CroMagnon

Hey y'all, I'm a female CroMagnon, US Ozark country. I have an interest in just about everything, controversial opinions to boot, but I come in peace. Or at least I try. Family, nature, history, and both physical and mental self-betterment are my passions; hobbies range from spearfighting to sewing to painting to hours of research on entheogens. I love to learn, studying a variety of arts, belief systems, and sciences. My niches are the earth sciences, namely geology (especially volcanology), ecology/biology, the stereotypical womanly arts of gardening, cooking, and housekeeping, and animal behavior, including psychology, anthropology, theology, and philosophy. Physics draws my mind as well, but I can't compute math past 7th grade pre-algebra. I marvel in the many unique ways our universe expresses life, from soft colorful flower petals to the mysterious minds of cephalopods, and I seek and take pride in our shared roots. My own life is simple but grand, as close to the earth, to the old ways, to our cousins and ancestors as possible in this age of property taxes and GPS. I wake with the sun, tend to family and household duties, spend my time outside and active until my legs are jelly, work out my mind while my body rests, and go back to sleep with the sun. The Digital Age holds no interest for me, I'm satisfied with dogs, trees, bluffs, and books. I write science-fantasy, or I guess that's what it'd be called, purely as a fun mental exercise. No one but my mate will ever read it. Nonetheless, I'm absolutely anal about proper spelling and scientific fact. I love the general premise of fantasy, the dragons, swordfights, magic, and spirits, and I by no means limit my writing to hard scientific fact, but I love our own world's known workings too much to just "magic" everything. I like my magic/psionics to have limitations, environmental impediments, energy requirements, somewhat plausible mechanisms; likewise, I want my characters to suffer realistic effects from their injuries, for deserts to follow mapped out weather patterns, for my canine communication to be accurate. It helps to avoid logical inconsistencies and create interesting in-story challenges, something fantasy forums don't get. Always just "make it up". Most of my posts will thus be for literary research, just open, friendly, imaginative, thought-out brainstorming on random topics like plasma physics and electromagnetism. I dislike conflict and debate, I'm just here to refine ideas Iack the math skills for on my own. Hopefully people here are friendly and up for a little off-the-wall. See you around!