Lady Luck, rule 63 style
Jun. 4th, 2016 10:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethgoogle is frustrating me. I was inventing pantheons for fantasy worlds, and the AD&D book said that Luck is usually a Lady, so of course I wanted to flip that. So I was thinking of all those Lady Luck pin up girls and tattoos and so forth, and now I want something like that, but with a guy. A pretty, slutty guy, because we know Luck is a tease who everyone wants.
And I can't find even the basic concept.
Google keeps on asking if I actually mean bad luck.
No, no I do not, I mean genderswap Luck, rule 63 Luck, possibly queer Luck depending on if you assume the viewer is a guy because somehow the flirty show off guys seem to read queer because straight guys don't work it (ugh).
But I don't know how to get a search engine to cough up, even if such a picture exists.
I would at this point settle for a particularly butch Lady Luck, but searching on that kind of string leads to the discovery that there's a lesbian dating service called Lady Luck, which, good name, great, but not what I was looking for. Today.
Meanwhile all this worldbuilding is, as per usual, far less useful than just sitting down and taking some characters for a walk would be.
I have a problem with bad guys. Or antagonists even. I mean, I sit down and try and make a world that works, and that part is interesting, but then I have to break it so there's some sort of conflict, and that part is less good. I'm interested in trade routes that cross continents and bring new and interesting diseases with them, and the inefficacy of castles in the face of rising maintenance costs and how the force projection embodied in the architectural projects of Edward I kind of stalled out before the Black Death even got here, and of course after that everyone had a great many more problems. I kind of want to write a post apocalyptic after the plague story where only 20% of the known to the characters world survived. Except I don't like post apocalypse stories because they tend to be mean. And I don't know what my characters would do really.
This is why Fantasy invents dragons. Actual problems tended to be weather patterns and droughts and floods and plagues. The occasional invading horde could manage it because of unusual weather and got turned back when everything went muddy again. Empires rose until smallpox swept through. What humans do doesn't seem to be the deciding factor across much of history. So, dragons. We can at least kill a really big lizard. For the win.
... okay, bolshy kings did make a significant impact on history. I'm just... increasingly unconvinced it was the deciding factor. Yaay for antibiotics and the green revolution.
The potential post antibiotic post global warming epic soil erosion era is quite concerning.
The more I read magic books, the more I feel the Plant college would make more of a difference than anything else could do. I mean, the ability to control minds is all very well, you could puppet a king real good, but the ability to fill your fields real fast is a world changer.
... I think it was one of astolat's Merlin fics that went there, pointing out that full fields win wars? Yeah, http://archiveofourown.org/works/40561 , The Crown of the Summer Court, "This isn't a power that wins challenges. It's a power that wins wars."
That story managed to be interesting with pretty much no bad guys. I know it can be done. I just... haven't got the hang of it.
Also, it's a demonstration of my priorities that my recent reading and extending knowledge is just making me cranky that I haven't turned it into fiction yet. Learning is good in and of itself. I should keep that in mind.
And I can't find even the basic concept.
Google keeps on asking if I actually mean bad luck.
No, no I do not, I mean genderswap Luck, rule 63 Luck, possibly queer Luck depending on if you assume the viewer is a guy because somehow the flirty show off guys seem to read queer because straight guys don't work it (ugh).
But I don't know how to get a search engine to cough up, even if such a picture exists.
I would at this point settle for a particularly butch Lady Luck, but searching on that kind of string leads to the discovery that there's a lesbian dating service called Lady Luck, which, good name, great, but not what I was looking for. Today.
Meanwhile all this worldbuilding is, as per usual, far less useful than just sitting down and taking some characters for a walk would be.
I have a problem with bad guys. Or antagonists even. I mean, I sit down and try and make a world that works, and that part is interesting, but then I have to break it so there's some sort of conflict, and that part is less good. I'm interested in trade routes that cross continents and bring new and interesting diseases with them, and the inefficacy of castles in the face of rising maintenance costs and how the force projection embodied in the architectural projects of Edward I kind of stalled out before the Black Death even got here, and of course after that everyone had a great many more problems. I kind of want to write a post apocalyptic after the plague story where only 20% of the known to the characters world survived. Except I don't like post apocalypse stories because they tend to be mean. And I don't know what my characters would do really.
This is why Fantasy invents dragons. Actual problems tended to be weather patterns and droughts and floods and plagues. The occasional invading horde could manage it because of unusual weather and got turned back when everything went muddy again. Empires rose until smallpox swept through. What humans do doesn't seem to be the deciding factor across much of history. So, dragons. We can at least kill a really big lizard. For the win.
... okay, bolshy kings did make a significant impact on history. I'm just... increasingly unconvinced it was the deciding factor. Yaay for antibiotics and the green revolution.
The potential post antibiotic post global warming epic soil erosion era is quite concerning.
The more I read magic books, the more I feel the Plant college would make more of a difference than anything else could do. I mean, the ability to control minds is all very well, you could puppet a king real good, but the ability to fill your fields real fast is a world changer.
... I think it was one of astolat's Merlin fics that went there, pointing out that full fields win wars? Yeah, http://archiveofourown.org/works/40561 , The Crown of the Summer Court, "This isn't a power that wins challenges. It's a power that wins wars."
That story managed to be interesting with pretty much no bad guys. I know it can be done. I just... haven't got the hang of it.
Also, it's a demonstration of my priorities that my recent reading and extending knowledge is just making me cranky that I haven't turned it into fiction yet. Learning is good in and of itself. I should keep that in mind.