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the hours of powers
Jul. 19th, 2022 11:48 pmWorking out the details of how you acquire powers, and how the ways are mutually exclusive, and how one way front-loads your powers but then your only advancement is skill with working it, and then along comes a character who got her powers that way and acquires more. . . .
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wild supers
Jul. 18th, 2022 11:29 pmInto a setting, I introduce spontaneously developing supers. Always before -- for centuries -- supers had been deliberately made, for the service of king and country or at least the super-maker himself. . . .
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superpowers, and suits
Jul. 17th, 2022 09:58 pmNothing is more iconic to the superhero genre than those brightly colored, form-fitting suits. And nothing is harder to justify.
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a superfight
Jul. 15th, 2022 11:53 pmThere's going to be a fight between two superteams. Neither of which is very defined.
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Oppressing the Supers
Jul. 13th, 2022 12:07 amThere's one definitely way you could oppress supers.
Have groups of them, and oppress one.
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Have groups of them, and oppress one.
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ah, superheroes
Jul. 6th, 2022 11:30 pmI have fun with superheroes. The ideas come, less than for fantasy, but they are almost invariably characters, or setting. (Perhaps with some incidents.)
And high-level, conceptual and even abstract to the point of being philosophical sometimes.
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And high-level, conceptual and even abstract to the point of being philosophical sometimes.
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super setting
May. 3rd, 2022 11:20 pmWas reading "how-to" advice on how to write a superhero story.
A lot of it neglected the world-building. In all senses. It did not discuss how the supers would affect the world -- though it does seem to be a trope that the answer is "not at all" even when you have super-inventors -- but it also did not discuss how the super-world is constructed. Not even at the base level of assuming that you have a standard ripoff of DC/Marvel where there are masses of superheroes and supervillains and much crime and crime fighting involved. . . .
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A lot of it neglected the world-building. In all senses. It did not discuss how the supers would affect the world -- though it does seem to be a trope that the answer is "not at all" even when you have super-inventors -- but it also did not discuss how the super-world is constructed. Not even at the base level of assuming that you have a standard ripoff of DC/Marvel where there are masses of superheroes and supervillains and much crime and crime fighting involved. . . .
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superpowers and a life of crime
Apr. 5th, 2022 10:12 pmCrime, whether committing or fighting, is not the only life a superpowered being could live. All sorts of powers could be useful for all sorts of things. Message delivery, or special effects, for superspeed. Superstrength in construction. X-ray vision in inspection work.
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villains and conflict
Oct. 13th, 2021 10:30 pmWhen writing superhero stories about an inner or philosophical conflict -- what is the best use of my powers? should powers serve the law to preserve order even at the price of accepting more injustices? -- you have to invent villains and conflict. Becuase what's a superhero without a villain or two to toss around?
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defining the superhero genre
Sep. 10th, 2021 09:22 pmIt has its interesting aspects.
For one thing -- well, you can define an epic as a "lengthy narrative poem." You can define a lyric as a "short poem expressing emotions." But you have to define a sonnet as "a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes,". Superheroes face much the same problem.
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For one thing -- well, you can define an epic as a "lengthy narrative poem." You can define a lyric as a "short poem expressing emotions." But you have to define a sonnet as "a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes,". Superheroes face much the same problem.
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No government is going to like the existence of superpowers. It's like having a free-willed atom bomb roaming about.
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society and the superhero
Mar. 16th, 2021 11:22 pmThere's some major questions before you can even consider the question of realism in superheroes. How many are they? How powerful are they? What are their origin(s) or metaorigin(s)? Are they random, and if so, what is random?
Then there's the questions that synergize.
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Then there's the questions that synergize.
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super from space
Jan. 24th, 2020 10:46 pmCan you really have a superhero story where all the super-powered are aliens from outer space?
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supers from space
Jan. 22nd, 2020 11:01 pmThere's one common superhero trope that has a large effect on the worldbuilding: the superhero is in fact a normal member of his species -- whatever that is.
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history and the superpower
Dec. 22nd, 2019 12:20 amThe thing about superpowers is that it's hard to project them too far back in time unless you want to change the world. Alternate history is generally close enough to history that you can recognize it.
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law and the controlling of power
Dec. 8th, 2019 11:27 pmOne thing that will be marginally connected with metaorigin but will affect the law is how easily your average super powered human can control his powers, and how much training it takes.
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