01.07.2024 Introduce your story as if it were a person. What is their character, style, etc.?
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Hi reading person, nice to see you again, I have a friend with me, Star Ryde this is reading person, reading person this is Star Ryde.
Star Ride is a work in progress so I'm showing them around hope you don't mind?
It wants to become a full book in its future, a Sci-fi novel, with a brought inclusive spectrum. It already has some backstory and a lot of LGBTQIA+
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3/3 which Humanity is part of a galactic spanning Union, fighting against an enemy which motivations are unknown, if we can pull it off it will be full of consensual interactions, some fuzzy warm emotions, technological and social progressions, colorful worlds and interesting Alien worlds/societies. I hope you to will work well together.
If you two need anything or have a question, I am here, just toot.
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02.07.2024 What is the biggest sacrifice your MC is ready to make?
Well Kira lost a lot in this war already. We will see how far she goes in her future...
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03.07.2024 MC POV: What's your most important achievement?
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Kira:"Personally, on a interspecies/ relationship level, professional, physical, psychological. Gosh I dislike open questions, if you want a straight answer, please ask a straight defined question...
Okay I try...
Personal having met great people that somehow stuck around.
Professional, my file contains all necessary informations if you can't access it, it is most likely not for you to
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2/3 to know such information, relationship i'm merged with an AI & it's kinda nice? I think others may find it annoying but I kinda like it. I like Ash she is very polite & simply nice to have as a 3. or 4. thought. Still don't know how I got lucky to wake Arkham's interest, as I first met her, she was an interesting person with potential, but now she is the rabbit hole I want to get lost in."
Arkham:"This sounds naughty."
Kira:"What, why?"
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3/3 Ash:"I think the FC has different ideas about rabbit holes as her captain."
Arkham:"Maybe it's the fact you called me a rabbit hole & I thought I'ma bad flirt. I mean it's kinda nice but also kinda WEIRD you know. Couldn't you have said this about my eyes?"
Kira:"I am not allowed to lie mam, your eyes don't look like rabbit holes, they look like 2 stars, shining into my soul."
Arkham grabed Kira's face, looking into her eyes & smiled:"Slimer."
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05.06.2024 Who among your cast could become your friend?
Me as an Author maybe AJ. Their memory problems would at least make it easier for them to don't see me as the one that sets everything in motion and pulls all the strings.
As an character I would like to hang out with Kira, J. And the rest of the bunch. But damn I have to get in shape to getting into the Alliance and becoming a top soldier... My body wants me to tell you that this is highly unlikely.😅
#WordWeavers 04.07.2024 #StarRyde
05.07.2024 Have you ever had a crush on one of your characters?
No and weirdly I don't think this could even be possible. I sometimes create characters that have all the "necessary bits" that I could find them attractive as a person, I rarely build characters to please me or my favorite visuals, but I can't imagine (despite having fictional and real crushes left and right* 😔) crushing on my own creations. Adore them to a degree maybe.
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07.07.2024 Antagonist POV: Who do you trust with your life?
AI:"No one, everyone can be manipulated, I am in this charades for longer than most. My trust to work for me has to been earned, if you not useful to our goal at least stay out of our way."
AJ:"I can't rely on anyone other than myself, I don't know why I'm telling you about this, but my memory issues make it easy for others to take advantage of me. For that reason I started only trusting myself and my notes..."
Authors note apparently my instance now supports 1000 characters per toot. Oh boy the opportunities.🙏🏾💚
Mental note to myself find out how to support my instance.
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07.07.2024 How did you feel after your last writing session? Why?
Not very good to be honest, I dived into the backstory of my Fallout 76 cannibal/pvp/team medic and despite finding her background intriguing it felt like torturing her...
I have a sadistic aide sometimes but is more a trait I dislike and don't enjoy putting it "on display" the Fallout show and games are always tuned down from depicting what a post apocalypse society could be in its nastiest ways only mentioning it or telling it by environmental story telling. Writing her backstory is like unearthing all stuff that isn't shown and what the show showed me is that my level of graphical violence (blunt like exploding body parts or stealthy like mental abuse) limits are very low the more realistic it gets and writing it is a deep dive into a very realistic feeling for me.
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09.07.2024 Is there a person you'd love to show your writing to but are afraid to do it? Why?
Depends on my writing I'm doing I wouldn't put out my diary out there if I would have one. And I have no experience releasing much more than some toots and rarely a fanfiction among a small selection of people... So I think not really but time will tell.
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09.07.2024 What are you doing differently with your story compared to your previous work?
Well it basically is my previous work I never cooked so long in something but I also never took it seriously.
I do not force myself to a PC anymore and most of what I'm doing is patchwork Chaos because that is how I am and work best. What is really different for the first time I want to finish this work somehow and I'm am using the writing prompts here on Mastodon to develop stuff further.
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10.07.2024 What stays the same in every story you write?
The alphabet.
Sorry this isn't ment sarcastic or hostile, I haven't shared much with many, my RPG quests have been all over the place and settings. So my response is limited to the few reactions I got which boil down to ground solid, fascinatingly creative.
So basically I always write in the same alphabet, my handwriting looks a bit different for sure, but I don't think that I have a style that is recognizable at least not yet. Maybe some sort of playing with expectations, puns or tropes but again this is an assumption not a remarkable fact people told me about.
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11.07.2024 SC POV: Tell us about a difficult decision you had to make.
Mondira:"Well joining the Alliance is a bit... Off for a Rim like me. You know our core worlds developed differently than humanity sorry Terrans back "Home" we had alien Tech before we had aliens, we had no home so we made a new ones and most of us are a true capitalist societies. Lot of people criticize us for this, but it's "our" Merch force that drives off most of the Eltaryn attacks. The Union always says we are part of it but most of us don't want to, not into this "Utopia" of social capitalism that hides its true nature under a benevolent face.
