egerius while discussing yinrih bathroom habits: "You manage to position yourself over the toilet. This bathroom is mercifully empty, and the hallway outside is deserted. The stall is something out of a nightmare, no door, walls barely two feet high, not even tall enough to obscure a yinrih’s head. Just as you start to relax, you hear the telltale tap-tap of claws on tile. Someone has entered…

Some Tentative Body Proportions

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-15T16:32:30+00:00

Some Tentative Body Proportions Yinrih are about 200 cm long from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail. The back is about 34 cm wide and they stand about 76 cm at the withers. The tail is slightly longer than the distance from the tip of the nose to the base of the tail, allowing them to comfortably bring objects wrapped in the tail up to the mouth and nose.

Some thoughts on the Split Horizon

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Some thoughts on the Split Horizon The Split Horizon speaks English but they may use Shavian instead of Latin to write it. The colony was founded in part because some humans were concerned that they would not be fully independent if they accepted High Hearthekeper Lucy's homesteading offer but still wanted to avoid the Ludd laws that prevented yinrih tech from proliferating at Sol.

Sophontic and Nonsophontic Behaviors

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Sophontic and Nonsophontic Behaviors In the Bright Way, the soul of a sophont is considered to have three “layers” or “parts”. The appetites, passions, or instincts lie at the bottom, and are not unique to sophonts. All animals have instincts. These include primal desires to eat, rest, beget young, avoid danger, defend oneself, acquire resources, and so on. The will lies above the instincts, and is responsible for directing the body to act according to or against them. Above the will is Underst…

Xenoergonomics: Spacer's Canteen

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Xenoergonomics: Spacer's Canteen [image] ---------- Sticking with the spacers, here's my solution for monkey foxes drinking in zero gravity. Humans can use straws because we can form an airtight seal with our lips and rarefy the air in our oral cavity in order to produce suction.

Space Tree Doggo Fascists

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Space Tree Doggo Fascists [image] The Unionists are a manifest destiny movement within the Allied Worlds that seeks to unite all of Focus under the AW government. Their slogan is One star, one species, one throat, one rule

Spoopy speculation

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Spoopy speculation In honor of spoopy season, here's a shower thought I had regarding Firefly's current situation. I've established that neurogel acts as a bridge between a brain and a computer system. So far I've only explored how that looks from the suspended person's perspective, basically the Matrix. But if you recall the original draft of the Matrix explained the reason why the humans were in there was so their brains could serve as natural neural networks for the machines, not the stated …

St. Aurora's Draft

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

St. Aurora's Draft Saint Aurora's Draft is a drink made by drying, crushing, and brewing the seeds of a certain bush. This concoction is nigh undrinkably bitter, even given the yinrih's feeble gustatory system. It is both a diuretic and an aperient, in addition to causing heartburn.

St. Cloudlight the Sensible

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

St. Cloudlight the Sensible St. Cloudlight* the sensible was a figure who helped with the renewal of the Bright Way after the War of Dissolution. Not much is known of his private life, though he was famous for being a man of some girth, giving rise to quite a few jokes, some of which are thought to have come from his own mouth as a form of humble self deprecation.

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-17T21:22:55+00:00

This is an archive of notable posts on the Lonely Galaxy Megathread on the CBB forum, up to the point that I created this wiki. Going forward I try to post stuff in the blog here and then repost it there. megathread index

Star Lanterns

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Star Lanterns [image] Star lanterns are like miniature star hearths. As such, they're also micro fusion reactors. they obtain hydrogen to fuse by taking in ambient water vapor and electrolytically separating the hydrogen and oxygen. They're small enough to fit in the hand, but output enough energy to power an average human household.

Stats for Focus and Yih

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-17T13:13:16+00:00

Stats for Focus and Yih Khemehekis wrote: 2024-07-26T22:21:00+00:00 " Thanks for your answer! Maybe you can figure out how close to Focus their ancestral planet is, which will give you an idea of what color their plants would be, which could allow you to create plant species the yinrih can use for food. Fruit, vegetables, carbs, nuts, sweets, spices, herbs, drugs, all that. Ethnobotany and ethnozoo:logy are always near the top of the list when I'm developing a planet for the Lehola Galaxy.

Steadtree Fruit

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-07T20:38:33+00:00

Steadtree Fruit [image] This is the fruit of the steadtree, a species of tree native to the equatorial rain forest on Yih. It is this tree that the yinrih evolved to dwell in, and this fruit co-evolved alongside the yinrih's nonsapient ancestors in order to use the yinrih as seed dispersers. It's about the size of an apple, and Its flavor is uniquely adapted to the yinrih's poor sense of taste. It is mildly sweet but has a very, very strong sour flavor. Humans liken it to Warhead candies. The …

Still Working on Anatomy

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Still Working on Anatomy [image] I'm starting to finalize the look of their back legs. I think a more plantigrade stance makes sense. It makes them less canine but I think makes it more viable for them to use their rear paws for grasping. biology

Stormlight Blackpelt

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Stormlight Blackpelt Stormlight Blackpelt was born to a family of primitive Wayfarers. Primitive Wayfarers strive to live simple lives in small self-sufficient communities. Each community of Primitive Wayfarers has their own ideas about what “simple

Sunshine of Hearthside

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Sunshine of Hearthside I'm busy writing part 2 of Beating the Heat, and I'm starting to do “real” writer-type stuff that I swore I'd never do because I'm not a writer and this isn't a writing project, like outlining plots and writing character profiles. So here's what I have on the

Sunshine's Hame

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Sunshine's Hame A bit of a retcon regarding Sunshine's clothing. She may have been given a hame as a parting gift by her mentor before departing Wayfarers' Haven on the Dewfall. This hame is the pelt of a healer saint who died while caring for victims of a certain epidemic on an orbital colony. She came out of retirement to ease the burden on her fellow healers and contracted the disease from her patients.

Sweetwater

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Sweetwater Sweetwater is the second planet from Focus after Hearthside. The world was the next planet to be terraformed afterNewhome. Early in Focus's history, the planet was bombarded by dozens of large comets, giving it a surface completely covered in ocean. Unlike Newhome, Sweetwater was founded as a sort of planet-sized gated community for the ultra rich. Think Dubai but wetter. The original scheme was to build a massive system of interconnected underwater cities. Impractical? Of course! Bu…

swole healers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

swole healers If you look at pictures of furless chimpanzees, you'll notice that they're very muscular. I assume this is related to their arboreal lifestyle. They need to be strong enough to climb trees. I think this means healers like Sunshine will look swole, not because she's stronger, but because other yinrih have fur covering their muscular build.

