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azure-clockwork · 5 months ago

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How Does it Feel to Read Classic Sci-Fi?

Orson Scott Card: Two of the most interesting books you’ll ever read if you’re willing to look past a handful of things. And then you find the planet of Chinese people who worship having debilitating OCD. And the Mormonism. And the fact that the author is wildly homophobic and ought to read his own books.

Robert Heinlein (or at least the Wikipedia Summaries): I guess that’s a neat concept—oh, it’s a sex thing. Um. Gotcha.

Ray Bradbury: Man, I gotta read this thing for class huh. Well here’s hoping it’s good! *three hours later* oh. that’s why he’s famous. this will stick with me forever and I will never look at the phrase ‘soft rain’ the same again. christ. And then repeat 3x.

Isaac Asimov: Wow, this is such an interesting concept! I wonder how the exploration of it will influence the plot! Wait, hey, are you going to add any characters? Any of em? No like, with character traits other than ‘robot psychologist’ and ‘autistic’ and ‘woman’? None of em? No, ‘detective’ isn’t a character trait. Those are all just facts. Aaaand now I’m bored.

Ursula K. Le Guin: Hah, get a load of this guy! He’s never heard of nonbinary people before. Lol, what a riot; how dumb do you have to be to comprehend that these people aren’t men *or* women actually? Oh, wait, what’s happening. Oh shit, it was about society and love and learning to understand each other? And now I’m crying? And perhaps a better human being for it??

Andy Weir: Alright, this guy’s a really good writer. Funny, creative, knows so much engineering stuff…ooh, a new book! …I guess he can’t write women. Well, he wouldn’t be the first sci-fi writer…ooh another new book! And it’s more engineering problem solving and—wow. It’s not just women he can’t write. Please stop letting your characters talk to each other.

Lois Lowry: Oh, I remember this being fun when I was a kid! Wouldn’t it be fucked up to not see color? …upon reread, it would be fucked up to have your humanity stripped away, replaced with a tepid, beige ‘happiness’ for all time. Yeah.

Tamsyn Muir (let me have this ok): Haha, “lesbian necromancers in space” sounds fun. Lemme read this. Oh wow, yeah, this is right up my alley. OH GOD WHAT. NO. FUCK. OH SHIT WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING AND WHY IS IT REFERENCING THE BOOK OF RUTH AND HOMESTUCK BACK TO BACK!!! AHHHHHHHHH!! Now give me more please.

#Late night book reviews with Bluejay #Not really #and it’s 1pm #If you’re curious which books #or just wanna read another essay:#Card: Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead are good* and the rest is Fucking Bonkers. Xenocide is the one called out specifically #Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land’s Wikipedia page but my understanding is it’s not the only book Like That #Bradbury: short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” will fuck your up; double if you check out the comic. See also “All Summer…” and °F 451 #Asimov: I; Robot is the specific ref but also its sequel novels where you’d more expect real characters and not just fact lists also #Le Guin: Left Hand of Darkness specifically but also I just love her lmao #Weir: The Martian then Artemis then Project Hail Mary #Lowry: the only stuff of her’s I’ve read is The Giver Quartet but I was shocked how good it was upon revisiting. Damn. That’s pointed.#Muir: Gideon the Ninth and its sequels. They’re so good. Read them. You will be confused by book two. That’s on purpose. They’re so good.#Yes don’t come at me for my tag formatting; 140 chars isn’t a lot. You try getting all three Bradbury titles in there #Also the lack of commas is an issue #Anyways I would rec basically all of these if you like sci-fi save for SiaSL (haven’t read it) and all of the Ender’s Game/SftD spinoffs #Also if you do wanna read Card’s work pls get the books 2nd hand or from a library. Or via the 7 seas. His money goes to homophobia :(#But most of em are good and all of em are classics for a reason (save for Muir who really should be lmao)#Also also don’t come at me for including Weir; he’s one of the most popular sci-fi authors AND came up in the discussion that prompted this #As did everyone else except Muir because that one is actually just self indulgent.#I worked so hard to tag the first few things such that it would be clear there was an essay beneath the tag cut #Anyways tags for like actual categorization n such:#orson scott card #robert heinlein #ray bradbury #isaac asimov #ursula k. le guin #andy weir #lois lowry #tamsyn muir

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oopsallmabari · 7 months ago

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sorry i'm gonna whine on combat some more (acknowledgment that this is a me thing) also assuming based on this that we won't be able to control companion actions during fights? like. for the new type of combat does it make sense to only/mostly rely on NPC AI for fighting and hopefully that does help me if i SUCK ASS at combat but. :( i liked the prev games' combat mostly because i could usually auto-hit in some fashion it was just a matter of me being strategic about technique and insta-pausing to reassess/move out the way

there is at least some combat pausing for rook and i'll def reserve final judgment till i play i just. what if we made video games for people like me who like story but are bad at gaming :((((

