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clannfearrunt · 4 months ago

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Sometimes I start getting worried for no reason like “oh no what if people take issue with my different species in worldbuilding projects having different physical needs and abilities because it could lead to inequality” as if that isn’t an interesting and worthwhile topic to think about in itself. We have a society of ONE sapient species and we still have endless variation in our experiences and one million inequalities bitch you think it won’t be a problem when there’s even MORE variety? Dont you want to think about how this manifests and how people accommodate (or don’t accommodate!) these differences. Don’t you love passively generating entirely fictional toxic tumblr discourse threads <- don’t actually do that part I think it fuels the anxiety even if it’s fun in abstract

#Con stop yapping #ALL THIS aside I comma personally think it’s lazy to flatten every species into #a range of similar/functionally the same physiology #what do the spread of civilizations look like when half the population is bound to warm humid environments?#what do accommodations look like for a wet guy having to live in a dry place?#what about when one species is massively more adaptable than everyone else who are more specialized?#how about big differences in childrearing logistics? what if you hibernate? what if what it what iff #there’s definitely areas where I KNOW I would be out of my depth and therefore would #only b able to do surface level stuff with it #but that’s life sometimes you have to be honest about your limitations as a single guy with a weasel for a brain

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