I've Been Going On Something Of A Mini-dive Into The Franco-Prussian War. It Really Hasn't Been On My

SO THEY MADE WOOLY MICE USING MAMMOTH GENOMES AND I LOVE THEM

NPR

Hoping to revive mammoths, scientists create 'woolly mice'

Hoping to bring the giant, ancient animal back from extinction, scientists have created a far smaller woolly creature. Woolly mice have some

bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental

sorry i didn’t text back i was busy thinking about nothing for 5 hours straight

my gf's laptop's audio driver's broke and she's complaining about it being slow so now i get to install linux on it :3

Member of staff using the new pneumatic tube cash collection system, Sainsbury's, London Southgate, 1978. From the Sainsbury Archive.

Coffee-loving Pyrausta Moth (Pyrausta tyralis), family Crambidae, Montgomery County, TX, USA

photograph by Paxon Kale CC

Small fantasy worldbuilding elements you might want to think about:

A currency that isn’t gold-standard/having gold be as valuable as tin

A currency that runs entirely on a perishable resource, like cocoa beans

A clock that isn’t 24-hours

More or less than four seasons/seasons other than the ones we know

Fantastical weather patterns like irregular cloud formations, iridescent rain

Multiple moons/no moon

Planetary rings

A northern lights effect, but near the equator

Roads that aren’t brown or grey/black, like San Juan’s blue bricks

Jewelry beyond precious gems and metals

Marriage signifiers other than wedding bands

The husband taking the wife's name / newlyweds inventing a new surname upon marriage

No concept of virginity or bastardry

More than 2 genders/no concept of gender

Monotheism, but not creationism

Gods that don’t look like people

Domesticated pets that aren’t re-skinned dogs and cats

Some normalized supernatural element that has nothing to do with the plot

Magical communication that isn’t Fantasy Zoom

“Books” that aren’t bound or scrolls

A nonverbal means of communicating, like sign language

A race of people who are obligate carnivores/ vegetarians/ vegans/ pescatarians (not religious, biological imperative)

I’ve done about half of these myself in one WIP or another and a little detail here or there goes a long way in reminding the audience that this isn’t Kansas anymore.

Letters to Milena, Franz Kafka