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Added 2018-12-12 04:54:46 +0000 UTCThere are some interesting tapestries up on Nanna's walls, most of them quite old, most of them whispering odd things about the origin of her people.
Ruffles is serving up warm tuber milk flavoured with lichen powder and rendered fat from the giant rodents. I like to imagine it tastes like a vaguely rank and greasy macha latte. Siya doesn't like it but always has a few sips to be polite (but only after Ruffles long ago assured her they only call it snail juice and it is, in fact, not).
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Humans really have been horrid to the poor two-toes, haven't they. Well, in reality, when aren't they horrid to "lesser" beasts and people from civilizations they see as "inferior," or "pagan"? It's all over the way missionaries and profiteers alike treated the natives of various less technologically advanced countries--mostly poor Africa. Repercussions of that exploitation continue to hit "more civilized" nations centuries down the line, as I discovered in a fascinating book that covered the origins of HIV, which likely would have remained too isolated to ever catch hold and go widespread if not for Dutch profiteers who, centuries ago, used Africans as beasts of burden whilst traveling into the depths of jungles where few men of any kind had gone before, (looting and pillaging all the way, oh-ho-ho!). I hope, in this fictional world, this (cleverer in many ways) species gets some revenge. Why can't we all just get along??? the combination of knowledge that comes with such diversity as we find on this planet could only serve to benefit us all. Yet people insist on fearing what they don't know or understand. And religions (all of 'em) are the scourge of peace, acceptance, and cultural advancement. I'm burbling on, but this is so late no one will read it anyway!
2018-12-17 19:26:07 +0000 UTCGosh, I love how the panel has a similar shape to the hut!
Martin
2018-12-12 05:45:40 +0000 UTC
