>>9050220
At this rate I'm not sure Nithry is going to have a good month. I intentionally left the duration of Eigen's isolation ambiguous, but it's been about two years. As for the eusociality of the Fyrix, I've considered it myself when starting this work, and I've decided that they're more communal than strictly eusocial. Obviously I'm intentionally mirroring some aspects with figures like the Apex as well as the caste system, but in my mind, individuality on some level is necessary for the leap to this sort of distributed intelligence, and so the Fyrix developed into an odd mix of the two. They're definitely more communal than humans, but they're also paradoxically less intimate than humans.
In their evolution, I started with a semisocial species close to eusociality (Sharing nests and dividing labor) and put them through a mass extinction of their usual habitat which forced them to roam more and become more individualistic, as well as favoring intelligence during their development until they learned to cultivate their only source of food. Fyrix can tolerate isolation, but definitely to a lesser degree than humans. When your entire life revolves around a social rat race, the absence of it entirely would make them extremely restless. The degree that Eigen's suffered would definitely come as a shock.
>>9050239
Wow, you post here! I love the insect stuff you've been drawing recently, (I'm biased) I can appreciate a good Turian though
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>>9009149
>I could see some not liking the schtick of the fantasy play style but I think its a refreshing and unique element
Yeah, when I first drafted this story Eigen was just normal crazy. He was inspired heavily by Donald Crowhurst and the story would never enter his perspective, but then I decided that it's a story and why not have some fun with it? Let's just make him a man living his own literal fantasy! I like to think it still passes verisimilitude and it's much more interesting this way. I'd only ever written fantasy before this one, so funnily enough this is much more in my wheelhouse
It's especially difficult because his perspective isn't *exactly* a screenplay; it's a crazy person pretending he's in a screenplay, or at least that's the best way I found to present it. It still needs to contain some prose and it breaks a lot to imply the state of the mind behind it, so anyone who's read actual screenplays would recognize it as wrong, but it works. I think people reading it will tend to glaze over the person actually speaking and just read the text as well, but in a way that works, because it's all the same person anyway! There's a lot of playing around with the format to add some extra depth to the scenes, and hopefully people think that's as cool as I do, but it's definitely a lot more 'dense' than the other parts. I haven't heard any complaints yet, so that must count for something!
Also, sorry I never got around to replying to you last time, but I'm fine with graphic sex being in works. It's that what I consider smut is something whose sole and express intention is to be masturbated to, and I do generally look down on that stuff. It serves a purpose, but it's difficult for me to take seriously. I think if you've done a good job writing characters the reader shouldn't want to watch them fuck too much anyway. If it does happen, it's less me standing in the corner masturbating and more me standing in the corner cheering them on, if that makes any sense!
>I could see some not liking the schtick of the fantasy play style but I think its a refreshing and unique element
Yeah, when I first drafted this story Eigen was just normal crazy. He was inspired heavily by Donald Crowhurst and the story would never enter his perspective, but then I decided that it's a story and why not have some fun with it? Let's just make him a man living his own literal fantasy! I like to think it still passes verisimilitude and it's much more interesting this way. I'd only ever written fantasy before this one, so funnily enough this is much more in my wheelhouse
It's especially difficult because his perspective isn't *exactly* a screenplay; it's a crazy person pretending he's in a screenplay, or at least that's the best way I found to present it. It still needs to contain some prose and it breaks a lot to imply the state of the mind behind it, so anyone who's read actual screenplays would recognize it as wrong, but it works. I think people reading it will tend to glaze over the person actually speaking and just read the text as well, but in a way that works, because it's all the same person anyway! There's a lot of playing around with the format to add some extra depth to the scenes, and hopefully people think that's as cool as I do, but it's definitely a lot more 'dense' than the other parts. I haven't heard any complaints yet, so that must count for something!
Also, sorry I never got around to replying to you last time, but I'm fine with graphic sex being in works. It's that what I consider smut is something whose sole and express intention is to be masturbated to, and I do generally look down on that stuff. It serves a purpose, but it's difficult for me to take seriously. I think if you've done a good job writing characters the reader shouldn't want to watch them fuck too much anyway. If it does happen, it's less me standing in the corner masturbating and more me standing in the corner cheering them on, if that makes any sense!
>>8962141
Posts in /bzzt/ on /trash/. I don't want to snatch their OC.
Posts in /bzzt/ on /trash/. I don't want to snatch their OC.