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Loai Qerl
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
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Posted - 2017.03.18 00:15:24 -
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I hope you'll forgive me if I don't launch straight away into an account of my own home planet, and the part of it where I grew up, and all its weather and plants and animals and usual clothes and other customary things. I could do it, I could write books about Jachanu V, but I want to know the little things about YOUR home. Where you grew up, what seemed normal that turned out to be strange, what the food is like, what you'd like to return to someday? What feels like home, when you find it somewhere else.
I would also like very much to hear about this if it was not a planet at all, but a station. Or some other thing in space. That's a thing so strange to me and I would love so much to know the little familiar details that made it HOME to you.
Won't you tell us a little something about it? Please. |
Loai Qerl
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
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Posted - 2017.03.18 01:42:51 -
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It seems to have been very cold where so many of you grew up. I'm sorry. Really I am.
Mizhara Del'thul wrote:Now you have me daydreaming about growing up on one's home planet. What it'd be like to be both a child, and home.
And this makes me very sad. I hope you can find some comfort in this thread. Even if it's only a secondhand home feeling. I'm sorry. |
Loai Qerl
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
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Posted - 2017.03.18 03:28:42 -
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Oh FINE. You lot love the cold so much, obviously it is time to tell you about Jachanu V!
It is hot. No one argues that. It is hot and most of the planet that isn't polar lives near water; fortunately. there is a lot of water. Water in the sun is very pretty, and water also has fish in it. We ate a lot of fish. We were in the northeastern part of the northern continent. A very temperate part. Many fish. Many wonderful juicy plants and good brackish land for crops; when I left for Academy we had switched to saavice (a sugar berry) for short-term financial reasons, but before the saavice there were jama. Beautiful vines that coiled and fell back on themselves to make trees, more or less. Huge red flowers like paper, big enough to fit your head in and lick the stamen (do NOT say rude things about this) and leaves like green stained glass. A smell a bit like cat urine, unfortunately. Something in jama has medical application; I woudn't know.
Anyway. Green. Liquid. Fish. Beautiful colors. Sweating all the time of course, but not minding it because you wear one layer of something that dries quickly. And you can swim, also, and that's a little cooler.
Most of the drinks have salt in. A little. It's important. Having something that was JUST sweet with no salt didn't happen until I left for school, and it tasted wrong. Flat.
Also, I have not been on one stupid station where I don't have to wear thick clothes AND a coat AND a wrap most of the time. I'm getting used to it but it is still a little awful.
....but warm is still home, and so is salt. |
Loai Qerl
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
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Posted - 2017.03.26 23:47:20 -
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Ranzabar wrote: words and such.
One is making a clever allusion to Terran mythologies, of course, but I'm sure I'd much rather hear about your actual home. |
Loai Qerl
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
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Posted - 2017.04.09 12:12:59 -
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I can't thank everyone enough for sharing a personal look at the places you grew up, and what that place means to you. I would love to hear more, from anyone and everyone. The pictures you lot paint of these places make my heart warm, even if the pictures themselves are not always pleasant.
Home is complicated, no?
In the next day or two, as time permits, I will be collating these accounts into a master list at the beginning of the thread.
Again, thank you all. Truly. |
Loai Qerl
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
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Posted - 2017.06.03 14:55:45 -
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I've updated the first post into a directory of everything you've been willing to share so far. It's wonderful to see the cluster start filling up with bits that mean home to someone whose face I know.
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