The difference between the polytheism of fantasy fiction and historical Greece-roman polytheism is that fantasy polytheism tends to be far more consistent, like there are actually rules on how things work instead of the constant shifting and inconsistency which Greek myth tends to have.
(I might be wrong, since I not an expert or anything.)
could it be that the gods can actually exist in fantasy fiction
Anonymous asked:
xhxhxhx answered:
no person is illegal, anon
In a dystopian future where the government regulates the choice of preferences for new moral agents at time of creation, genderfluid robot Optimum 7 has been declared illegal by the Turing Police. Can she survive the death of her creator, the elusive, elite transhuman Strayan Shtpost Hacker @argumate?
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Sharkpost 7: Parkour Or Die
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esoteric-hoxhaism answered:
this is bad but you don’t see the read another book people saying it’s bad
Maybe it’s because on the log scale of supervillainy, Trump doesn’t even break a 2.2, and doesn’t even have any supernatural or other enhanced abilities.
I know you’ll dispute this, but simply - Trump isn’t causing the meme wave, he’s just riding it. So that doesn’t count as a supernatural ability, either.
Every time I see one of those posts about “where are the fantasy stories with even remotely realistic economies and politics!” I glance over to the scattered notes and snippets I’ve made for Exactly That Story and get wracked with those why-aren’t-you-following-your-dreams shivers.
For the third edition of the Exalted rpg, they went to a lot of trouble to cajole the guy who developed the first edition to come back and write some material for the book, and he totally didn’t give a shit since he’d been doing other things for ten years at that point. He’s an economist now, so the biggest contiguous contribution he made was like two pages that just talk about about currency denominations, coinage, and seignorage in the game’s fantasy setting and how those things related to factional politics, and they cut basically the entire section because people do not want to read two pages of that in the core setting chapter of a high fantasy adventure game.
This was the same game line that hired an actual marine historian to write the book about seafaring and thus got a huge amount of material about shipboard chains of command, hull and rigging types, naval watch scheduling, and so on. I loved that book unironically, but you basically can’t use that sort of material because 95% of people will just totally skip your weird Moby Dick style digressions into whale physiology or whatever.
Anyway, regarding your specific story: if the Silmarillion teaches anything, it’s that sufficiently detailed worldbuilding can overcome the need to actually write readable fiction.
Misread this as “whale psychology”.
When talking about monstergirls, we are talking about something that is both greater and lesser than human. More powerful, sometimes overwhelmingly so, while also more animalistic and wild. Sexual, enthusiastic, playful.
What men want, the longing in their hearts, is to be wanted. To be validated, in the only way that masculinity can be.
The straight female fantasy of her own overwhelming desirability taming a terrifying and powerful, yet handsome and charming creature, more masculine than any mere man, and monopolizing it to her own ends, is matched in its male mirror.
you can’t fool me that’s a lanternfish
This is transhumanist.
No. Toolmaking is just humanist. Transhumanism is a fantasy genre that looks like hard scifi to people autistic enough to think the no-cloning theorem couldn’t possibly apply to consciousness.
I mean, Transhumanism isn’t just upload civilizations. It’s also robot arms.
And we already have robot arms, so it’s likely just a matter of time before they exceed regular arms.
Singulitarianism, on the other hand…
Robot arms are still specialized. Only human arms are generalized. We must embark on a quest for AGA. Artificial general arms.
MIRI will of course join the effort. I wonder what the combined acronym should be.
Also, rocks are artificial specialized arms. They do more damage when you hit people with them.
Look man, all I’m saying is that we can totally add cybernetic tails to Rationalist catgirls, and it’ll only take, like, one aug slot, tops. Only 0.1% chance of a feedback loop overloading the central nervous system and causing a blackout.
So I’m gonna need you to back my Neko no Shippo kickstarter in 2033.
Anonymous asked:
Running from my problems like: 👻🎃👟 (at Terror in the Corn)
Look when I claimed that America was a pumpkin-strewn dystopian hellscape I was only joking
Only a fucking coward would say there are too many pumpkins in this country.
You’re not a coward,
are you, Argumate?
SAN FRANCISCO—In an effort to reduce the number of unprovoked hostile communications on the social media platform, Twitter announced Monday that it had added a red X-mark feature verifying users who are in fact perfectly okay to harass. “This new verification system offers users a simple, efficient way to determine which accounts belong to total pieces of shit whom you should have no qualms about tormenting to your heart’s desire,” said spokesperson Elizabeth James, adding that the small red symbol signifies that Twitter has officially confirmed the identity of a loathsome person who deserves the worst abuse imaginable and who will deliberately have their Mute, Block, and Report options disabled. “When a user sees this symbol, they know they’re dealing with a real asshole who has richly earned whatever mistreatment they receive, including profanity, body-shaming, leaking of personal information, and relentless goading to commit suicide. It’s really just a helpful way of saying to our users, ‘This fuck has it coming, so do your worst with a clear conscience and without fear of having your account suspended.’” At press time, Twitter reassuredly clarified that the red X was just a suggestion and that all users could still be bullied with as little recourse as they are now.
