Necromancy

You know how sometimes you just wake up grumpy?
Today I woke up grumpy about necromancy always being considered automatically evil
when death spells of other colleges aren't.

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And yet 'charm' spells are 'good', and animating meat is evil?

They have their priorities so very backwards.




Of course they also have unhelpfully fuzzy definitions of good, evil, order and chaos, that don't match the working definitions in other books.

I was also thinking about how our definitions of evil are heavily shaped by our reproductive strategy. Mostly I think this when trying to figure out goa'uld, but, we have one child at a time and look after them intensively and for a long time, and we call that Good. But the goa'uld have thousands of spawn. If they picked one to look after for a long time then how would that be more Good? What is Good to a species with the exact opposite reproductive strategy? Probably something about the greatest good for the greatest number, personal is not the same as important, changing the whole feeding ground for the better rather than individually nurturing. Needs thinking through.



Or, possibly, I could find something useful and productive to do with my day.

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My 'do something productive' plan worked so well that I made lunch, started a laundry, ate lunch, got under a blanket to be more warm, got up to put plate away and was puzzled to find the laundry had finished cause hadn't I just started that? But no, I started it two hours ago.

:eyeroll:



I need to make a plan to do things with mornings and afternoons and evenings. I used to but I got out of the habit.

I also need to sort out my seating and computer gaming, because lack of seating leads to going asleep instead of reading, and lack of gaming leads to staring into space and being grumpy instead of playing a nice game with a story.

I know what tasks I need to do and in what order, they're just a bit stalled. But I'm working on them.


In the meantime I can just keep doing small bits at a time.

After all, the laundry is all drying now, that's pretty helpful.