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(Turns to my Patreon audience, the most dedicated RttS fans on the internet) So have y'all heard about centaur clans?

Lmao anyways. This book is written with the expectation that most readers will be completely unfamiliar with setting, which is a good thing, but I do feel silly sometimes writing entry-level lore exposition and then presenting it to Patreon like half of you haven't scoured the RttS tumblr tag back to the first post.

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Gertrude Schmidt

I genuinely love how much thought you put into different species' societal and familial structures! It's so complex and well developed! The way you incorporate it and write these bits of exposition diagetically as like casual xenoanthropology; im just constantly blown away by your writing <3

entipikal

Definitely feel very seen with that last sentence haha. I binged almost everything RttS (minus patreon stuff) in the first week I knew it existed, your worldbuilding and creature design scratches an itch I didn't even know I had

M0N5T3R5

Lore Back to front multiple times I read spec bio projects people make to help myself fall asleep

EVH

The awkward neck grab again. Poor girl!

fennel

lol i read an earlier version of this page and it's funny cus now she *does* know that it's actually more like meerkats

The Opossum Witch

Literally I would binge read (and reread) your rtts tag for *years* until I was financially stable enough to join your patreon. Now I deep dive this whole thing regularly

MrMacky1111

Have Idrisah and Gillie ever met other Centaurs?

Styrofoam Skillet

Oh you know it took me a minute to realize that this is also going to be the first peek into home planet centaur clothing new readers will get. Tassels everywhere! Antler jewelry! Then theres us over here thinking oh yeah they’re dressed to impress with tons of small tassels and flowy formal wear. Yeah that style is fun and different but having read the tags back to the first post we know there’s a biological influence to some degree. All those small moving adornments are meant to grab attention because they have small moving object prey drive. Which of course we know because it was mentioned at least twice in the Shyam hand flapping stuff and the page about parade dress….. oh right this page is about the clan structure. I wonder if the mystery example matriarch has all six pupa there….

Pigeonss

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

petra

i remember most of this except... married in? like who are those centaurs married to, the entourage or the workers?

Erika Spooner

Have you read the Three Body Problem series or the Humanity Lost graphic novel?

Mark Dyson

I, for one, am a fairly recent member of the Patreon. While I've done some reading of the other stories there, my RttS exposure is 100% limited to what you're putting out here and I really appreciate the lore dump pages because it's all totally new to me. Thank you for the insights!

pinglederry

Realized recently that I’ve started holding my neck with my hand when I’m thinking because I tried it once after Talita doing it came up in I think an AMA? and it felt nice

Marcus

I mean... scoured back to? No... I started at eh first and have been slowly working my way foirward since i found the comic a few months ago. But I'm still only up to the 2018s... there is a lot to read and take in. (Same with the Patreon, I'm trying to comb through them at the same speed.)

pinglederry

Love Idrisah asking (from a genuinely caring place!) if Talita’s ever tried picking up a centaur language right after Idrisah herself just talked about how weird and fake it feels to try and learn as an adult a language many people would assume she grew up speaking.

gliesedragon

Hmm, in semi-related worldbuilding stuff, do centaurs tend to assume that nomadic (or nomadic looking, phenotype-wise) centaurs will know at least a bit of whatever language they speak? I could see that being a thing, in a "you pass through every year, you should at least be able to say hello in our language" sort of way.

Jack The Vulture

Despite already knowing about a lot of this, its always interesting to hear Talita talk about it, esp to others. Her relationship to it all is as fascinating as the lore itself.

Charlie B

personally i think its really interesting to see what talita knows and how she feels about it vs what has been posted to ur rtts tumblr tag thats from other perspectives or just lore in general !