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WHY DOES WRITING THESE PEOPLE ALWAYS MAKE ME WANT TO CRY.

Robert Heinlein fans wont even have “Stranger In A Strange Land” style orgies anymore, because of Groke.

#robert a heinlein #stranger in a strange land #siasl #tanstaafl #grok #woke humor #unreality

I may have revealed to a player today that he was indeed Bruce Wayned as a child, and then in the present day he may have then been Peter Parkered as the party is in Shadowfell….oops.

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #ttrpg #strangers in a strange land #siasl #campaign #just tt things #I’m the table top

Session 0 tonight for the start of my campaign. And oh boy it’s going to be a doozy. They’re starting as an upper level adventuring party. And so part of session 0 was coming up with their firsts and such. The party’s first quest that brought them to fame was that they saved a port town from what they thought was a kraken. Only it wasn’t a kraken is was a krakow, a monster pie tentacled manatee who’s tentacles are utters. During this fight one of the players was utterly doomed by milk leading to his fear of milk. And this isn’t even the game starting yet.

Oh how I’m excited for this.

#ttrpg #time to gg #xoxo gg #dnd #siasl #sea cow #kraken #krakow #session 0

SIASL rewired my brain somehow (in a good way)

Same!! So many of the scenes just live in my head, read to pop up at a moment's notice. Kain's bat abilities, Raziel's wings, burning cars, rooftop satellite dishes, exposed brick walls, Gaara (lmfao), fireside chess, and so many other things just fucking launch me back into that world, and I'll never be as I was before reading it.

For the uninitiated: Strangers In A Strange Land

#LoK #raziel #ventronic #rhpotter #siasl #asks #social

The Story So Far...

Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 sci-fi novel written by Robert A. Heinlein and, for me at least, may be one of the most disappointingly-executed ideas in all of fiction. For a more thorough plot summary I suggest watching the Classics Summarized video done by Overly Sarcastic Productions on YouTube that I will now link here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jAkplrZci0&lc=UgzCgDwkCvHvswmUYxl4AaABAg.9IsRS4R-fzU9Vofr76aHCe

But the general story is that at some point in the future a young man is discovered living on Mars and being raised by aliens. This man is taken back to Earth, setting in motion a long string of political and cultural movements as he experiences human life and all it entails for the very first time, giving a broader perspective to the full range of human experiences, emotions, and relationships.

An exciting, nuanced subject, but there was a problem: Heinlein was a racist sexist libritarian who was less interested in exploring these aspects of the story and more interested in the Man from Mars starting a strictly-heterosexual sex cult.

Yeah...

I read the book up to a certain point and watched OSP’s video, and like many people, I was woefully unimpressed with the direction Heinlein had taken. As a screenwriter, however, the concept of the story stuck with me and I kept thinking of ways the story could have gone. If the story was more inclusive, if the struggles of this man were better explored, if every opportunity this premise created was taken advantage of.

I commented on the video with some of the ideas I had.

Let’s just say people were responsive.

As time went on a expanded the concept: got to work on the screenplay, created concept art and story maps, did research into how this future world should be built and operate... eventually it got too big for me to keep it simply in folders.

So, because so many people were curious about this project, I decided to make this blog dedicated to it! Here you’ll see my art, story drafts, document outlines, and how my process is going so far. I’ll answer any questions you may have about the project and may even do an Ask the Characters section as this goes on.

I hope you all will join me to see where this project goes!