Symbol for the Missionaries

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Symbol for the Missionaries [image] Here's a version of the above symbol that may be used by the missionaries. religion

Tailslengths and Heartbeats

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Tailslengths and Heartbeats The standard unit of length at Focus is the Tailslength or just tail which, while long since redefined in terms of physical constants, is meant to approximate the length of an adult yinrih's tail. The standard unit of time in scientific circles doesn't mesh neatly into the Yih calendar as the SI second does with hours and days. It's called the

Xenoergonomics: Tail Gesture Ring

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Xenoergonomics: Tail Gesture Ring [image] In addition to keyers, the yinrih use tail gesture rings as computer input devices. The ring is worn around the tail, and the tail can execute 3-dimensional gestures like flicks, swipes, and twitches etc. Tail rings are favored when walking since it's easier than hobbling on 3 legs with a keyer in one paw. The input flexibility is limited, especially when it comes to text entry, but most people are just doom scrolling anyway.

Technocracy

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Technocracy Not sure who'll have this system of government, probably Wayfarers' Haven, but anyway. The idea is that there's no one monolithic legislative body. Instead, there are a set of departments that govern different areas of life like education, agriculture, economy, energy, etc, and they and they alone can enact legislation governing their sphere. They do consult with other departments as necessary though.

Teenage Wasteland

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Teenage Wasteland This is another post open to suggestions and critique. ---------- The childermoot is the basic reproductive unit in society. It consists of between 2 to 12 breeding individuals. That number must be equally divided among males and females for a viable womb-nest to form. The childermoot is itself a member of a larger troop/pack/skulk/IDK what the proper collective noun for monkey foxes should be.

Tentative idea about the beginning of the Bright Way

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Tentative idea about the beginning of the Bright Way Another tentative idea: After the Theophany, a movement grows within the interstitial teens. The miraculous light appeared low in the southern sky, at a much lower elevation than the equatorial sun was known to travel. The majority of yinrih still lived along the bank of the River, but their range extended as far south as the border between the jungle and southern grasslands. These border folk sent word north that one could get an unobstructe…

Terraboos

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Terraboos Human culture is far more varied compared to Yinrih culture thanks to the fact that we scattered into isolated communities long before inventing writing, and longer still before eventually rediscovering each other and initiating the process of globalization.

That's Some Accent You Got There

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

That's Some Accent You Got There Even though Tod is the only native Commonthroat speaker among the missionaries, his Moony accent makes it difficult for others to understand him at times. The other missionaries are L2 speakers who learned by consuming media from the AW as pups and with formal schooling later, giving them a more standardized accent. Tod’s friends joke that they speak Commonthroat better than him, and if you define

They Need To Do Way Instain Mother

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

They Need To Do Way Instain Mother

Khemehekis wrote: ////2023-12-26T02:44:51+00:00 I love the title you gave to your last post in this thread. I was laughing so hard when I read it. And I could see the title on the “Latest posts” board index, too.

The Allied Worlds Political Spectrum

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Allied Worlds Political Spectrum The Allied Worlds is like a combination of NATO and the European Union. The individual planets within the alliance have their own militaries and legal systems, but the central government on Yih can and does oblige members to contribute to mutual defense, as with the Peacekeepers. Economically the alliance is heavily integrated, with a single currency and free trade agreements between members.

The Beginnings of the Bright Way

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Beginnings of the Bright Way There was a period of natural religion prior to the Theophany that may have even preceded writing (akin to the ritual burials of the neanderthals). It is here that the most fundamental rites are established: a female shaman keeping the tribal fire lit and performing primitive medicine as well as the use of the bones of the dead as architectural adornment. After the Theophany comes the founding of the Bright Way proper, where the shamanate organizes into the firs…

The Beginning of the Allied Worlds

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Beginning of the Allied Worlds After the War of Dissolution, the Partisans were still on the war path. The old Claravian hierarchy was laid low, but the Partisans wanted to make sure it could never rise again, and the only way to do that, at least if you asked the Partisans, was with the Partisans in charge of the whole system. The old secular governments of the inner planets weren't about to let themselves be subjugated again just after throwing off the hierarchy's yolk, and many policymak…

The Birth of the Partisans

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Birth of the Partisans During the centuries that the missionaries were making their way to the exoplanet, the Outer Belt saw a period of quiet, with the Bright Way regaining control over much of the region. The clergy’s little PR stunt painting First Contact as an inevitability seemed to work. The secular insurgents were holding their collective breath. Perhaps Cloudbearer was wrong after all. The traditionalists within the Bright Way were hoping that First Contact would reorient the wider …

The Black Paw

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Black Paw [image] A possible symbol for the Partisans. I'm going for something like the White Hand of Saruman. I should try to expand the Partisans beyond being a purely anticlerical faction. The Commies at least had other planks in their platform...

The Bobtailed Hob

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-07T20:21:50+00:00

The Bobtailed Hob The bobtailed hob, bob hob, or just hob, is a vulpithecoid comparable in intelligence to a baboon. It is also roughly equal in evolutionary distance from the yinrih as baboons are from humans. The name is a human designation that refers to hobgoblins, but even more to Thomas Hobbes, as these creatures are nasty, brutish, and short.

The Bright Way on the Environment

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Bright Way on the Environment

thethief3 wrote: ////2024-05-12T03:58:31+00:00 What's the Claravian relationship/doctrine with environmentalism?

I'm glad you asked, as that was one of the things I was going to write up soon.

The Butt Brain

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Butt Brain Yinrih have a caudal ganglion, which is a secondary brain located at the base of the tail whose original purpose was to control the tail, but which has evolved secondary functions as a sort of backup for the main brain. Yinrih can withstand head injuries that would render a human dead with no long term consequences as the main brain can rebuild itself from information stored in the caudal ganglion

The Canons of Claravian Scripture

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Canons of Claravian Scripture Claravian scripture is divided into two categories. The first is a very small protocanon consisting of contemporary documents of newly sapient yinrih, accounts of the Theophany and emergence of the Bright Way. Lists of moral precepts and norms governing liturgies and major feasts are also included. The protocanon is most similar to the Bible or Qur'an, in that it is considered to have divine authority and to be inerrant in the sense that everything written with…

The City of Eternal Noon

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The City of Eternal Noon The City of Eternal Noon, located at the substellar point of Hearthside, is the center of religious government of The Bright Way. However, it didn't start out that way. It is famous for its hospitality, offering free lodging and food for a week (12 days) to any traveler. Their not luxury accommodations, just a small area to store ones impedimenta and a quiet place to pass ones torpor period, but the facilities are clean and well cared-for. The story behind this legendar…

The Dam's Lament and the Ark of Sapience

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Dam's Lament and the Ark of Sapience The Ark of Sapience is a reliquary containing the earliest positive specimen of written language as well as the bones of the earliest known yinrih to have undergone funerary rites. The text and the bones within have changed over the millennia as earlier artifacts have been found or the dating of relics thought to be prototypical called into question.

