@manyearsaway sent a signal: 6 !!!!! or like if u have a strategy for writin down ziggothys lore :o
6. What kind of research do you put into your writing? HMM ... a lot of his lore is like ... amalgamated from just various scifi properties. star trek, invader zim, logans run, gattaca, chappie, the island, HG wells books, steven universe, interstellar 5555, transmetropolitan, other stuff i cant really remember right now? its a lot less research and more just ... over time ... the worms in my head burrowed so deep they decided to stay forever. 683 was an astronomer and what i know about space comes from taking a single astronomy class in early college. supplemented with like ... bullshit scifi science from the properties mentioned above and also the occasional wikipedia article (ex. i cant remember the distance that classifies as the goldilocks zone from the sun, i have to go look now) a lot also came from just anthropology classes i took and whatever. so i didnt do the research, i just re appropriated information from classes. my girlfriend sends me a LOT of articles on primate behavior lmfao and i read those too. that’s the basis of the ‘research.’ tbf i just google shit sometimes i have the basis because i took so many entry level classes on astronomy/early human anthropology/girlfriend chimp articles and then i can just do quick research on anything i need to know more about but also its scifi it wouldnt be scifi unless i just Invented scientific facts out of my ass. for example my (incorrect) claim: ziggy has green blood because it is oxygenized copper and when deoxygenized it’s red, hence why his lips/tongue arent green. only aliens would have copper-based green blood. fact: copper-based blood occurs on earth with some mollusks and that’s not how oxygenated hemocyanin works, deoxygenated copper based blood is actually colorless and it turns blue or purple-ish when oxygenated. to get green blood you probably actually need chlorocruorin which is actually iron-based, not copper based. but it sounds cool and i want him to have green blood so he can have cutie green blushie like this ----- > u///u but green so shut up!!! science is fake if i can manipulate it so ziggie can have cute green blushie aaaaaa soooooooo cute omg its so cute wa wa wa wa wa
