#because its true
TAZ graduation is so good
I think an important instinct you have to build up when you read/watch sci-fi is discerning which things are givens. If Arrival tells you that the alien language is atemporal, it is, that’s not a puzzle for you to pick apart, it’s a prerequisite to getting the rest of the story. When I talk sci-fi with people who don’t consume a lot of it this seems to be a thing they get hung up on.
“But why—“ because it make story go. “But I don’t understand what—“ because that’s how the society works. I told you the important parts, the parts that are relevant to the story. I’m not interested in writing a 200-page speculative history Re the entire course of galactic civilization to explain why it’s rude at dinner time to eat before the ambassador eats. “But I don’t understand how (whatever) works—“ it works because it’s science fiction and that’s how it works. The propulsion systems work because the story requires interstellar travel.
I am more interested in the people and the events and the weird ideas. The weird ideas are just weird ideas, this made up fiction story isn’t a thesis statement predicting why cockroaches will be skilled surgeons 10,000 years in the future.
I think this is really important for writers, too. I know I get hung up on worldbuilding details and it’s good to have a reminder that I don’t need to reinvent DNA just for an alien to have green skin.
In my old critique group there was a dude who DID explain every. little. thing. in his huge, sprawling sci-fi world. And trust me, it was horrid.
HAPPY (super late) BIRTHDAY @p0ck3tf0x, YOU WONDERFUL AND AWESOME YOU!!!!!!:D
Those are just the two first page of a 4 pages comic i will do of the fic “Making friends” . I hope you like and and that is is close enough to what you where imagining while writing it.:3
Thank you so so SO MUCH for being fantastic and sharing all those ideas with me and everyone else. HUGS
Please do not repost my art on ANY website without my consent. thank you.:)
I’m sure a lot of you have already seen this but, wow, just look at it! Look at the colours! Look at how earnest they are!
What a beautiful birthday present! I’m so spoiled! It’s so lovely to see someone breathe new life into something I wrote and Maplevogel does it so well!
She is the reason we make such a wonderful team.
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The more empathetic and kind men I meet, actually, the MORE I hate bad men. It’s like I’ve seen it proven you don’t have to act this way — I know for a fact that it’s not coded into your biology to disrespect women or be aggressive or be emotionally stunted — you’re literally just a shithead.
Every good dad I meet is just another enormous fuck you to bad, absent, and apathetic dads.
Yes yes yes!! This is a great way to reframe (part of) the harm done by “all men are trash” radfem ideology. Low standards just excuse shitty behavior. You can set high standards, and have those standards met, and hold to account the men who don’t meet those standards.
Finished reading Sputnik Sweetheart and now wanting to go to Greece and be lost.
Also realizing no will actually bother finding me and thus staying back home.
Who said life is easy huh!
