worse than ever

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

sorry I’m still mad about that worldbuilding post but like that is just asking people to think about agriculture, one of the most invisibil-ized yet critical features of all human society and life. I wonder what kind of economic or political understanding these people are imbuing in their worlds? oh you’re telling me it represents a completely uncritical, uncurious child’s understanding of monarchy/capitalism/utopia/dystopia? it’s just video game logic plastered over an entire world, or kingdom, or galaxy? wow. that’s crazy who would have guessed

people are on that shitpost about requiring genre authors to think about ethnobotany in worldbuilding moaning about their god given right to know nothing and care nothing about the environment of their precious story and instead focus solely on superficial thematic flavour and trope lists. and that’s why so much genre fic is so bland and indistinguishable. it’s all just shorthand, it’s referential, it’s unchallenged acceptance of the world as-is, just frame shifted slightly to one side, it’s all vibes and aesthetics and no real interest in understanding our world let alone the one they’re constructing

this is why I don't respect JMS as a writer as much as most b5 fans do. he loves Big Themes but does as little worldbuilding as he can get away with and it's boring. it flattens a whole galaxy into a little terrarium of 90s america
probablyasocialecologist
what! I was like 'what dust?' and after reading I am only slightly less unsure. its produced from the star mass?