JadeGreen17
Chimeric Spirit
So yeah. This is going to be a journal thread. I find myself coming to this site a lot even though I don't really role play here much anymore. Reason being there are way too many flaky people here. The problem of chronic ghosting is so bad that I could make a thread complaining about the chronic threads complaining about chronic ghosting, but that seems counterproductive. And off site, I presently have two very reliable and passionate RP partners to keep me busy. Anyways I'm probably just going to drop in every couple of days and blab with very little filter. Ignore it. Read it. respond to it. Whatever.
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Now I will rant about some cliches I dislike.
-"Credits" as a currency in a scifi setting. Why does it seem like every scifi setting has their currency system just be credits or [name-of-interstellar-civilization] credits ?
-Future Earth Scifi Faction is just American navy in space. Okay. i know a lot of people complain about how in a lot of scifi, particularly that involving contact with aliens, people bitch about earth always being unified and how they remove a lot of story possibilities by just having a unified government that works. But I understand what the trope is there to accomplish. Earth is now just one nation; and the other alien civilizations are the factions with which the interactions and conflicts take place with. A petty political squabble between two nations on earth isn't exactly going to get people excited in the same way a dispute between two alien civilizations is.
To put this into context, if you're writing a political drama about the united states and soviet union during the cold war; and then just shift to a political squabble between two state-level governors within the united states fighting about tax reform or public education funding; you're going to lose a lot of your audience. But the issue comes when this united earth space faction seems to be made of strictly American influence and culture; with the other cultures seldom represented, when an amalgam of these cultures would be far more exciting and 'futuristic'. To show one possible outcome of how these cultures and ideals could potentially converge as we move into the future.
-Generic 1-trait-apice aliens in a scifi setting. This is just lazy world building. When an alien culture is just a "warrior culture" or "merchant culture" or "religious culture" etc. Every culture has to have aspects of all of these to function within a setting in essence; though some may be exemplified more than others, and when contrasted to a wider galactic community each culture may find certain aspects flanderized. It would be interesting to see a work that explores (ideally in a somewhat comedic light) this as analogous to cultural appropriation, in where theres a galactic community where each alien species is viewed as a one dimensional charaicture of themselves by the wider galaxy.
-Aliens are humans but with blue/green/purple skin. I understand wanting vaugely humanoid aliens; two arms, two legs, about human size for interaction and character relatability reasons and such. Bare minimum, throw in some head tentacles or something...
-Characters have drawn out will-they won't-they thing and hookup/kiss in the last episode/chapter/end of the movie. Do I even need to say anything? It makes me want to put an ax through the TV or computer every time I'm spoon fed this crap. The main character and the main girl of the group are always going to hook up its so darn easy to predict so stop drawing it out with mellodrama and contrived misunderstandings. Bonus points for every time the characters have blushed or acted awkward. Double bonus points for every time they couldn't just spit it out and admit how they really feel.
-Love Triangles. No I do not need to say anything more.
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Now I will rant about some cliches I dislike.
-"Credits" as a currency in a scifi setting. Why does it seem like every scifi setting has their currency system just be credits or [name-of-interstellar-civilization] credits ?
-Future Earth Scifi Faction is just American navy in space. Okay. i know a lot of people complain about how in a lot of scifi, particularly that involving contact with aliens, people bitch about earth always being unified and how they remove a lot of story possibilities by just having a unified government that works. But I understand what the trope is there to accomplish. Earth is now just one nation; and the other alien civilizations are the factions with which the interactions and conflicts take place with. A petty political squabble between two nations on earth isn't exactly going to get people excited in the same way a dispute between two alien civilizations is.
To put this into context, if you're writing a political drama about the united states and soviet union during the cold war; and then just shift to a political squabble between two state-level governors within the united states fighting about tax reform or public education funding; you're going to lose a lot of your audience. But the issue comes when this united earth space faction seems to be made of strictly American influence and culture; with the other cultures seldom represented, when an amalgam of these cultures would be far more exciting and 'futuristic'. To show one possible outcome of how these cultures and ideals could potentially converge as we move into the future.
-Generic 1-trait-apice aliens in a scifi setting. This is just lazy world building. When an alien culture is just a "warrior culture" or "merchant culture" or "religious culture" etc. Every culture has to have aspects of all of these to function within a setting in essence; though some may be exemplified more than others, and when contrasted to a wider galactic community each culture may find certain aspects flanderized. It would be interesting to see a work that explores (ideally in a somewhat comedic light) this as analogous to cultural appropriation, in where theres a galactic community where each alien species is viewed as a one dimensional charaicture of themselves by the wider galaxy.
-Aliens are humans but with blue/green/purple skin. I understand wanting vaugely humanoid aliens; two arms, two legs, about human size for interaction and character relatability reasons and such. Bare minimum, throw in some head tentacles or something...
-Characters have drawn out will-they won't-they thing and hookup/kiss in the last episode/chapter/end of the movie. Do I even need to say anything? It makes me want to put an ax through the TV or computer every time I'm spoon fed this crap. The main character and the main girl of the group are always going to hook up its so darn easy to predict so stop drawing it out with mellodrama and contrived misunderstandings. Bonus points for every time the characters have blushed or acted awkward. Double bonus points for every time they couldn't just spit it out and admit how they really feel.
-Love Triangles. No I do not need to say anything more.