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[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 60 points 6 months ago

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 18 points 6 months ago

This is shockingly close to the novel I'm writing

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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 13 points 6 months ago

You got a patreon or something?

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

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 7 points 6 months ago

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

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[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 48 points 6 months ago

Heinlein has entered the chat and immediately received a ban

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 33 points 6 months 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 21 points 6 months ago

Estrogen could have fixed her.

[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

Mormon posthumous baptism except based

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

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

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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 9 points 6 months ago

Hold on let me look this up

[Looks it up]

OK yeah no way that was written by a cis man

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

Possibly the most egg book of all time

[-] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

[-] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 6 months 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.

[-] Ciel@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 6 months ago

and mine where all sorts of animal like people fight capitalism (and the occasional other thing) (i have 2.2m buff dragon people with several meter long tails, they are way more cool then your hunky vampires) (i love my worldbuilding thing)

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

BASED BASED BASED BASED

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 40 points 6 months ago

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

[-] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago

My Lord, a second nautiloid has hit the castle walls

[-] T34_69@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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 33 points 6 months ago

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

[-] Ciel@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 6 months ago

.... that feeling when like half your characters are over 2m ... and are commies... doing a revolution....

i feel personaly attacked

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago

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 16 points 6 months ago

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

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

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

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

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

[-] bubbalu@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

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.

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[-] vivamatapacos@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

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

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[-] mactan@lemmy.ml 17 points 6 months ago

every isekai

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago

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 23 points 6 months ago
[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months 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

[-] Ciel@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 6 months ago

okay i have no idea how you came up with that

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[-] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

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

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

Unjust Depths is perfect, actually

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[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

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

[-] besbin@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 6 months ago

Are you sure you don't have a kink for puritan no fun story?

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

Yep, I know my thingies and I know how to keep them separate from my work.

As the saying goes, you don't eat where you shit.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

it's called edging and at the end of book 3 the MC nuts an entire gallon

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[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

But should you? Philosophical quandary.

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

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 6 points 6 months 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 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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.

[-] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

same except it's just the last one

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