#writers and parallel worlds

[lunarin64art]

That feeling when he can't stand to see you that way, no matter what you do, no matter what you say😩😭💔

[wishchip106]

Charles and Erik’s adventure looking for a third

they ended up adopting six kids

[helga-grinduil]

okay, but the mistranslation of that line about 50 babies is killing me. caleb. caleb. they were literally talking about how the glowing baby's registry was simply the first and the fastest. afo was saying that the glowing baby is not actually the first quirked baby in the world, not that the glowing baby is not special because quirked babies are getting born all around the world. AFO HIMSELF WAS BORN BEFORE THE GLOWING BABY, THAT'S THE POINT, THAT'S WHY HE WAS FEELING JEALOUS OF THE SUPPORT THE GB WAS GETTING WHILE KIDS LIKE HIM WERE LEFT IN THE DIRT. HE FELT HE SHOULD'VE BEEN IN HIS PLACE.

[kirkwallguy]

i don't think VG is tame and i don't think biowre is trying to avoid moral grayness/immorality. the lords of fortune problem seems to be handled like still a dalish blaming on top of blatant racism/orientalism all around the game.

these are the people who grounded the lore on villainizing pagan figures and make a colonizer group look less bad because, well, the colonized people were already down and bad lol. morrigan is good because she's a thi- i mean an expert on elven stuff, merrill is naive because she cares about it ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ a lot of parallels in the lore just makes a statement that you either have to be on a settler liberal mindset or extremely ignorant (or both) to write your story this way lol. if writers were different the story would be different is what I'm saying

bioware doesn't flinch away when it comes to little groups rhat draws parallels to irl indigenous groups (dalish are inspired by romani and jewish people)

none of this contradicts the complaints about the worldbuilding being very sanitised imo? the fact that the game still has a lot of racism doesn't mean it didn't attempt to flatten its political nuance, it just means that the writers completely failed to see the root of the problem when trying to avoid the criticisms they were met with after dai

[tinderbox210]

La’an Noonien-Singh and Spock  +  fearing what’s inside them

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: s02e02 - Ad Astra Per Aspera Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: s01e09 - All Those Who Wander

[voidcat]

i have an idea with anaxagoras and vita but i think it'd.... affect anaxgoras' mental state badly on so many levels

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2025: ODD THOMAS by Dean Koontz.

This was a reread for me! I remembered it being An Inspiration for one of my own novels (which I'm revising now, which is why I am Returning To My Inspiration Roots), but hooo boy did I forget Exactly How Influential it was. The syntax, the tone, specific images ("apocalyptic crimson," neon and sixth sense, aimless wandering for a guiding Feeling about bad things, hello????)--Odd Thomas is 100% Driscoll's precursor, and I think they'd be friends!

Odd is a fantastic fry-cook who can also see dead people (they don't speak)(he doesn't know why)(he helps them when he can) and strange shadow creatures that portend horrible violence. He gets premonitions and weird feelings, and he uses those to try to stop a massacre that's been haunting his dreams for years. (The Goodreads blurb is better; I'm not sure how to distill this sanely, but I love it so much--it's weird, it's fucked up, it's funny, it's sweet, it's unhinged.)

Overall, this held up well! There was more fatphobia than I remembered (published in 2003 whomst??), but I do still really love Odd, and it hurt A Lot to know what was coming--couple instances of neat foreshadowing that I didn't pick up on my first read, and I was still delighted by many of the phrasings and humor. Still an all-time fave series for me, and I'm glad I revisited it!

[muchadoaboutstartrek]

Strange new worlds - S02E02 "Ad Astra Per Aspera"

Spock and La'an practically being the same person and moving like one.

[autistic-katara]

one of the best things about being a writer is when u remember that ure literally that universe's god and can make anything u want happen

[dnschmidt]

The Hypothetical Woman - A Science Fiction Story

The physics building was surrounded by protesters. They were waving signs and shouting about researchers opening doors to parallel worlds. Silly conspiracy theories. Next they would say the moon landing had to be faked because of all the space ghosts...

The Hypothetical Woman - A Science Fiction Story

[ink-of-a-thousand-currents]

Mmm I definitely have Thoughts on site lore and Ancient lore. And I mean, for the most part I (as well as many people) use site lore more as Inspiration/Building Blocks for further lore building.

I've been meaning to get around to writing lore for my Clan and in general, so. I guess I'll just make some notes on the current Ancient Lore and what I think and where I'd go.

Deciding to put this under a read more since it's a lot more than I meant to write lmao

Gaolers - Part of this being because they were the first, and therefore had the most hype around their introduction, but so far lorewise Gaolers still have probably the most impactful story. Them being forgotten by modern society makes sense; withdrawn, a small population of creatures that never evolved into their softer modern counterparts. Which is another thing that makes Gaolers stand out; they're the only Ancient with an explicit connection as being ancestors of one of the Modern breeds. The whole This Thing Is You But Older, More Primal And Dangerous is just. Soooo good. Gaolers as a design have grown on me recently, so it definitely generates some ideas.

Banescales - BANESCALE LORE. BANESCALE LORE. My favorite of the bunch, but this is partially that I am someone who loooves music. The idea of Banescales having been a musical society, and now all that remains is the song that was left to their children as they protected their eggs... god it's just so beautiful to me. Plus the parallel to how Coatls ended up having a notably musical language... The idea of the Flamecaller mourning her first children and passing on their gift. The Coatls and Banes bonding over this similarity. I love them, I need more Banes.

