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At any Five Senses university, the School of Taste is the largest and most profitable, a cash cow, one might say, to support the other four. It is also the school with the most non-mage students. Aspiring chef apprentices as well as seasoned masters from all over the world enroll to develop and train their …
An AI creation, of course. Notice that Ringo doesn’t look much like Ringo. But delightful nonetheless.
Though The School of Taste belongs to the three minor sense schools, along with Smell and Touch, it is by far the most popular and generates the most income for the greater college. Why? Because of the quality of its culinary instruction, which creates the world’s finest chefs and chef-mages, professions highly in demand among …
I’m gonna do something different this week. Religious sects! Christian ones specifically. There are, and were, dozens, and hundreds, of these. A lot of them arose in the early days of the Catholic Church when it was spreading rapidly and there was no central authority to set the dogma in stone. Thus we get Gnosticism, …
I went only minimally into the School of Smell in the WW post for 1-14-26. Today I’ll go into further detail. The School of Smell is considered one of the minor schools, along with Taste and Touch. This isn’t to say the sense is valued less, only that Sight and Hearing are more popular with students, …
I realized I went all-in on WW 1/14/26 on describing magic centering around the sense of smell, but didn’t give any background information. Today I’m going to rectify that. First I’d like call attention to the marvelous illustration above by Wenjing Yang. It’s typical of the artists’s style, using fresh, garish pastels, futuristic shapes, and …
The Sultan of the Doggoman Empire has a special harem consisting entirely of husky dogs. The creatures are pampered in every way. Going to the baths is always a fun activity. So is dancing. Of course, from time to time they simply observe the goings-on of the world outside. And add their occasional bark. (All …
White by Richard Dyer Routledge, 1997 I had picked this book for last year’s reading challenge because of its one-word title. I read it then, but was too busy to write a review, so I’m going to do it now… the caveat being the book challenge is over. (I finally realized why I’ve been doing …
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