Hey, everybody!!! ^_^
So. Goodbye Fourth Wall! Yeah. That comedy series thing. Remember it? Yeah, neither do I. :3
NEW EPISODE: Click here to view/read.
The rest of Ch. 13 WILL be posted by Saturday. x_x Sorry x1000000 for the wait.
...Yeah. That's all I got for updates at the moment. But because I feel like blabbing, have a list of SciFi/Fantasy stereotypes I’ve always wanted to beat when I write WOT:
Alien species are usually hairless, big-eyed, have unspecific facial features, and have leathery/scaly skin.
The entire idea of aliens existing, in my opinion, is very interesting to me, despite the fact that I don’t believe aliens actually exist. But, I like to think about what an alien might look like, anyway, if they did exist. Why wouldn’t/shouldn’t/couldn’t they have fur? Why wouldn’t/shouldn’t/couldn’t they have faces just as unique as human faces?
All alien life forms have to be more technologically advanced than humans.
Call me crazy, but, I like to think about how the human race might respond to an alien race that is dwarfed in comparison when it comes to them in technology.
Changing your physical form is either quick and painless, or slow and excruciating.
There seems to be two very popular extremes with form-changing/shifting/morphing. EITHER:
(1) You change your form whenever you want, within one to six seconds, without breaking a sweat.
OR,
(2) You change your form after writhing on the ground in agony for a while, as your bones/muscles/tendons/etc. break, grow, dissolve, and rearrange themselves.
I typically associate 1 with Fantasy (except for Werewolf stuff...I dunno...), and 2 with SciFi. But there are plenty of stories and movies and shows that break that stereotype by switching it around. And, of course, there ARE shows/movies/books that break both of them at once regardless of genre by finding the middle-ground: Form changing is semi-slow, and kind of uncomfortable. K. A. Applegate described her version of it by comparing it to Novocaine. (Paraphrasing time!) "You feel things bending and breaking, and you know it should hurt, but it doesn't. Kind of like Novocaine."
I've always liked to take that idea one step further: Form changing takes skill. It's like tying your shoes or riding a bike. At first, it's difficult and slow and awkward, but after a while, you get faster and more precise. (Also, I think that going from a larger form to a smaller form would take less time because no new matter is needed; just shed or recycle the stuff you don't need and shrink down to the size you want to be at. But that's just my opinion.)
...Wow. Now THAT was a ramble. XD Hope I didn't bore anybody. Derp!
Thanks for reading....or, at least checking the update! ;)
~Ashley Briarwolf
So. Goodbye Fourth Wall! Yeah. That comedy series thing. Remember it? Yeah, neither do I. :3
NEW EPISODE: Click here to view/read.
The rest of Ch. 13 WILL be posted by Saturday. x_x Sorry x1000000 for the wait.
...Yeah. That's all I got for updates at the moment. But because I feel like blabbing, have a list of SciFi/Fantasy stereotypes I’ve always wanted to beat when I write WOT:
Alien species are usually hairless, big-eyed, have unspecific facial features, and have leathery/scaly skin.
The entire idea of aliens existing, in my opinion, is very interesting to me, despite the fact that I don’t believe aliens actually exist. But, I like to think about what an alien might look like, anyway, if they did exist. Why wouldn’t/shouldn’t/couldn’t they have fur? Why wouldn’t/shouldn’t/couldn’t they have faces just as unique as human faces?
All alien life forms have to be more technologically advanced than humans.
Call me crazy, but, I like to think about how the human race might respond to an alien race that is dwarfed in comparison when it comes to them in technology.
Changing your physical form is either quick and painless, or slow and excruciating.
There seems to be two very popular extremes with form-changing/shifting/morphing. EITHER:
(1) You change your form whenever you want, within one to six seconds, without breaking a sweat.
OR,
(2) You change your form after writhing on the ground in agony for a while, as your bones/muscles/tendons/etc. break, grow, dissolve, and rearrange themselves.
I typically associate 1 with Fantasy (except for Werewolf stuff...I dunno...), and 2 with SciFi. But there are plenty of stories and movies and shows that break that stereotype by switching it around. And, of course, there ARE shows/movies/books that break both of them at once regardless of genre by finding the middle-ground: Form changing is semi-slow, and kind of uncomfortable. K. A. Applegate described her version of it by comparing it to Novocaine. (Paraphrasing time!) "You feel things bending and breaking, and you know it should hurt, but it doesn't. Kind of like Novocaine."
I've always liked to take that idea one step further: Form changing takes skill. It's like tying your shoes or riding a bike. At first, it's difficult and slow and awkward, but after a while, you get faster and more precise. (Also, I think that going from a larger form to a smaller form would take less time because no new matter is needed; just shed or recycle the stuff you don't need and shrink down to the size you want to be at. But that's just my opinion.)
...Wow. Now THAT was a ramble. XD Hope I didn't bore anybody. Derp!
Thanks for reading....or, at least checking the update! ;)
~Ashley Briarwolf