#WritersCoffeeClub 2024-10-22
What's your favorite writing convention to eschew?
I write sword & sorcery. None of my settings are pseudo- (or 'D&D') medieval. There's no universal, evangelical monolatry. My 'fantasy races' are less human in nature. There's no clear border between academic/scientific magic and religious magic.
Aliems aside, there are no 'magical bloodlines'; magical prowess comes mainly from wisdom, conviction, and hard work.
#WritersCoffeeClub 2024-10-16
Have you ever written something in a culture other than your own?
I... don't actually know whether it's a meaningful answer or a glib answer, but I don't feel like I've ever written anything BUT other cultures.
The closest thing I have to my own culture is stuff set in Southern California, 170 years in the future, after two World Wars and the collapse/replacement of most of the world's current superpowers.
461. Which of your characters scares you the most? Why is that?
Abby Normal. She's so young and so sheltered, but she has such a clarity of purpose-- she knows exactly what she wants to do, who she wants to be, and how she wants to be spend every last moment of her life.
She literally woke up one day and chose violence and has never known a moment of regret or remorse ever since.
All of my work is #Punk / #Cyberpunk and not just in the surface aesthetics.
Society is inherently doomed to corruption but worth fighting for. Heroes die young or live long enough to become villains.
Power is what you can control; freedom is what you can unleash. Information is the purest form of both.
Heroes fight for communities they can never be fully a part of; villains destroy the communities they rule from within.
#TTRPG #AmWriting #fantasy #Shroompunk #CosmicRangers #SDTJ2197
My work is chock full of nonhuman peoples are nonhuman peoples are WEIRD.
#Shroompunk kiths are based on He-Man/She-Ra/Mario characters.
#CosmicRangers aliens are trad fantasy races with #CosmicFantasy / #SpaceOpera glow-ups.
The #jianghu of #SDTJ2197 is chockfull of faerie/yokai/yaoguai and Carter/Burroughs/Lovecraft weird fantasy gribblies. They're all 'extra-dimensionals', or 'edies', and they're the reason that decent people stay out of Squidtown.
I realized that all my #fantasy settings have something in common: they're all set across multiple worlds. Geography rarely matters.
#Shroompunk connects its Worlds-- bite-sized flat 'earths'-- by living #megadungeons called 'Warp Zones'.
#CosmicRangers is a #SpaceWestern with where local 'regions' of space are connected by hyperspace railways. #FTL and 'faster than FTL'.
#SDTJ2197 is set in San Diego-Tijuana in the year 2197. With Cultivation Realms and planar travel.
V.K. Farfalle 🦋 (He/Him)