#dragon age veilguard spoilers #ari watches dav reveal #it's def more me-esque and like. i think ME is interesting and i still want to finish andromeda but WEEPING its so not my combat style.#i finished all of me1 and kinda gave up on me2. sci-fi has to hit me Just Right story-wise or i won't engage w it otherwise #and struggling w combat was not fun for me.#but again! this is a me thing. i am an outlier who couldn't get past tutorial for ps4 spiderman when i tried playing it lmao

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wickedhawtwexler · 7 months ago

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yeah it's important to create a character who's flawed but likeable, realistic, interesting, dynamic, etc. but the most important part of creating a character is asking yourself: will the people of www.tumblr.com go insane about them?

#one day i'm gonna self-publish my insane sci-fi novel series and y'all are going to go crazy over my main characters. we have:#1. telekinetic middle aged woman who is a menace. she is just so pathetic. her self-loathing is off the charts. i would die for her #2. evil lesbian scientist. she's consumed by ambition and it's so sexy. she & her gf have a bit of a macbeth/lady macbeth thing going on #3. wife guy with no wife. half his personality is just worshipping all the cool interesting female characters he interacts with #there are some really cool side characters too including:#mc 1's unofficially adopted autistic daughter who has one of my favorite arcs in the whole series #3 separate female antagonists who are just. so awful. i love them.#mc 3's work bestie/romantic interest who's seems like a stereotypical pinterest mom but is also a badass fbi agent #a group of underground agents called the crayola gang. all their pseudonyms are colors. crimson maize azure emerald etc.#ugh i just love this story so much. i'm so excited to be writing it again 🥺❤️#i wrote 2500 words yesterday & i'm on track to write about the same today 😤#m.txt

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cultivating-wildflowers · 1 year ago

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cracking open “Are Women Human?” as a palate cleanser after reading Robert A. Heinlein

#this is only kind of a joke #in that I won't be breaking into Dorothy L Sayers just yet #but my STARS Robert!!!#I do not remember The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress being this bad. there are things I still remember and like about it.#so I was actually kind of excited to start this story #but then #but then the main character and his new female partner spent all of one day on a mission and one night reading files in a library #and suddenly she's kissing him?#(I did appreciate how every time she's searched or unpacks or anything we rediscover her arsenal. that's actually fun)#I cheered when the aliens starting killing people because at last we could care about the women #instead of identifying them according to how likely the main character is to sleep with them #(naturally the plot first found an excuse to strip a room full of secret agents)#also the narrator is objectively bad #looking at all of this I probably should just give up #I spent the whole of my cleaning job rolling my eyes and muttering under my breath (but persisting because I didn't have anything else)#I really don't care about the plot #I HATE the main character #on the other hand I always love to see predictions from old sci-fi about the future #it's cool to see what they assumed would stay the same and what would change--and how #it's 2007 and we have flying cars and fire-guns and the Iron Curtain is intact and Manhattan is a crater #we can change our faces in half an hour with some cool guy in a lab coat and I bet no one is layering three camis under a t-shirt #who knows #I'll come back to this tomorrow #2024 reading list #mine

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pcktknife · 2 years ago

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I'm curious, what are your thoughts on honkai star rail?

i dont like it as much as genshin but i think its funnier than genshin also theres a little rabbit conductor on a space train so it gets points for that Also also kafka and natasha are hot

#in terms of gameplay itd be genshin>star rail> honkai impact3rd #i like moving around and fighting freely but i dont mind star rails turn based thing its got its actually pretty fun #im always gonna prefer a high fantasy/magical setting to anything sci fi/space themed i just dont like that type of stuff ^^'#i find it harder to pay attention to the story if it sounds too....scientific and nerdy i guess so i haaave been skipping dialogue #i prob wont be playing it in the long run (attention span + i dont pay alot of attention to my pc games) but the little ive played is fun #asks #anon

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meat-pvppet · 1 year ago

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Sigh starts writing a story with demon characters and hell as a setting with worldbuilding based on demonology

#not to drag on others stories btw if it comes off that way #I like demonology and theology in general and kinda just recently thought about making a story cuz of common demon story things that kinda #dont make sense to me #Ie. lucifer's last name is morningstar because lucifer means morningstar #The sin of lust is about sex and sex alone #The sin of gluttony is about eating too much haha insert fat joke #Like???? Idk hell and demonology is so much more interesting and has way more story potential than this and as they say #Be the change you want to see in the world #Yes this is sorta because h*lluva boss and h*zbin hotel is rising in popularity recently #yes i will admit i dont like either of these series #But yeag #Been thinking #Will make designs eventually #Sorry to the three lucius fans i have not touched his story in a while again because sci-fi worldbuilding makes me want to blow up #My demons want me to make demons #.txt

