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[–] 60 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Listen just because my underconfident and socially awkward bug lady protagonist joins a ragtag multiracial fantasy airship crew and finds a human bf among them who uses their tramp freighter gray market status to undercut East India Company type resource gathering firms and deliver anti-ship weapons to tribal lizard folk and the world is kinda shitty because they're discovering capitalism and discovering how if you just pass laws against racism it doesn't magically stop racism and also there are factory worker rebellions happening back home in the West doesn't mean I have some sort of agenda

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This is shockingly close to the novel I'm writing

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Vaguely pseudo-victorian whateverpunk usually has themes of social change at their center given that the 19th century was full of revolutions and new political ideas and science and people finally figuring out that making sick people bleed on purpose is a bad idea

    I'm sure anyone could look at either one of our stories and go "whoa just like Treasure Planet/Perdido Street Station/other vaguely similar thing"

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You got a patreon or something?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No I have crippling self-doubt and chronic pain that prevents me from getting my shit together enough to write properly

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    For what it’s worth I would totally read this.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    People keep telling me this but my brain is like "you're a horrible writer and you suck and you're unoriginal and nobody will ever love you and your death would release others from the burden of your existence" and tbh I'm sick of its bullshit

    galaxy-brain xi-gun

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