The Dawn of Sapience

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Dawn of Sapience It is a matter of debate whether the earliest extant example of written language was in fact the first instance of true writing. Both yinrih ink and the steadtree leaves they wrote on are very biodegradable, lasting mere decades in all but the luckiest of circumstances.

The Dawn of the Digital Age

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Dawn of the Digital Age After the shakeoff, a sect of neoshamanists formed known as the Mindseekers. They rejected the Great Commandment as a fool's errand. However, they still clung to the hope that they would one day see bone not of their bone and flesh not of their flesh. Rather than looking for minds among the stars, they chose to create new minds here on terra firma.

The Dewfall in 3D

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Dewfall in 3D [image] Here's a 3D “render” of the Dewfall (really it's a screenshot of the Plasticity viewport because I'm too lazy to export it to Blender for actual rendering). While the colors are mostly there to differentiate the different parts, the forward impact shield is made of high-grade polymerite and is thus really that neon blue translucent color.

The Dewfall in Flight

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Dewfall in Flight [image] Here's the Dewfall textured in Blender. science_and_tech

The Dewfall in Landing Mode

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Dewfall in Landing Mode [image] This is more or less what a womb ship looks like after it has landed. The force projectors (the green structures on the earlier image) and the impact shield (the blue outer shell) are jettisoned before the ship de-orbits.

The Eschaton

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Eschaton The Eschaton, or Omega Point, is, according to Claravian doctrine, the ultimate end state of the universe. It is the point at which the epistemological Realm of the Known finally fills the Realm of the Knowable and breaches the hitherto impassable boundary obscuring the Realm of the Unknowable, bridging the gulf between natural and supernatural.

The Eurika Moment

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Eurika Moment I'm really tired so let's see how weird this sounds tomorrow morning. There's this belief among Wayfarers, I'm not sure whether it's popular piety, established dogma, or somewhere in between, but here's the idea: You know that “

The fall and summer feasts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The fall and summer feasts As today is the equinox (autumnal in my case), I figure I should at least muse a bit on the fall feast day. It's likely the least important of the four seasonal feasts. Great Kindling (the commemoration of the yinrih's rise to sapience) is likely sandwiched between the fall and winter feasts relative to the historically dominant Yih southern hemisphere. Being eclipsed by the highest holy day is probably why it gets little attention.

The Fall of the Bright Way (WIP)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Fall of the Bright Way (WIP) So, more tossing stuff at the wall. I should really detail some of the other groups, but this idea's been in my head all day and I want to write it down. ---------- So, the Bright Way gets big, it has a monopoly on interplanetary travel, communication, and energy distribution, and maybe healthcare. All the while, there's still the religion going on in the background, but at this point it's a tiny fraction of what they do. It's all still run by clerics, and all…

The Founding of Pilgrim's Rest

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Founding of Pilgrim's Rest Pilgrims' Rest is a dwarf planet located in the Outer Belt. It was founded by remnants of the missionaries fleeing Firefly's genocide during the war of dissolution. Originally under Moonlitter's control, it is conquered by the Partisans shortly (in vulpithecine terms) before First Contact, prompting the population to found Wayfarers' Haven in the Spacer Confederacy.

The Great Commandment

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-17T13:33:51+00:00

The Great Commandment " Consider, little ones, the Tree-dwellers, the very clay from which I sculpted your form. They do naught but what I permit them to do. They move about, seek refuge, nourish themselves, and beget young according to the passions which I have kindled within them. Yet do they gain any merit thereby? By no means! For they do so without understanding. They paint the leaves, yet they cannot write a single glyph. They call out to one another, yet they cannot chant a single sylla…

The Hame

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Hame A hame is a badge of honor granted to a healer. It is a cloak made from the pelt of a celebrated healer, usually the foundress of a college or other well-regarded alumna. To have one's pelt made into a hame is the highest posthumous honor a healer can receive, and to be given a hame is the highest honor a living healer can receive, especially if the hame was worn by, or better yet, made of, a saint.

The Hard Problem of Unconsciousness

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Hard Problem of Unconsciousness The yinrih are incapable of fully losing consciousness, even during torpor or when in suspension. It is impossible to break a yinrih's stream of consciousness without causing brain death. Fortunately, it's REALLY hard to do this, thanks in part to the yinrih's heavily redundant neurology.

The Headphone Jack Effect

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Headphone Jack Effect I feel like I should explain a bit of my own personal philosophy that has informed some of my worldbuilding. It's something I like to call The Headphone Jack Effect, which is a reference to Apple's controversial removal of the headphone jack from the iPhone 7.

The Healer's Paw

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Healer's Paw [image] This symbol is referred to as the “Healer's Paw”. It's meant to resemble the distinct pattern of palmar pads on a female yinrih's forepaw. The Healer's Paw is the universal symbol for health and medicine across Focus, serving a similar role as the red cross or the caduceus do on Earth. It's colored maroon to symbolize yinrih blood.

The high perch

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The high perch The high perch is both a literal perch and a metaphor for the authority of the high hearthkeeper. It, along with the reigning high hearthkeeper herself, was captured by the Pious Dissolutionists during the last battle of the war of dissolution before the Partisans glassed Newman's Dale. During the age of decadence, the perch was encrusted with cerulium and gems. After the war the perch was stripped of its finer adornments, revealing modest steadtree wood painted with various moti…

The Holy World of Hearthside

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Holy World of Hearthside [image] Here's a picture of Hearthside. Most of their power comes from solar as you might expect. The City of Eternal Noon is located at the substellar point. The Eternal Hearth is the chief lighthouse for all of the Bright Way. In stead of a star hearth, the sanctuary is located under an oculus that lets in the light from Focus overhead. The light shines on a large mirror, symbolically making Focus itself the star hearth for the lighthouse.

The Imperium vs the Partisans

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Imperium vs the Partisans I have nowhere else to put this, but this has been stuck in my head all day. Inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos standing on the bridge of a void ship, hailing a yinrih outpost,: “In the name of the God-Emperor of Mankind, you filthy xenos must be purged!

