Elyse M Grasso on Nostr: #WordWeavers July 10: What stays the same in every story you write? The presence of ...
#WordWeavers July 10: What stays the same in every story you write?
The presence of non-human intelligences.
That, and subversion of the usual binary social symbolic divisions, including gender. The extreme case was probably a tri-sexual alien species where each of the sexes could be coded 'male' or 'female' by our traditional standards depending on which characteristics you paid attention to. The WIP has nothing that extreme. Yet. At least, not overtly. (Heavy Elderkin are very diverse.)
The presence of non-human intelligences.
That, and subversion of the usual binary social symbolic divisions, including gender. The extreme case was probably a tri-sexual alien species where each of the sexes could be coded 'male' or 'female' by our traditional standards depending on which characteristics you paid attention to. The WIP has nothing that extreme. Yet. At least, not overtly. (Heavy Elderkin are very diverse.)