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smol-blue-bird · 6 months ago

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my toxic trait is that I have about eleven thousand story ideas bouncing around my head at any given time, but I'm never happy with anything I write, so most of them just die in my documents folder

#I have about 60000 words of a Dance-of-Dragons-esque sci-fi story set in Space Rome #(it's not called Space Rome. it's like sci-fi Greco-Rome-zantium)#I have another 70000 words of a historical fiction book set in the actual Byzantine Empire #I have four separate romance ideas fully plotted and outlined but not written #I also have another whole thing that my professor told me to expand and submit to a journal of bioethics but like... I have not #I don't know whyyyyyy but everything I write I just kind of look at like hmmmmmm I could do better!#oh and I have two huge worldbuilding projects with insanely fleshed out settings that I have not put to paper or used for anything #I told myself I'd get more writing done this summer and I haven't and now I start my PhD in two weeks so I'm out of time #arghhhhhhhhhhh

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courageisneverforgotten · 5 months ago

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snow white looks bad this, moana 2 that. the real question is who in the world wanted a live action mufasa or lilo and stitch movie

#i’m going to bed but i’m going to complain on the internet first and immediately regret it. But like #the mufasa thing just makes me mad. no one asked and it makes no sense to do this.#but STITCH???#one of the Staples of childhood and one of the best animated d*sney movies imo #nothing will top those opening scenes for me. the music! the colors! then the storyyy #but the thing that makes me angry about this one is that live action stitch IS really cute. so diss knee can be like Hell yeah we’re -#raking in our coin with merchandise like we always do!!!! Who cares if our movies are good look at this creature!! You love him and more -#importantly your kids will recognize him on shelves heehee aren’t we so cool!!!!#the state of art and entertainment and capitalizing on recognizable IP is depressing me this fine evening #i think we should do more of what the fall guy did. that was so frickin good. an adaptation of a classic show but a fresh take -#AND jody was adapting a low budget sci fi movie from the 80s to match her wild and silly and spectacular vision #like THAT’S entertainment to me!! we can recognize stories that made us and have all these influences and still make something -#with depth and nuance that isn’t a slap in the face to viewers and that succeeds anyway because of course it will #Anyway ! no one cares to read this probably but i actually am happy that i ended up circling back to the fall guy. i wasn’t planning to LMA #let’s go fall guy my beloved the fall guy #jess.txt #i’m stressed and tired okay let me have this

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sysig · 1 year ago

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Hm ok what's your favorite or a really cool worlbuilding thing you've done? For any fandom or original or even an unimplemented idea

Hmm well at least in the past decade, my big worldbuilding projects have mostly come down to three-ish stories: Other Side of the Gun, Adventures of Gæilo and Ethon, and Just Desserts

OSG was an Invader ZiM fancomic concept I started around 2013 to justify every single Irken headcanon I ever came up with lol - I never finished it, or even really started it, but I put a lot of time and energy into its roughs back in the day :)

^A stick figure recap of Ch. 1, inspired by - what else - the Vargas stick figure recaps lol

One that you can see over here is all the work I did for my DnD campaign, AGE! (Though its sideblog hasn't been updated in a while haha - the AGE tag over here works just as well) I basically homebrewed a pantheon and had an absolute blast designing all the gods and their forms before they became gods and even things like architectural differences in their churches and the BBEG and his motivations and just ah <3 Such a fun project :D

It also laid the groundwork for things like Pokemon Homestyle, specifically all my papercrafts! You can really see how I leveled up haha

And my latest has been Just Desserts! Even with less time under its belt, it's still pretty expansive, as evidenced by my icon and theme and the backlog lol, and it's the one I have the most AUs of! (Though OSG does come close actually haha) There are still some thorny details I'm trying to iron out, especially to do with the magic system, but all the characters and creatures and the fact that I made my own fighting minigame, ah, pleased! I've never been so happy with a sona before Charm! ♥ From the very beginning it's been so fun to work on and I still want to improve!