The Infeasibility of Projectiles for Use in Spaceflight

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Infeasibility of Projectiles for Use in Spaceflight OK, Yih's escape velocity (really escape speed because direction doesn't matter as long as you don't hit the ground) is about 10.557 km/s. Let's assume the following: 1. a yinrih can survive a constant acceleration of 6G (relative to Earth gravity)

The Inner Planets of Focus (WIP)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Inner Planets of Focus (WIP) [image] I'm trying to figure out LibreOffice Draw. This is a draft of the inner planets of Focus. I didn't originally intend it to be this way, but I'm kind of liking the theme of the planets being based on outdated theories about our own inner planets, namely that Mercury was tidally locked and Venus was an ocean world. For the most part I'm trying to use an

The inspiration for womb ships

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-09T00:49:29+00:00

The inspiration for womb ships [image] I may or may not have mentioned before that womb ships are based on the Titan. I started the Lonely Galaxy around the time this was in the news. The Bright Way's cavalier attitude toward death in pursuit of the Great Commandment during the Golden Age is inspired by OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush (I couldn't think of a more posh name if I tried), or at least my impression of the man when the scandal first broke

The Knights at the Time of First Contact

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Knights at the Time of First Contact At the time of First Contact, the Knights of the Sun take many different forms depending on where around Focus they happen to be. On Hearthside they serve as the law enforcement and military. In more pious enclaves like Wayfarers' Haven they serve in a similar capacity. Wayfarers' Haven also sends its own knights to serve in the Spacer Confederacy's federal police. Within Partisan Territory they often manifest as terrorists or freedom fighters, depending…

The Knights of the Sun

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Knights of the Sun

The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said,

The Litany of Creation

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Litany of Creation V: From the breath of the sun The Light wrought the Earth. R: Glory to The Light! V: From the stone of the earth, The Light drew forth life. R: Glory to The Light! V: From the garden of life, The Light kindled mind. R: Glory to The Uncreated Light!

The Mechanists

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Mechanists The Mechanists were a group of Neoshamanists who formed the first group of colonists on Newhome. At this particular time in yinrih history, the Bright Way was still on the rise. It wasn't yet a cyberpunk-esque megacorp, but it was very much an

The Moonlitter Political Spectrum

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Moonlitter Political Spectrum There are three major factions in Moonlitter politics: Pro-AW, who seek anything from closer ties to outright formal union with the Allied Worlds, Pro-Partisan, who are the same but for the Partisans, and Nationalists, who want both the AW and the Partisans off Moonlitter's tail.

The Noosphere

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Noosphere The /chuff, long low weak grunt, chuff, yip, early falling weakening whine, short low weak growl/, “realm of minds, noosphere” sometimes poetically called the /short falling strengthening growl, huff, etc/ or

The Orbit of Yih and Its Effects on Yinrih Biology and Culture

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Orbit of Yih and Its Effects on Yinrih Biology and Culture Yih is the name of the yinrih homeworld. Yih is one of only two instances of Commonthroat loanwords in Englsih, the other being the word yinrih. These words are better thought of as onomatopoeia mimicking yinrih speech sounds as humans and yinrih cannot actually utter one another's languages. It's Commonthroat pronunciation is [yip, short high strong whine, huff]. The word means

The origins of the high hearthkeeper

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The origins of the high hearthkeeper The office of High Hearthkeeper did not exist prior to the Shakeoff. Once Neoshamanism and Atavism emerged, it became necessary to create a tangible sign of unity within the Bright Way that could be used to precisely define what a Wayfarer is. The office is likely more than just a figurehead or

The origin of caerulium

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The origin of caerulium I'm just full of ideas today. What if caerulium came from the event that formed Yih's ring. I stated earlier that the ring was a captured asteroid whose orbit had decayed in the geologically recent past prior to the Kindling. In addition to forming the ring, much material rained down onto the surface, forming a belt of caerulium deposites along the equator. Since this was geologically recent, these deposits would be at or near the surface right smack dab in the yinrih's …

The origin of Neoshamanism

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The origin of Neoshamanism These are the circumstances that lead to the Shakeoff. Much like the War of Dissolution it doesn't have a single definitive cause, but most historians say there are a few major contributing factors. First, a pandemic that highlights the inadequacy of Claravian medicine. People get sick and look to the research monks for answers. The Bright Way has thus far been so preoccupied with the stars that other scientific fields that aren't obviously related to aeronautics and …

The Outer Belt

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Outer Belt At the time leading up to the War of Dissolution, the Outer Belt was a place of stark contrasts. Much like Newhome before it, the Outer Belt was an attractive place for misfits and ideologues, being as it was at the edge of yinrih civilization. Among these ideologues were militant secularists.

The Outlands

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Outlands The citizens of Partisan Territory refer to the polity as The Outlands, and to themselves as Outlanders. Moonlitter objects to this usage, since the term historically implies a larger territory than the Partisans currently control. focus

The Partisan Perspective

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Partisan Perspective Woo that was 600 posts! Who knew that my hyperfixation on these maladaptive daydreams would teach me so much. I didn't know anything about Blender before, and I'm certainly still not good at it, but it's fun to mess around with.

The proper way to enter a room

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The proper way to enter a room When a yinrih enters a room, the polite thing to do is to stick the muzzle through the curtain and scent the air first before entering. This is the equivalent of a human visually scanning the room to get a general feel for who's present, what's going on, and how everyone is feeling.

The Protector's Paw

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Protector's Paw Here's the male counterpart to the healer's paw: the protector's paw. Like the healer's paw, it is a stylized depiction of the palmar pads on the forepaw, but male rather than female. Where the healer's paw is used like the caduceus or red cross, the protector's paw is analogous to a police badge, though it's not worn as a literal badge. That would be rather painful. It's found on buildings and vehicles.

The Rite of Alightment

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Rite of Alightment The Rite of Alightment is a ritual performed upon landing a womb ship. Ideally it's done in the presence of one or more alien sophonts, and is meant to communicate what sort of creatures the yinrih are, why they're here, and to serve as a gesture of good will and trust to their new hosts.

The Role of the Star Hearth in the Claravian Liturgy

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-09T17:07:53+00:00

The Role of the Star Hearth in the Claravian Liturgy [image] The fruit of our minds and work of mortal paws, it is but a pale imitation of thy handiwork. Outside of liturgy during most of the year, the star hearth is concealed behind a sanctuary curtain that allows the star's light to pass through. The curtain is drawn back during liturgies, and kept open during the feast of the kindling of the fire of understanding, which lasts a week.

The Sacred Path

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Sacred Path The sacred path is an ethical precept within the Farspeakers. It states that the messages between two parties must not be willfully interrupted, altered, or overheard so long as they traverse a public network. The bold is important. Much like the relationship between lawyer and client or confessor and penitent, Farspeakers regard the messages that traverse the body of the noosphere to be inviolate, and are generally opposed to measures that would censor or otherwise hinder these…

The Shakeoff

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Shakeoff It should not be surprising that the yinrih attempted spaceflight long before they fully understood what was required to put a person in space and bring them back alive. It wasn't as though Wayfarers didn't conduct experiments and unmanned trials, but they were much more willing to take very big chances, make a lot of mistakes, and get very, very messy.

The Spring Feast

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Spring Feast Unlike Earth holy days to which the spring feast is often compared like Easter and Passover, which are reckoned according to the northern hemisphere spring equinox, the Bright Way's spring feast is celebrated during local spring, meaning while the northern hemisphere has their winter feast, the southern hemisphere has their spring feast, and vice versa. Different planets celebrate the feasts according to their own orbits.

