RE: This is gonna be the thread where we talk about stuff
07-20-2013, 01:20 AM
Corollary that would've followed on from that second paragraph:
Not to mention, your SF protagonists are gonna be royalty or other socially high-ranking positions, or Marked For Cosmic Significance. I get that they'll have problems like balancing internal affairs of state with negotiations with Involved races and handling your wilful brother/sister/daughter/head of Local Religion or whatever, but I don't empathise for the character in the same way I would a protagonist in more typical fiction. The whole SF genre at large puts me in "dispassionate observer" mode, I guess?
Not to mention, your SF protagonists are gonna be royalty or other socially high-ranking positions, or Marked For Cosmic Significance. I get that they'll have problems like balancing internal affairs of state with negotiations with Involved races and handling your wilful brother/sister/daughter/head of Local Religion or whatever, but I don't empathise for the character in the same way I would a protagonist in more typical fiction. The whole SF genre at large puts me in "dispassionate observer" mode, I guess?
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staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow
clouds is shaky love | broke as hell but i got a bunch of ringtones
eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow