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[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Listen just because my underconfident and socially awkward bug lady protagonist joins a ragtag multiracial fantasy airship crew and finds a human bf among them who uses their tramp freighter gray market status to undercut East India Company type resource gathering firms and deliver anti-ship weapons to tribal lizard folk and the world is kinda shitty because they're discovering capitalism and discovering how if you just pass laws against racism it doesn't magically stop racism and also there are factory worker rebellions happening back home in the West doesn't mean I have some sort of agenda

[–] CapnCat@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is shockingly close to the novel I'm writing

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Vaguely pseudo-victorian whateverpunk usually has themes of social change at their center given that the 19th century was full of revolutions and new political ideas and science and people finally figuring out that making sick people bleed on purpose is a bad idea

I'm sure anyone could look at either one of our stories and go "whoa just like Treasure Planet/Perdido Street Station/other vaguely similar thing"

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[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You got a patreon or something?

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No I have crippling self-doubt and chronic pain that prevents me from getting my shit together enough to write properly

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[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I gotta show up and say "I support it".

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[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Heinlein has entered the chat and immediately received a ban

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

It's perfectly normal to write a story where a guy who is totally not you has a harem of secretaries/submissives who serve his every need and listen obediently to his political opinions

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Estrogen could have fixed her.

[–] BobDole@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mormon posthumous baptism except based

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Listen, there is no shot that I Will Fear No Evil was written by a cis man.

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

book where billionaire has his brain transplanted into a woman's body and struggles with integrating her identity and then is literally born again in the body of a newborn girl that integrates all prior identities character has had

I'm sure it doesn't mean anything very-smart

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hold on let me look this up

[Looks it up]

OK yeah no way that was written by a cis man

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Possibly the most egg book of all time

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look just because I'm trying to figure out the DnD equivalent of 9/11

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

My Lord, a second nautiloid has hit the castle walls

[–] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

(looking at my story where a catgirl has magical powers and lives in a communist utopia) uhhhhhh

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago

You can crossover with mine where the hunky vampires all went socialist because they see it as the only way to preserve an orderly eternity.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

BASED BASED BASED BASED

[–] T34_69@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like how the Disco Elysium writers did historical materialism in the world building. There's the central conflict over the strike that sets the stage for the murder and Harry's story, then you have the revolution/civil war and the coalition airships hovering in the background enforcing the counter-revolutionary order. So class struggle is at the root of everything else in that world. It's like you can decide you want to tell a story rooted in a particular class conflict, then the dialectics of the class conflict help you elaborate the rest of the world, it's an interesting approach.

[–] xkbx@startrek.website 29 points 1 year ago

Don’t mock my furrtocracy, pheasant (the lowest social class in Squirrel Hooters world)

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Choose these:

  1. Dominant fish women

  2. Killing fascists with your comrades

  3. Communism with a focus on intersectionality

Best possible combination ✨

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

where does a neurodivergent obsession with geology fit into all this?

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Idk but I'm certain you could wedge it in somewhere and it'd be rad.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For maximum neurodivergent obsession with geology try Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy.

[–] bubbalu@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good books aside from the bad parts and how all the women are either aloof sex goddesses or neurotic bimbos or spock-ish engineers with breasts. Not the most skeevy books I ever read but mans never seems to write women well.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I like Hiroko and Nadia

[–] vivamatapacos@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

The dominant fish women live in the center of the earth.

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dominant fish women

make me take the Third Oath mommy, I've been an indescribably bad boy gamer

[–] EelBolshevikism@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

just embrace it and make it not cringe. all three will come through anyways. it’s the writing equivalent of a foot fetishist trying to draw sfw art but everyone knowing immediately

Embracing it is what made Eminence in Shadow so unironically fun to watch instead of just being edgy cringe

[–] mactan@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

every isekai

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

CW: sexual contentI honestly don't know what kink I was venting when I came up with the idea of vending machines selling disposable fleshlights disguised as knock-off soda cans, complete with public health messages in place of the list of ingredients; where the idea is that after you nut in the can you can close it back up and then put it in a reverse vending machine to get sorted and sent to some sperm bank for use in IVF, epidemiology, medical research, demographics, and forensics

Like, that definitely feels like the sort of thing that would come from a kink, yet at the same time I do not think there is a single soul on Earth who finds the idea of nutting in a Mr. Peter and putting it in a TOMRA machine to be at all arousing

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

OK, TrashGoblin finds the idea of nutting in a Mr. Peter and putting it in a TOMRA machine to be arousing, more power to him

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I do not think there is a single soul on Earth who finds [literally anything] to be at all arousing

This is just an objectively incorrect statement

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

I'm planning a thing that I want to write and... yep, this is pretty much it

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unjust Depths is perfect, actually

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Pretty much ngl. Something for everyone.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ha you can scratch off line one for me because I know how to keep the horny out of my writing.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But should you? Philosophical quandary.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An interesting question concidering the long history of people writing horny shit in their fiction.

Even the epic of Gilgamesh is guilty of having some horny.

[–] Florn@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

The Epic of Gilgamesh gets away with it because it falls under political agenda

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[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A sci-fi setting where a comparatively minor planet overthrows its monarchy and becomes a nascent socialist project. It is immediately beset by other major powers in the solar system and wrestles with building socialism and also the military. Eventually, it is overwhelmed by reactionary forces and the revolution is overthrown.

I like exploring how shared trauma affects people differently so it's a more character-focused story. The main characters are former socialist military who struggle to adapt to the political reality post-reaction. Some try to fade into society, some still believe in the cause, others join the reactionary forces. Former friends set against one another.

Oh and the characters are anthropomorphic fly-boy pilots with ~~sexy~~ well-designed flight suits. There's also some weird consciousness enmeshing technology that I'm still fleshing out.

When I was younger I wanted to right stories. I started planning things out a few times in this kind of formulaic manner, and realized that all of my ideas were reactionary trash. They weren't going to be interesting as finished works. And then it clicked for me why so much media was also trash. A world created out pretense is just beating people over the head with the author's worldview. I didn't enjoy those works and I didn't honestly want to make more of them. That funneled me more toward "proper" art. And once in the art world, I realized that there is no market for art because consumers want power fantasies that reaffirm their biases. There are exceptions, but those authors are all skilled far beyond my caliber.

I now have intense reservations toward anyone expressing interest in fantasy worlds, from LotR to superheroes. I like Shadowrun but if someone else tells me they like it, I'm still going to interrogate them over why they like it lol. And I wouldn't blame them in the least if they did the same to me.

[–] EcoMaowist@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago
[–] RunningVerse@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

So basically: Anarchist societies with women at the helm because capitalism sucks.... Yeah checks out

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