BeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.net to Worldbuilding@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-22 months agoMe: Draws inspiration directly from real-world empires and capitalist powers when designing my story's antagonistsmessage-squaremessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up158file-text
arrow-up158message-squareMe: Draws inspiration directly from real-world empires and capitalist powers when designing my story's antagonistsBeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.net to Worldbuilding@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
Critiquers: “The bad guys in your setting are cartoonishly evil. No one in real life actually behaves like that.”
minus-squarecombat_doomerism [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-22 months agoone thing you need to emphasize is these cartoonishly evil capitalists are in a way forced to do this. read https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/marx-on-capital-as-a-real-god-2/ and https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2021/11/25/dark-eucharist-of-the-real-god/ to see what i mean. hell, since a lot of the worldbuilding in this comm is fantasy, it even makes sense to make it an actual god!
one thing you need to emphasize is these cartoonishly evil capitalists are in a way forced to do this. read https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/marx-on-capital-as-a-real-god-2/ and https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2021/11/25/dark-eucharist-of-the-real-god/ to see what i mean. hell, since a lot of the worldbuilding in this comm is fantasy, it even makes sense to make it an actual god!