**nods** There are always certain locations you connect to and it's easier to invest yourself in a story they take place in.
I'm actually a very desert-oriented person (and magician), despite currently living in a place that's almost tropical. There is a lot of life buried beneath what looks like a bleak landscape; the flowers all have secret languages, the animals who make their homes there are both harsh and beautiful, a mirror of their environment. The moon and the stars are closer, waiting to be touched. Reality thins out in the most isolated areas--you feel you could slip between the membranes separating this world from the one next door.
The desert embraces the so-called outsiders, the ones who don't feel like they belong. It's very different, but still magic in its own right.
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Date: 2011-09-25 03:10 am (UTC)I'm actually a very desert-oriented person (and magician), despite currently living in a place that's almost tropical. There is a lot of life buried beneath what looks like a bleak landscape; the flowers all have secret languages, the animals who make their homes there are both harsh and beautiful, a mirror of their environment. The moon and the stars are closer, waiting to be touched. Reality thins out in the most isolated areas--you feel you could slip between the membranes separating this world from the one next door.
The desert embraces the so-called outsiders, the ones who don't feel like they belong. It's very different, but still magic in its own right.