Every Utopia only works on a surface level... The Rim is blunt and open...
But I think, the split in societies shouldn't be that big of a deal. Not yet. Yeah most of my hums* call me a traitor, but we have the same goal. Survival.
I think for this the Alliance is a key factor."
#WordWeavers 11.07.2024 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP #Writing #CharacterCreation
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* hums - a rim slang, short for humble or humain ones. A term used for friends and close related persons one can trust but also could mean enemy, not trustworthy etc. It all depends on the context and way of saying it.
The term is kinda specicist, at least if it is taken as humain relating to human behavior, the Rim like the Union consists of different species but political correctness and kindness are reserved for family members, friends and close ones like "the hums."
Some non humans may also use it as an insult.
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12.07.2024 What’s the earliest version of your stories that you allow others to see?
Well basically the world has the chance of reading the Alpha 0.3 here life in development (I call it Alpha M for Mastodon version). If you want to go through all of my answers which should be around 1000+ by now it should paint some sort of a picture. As usual for me I have other "Prototype builds" like the written backstories I did for my characters, my who is who document, vox populi in which I try to develop the languages of the species in my story, my Easteregg documentation poems, song titles and lyrics, companies all exist in different documents, and my not very actual and accurate timeline. That is also the reason why I use my strange hashtag system and how I thread together my answers. And than there are the hand written notes and digital scribbles I have mostly on my old phone because it's notes system is very much top notch.
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13.07.2025 If your MC had to make dinner for close friends, what would they cook?
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Arkham:"I don't want to torture people, I don't cook..."
Kira:"You know if I wanted to torture you I simply would put a bowl of Epi Liqu in front of you with the same taste like the insects I ate in the Mojave."
Ash:"My food supply program and the Ghoz'Tarc's supply of Epi Liquid can produce any wished meal in a 99,9% accuracy including temperature, texture and taste, as long as the enzyme printer is functional."
Ark:"Or not tempered beyond repair?" Her view went to the captain.
"But despite our captain hacking our food supply, how long have you been in the desert?"
Kira:"5 days without more than a small bag of water I carried with me. If I had one of our uniforms back in the day this wouldn't had beeen a problem."
Ark:"Luckily only your taste buds died off."
Ash:"Incorrect FC the Captains taste buds are fine."
Kira:"You're always ...
#WordWeavers 13.07.2024 #StarRyde #Writing #SciFi #WIP
2/2 complain but if I cook for the crew your the biggest fan. Why is their this difference between Arkham outside my cabin and inside my cabin?
Arkham:"Ouch." Arkham's eyes fixated on her Partner, while she took a moment to think about that criticism:"Well ... Because I'm am insecure idiot sometimes... I don't want you to look bad outside. If we are alone I am not as focused on not saying something stupid..."
"So that you say something that might be considered hurtful by one, is a sign of trust? I know romance & relationship is new for you, but if this is the case we need to work on our love language hun." Kira smiled a hopefully supportive smile.
Arkham looked at her, took a deep breath & apologized:"I am sorry for my hurtful behavior, I trust you blindly. I didn't thought that my words where perceived so negative. You are a good cook & your family Chilli is fantastic."
"I love you Flight Commander Pakthi."
"I love you too."
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14.07.2024 Antagonist POV: What’s the most valuable thing in your life?
AJ:"My Memories. I lost a lot of them but not all. The Voice* tells me it is normal to loose memories, after what happened to me, but that the level is concerning. As I wouldn't knew that. I can still remember KJ. Her beauty is unmatched in all of known space. I still smell her if I close my eyes. A mix of human swet, armor polish and her favorite deodorant. She was an angel of death. A master of her weapon, skilled. If your society knows stories about Elves or fictional creatures like it, she could have been one.
She was my sister, I married her, she married me. Her death broke me.
No something is wrong with that, my parents adopted her?
Focus, her fire red hair, her face, remember her face, her voice."
AJ closed their eyes as they grasped onto a memory.
*Is AI because AJ seemingly also never met this entity.
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15.07.2024 How clever is your MC? Are they cleverer than you?
I find this question very flawed.
Their is no scale that isn't kind of arbitrary to measure intelligence, how smart or clever one is, that isn't flawed, we fail on determination anything that isn't our general knowledge.
Even our holy IQ system has to be redefined over an over again, back in the day people assumed that a big skull would house a big brain which would have led to a smarter brain. Which can be true on an evolutionary scale but not on a species specific level in which socialisation & culture play a big role.
How do I scale fictional characters into our scales, how do I scale my self to that. Is speaking several languages a sign of intelligence?
Then, as an bilingual person, I am smarter than every monolingual.
Do we take specific knowledge into account? Than every monolingual Dr is smarter than me.
I don't know how to survive in a SciFi war does this makes my MC smarter???
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16.07.2024. How do your characters feel about the ocean?
Dangerous, Oceans are a free area, your are visible KMs away if you catch a quiet day, on a stormy day it's hell itself, you can swim in it but you can also drown. And for a Spacecraft it's even more dangerous, because it's one thing to withstand atmospheric pressure outside and land on a planet but submerging the ship that is build to not burst from the inside pressure being dipped in a liquid resistance a giant pressure from the outside it will most like end up like a tin can under an elefant foot, if it isn't flooded which will most likely drown the crew.
Edit -- and don't forget that you get UV bombed on water too while water washes away sun protection...
And that's only the danger of H2O Oceans. Imagine a planet wich liquid metal oceans. -- Edit end
That said laying on a save beach can still be very comfortable and nice.
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