#Long post #There have been others of course - things like BunBonBop and TMatM and quite a handful of original species lol #I was also involved in an IZRP that got very in depth which is where Bar comes from actually!#As well as my brief stint into being a TGWDLM askblog lol soz to everyone over there ouq #And little stories like Karera no Kotogara and Yanderapy but those mostly set in cartoon-reality y'know?#No magic or sci fi there haha #Man looking back through the OSG stuff kinda makes me wanna unstore Ch. 0 - I've grown a lot since then!#To the point where it almost doesn't feel ''mine'' anymore haha - it has been almost ten years! Maybe to celebrate its anniversary :)#Also yeah if you look hard enough I've been in love with and inspired by Vargas for as long as I've known about it haha #AGE was so much fun <3 I would like to get back to it someday but picking back up after so long is hard!#I still hold all of them fondly of course ♥ Mar especially since they were the tipping point for me loving spiders :D #It's hard to believe Just Desserts is already four years deep! It still feels so new to me haha #I know I big up Charm and her design a lot lol but for me it really is exactly what I want <3 It's my perfect :)#I still really want to get into 3D modeling to make her as I originally envisioned her!#If I had the funds I'd absolutely commission someone but tbh I don't know many names on that side of art haha #I've also heard about people who give advice/brainstorming sessions for magic systems and I've been intrigued ever since :0 #I'd love to sit down with someone and hash out Exactly how their magic works! It feels like it just needs a few more pushes!#Then again that's what I said about the TVAU outfits too haha ♪ Maybe it would all fall into place!#To the base question tho: I never know how to qualify ''implemented'' - does just putting it out there as a concept count?#Writing a story? Making a comic? A series? Polished? Completed?? Where's the line haha #I'm always so full of ideas but focusing on anything long enough to make it ''pretty'' is so hard for me still #I just keep creating never stopping haha

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nightphoebe · 10 months ago

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My brother is writing a book!

And I made the cover for it.

He's been posting it, chapter by chapter, for a year. We're now 61 chapters in and still going. Some excerpts from the story have even been featured on SoundBooth Theater Live's "Troll Poll" on YouTube. I personally think it's funny as hell, so if scifi/fantasy Lit-RPG comedy is your bag, may I politely recommend:

#book recommendation #story recommendation #litrpg #comedy #sci fi #fantasy #sci fi and fantasy #royal road #soundbooth theater #my art #book cover #feeling really good about this especially considering i drew the dang thing in sketchbook on my phone #also made the “One Year Anniversary” art at the end of chapter 61 #but that was supposed to look like a teenager writing in dry-erase on a classroom whiteboard so it's bad on purpose #oh dang i made the cover for his other story on royal road too and just never posted it #should do that sometime #tw blood #cw blood

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em-dashes · 2 years ago

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there’s a lot that’s currently bothering me about aphelion now that i’m back to working on it, and so far the only change i’ve implemented is aging up cay and bee, and somehow that feels like a step in the right direction

#em dashes #aphelion #a bit of rambling:#my problem is that i'm kind of growing out of the YA genre #i still read and enjoy some of them but mostly i've found myself just wanting more #this is especially the case for sci fi dystopians i find. i can still handle fantasy just fine #so to have my wip. which is about a group of teens running around doing things teens shouldn't be able to do.#in something of a dystopian (post apocalypse more accurately) world #that just kept setting off the 'this is just like those YA stories i'm growing out of' part of my brain #i couldn't articulate this problem until i was talking to my friend about it yesterday #and i was like hm. what if i just. aged up the characters then.#because there was no reason for them to be so young except that i was around the same age when i created the story #and now that i'm twenty five. it's like #well. my characters can be in their twenties too #and that makes a lot more sense!!#because part of bee's story is that she gets hired to be the getaway driver in a high stakes heist or sorts #and WHY would a bunch of adults hire a 19-year-old to do the job for them #she's 23 now because it's my favourite number and it seems more reasonable #still pretty young but not like. a teenager #and cay is (if i did my math right) 19 about to turn 20 #as opposed to 17 about to turn 18 #rian is still 13 bc part of the tragedy IS that he's so young

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loveydive · 5 months ago

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paper menagerie and other stories was mid

#cri.txt #interestingly enough the intro/preface was the most interesting part of the whole book LMFAO #liu does that annoying sci fi thing where he overexplains how things work and frankly it annoys me so much #he also does it in his less scifiy stories but with like. asian culture instead #its so bad that in literally TWO stories he makes a white girl the audience surrogate in order to explain chinese culture to us #like. okay.#idk it just felt lazy and overhanded to me whereas a GOOD writer would actually incorporate these concepts into the story itself #on more than one occasion he talks about American culture or Japan culture or Chinese culture and it gets REALLY irritating #in mono no aware in particular its so bad i was rolling my eyes every page #how on earth is *hugging* a 'very American gesture'#apparently japanese ppl dont hug !!!!#dont even get me started on the women that he writes #lemme just tell you. i hate it when i can tell that an author is a man #anyways. easy skip would not recommend. liu writes with the depth that you would expect from an it guy

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keeps-ache · 7 months ago

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i love genres!! i do not know what they are but they're cool !!

