worldbuilding

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

This is shockingly close to the novel I'm writing
- 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"
- correct me if I'm mistaken, but I think it's a condition called "having read China Mieville syndrome" and I also suffer from it, I'm afraid
You got a patreon or something?
- No I have crippling self-doubt and chronic pain that prevents me from getting my shit together enough to write properly
I gotta show up and say "I support it".
I'm hyped! I want more gritty airship fantasy books. If you got any recommendations I am all ears.
For what it’s worth I would totally read this.
- People keep telling me this but my brain is like "you're a horrible writer and you suck and you're unoriginal and nobody will ever love you and your death would release others from the burden of your existence" and tbh I'm sick of its bullshit
This is shocking close to my novel...

Heinlein has entered the chat and immediately received a ban

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
Estrogen could have fixed her.
- Mormon posthumous baptism except based

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

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.
- 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)
BASED BASED BASED BASED

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

My Lord, a second nautiloid has hit the castle walls

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.

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

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

i feel personaly attacked

Choose these:

Dominant fish women
Killing fascists with your comrades
Communism with a focus on intersectionality

Best possible combination ✨

where does a neurodivergent obsession with geology fit into all this?
- Idk but I'm certain you could wedge it in somewhere and it'd be rad.
- For maximum neurodivergent obsession with geology try Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy.
- The dominant fish women live in the center of the earth.
Dominant fish women

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

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

CW: sexual content

I 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

- 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
I'm sure you can find someone. ~~Probably in Japan~~
- user reports: Seems kinda orientalist ngl
  
  I think I'm gonna remove this
okay i have no idea how you came up with that
- I mean, I could start with the bit over ten thousand years ago where some lakeside village by chance discovered that they could use the shit of the larvae of a moth fed on a certain type of normally poisonous weed to induce abortions and suppress their menstrual cycles, but long story short: I needed to figure out how to get a large quantity of ｃｕｍ to the sperm banks, without the sperm banks knowing whose ｃｕｍ it is, with the added restriction that people would not under normal circumstances simply give away their own ｃｕｍ for free.
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

every isekai

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

Unjust Depths is perfect, actually

Pretty much ngl. Something for everyone.

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

Are you sure you don't have a kink for puritan no fun story?
- 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.
- it's called edging and at the end of book 3 the MC nuts an entire gallon
But should you? Philosophical quandary.
- 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.
Booooo

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.

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.