The Stargazer's Prayer

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Stargazer's Prayer The stargazer's prayer is a simple prayer taught to pups. It is, as you probably guess, said at night while gazing up into the stars. Below is an English translation. I see the stars in dark of night shining down with holy light.

The Star and Gear

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Star and Gear [image] This is a tentative symbol for the Bright Way, or possibly the Knights of the Sun. The yellow circle symbolizes a star, stars being icons of The Light. The gear represents the Bright Way's scientific and engineering endeavors in pursuit of the Great Commandment, as well as the hearthkeeper's duty to tend the star hearth. It's also reminiscent of a prayer ring.

The Star and Gear in Color

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Star and Gear in Color [image] Here's the star and gear in color. It's the largest thing I've printed so far, at about 150 mm in diameter. There were some problems on the left side you can see, but since I'm not a 3D printing veteran and can't really see the details of the process as it happens I'm not sure what caused them. All in all I'm fairly pleased.

The Star Hearth

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Star Hearth [image] In the beginning, the tribal shaman tended the fire, protecting it from wind and weather. As the yinrih's civilization grew, shamans became clerics, and these clerics tended increasingly sophisticated hearths. Open fires gave way to sheltered hearths, hearths gave way to coal fire power plants, which gave way to natural gas, which eventually gave way to the fusion reactor.

The Star Hearth in Lego

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Star Hearth in Lego [image] This one's unlit. Still working on making my builds more interesting. I'm learning the names of different types of pieces and their standard dimensions. Plates are 1/3 the height of a brick, and measurements are given in studs (the little pegs on the tops of the bricks). I'm glad I can render things in this CAD program rather than having to buy the physical bricks. Sure the physicality of building in real life would be more satisfying, but the stress of having t…

The Star Hearth with Toon Shaders

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Star Hearth with Toon Shaders [image] Here's another picture of the star hearth, this time done with toon shaders. religion

The sun rises on the just and the unjust, if they pay of course

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The sun rises on the just and the unjust, if they pay of course http:%%//%%www.orbitsimulator.com/formulas/ ... inder.html Following from my earlier post. This website will give you the Lagrange points for a two body system given their masses and distance between them. I used Pluto (or a pluto-like dwarf planet with no moon) and the sun as examples, and I got about 6881688.874956055 km for L1, which is where the mini sun from my other post would have to go.

The Theophany

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Theophany [image] A possible depiction of what was seen during the Theophany. It is an orb of light with a fringe of shifting hues, hanging in a part of the sky where the sun did not travel. Despite occurring at midday, the rest of the sky was dark as night and the stars shone unusually bright.

The Unclean Ones

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Unclean Ones I have mentioned the Lifebringers in passing before, a group of Neoshamanists that sought to create sapient life anew through artificial selection. It is this group that was responsible for much of the yinrih's early scientific knowledge of ecology, biology, and medicine, as well as developing the first viable terraforming methods.

The War of Dissolution Begins

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The War of Dissolution Begins It's said that converts are the most zealous, and Firefly was certainly no exception. When he returned to Focus, he began a campaign of extermination against, not only Wayfarers, but anyone not sufficiently godless. Of particular note was his treatment of the Misotheists, whom he pursued with as much hatred as his former coreligionists. To despise The Light was to acknowledge its existence, and Firefly would brook no compromise in that regard.

The Weremoot and Wifemoot

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Weremoot and Wifemoot The two legislative houses of Hearthside are the lower weremoot and the upper wifemoot. The original distinction was not of gender but clerical status. The wifemoot is only open to clergy while the weremoot represents the laity. However, Hearthsider women who want to get into politics usually start out as hearthkeepers, so the weremoot is where the men end up.

The World Engine

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The World Engine If Partisan Territory is the China of Focus, than the World Engine is their Great Wall. It is a dwarf planet that is considered by most to mark the boundary between Focus and interstellar space. However, it didn’t start out where it is now.

The Wrist and Writing Claw

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Wrist and Writing Claw [image] A dorsal view of the left forepaw, in color! Notice the discolored claw on the digit next to the inner thumb. That's the writing claw. It's supposed to be flatter and broader than the other claws, but I had a hard time making it look right.

The Yinrih Can into Space

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Yinrih Can into Space One might find it odd, given the yinrih's longer lifespan, that they were able to achieve spaceflight a mere five thousand Earth years after achieving sapience. This would be like paleolithic humans going from hunting and gathering with sharpened sticks and hand axes to manned orbital flight in a mere five hundred years.

The Yinti

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

The Yinti Around the high southerly latitudes of Yih there is a cryptid known as the rcfrcfDFg b sPnqg (great snow beast), or “yinti” to humans. It is described as being anywhere from grizzly- to elephant-sized, bearing white fur and possessing a roughly cynoid body shape. An ambush predator, it makes its home in caves atop sheer cliffs and kills its prey by flinging itself over the edge and crushing the unsuspecting prey under its bulk, suffering no injury from the impact. More fanciful legend…

thoughts on childhood amnesia

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

thoughts on childhood amnesia Wondering if childhood amnesia is a thing, or amnesia generally. For now it is since I included it in the latest part of First Contact (the second narrator is the pup from the first part who sprayed juice on Lightray's chest), and the second part of the story is him recalling an early memory, implying he can't remember anything earlier.

Thoughts on Early yinrih weaponry

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Thoughts on Early yinrih weaponry I've stated previously that yinrih are not accurate throwers. They also have natural weapons in the form of their claws, so I'm not sure if spears would develop. Then again, spears were likely the first tools used by early humans (chimps also make spears by gnawing branches down to a point). Perhaps like chimps yinrih could use spears for thrusting but not throwing.

Thoughts on geopolitics

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Thoughts on geopolitics

Visions1 wrote: ////2025-07-23T17:12:17+00:00 Spoiler: Ideas: “Look at how females make up the clergy! The females monopolize power! If you join us,” say the Partisans to rambunctious, hopeless males, “you'll be free!

Thoughts on Misotheism

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Thoughts on Misotheism Was just thinking about how militant misotheists seek to kill Wayfarers in order to starve the Uncreated Light of worshipers in revenge for cursing the yinrih with sapience. There's a potential contradiction in misotheist doctrine here. The noosphere is only effected by the emotions and beliefs of

Thoughts on Newhome

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-17T13:38:24+00:00

Thoughts on Newhome Visions1]] wrote: 2025-07-27T05:49:56+00:00 "What happened with Newhome's terraforming in the end? Were they able to accomplish much there? Do they have any working environment? (I do imagine it a bit more feasible than with humans. I'm reading dune, and apparently (spoiler) the book discusses how to change the face of Arrakis from pure desert to habitable in a span of 350 years, but mind you the planet has way more oxygen than Mars does. If it would take that long for th…

Thoughts on racial phenotypes

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Thoughts on racial phenotypes

Visions1 wrote: ////2025-07-21T15:03:32+00:00 So are there any planets that get cold?

