Scars of Tiamat - A Post-Monster Apocalypse Setting

Sometimes, I just like to mess around with maps, taking blanks of existing landmasses and reconfiguring them, or taking them as is and just slapping down a bunch of names and borders to make a whole new world out of regular old Earth. This was one such experiment, with no real interest in setting stories here, but possibly open to use for an RPG Setting.

My notes on this are actually very scattered, as most of it comes from answering questions on a forum I originally posted this to years ago. I'll try and cobble together what I had going here.

Conceptual Magics

REALIGNING REALITY
Conceptual Magic follows the idea that magic may operate under its own form of rules and laws, but that the connections between them are more in line with thematic association, rather than any sort of quantifiable scientific understanding or rational connection. While defying known physical laws is to be expected of a supernatural force, these forms of magic grant powers and abilities based on cultural connotations and superstitions relating to their theme.
 
Most Conceptual Magics are forged in relation to humanity, and thus are based around a human bias. Non-human creatures may possess the same category of magic, but understand it differently, and this may effect how they are able to use it. For most cases, however, the human method should be considered the default. While it is possible for a branch of Concept Magic to evolve over time, most retain their initial manifestation; once established, it will cement its own rules into place, by way of its use re-enforcing the Concept it is based on.
 
There are many different variations of Concept Magic, and each operates under their own unique systems. Concept Magics may exist on worlds right along other forms of magic that they resemble, and thus, can be easily confused with other types of mysticism. Categorizing such Magics mainly comes down to identifying certain key attributes.

Comical Thoughts

Comical Thoughts was a brief attempt at a comic book review mini-podcast that I had made for my now-defunct YouTube channel. I wasn't really intending to become a comic book reviewer, this was really just a way for me to practice my podcasting voice and audio editing. This is also less of a review series and more of a "hey check out this neat thing I found" spotlight series. There were a lot more titles I could have covered, but I felt I'd gotten my practice in, and it wasn't long before I ended up doing the Handsome Voices Podcast, after which I was so sick of doing audio work that I never got around to doing more of these. :V

Fair warning this was early into my attempts to record and edit audio so I didn't have particularly good microphones and I wasn't very good with editing. I've tried to balance the sound out better with some of the more quiet tracks but it's probably not the best sound quality. Also, I don't remember in what order I  initially made them, so they're just in alphabetical here.

EPISODES

+Anima
ASH Universe
Ex-Heroes
Extinctioners
Five Ghosts, the Haunting of Fabian Gray
Justice Machine
Mage the Hero (Discovered and Defined)
Only Superhuman
Pantheon
Strikeforce Morituri

"BONUS" EPISODE (Anime Commentary)

This wasn't officially part of Comical Thoughts, but was going to be part of a separate series of general commentary and musings on storytelling, tropes, and conventions, picking a series or three to highlight my point. However, I only ended up making one of them, so I may as well toss it in here, as it's also sort of an anime review.

Angel Tales and Missed Opportunities

Handsome Voices Are Never Wrong

This was a podcast I started in the Spring of 2020 with the help of fellow internet creative Elliott Thomas Staude (check out his work here), also featuring various guests from the Web Fiction Guide sphere. Originally hosted on YouTube, I have recently removed my YouTube channel due to lack of use since, as well as a lack of future plans, and that meant taking down the show with it. However, I don't want it to be completely lost, so I've decided to put it all in a public Google Drive folder, and make the show available for download that way.

The show was intended as a casual conversation cast with a focus on fiction, stories, writing, and creativity in general, more specifically on web fiction. Much of the show featured spotlights of various works from fellow writers in the WFG circle at the time.

The podcast fizzled out mostly due to my flaking on it for various reasons, primary of which was a lack of time and energy to do the editing once my job re-started post-lockdown, me burning out on doing audio much faster than I anticipated, and schedule conflicts due to mismatched day job shifts.

Still, I'm glad we did it. I had wanted to do a podcast for a few years by that point, with the name Handsome Voices Are Never Wrong held in reserve the whole time. It was nice to finally take a crack at it, even if it didn't last. So, without further adieu, enjoy the show!

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1M6jDTVGE_KKKmig05Mm7PlnF5Ze1KkXs

Episode Summaries - Sharkerbob and Elliott host every episode.

• 00 - Grab-bag of topics, testing the format. Audio is rougher in this one, and it's the longest episode by far, so maybe start with another episode and come back to this one later.
• 01 - Guest starring Shadowkey, we talk about our various inspirations.
• 02 - Guest starring Nippoten, we talk about adaptations of stories across various mediums.
• 03 - Discussion of our writing struggles and bafflements at fan fiction.
• 04 - Guest starring Avian Overlord, we discuss tropes and cliches in fiction.
• 05 - Guest starring Megajoule, discussing his series Inheritors.
• 06 - Guest starring Rhythm, discussing their series Touch.
• 07 - Guest starring Nippoten, discussing his various series.
• 08 - Guest starring Guardly Guard, discussing his series Only A Mask.
• 09 - Guest starring Wizard of Woah! and Avian Overlord, discussing their series The New Humans.
• 10 - Guest starring Rhodeworks, discussing his series Not All Heroes.
• 11 - Casual convo episode.
• 12 - Guest starring Hejin57, discussing his series Music Masters.
• 13 - Guest starring The Red Sheep, discussing his series Pyrebound.
• 14 - Guest starring Avian Overlord, talking about web comics.