(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) February is here, and with it — at least in the U.S. — comes a veritable deluge of chocolate and flowers and other things demanding that you think about romance. … Continue reading
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(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) There are a lot of different types of terrain I could theoretically discuss, but since I don’t want to spend too long on that general topic at one time, let’s … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) We talked a bit about mountains last week, because they’re inextricably involved with the tectonic processes that shape our whole planet. But they’re a geographical feature writers often stick into … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) If you’re like me, you learned the basic ideas of plate tectonics in school: giant masses of stone, some of them with water on top, floating around on the earth’s … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) To launch us into the New Year, I’m going to go back to the physical world for a moment, rather than the social one, and talk about rivers: how they … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) Liminality has come up in these posts before, in the context of rites of passage. But it’s a concept with much broader application than just that area, and since we’re … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) It’s hard to talk about kinship without also talking about marriage, but I’m going to delay that for the time being, and stop on the border between the two by … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) Fictive kinship is exactly what it sounds like: fictional kinship. Not the kind you find in novels (well, you may find it in a novel), but rather the kind that … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) What kinds of relatives do you have? This seems like a simple question. But that’s because we take our words and concepts so much for granted that we don’t even … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) Because of the various holidays in the U.S., this is a time of year when people’s thoughts often turn to family. So let’s start unpacking what exactly “family” means in … Continue reading