World building and hashing out the details is a huge part of the fun for me. Especially since my actual writing process involves obsessing over word choice and imagery and shit. Which, you know, is fun also, but a lot more draining than plotting. It's that side of things that derails me a lot of the time.
IDK if you saw, some of us are writing about our writing, I would love to see you post in more detail on your methods. :)
ahhh yes, that's a good point on the circumventing law! (And it makes one think about independent planetary law, and the interstellar equivalent of international waters.) The idea of Tony being integrated with machinery is shades of Extremis - and if Howard altered his child to be like that, no wonder people saw it as fucked up.
Tony is very hands-on; mpreg is not so odd, actually, I recall playing with an mpreg idea where Tony was all, I made new tech! and now I must test it! look at me building another human this is amazing. Mpreg where Tony is part-machine, well, if he is a machine who builds machines, and an intelligence who creates intelligences, constructing them out of his own matter is - interesting. Especially if they can interface through their machine aspects from the babies' creation. (It reminds me of Ivanova from B5, talking about her telepath mother - what it was like to feel your mother's love for you.) Given how possessive Tony is of the armour, I can't imagine how protective he'd be of his robobabies. Attempts to commandeer his little potential weapons would go down very badly.
Oh man, a world where Mad Scientists can go away and create their own strange worlds. For some reason, I see Doom as a planet kind of guy. IDK. Maybe I'm just associating him with the natural drama of mountains and thunder?
I definitely rec the Culture if you haven't read it - Banks is just hnrgh from a technical perspective, just. The last one I read was Matter which is... soft, social SF that's a deconstruction of epic fantasy tropes?
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IDK if you saw, some of us are writing about our writing, I would love to see you post in more detail on your methods. :)
ahhh yes, that's a good point on the circumventing law! (And it makes one think about independent planetary law, and the interstellar equivalent of international waters.) The idea of Tony being integrated with machinery is shades of Extremis - and if Howard altered his child to be like that, no wonder people saw it as fucked up.
Tony is very hands-on; mpreg is not so odd, actually, I recall playing with an mpreg idea where Tony was all, I made new tech! and now I must test it! look at me building another human this is amazing. Mpreg where Tony is part-machine, well, if he is a machine who builds machines, and an intelligence who creates intelligences, constructing them out of his own matter is - interesting. Especially if they can interface through their machine aspects from the babies' creation. (It reminds me of Ivanova from B5, talking about her telepath mother - what it was like to feel your mother's love for you.) Given how possessive Tony is of the armour, I can't imagine how protective he'd be of his robobabies. Attempts to commandeer his little potential weapons would go down very badly.
Oh man, a world where Mad Scientists can go away and create their own strange worlds. For some reason, I see Doom as a planet kind of guy. IDK. Maybe I'm just associating him with the natural drama of mountains and thunder?
I definitely rec the Culture if you haven't read it - Banks is just hnrgh from a technical perspective, just. The last one I read was Matter which is... soft, social SF that's a deconstruction of epic fantasy tropes?