Moonlitter (rather its moons) and PT can get cold. Outlander distinguishes bodies that can be fully climate controlled via Science

Thoughts on Terraforming

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Thoughts on Terraforming I think, at least at first, the Bright Way might lose interest in the other planets of Focus after determining they're lifeless. This opens the door for Neoshamanists and other miscellaneous actors to swoop in and start getting the terraforming ball rolling.

Thought on Yinrih Eyes

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Thought on Yinrih Eyes Just realized that because yinrih eyes are actually arrays of quarter wave dipole antennas that means they’re able to detect polarized light. But more importantly, you can prevent them from seeing light whose polarization is 90 degrees off from the orientation of their nantenna patches.

Tidying up Yih's Biosphere

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-07T20:45:19+00:00

Tidying up Yih's Biosphere Okie-dokie, I want to tidy up Yih's biosphere. For starters, Yih life is not DNA-based, but it is based on a similar nucleic acid that encodes the same proteins. This creates a genetic firewall between Earth life and Yih life. This hopefully doesn't mean that Yih organisms can't metabolize Earth biomass.

Tod the Luckless

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Tod the Luckless Tod was hatched into a family on one of the moons of Welkinstead. His sires and dams were representative of most Allied Worlds citizens in that they weren't particularly religious. Despite this, his dams insisted they at least go to the local lighthouse on the Feast of the Kindling of the Fire of Understanding every year.

Tod the Luckless, Part 2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Tod the Luckless, Part 2 Tod made his way to a row of greenery facing the steps leading up to the lighthouse just as Focus spread its distant feeble rays over the ground. He hid out of sight until the front doors burst open, soldiers and locals alike pouring out and chatting amongst themselves. Then he saw him, hanging back as the crowd dispersed, talking with the hearthkeeper.

Torpor

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Torpor Every Yih week (12 days), Yinrih spend a full Yih day (a bit over 24 hours) in torpor. At no point are they unconscious, but they are sedate. The sensation is compared to the sedatives used in Human cataract surgery. They have delayed reaction time, dulled sensation, and a feeling of detachment, but can still follow simple commands.

Torpor alcoves

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Torpor alcoves I've moved the wiki off of Cloudflare. It may take a bit for me to get it back up. The wiki itself isn't going anywhere. I self host it on a 15 year old laptop. What's moving is the reverse proxy server that's open to the internet. I've mentioned before that homes on orbital colonies are transportable modules that are semi-permanently attached to the colony via an airlock. Homes on Welkinstead are condominiums or apartments, integrated into the structure of the city and either r…

Train of Wonders

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Train of Wonders While the Allied Worlds is the chief source of entertainment media, a few offerings from outside the AW have managed to achieve system-wide success. The Train of Wonders is a children's educational TV show from Hearthside starring a litter of pups and their childermoot who live in a magical train capable of traveling through space and time.

Transit Ideas

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Transit Ideas Revisiting the idea of high-speed nonstop trains, but not fast enough to create microgravity. No evacuated tunnel, but I still like the idea of feeder trains. Instead of the main train stopping to pick up passengers, a feeder train on a circulating side track couples with the main train, where passengers can get on and off. The feeder train then returns to a station.

Tree Dwellers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-07T20:39:18+00:00

Tree Dwellers Tree Dwellers (Commonthroat /huff, early rising strengthening growl, huff, short high weak whine, huff, short low weak growl/ literally “forest yinrih”) are a non-sapient species closely related to the yinrih. While humans often compare them to chimps, they're more closely related to the yinrih than chimps are to humans. It's better to think of them like early hominins. They're clever, can use simple tools, and have complex hierarchical social structures, but do not co…

Underlay tunnel interface card

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Underlay tunnel interface card [image] Here's a sketch of the underlay tunnel interface card: because networking infrastructure is what I think of when I think sci-fi worldbuilding. ---------- Now that I'm looking at it, it should have a face plate on the side opposite the pins. I did figure out how to do a bump map for the traces leading from the tailstone wafer to the pins, and the pins themselves are a texture mask mixing two shaders. I also had to UV unwrap the plane used as the PCB. Whi…

Unionist and Allied Worlds Symbols

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Unionist and Allied Worlds Symbols [image] Logo of the Unionists, which is a reference to the standard Allied Worlds symbol. It's six circles inside a hexagon instead of four circles inside a diamond. [image] The AW symbol done in the same style. politics

Update on High Hearthkeeper Lucy

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Update on High Hearthkeeper Lucy New lore regarding High Hearthkeeper Lucy. Recall that I wasn't sure how to portray her, as a traditionalist or a modernist. I've decided that generally she leans traditional, but she considered temporarily suspending interstellar mission work. Prior to her accession to the high perch, she was a research monk on Yih working on the mass router project. She was confident that the mass router would be ready for general use very soon, and saw the suppression of womb…

Update on the Commonthroat Title

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Update on the Commonthroat Title [image] It's “the lonely galaxy” written using the newer “dajba” system. I'm pretty pleased considering I did it with a mouse. meta

Urban Planning

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Urban Planning I think since yinrih are arboreal, they'd have a desire to get off the ground whenever possible. This leads to them building up rather than out, with dwellings packed together and raised off the ground, with the foundation resting on stilts or pylons. The fact that their urheimat was a flood-prone river valley also means that they'd have experience with flood mitigation. Yih's 12% lower gravity would help them build taller structures earlier than equivalently advanced human cultu…

Various Allied Worlds-related Images

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Various Allied Worlds-related Images [image] Gross features of a single Alliance Token (AW currency). [image] Here's a 3D printed version the size of a US half dollar. All AW currency is made of polymerite. Because of the exotic materials and immensely intricate anti-forgery features (which I'm too lazy to depict in the print), the few tokens of pocket change carried by the missionaries are worth billions during their first year on Earth, which comes in handy when Lodestar decides to fabrica…

Xenoergonomics: Vehicle Cockpit

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Xenoergonomics: Vehicle Cockpit [image] The operator lies on his back in the chair and grips the keyers in his paws. Analog controls are located at the base of the chair. Output is provided by HUD specs, usually in a visor form factor for a wider field of vision.

Vertical Treadmill

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Vertical Treadmill If humans are natural distance runners and running/jogging is a common form of exercise, that it should follow that since yinrih are climbers then climbing should be a common form of exercise. I've already mentioned that yinrih use ladders rather than stairs. I can see monkey fox gyms having a vertical treadmill as well as other climbing surfaces.

