normally i wouldn't tell people to give up on their dreams but come the frick on 💀💀
in typical reddit fashion, everything is so so bad. the advice, the depressed writers looking for people to validate their awful ideas. i distinctly remember one poster who wanted to know if people wanted to read about dinosaur bones. that's it. no mention of characters, no worldbuilding, no paleontologist murder mystery set in the heart of the african jungle. if you can't convince yourself, why should we care? here's a quote from Adaptation (2002):
People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corruption. Every fricking day somewhere in the world somebody sacrifices his life to save somebody else. Every fricking day someone somewhere takes a conscious decision to destroy someone else. People find love, people lose it. For Christ's sake a child watches her mother beaten to death on the steps of a church! Someone goes hungry, somebody else betrays his best friend for a woman. If you can't find that stuff in life, then you my friend don't know crap about life!
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The worldbuilding stack overflow page is a perplexing place. It's the most neurodivergent section of sci/fi and fantasy fans.
"How can i make this giant crab robot work in a world where crabs dont actually exist. It's a desert planet and I think it would be great if the people on the planet were building a giant crab robot but i just dont know a good way to make that work, since of course, there are no crabs."
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