#just me hi #love reading in genres hello genres !!#i have never in my life figured out where my own stories go in there so i'm Struggling once again hfbhsv #trying to set up a thing for pi.e but i have already been stopped short so heeeere i aaam hfhs #//also oh my LORD i am TIRED. Why #thought i went to bed at a semi-semi decent hour but you know i didn't check the clock? or maybe i slept for too long. mmmmm.. i dunno hfhs #//aside fro- what the heck was that #dude it just sounded like my computer got a good smack while singing. just a fricken 'GTTTKZ' out of nowhere?? hallo ?? hi ?#/uh yea well aside from that lmao-#i gotta figure out this genre thing. it has eluded me for as long as i've had this story hfhsh #i keep being told sci-fi but i really don't think that's it ? i don't know about fantasy either.....#hmmmmm...#/i have put my question to the firefox and it's fantasy i'm sure :3 !!#okay now i have to write a summary :(#ghfh.. grghf.. wah hfshv #this is always the hardest part and it's so silly dude hghfsvh #i have been sitting here for like 6 minutes now. helloooo [<- to myself]#okay whatever that'll do lmaoo #why be clear? vagueness is my specialty hfbshf #okay now i gotta do the whole thumbnail thing. sigh hfh #gonna get on that. so weow ciao :33

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melodraca · 8 months ago

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(more context in tags)

#for context the story starts with him being 40 but me and my writing partner plan to have him become a professor in his epilogue #which would put him in like his mid 50s. which is a bit older than I planned when I was designing his backstory #there's a mental line I hit when a character reaches my parents' age where I feel a bit weird obsessing over them #but that's probably just a me thing #anyway I know I probably shouldn't worry about it considering I'm not gonna be writing him when he's that old #it does take place in a sci fi setting where people have much longer lifespans so maybe I'm freaking myself out for no reason 💀#gabeposting #oc tag #toby

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aria0fgold · 9 months ago

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I just realized that the setting in which I put my OCs' stories in is... sci-fi, isn't it? This is sci-fi........ This is a baby sci-fi in the making......... losing my mind why did I do this.......

#aria rants #I DONT KNOW HOW TO DO SCI-FI???????? the best genre i can do is fantasy cuz im good at making things up with no #basis to some complicated term nor is there a need for some complex structural method in which creation is brought upon #i cant do sci-fi........ science and math are my WEAKEST subjects and sci-fi has BOTH. i can... try????? to do a very very #mini form of it cuz it isn't rlly all that much of a focus when it comes to my ocs' stories. like at the root of it the genre is just #slice of life i think? it only becomes a LIIIIIITTTLLEE bit like sci-fi by alec's story cuz of his past but it shooouuld be fine right?

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arolesbianism · 1 year ago

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I find it so funny just how long I'd have to talk to get to a single non original character in the random card au if I explained the worldbuilding in chronological order. I'm pretty sure the first recognizable characters would be og Tae and Rei and even then there's a pretty big span of time where they could have possibly existed so I could theoretically go through a Lot before getting to them even without all of the finer details of kingdom worldbuilding

#rat rambles #random card au #band posting #after that I believe next in line would be misaki and rokka followed shortly by hagumi and nanami #then we have an haruka kohane shiho and shizuku all around the same tome period next #and after that we get glitter green and rimi #then we get to another shaky period where no one rly comes up but rui emu kanade and honami are probably all in there somewhere #and then after a good while the main characters and other alive ppl start existing and we get to actually sort of discuss plot stuff 👍#note that even with me not going into too deep detail theres a Lot involved in the main plot thats hard to explain without explaining basic #worldbuilding such as the gods and divinities and the vessels and other shit like that #like most of it is much more naturally integrated into the story but yknow writing smth into a full narrative and explaining the same thing #are very different and it's hard to do the ladder effectively if its complicated enough #its also frustrating to explain to ppl cause its very much meant to be treated as a fantasy setting opposed to my typical two layers down #approach to realism since a lot of the worldbuilding especially are much more meant to be creation myth vibes y'know?#so ppl have gotten snarky with me abt it and its just frustrating as hell cause like yeah it doesn't make logistical sense this is fantasy #like there Are sci fi elements but a lot of sci fi is just nonsense too so like that doesnt mean much #I dont completely abandon my two layered realism but as far as basic world origins go its a creation story with gods and stuff #so yeah I get silly with things cause its fun and gives me an excuse to make characters furries

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