Visions of the Future

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Visions of the Future A bit of Claravian popular piety says that right before a martyr dies, The Light grants them a vision of how their sacrifice will benefit the Bright Way's progress toward obeying the Great Commandment. religion

Visualizing the Noosphere

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Visualizing the Noosphere The internet map This is perhaps the closest thing to what I imagine the noosphere “looks like”. I thought this site had gone under because I couldn't find it for the longest time (yeah yeah my fault for just googling every time I wanted to visit instead of putting down the address). The search function unfortunately doesn't seem to work though.

Visual Adornment

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Visual Adornment While yinrih primarily rely on perfumes to communicate things like social status and rank, visual adornment isn't unheard of. Scoring or painting designs onto the writing claw, which is flatter and broader than the other claws, is probably the most common of these practices, and it is done by both males and females. Designs include religious symbols, floral patterns, and tiny passages of text.

Wars and Such

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Wars and Such This post may not be canon pending a good night's sleep. I'm le tired. ---------- It was fairly natural that shires would evolve into cities, and then city-states, and then into states proper. The first polity to be recognized as such was probably the jungles around Newman's Dale where the Shamanists dwelt. From almost he beginning of the Bright Way they refused almost all contact with the emigrants south of the jungle. Mostly due to superstitions about the rapidly evolving soci…

Wayfarer's Prayer Ring

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Wayfarer's Prayer Ring [image] Here's a Wayfarer's prayer ring. It consists of two parts: a freely rotating gear nested in an outer ring. Just using a single piece would be uncomfortable because the dorsal portion of a yinrih's digits is covered in fur. The gear has twelve teeth, with one of them slightly protruding, acting as a starting point.

Weeping Sires

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Weeping Sires The qhrBFg, “weeping sires” or simply rBFmg “those who weep”, is one of the oldest surviving examples of cynoid folklore. Depictions and explanations vary widely, but some elements are common. They are usually depicted as the vengeful ghosts of sires who have lost their womb nests. A typical retelling goes like this:

Welkinstead's Gravity

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Welkinstead's Gravity I just learned that Jupiter's “surface” gravity (measured at the cloud tops) is only around 2x that of Earth's. This is because even though Jupiter is much mor massive, it's also much larger, meaning the “surface” is much further away from the center. I think that puts me in acceptable fudge territory such that I can believably ignore most of the biological effects of higher gravity. Even more so when you take into account the floating cities will be somewhere below the to…

whats_in_a_name

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

whats_in_a_name There are two Commonthroat words that yinrih use to refer to themselves. The most basic is , which is analogous to the word “man” or “human”, it's a common name referring to anyone of their species. the other is . This word has two morphemes (not counting the deictic inflection). It's a combination of the word which refers to the planet Yih, and the suffix

What Lighthouses look like (other than all the bones)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

What Lighthouses look like (other than all the bones) I posted this on the wiki but don't think I've posted it here yet ---------- A hearthkeeper's duty is to bring physical and spiritual light and warmth to her congregation. This is accomplished through lighthouses, places of worship of the Bright Way. They evolved out of the open bonfires tended by shamans prior to the Theophany. These bonfires grew into sheltered hearths as the yinrih's society advanced. With the discovery of electricity t…

What may have become of the Artificer's Litter

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

What may have become of the Artificer's Litter At the end of The Artificer's Litter the giant head's builders are scattered across Focus. It struck me this morning that that's en excellent founding myth for a stateless nation that practices a form of Mechanist Neoshamanism. This nation may or may not have any connection to the head, and they may not believe themselves to have such a connection, but outsiders do, so they're popularly regarded as the descendants of the Artificer's Litter.

Why Red is Unlucky

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Why Red is Unlucky Posted this in the Commonthroat thread, but this is pretty significant lore so here it is in the worlduilding thread. qfBqg /huff, early falling weakening whine, huff, short low weak growl/ refers to the fruits of two distinct species of tree. The two species are almost impossible to distinguish visually. One species uses its juicy bright red fruit to attract animals in order to spread its seeds. It's a favorite of tree dwellers, and was likely so for pre-sapient yinrih as w…

Wind Fruit Picture

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-04-07T20:39:44+00:00

Wind Fruit Picture Here's a wind fruit rendered in Blender. [image] plants food

Womb Ship Layout

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Womb Ship Layout [image] Here's a simple womb ship layout. There is extra storage in a basement that can be accessed through removable floor panels. Exposed flat surfaces are covered in paw loops that allow anchoring and movement. The interior is small enough that paw cabling isn't necessary.

Working on Yih some more

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Working on Yih some more [image] It's been a bit since I've played with Blender. Here I'm trying some ring dimensions for Yih. The red and cyan lights are just there to demonstrate the shadow the ring casts on the planet and the planet casts on the ring.

Worldbuilding born of rage and frustration

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Worldbuilding born of rage and frustration The primary means of asynchronous long-form text communication (think email) and real-time voice and video communication (think phone calls) both categorize messages into solicited vs unsolicited. In order for a message to be considered solicited, both the sender and receiver must be registered in the other party's contact list. Registering mutual contact info involves a handshake protocol to ensure that the parties themselves are exchanging this info…

Writing with the Writing Claw

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Writing with the Writing Claw [image] A yinrih's writing claw is shaped like the nib of a fountain pen, and acts more or less like one as well. However, while a fountain pen uses capillary action and gravity to cause a “controlled leak” to produce ink flow, a yinrih has voluntary control over the muscles in the ink sac. By contracting these muscles, and by gently pressing the tip of the claw against a writing surface, ink can flow out. This mechanism allows the writing claw to work in microgra…

YAP and YIP

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

YAP and YIP The Yinrih Ansible Protocol (YAP) is the human designation for the link layer protocol used to send information from one ansible to another. Ansibles sharing tailstone wafers from a single monocrystal are assigned unique ansible numbers at the manufacturer. When an ansible goes online, it sends a neighbor solicitation request to any other ansibles on the link. The neighbors respond with neighbor response packets containing their own ansible numbers. Once every ansible on the link is…

Yeaning Sickness

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Yeaning Sickness Yeaning Sickness is the name given to the symptoms of withdrawal after being in suspension. It is characterized by temporary blindness and an inability to move. It can last from a few hours to about a week, depending on how long one is suspended, although one can power through the symptoms faster through sheer force of will. The crew of the Dewfall manage to bounce back in half an hour. Yeaning sickness is the principle reason why Suspension isn't used all the time to interface…

Year Zero

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Year Zero The Yih calendar may or may not have a year zero focus culture

Yih Calendar Sketch

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Yih Calendar Sketch One Yih year is 1.47 Earth years long. One Yih day is 24.39 Earth hours long. There are exactly 528 Yih days per Yih year. Since Yih has no moons, there are no months. Rather, a year is divided into four quarters of 132 days each that align with the seasons. The new year starts on the Southern Hemisphere's vernal equinox.