Veilspuns - I'll be honest. I don't remember anything about the Veilspun lore. Legitimately. I love Veil's designs but their lore just Did Not Stick. I'll have to go reread it and probably rebuild it somehow lmaooo

Aberrations - Okay, I also kinda forgot this one, but they literally crawled out of the Wyrmwound, right?? Like, sort of had a "cast away by their god" type of thing? Failed experiment energy? Idk if that was actually what happened, but it's the take I'm going with.

Undertides - They felt betrayed by their god so turned their back on him, and then reintroduced themselves to modern society upon the Surge in the Elements. Cool! Interesting! I think this could be very cool to explore, especially with the modern members of Water Flight who have effectively been abandoned by Tidelord (as far as we know. Dad come back.) Also, strong ties with a specific sect of Maren! Neat! Not as potent of lore to me, maybe, but it's interesting and has potential. Execution was ehhg but I can work with the concepts.

Aethers - I love their lore yes its stupid yes its goofy and I adore them for it. If I go through with my lore crafting I'll keep all this because the other Ancients having cool and fucked up lore next to these dumbass sparkly floofs is hilarious to me.

Sandsurges - Okay I DID. Think the "pay" bit in the story was funny. But I do think a "cooler" take could have been done, with Sandsurges having a better reason to have been unknown to modern dragons aside from "They were underground all along" whsgsgs. I think you can combine the best of both world by saying they return upon seeing the exploitation of modern Lightning society, and the building of something Big and Dangerous, with allusions to this having been done in the past and having had consequences to Ancient Sandsurge society... AKA, they're here to teach the young'uns about unions.

Auraboas - Okay, so. The issues have been brought up several times, and most of us are aware at this point. I can see the angle they were going for, for a sci-fi-esque hivemind tyoe of situation. I also don't necessarily disagree with the decision to make it Nature. While Arcane might make more sense for sci-fi themeing, I think choosing a different Flight makes it a little less on the nose. In any case, I think the concepts are there, but were executed very poorly and with a decent dose of "ignorance and tone-deafness." I think the story specifically should have treated the elder Auraboas with more compassion for their fears for their children and difficulty in communicating with modern dragons. Way less infantilization, and more "person struggling with a language they barely know, reaching out to someone they never would have otherwise out of desperation." (By this I mean I think they could have written the difficulty in communicating far better than they did). The Loop is interesting as well, though very hard to grasp as a concept. This is partially on purpose, and partially because I kind if think staff purposefully left some things vague because they didn't actually want to try and figure out how the concept would work, lol (which I can't entirely blame them for, especially since with Site Lore sometimes less is more, allowing for multiple interpretations by users).

Another note: in both the recent Lightning and Nature ancient stories, they're both stated and/or heavily implied to have already been known about by certain dragons In The Know, so to speak. I have some mixed thoughts on either, and might incorporate them differently. Sandsurges as sort of secret workers was a little funny and backed up the Weird Shady Company Execs thing, but it could be interesting to make it a sort of, deliberately covered up because We Can't Have Them Teaching The New Hires How To Unionize!

As for Auraboas... Not really sure. I can see them being a culture that has been largely self-reliant for their existance, hence the lack of contact with modern dragons. But, given their connection to the Behemoth (and maybe a connection that could be elaborated on), maybe they've appeared or collaborated with moderns in the past over threats to the Behemoth. So, mutual knowledge, but no sustained contact since it was A) difficult and B) outside of curiosity, most on both sides saw little reason to establish further contact. A sort of living alongside one another but never really talking, like neighbors you see sometimes but don't talk to. It's only the disruption of the Loop in the younger generation that both kickstarts a greater Need to connect, but also a bridge for easier communication.

[tinderbox210]

La’an Noonien-Singh and Spock + La’an vs Spock’s grandiloquence (remastered)

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: s01e04 - Momento Mori

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: s02e04 - Among the Lotus Eaters

[csoriginalz]

Chapter 7 of 'Where the Parallels Crash'

A bit more insight into Sylvia's thought process this week. We're also getting to some longer chapters!

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[no1ryomafan]

I should be in bed BUUUT for some reason I could not get it out of my mind about how casshern sins and big o do plot structure somewhat similarly SOOO I jotted down a compare and contrast sheet rather then a huge graph: (differences got cut off cause I’m on my phone but also yapped a ton 💀)

Also I’m very aware I could’ve also just copied n paste this but look at how fucking long these are I don’t know if anyone gonna read these but I’m putting them here cause on Twitter I know people would misinterpret this as I’m saying one better then the other when for that last part I’m just giving a honest critic on big o but I still love it

[saoirse-ronan]

"I have lots of wishes, but my favorite one is to be an artist in Paris and to do fine pictures and to be the best painter in the world."

"That's what you want too, isn't it, Jo? To be a famous writer?"

"Yes, but it sounds so crass when she says it."

@pscentral event 35: parallels

↳ jo and amy march in little women (2019), dir. greta gerwig

[dnschmidt]

The Hypothetical Woman - A science fiction short story

A man is disturbed by his shapeshifting home, and visions of a ghostly woman. Could she be evidence of another world intruding on this one? A science fiction short story.