alien worldbuilding is so important to me, not just for fun, but for the plot potential.
in one of my favorite star trek fics from way back when, captain kirk wakes up in a hotel one morning after a bar fight, takes some alien antibiotics and alien booze from the front desk, brushes his teeth, has orange juice for breakfast, and then starts FUCKING DYING. why? because the alien booze intensifies his medication’s effects, then the medication reacts to the chemicals in his toothpaste and the acid from the orange juice and just like that, his delightful drank has now turned to battery acid in his stomach. he gets rushed to the hospital by Spock and nearly dies, and that near death experience forces him to finally talk to spock about something he’d been avoiding for SEVEN CHAPTERS.
little things like that, like building out parts of your world that at first glance seem nonsignificant, can serve as plot devices and windowdressing. and it feels real. because who hasn’t accidentally mixed medication with something benign like OJ or something and then had a crazy reaction? no one.
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somehow instead of saying "as a treat", I've started using the phrase "for morale", as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.
and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.
I'm not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me
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“lmao imagine liking men” OK!!! ON IT BOSS 🫡🫡🫡 it’s beautiful here
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i really appreciate ryoko kui’s subversion of tired anime tropes, mostly a lot of sexual/sexualized ones
the main guy is a freak but not a pervert. just genuinely inflicted with the tism cranked to 100
none of the women are gratuitously sexualized (including the underage ones!!!) and all the panty shots are relegated to senshi, as they should be
the catgirl in the group isn’t some cute ditzy fan service character, but actually acts like a cat in addition to having her own arc and development
any level-headed male in the series respects and listens to the female characters and treats them as people and equals
also despite laios being a kinda blonde white everyman character, he’s easily the weirdest one in the group (and i love him)
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