Yih Ice Caps

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Yih Ice Caps Yih may not have polar ice caps. If there are few continents, that means the ocean currents can freely flow between equator and poles, moderating the global climate. This means the south pole, which is part of Damsback, can be colonized.

Yih Map First Attempt

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Yih Map First Attempt [image] I'm using the 12 word cartographer method introduced by Gestaltist here. The idea is that a supercontinent is starting to break up, and Damsback is the largest chunk of that former supercontinent. The River may in fact be a very narrow seaway that is forming as a result of continental drift. I want the southern part of Damsback to extend from equator to pole.

Yih's Ring and Claravian Iconography

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Yih's Ring and Claravian Iconography Yih has a ring. It has had some effect on yinrih culture. Winter days are darker and summer nights are brighter. The phrase “To chase the end of the ring” means to go on a fool's errand. Pascal's Commonthroat name translates to

Yinlet

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Yinlet [image] I drew this kit a long time ago but never shared it for some reason. biology

Yinrih Art

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Yinrih Art Vulpithecine art is the visual art of yinrih cultures. Yinrih do not rely on subtle facial structure to recognize one another, making them effectively prosopagnosic. In close quarters, musk is used to distinguish individuals. Gross visual features such as fur pattern and body shape are used at a distance or when olfaction is impractical. Emotion is also communicated primarily through pheromones rather than body language, though ear position is used as a secondary indicator.

Yinrih article on Frathwiki

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Yinrih article on Frathwiki I spent WAY too much time on this considering it doesn't say anything new, but here it is, an article on the yinrih for Frathwiki. Edit: and here's a link to the article ---------- The yinrih (/“jIn.ri/), commonly called the monkey fox, is an arboreal animal native to the tropical rainforests on the continent of Damsback on the planet Yih. It is notable for being the only other species besides humans to achieve sapience.

Yinrih Backpack

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Yinrih Backpack [image] Here's a yinrih wearing a backpack. He wasn't supposed to be so chubby but eh. There are LOTS of pockets. They're sealed with magnet flaps. The main compartment opens from the rear, and there's a ring attached to a zipper to allow access with the tail.

Yinrih Cities and Houses

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Yinrih Cities and Houses I need to think about how yinrih build their buildings and how they arrange those buildings into cities, especially pre-space age. As arboreal animals, I've assumed that they'd prefer to be off the ground where possible. Perhaps they construct their homes on stilts or pylons and use the space underneath for storage. Yih has 12% lower gravity than Earth, so that may make it more feasible.

Yinrih Foreleg

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Yinrih Foreleg [image] I started this drawing only to find out I was out of my depth (literally, depth perception isn't my thing) so here's a random foreleg for ya. The writing claw looks a bit closer to how I picture it in my head. Also yinrih legs are thicker and more ape-like compared to canids.

Yinrih longevity and its effects on human-yinrih cultural integration

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Yinrih longevity and its effects on human-yinrih cultural integration You know that old joke about soviet citizens waiting 10 years for a new car? I bet a yinrih would hear that and shrug. “10 years? That doesn't sound so-- Oh wait, that's like over a tenth of your total lifespan.

Yinrih Mathematics

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Yinrih Mathematics [image] The yinrih use a dozenal numeral system. The highest place value is closest to the beginning of the line, which means the digits decrease in value going from right to left. The yinrih also use a set of symbols representing orders of magnitude similar to how we use K, M, G etc to represent thousands, millions etc. Instead of being based on powers of 1000 (or every third power of 10) they're based on powers of 1728, which is 1000 in base 12, or 1 great gross.

Yinrih Milk

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Yinrih Milk [image] Here's a spacer's canteen filled with yinrih milk. Their milk and their ink have similar origins, which is why the milk is blue, and why it is sweated from the palms of the forepaws. It doesn't have the earthy rain smell that ink has.

Yinrih Popular Media

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Yinrih Popular Media Yinrih consume a similar variety of media as humans. There are experiences similar to movies and TV shows as well as print and audio media. The phrase “canned play/drama” is used to refer to what humans call movies and serialized TV shows.

Yinrih proxemics, familial gestures of affection, and grooming

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Yinrih proxemics, familial gestures of affection, and grooming Adult yinrih are much more particular about their personal space compared to humans. There are a few expressions of affection involving contact shared between parents and their pups, as well as between littermates or unrelated playmates, but never between parents in a childermoot.

Yinrih Social Media

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Yinrih Social Media

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: ////2024-11-04T13:44:54+00:00 What’s the yinrih equivalent to social media?

With the exception of their lack of libido and their less private bathroom habits, yinrih have the same social impulses as humans, so they have similar social media

Yinrih urinary tract

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Yinrih urinary tract Per this one and only source I bothered to check while googling, a dog's bladder can hold 44 mL of urine per pound of body weight. If we extrapolate that to yinrih, who weigh 50 to 80 lb on average, that means yinrih can hold 2.2 to 3.5 L of urine. Yinrih may have two bladders. One is connected to the cloaca as expected. The other, which is called the antebladder by me just now, drains into the bladder proper. The purpose of the antebladder is to delay the onset of the des…

Yinrih Wallet

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Yinrih Wallet [image] Yinrih often wear a pocketed band around the right foreleg that serves as a wallet and coin purse. They're fairly easy to pickpocket in a crowd, as it's trivial to slip a paw into one of the pockets while walking by, and most pockets are sealed with magnetic latches that are quick to open and close with a single paw. Zippers or snaps may also be used, and those are harder to operate without the victim knowing, but are more fiddly to use with the single paw available to th…

Your mind makes it real

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

Your mind makes it real Jotting this down before I forget. Atavists believe that widespread beliefs can manifest as entities with agency over real space. They also craft mythologies for their self isolating communities. Put those two together and you get Atavists constructing mythologies in order to influence the Noosphere to make those mythologies real, like a society-wide version of Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends.

YPA (Yinrih Phonetic Alphabet)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

YPA (Yinrih Phonetic Alphabet) Now that I'm working on Outlander, and since I want to start working on Hearthsider in the future, I decided I want to create a universal system for referring to yinrih speech sounds. Here is one candidate. Yinrih language is highly tonal. Plenty of Terran languages (Sino-Tibetan especially) like to refer to tones by number. So I've expanded this system to encompass not just tone, but all the features of a vowel. Consonants are indicated by letters (case insensati…

YSO (Yinrih Standards Organization)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-03-08T18:21:13+00:00

YSO (Yinrih Standards Organization) The standard direction for vulpithecine screw threads is reversed compared to humans. It's counterclockwise to tighten and clockwise to loosen. Clocks and gauge dials are also reversed. This is due to two things. For clocks and dials, it's because the yinrih primarily inhabited the southern hemisphere of Yih, where the shadow cast by a sundial moves in the opposite direction compared to the northern hemisphere. When mechanical clocks were invented, they mimi…