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super side
May. 8th, 2023 11:52 pmThe kid sidekick. The trope of the Golden Age that has perhaps taken the worst beating. Possibly because adolescent boys are no longer considered the chief audience.
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personalities of power
Apr. 10th, 2023 10:30 pmA couple of reflections on personality-based powers from discussions I've been in recently:
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sense and supersensibility
Mar. 24th, 2023 09:16 pmOne of the big changes in any super world would be legal -- especially given the popularity of fighting/committing crimes with powers.
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the virtues of cliches in settings
Nov. 22nd, 2022 11:44 pmThere's a subtle problem with striking and unusual settings, especially in fantastic worlds.
You can plant a Chekhov's gun there without realizing it. Indeed, you can plant a whole armory of them.
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You can plant a Chekhov's gun there without realizing it. Indeed, you can plant a whole armory of them.
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metaorigins and society
Apr. 17th, 2021 11:14 pmMetaorigins would affect how superpowers affect society more than anything else except the nature of the powers -- type or strength. And in some respects, it's more important than parts of that.
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how big a disaster
Apr. 16th, 2018 10:56 pmIn a world where there is a known way to get superpowers, how big a disaster, and how many, are needed to discourage it?
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the masquerade and the government
Oct. 16th, 2016 11:42 pmWas pondering Monster Hunter International. Where the masquerade is upheld by the mundane government, putting down the monsters and threatening the witnesses. Lately revealed to because people's knowledge of it would prove dangerous. BUT --
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merchants and magistrates
Sep. 4th, 2015 11:19 pmPerambulating along on an outline and thinking, Who's going to tell her that making a false charge to the magistrate could lead to her facing charges?
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Hogwarts and population
Aug. 2nd, 2015 11:44 pmFans have had some calculations about the number of students at Hogwarts. Some reason it's about forty a year. (Evidence here.) But it's inconsistent, and Rowling has stated there about a thousand students.
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the mad scientist vs the evil corporation
Jul. 11th, 2015 12:20 amWas pondering some of the differences between being experimented on by a mad scientist, and by an evil corporation R&D department (or a secret conspiracy's, or a government bureau's), that do not affect the meta-origins of superheroes produced that way. . . .
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So I have the prince, and he's going to disobey his father's commands about marriage. After four years, to be sure. And not without help.
It's the question of how formal the help is.
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It's the question of how formal the help is.
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Sauron as Big Brother
Jul. 24th, 2013 08:21 pmAn interesting essay on how Tolkien has the Eye of Sauron try to maintain a surveillance state
Especially interesting in that it points out how Tolkien's version is actually more realistic than Orwell's.
Especially interesting in that it points out how Tolkien's version is actually more realistic than Orwell's.
Once upon a time, you wanted to send a message without a messenger, you rang church bells. Or used a trumpeter. Strictly limited in their range, and even more so in the messages you could encode efficiently. And Heaven help you if you wanted a secret message. . . .
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throw the bastards out!
May. 27th, 2013 02:29 pmMost of the time, if your characters are discontented with the government they are under, they will not think, Revolution. They will think, Throw the bastards out.
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