Tag Archive for world creation

Blindness

Blindness is a film about a fast spreading pandemic that sweeps across the world, rendering most of the population blind. There may be spoilers in this post.

The movie follows a group of infected individuals as they’re dumped in a facility without anyone to guide them. They’re treated cruelly, quickly things become a mess as people are unable to find their way around as they adapt to their sudden blindness. They are under armed guard, and there is one scene where a guard shoots a lost blind man who is simply seeking guidance of where to go.

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Vampire Ephebophilia

-Trigger Warnings-

Buffy is 15-16 years old when Angel sees her and falls in love with her. He looks to be about 20 or 21, but in reality, he’s over 200 years old.

According to other media, we should be really creeped out. In Pretty Persuasion, we’re supposed to be disgusted by the two 30-something men talking about the two 15 year old girls, after all. We think they’re too old for them, that a sexual relationship with them would have extreme power imbalances. It would be, above that, disgusting, and the fact that they can’t relate to women their own age would be used against them.

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What is Art

As a young adult, I think most of us who have seriously played video games boggle at the idea that they aren’t art. It’s something we take for granted – an obvious truth. However, there are still people who are debating that something so thought-provoking could be art.

I want to boil down the different forms of media that video games contain – and explain how they take it further.

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Blog Roundup

Welcome to another blog roundup! A lot of interesting food for thought here. I don’t fully agree with everything linked below, but all links got me thinking, which is the most important thing.

A quick reminder that I guest blogged at Eden Connor’s blog: Women Desire Taboos in Their Erotica

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Blog Roundup

Figured I’d post a few of the interesting blogs I’ve read this week! Have you read anything interesting recently?

Is There Something Unsexy About Playing Video Games?

My Self-Publishing Roller Coaster. And Porn. And Wow, I Need to Lose Weight.

Writing and Publishing Indie Porn: Tips from the Trenches

The Clothes That Bind

ON THE DEATH OF WHITNEY HOUSTON: Why I Won’t Ever Shut Up About My Drug Use

Vancouver billionaire gets slapped on the wrist after confining a sex worker

Writing What You Don’t Know

That Time I Worked at a Sex Club

Am I risking my readers?

What is in a name?

Don’t Panic (But Keep Your Towel Handy)

World Building Wednesdays: The Coin of the Realm- Resource Gathering

If You Write It, They Will Come

NBP & Bookstrand

Space for Rent: Video Games as Art

Book Promotion Roundup – Useful Articles for New Authors

How to be a Fan of Problematic Things

Like it or not: Breaking or Bending Consent in Erotic Fiction

The Bechdel Test

Caring About Characters

Self-Publishers Beware

These are articles rather than blogs, but still very interesting.

6 Real Planets That Put Science Fiction to Shame

Book Discovery: How Many ‘Touchpoints’ To Purchase?

Racism in Fantasy and Science Fiction

My white privilege post got me thinking about racism, perception, and arguments some people have used when analyzing fiction, especially in regards to there being a right and wrong way to portray a group. My focus, of course, is on fantasy and science fiction, because of the ways that racism will differ in a world where ‘race’ as we know it doesn’t exist, since race in our world is a cultural concept rather than a physical one. In most fantasy and sci-fi, other races have physical, cultural and mental differences that we simply don’t have on Earth.

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Racism in Skyrim

Racism, colonialism, imperialism… All three are touched on heavily throughout the entire Elder Scrolls series, and when you boil it all down, no side is innocent.

There may be spoilers in here from Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind, and the books by Greg Keyes, though I don’t expect this to be spoiler heavy.

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Drow Society

I have spent a lot of time reflecting on sexism in the Drow society, how it reflects on our own prejudices, and specifically, how certain authors ignore the set world in order to better be able to relate with the society.

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White Privilege and Fiction

As some of you know, my partner and I are working on a rather large work of fiction set to start releasing today, February 1st, 2012 at The Keep (/end self plug!) It’s set in a custom made world with entirely new races, situations, economies, cultures, the whole shebang.

I’ve been feeling really good about it, about the lore and the story, about the characters, but walking back to work from my lunch today, I realized something.

So far, we have very few human characters, but of those that we do have, less than half could be considered non-Caucasian.

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