#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 20: How has a setting surprised you?
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#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 20: How has a setting surprised you?
Sometimes, consequences of a premise/setting come together in an unexpectedly apt way. That's actually how I knew I *had* to tackle my current series.
Human women get access to electricity early in the Bronze Age. Pondering tech development, I realized that gunpowder would be used differently. Women would just make sparks to set it off. There'd be no need for triggers and percussion primers and such.
Which means men can't use guns. 🤯
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#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 20: How has a setting surprised you?
Sometimes, consequences of a premise/setting come together in an unexpectedly apt way. That's actually how I knew I *had* to tackle my current series.
Human women get access to electricity early in the Bronze Age. Pondering tech development, I realized that gunpowder would be used differently. Women would just make sparks to set it off. There'd be no need for triggers and percussion primers and such.
Which means men can't use guns. 🤯
@ringles "Which means men can't use guns." Given that the first guns (Arquebuses) used smouldering string to fire them, later flintlock guns used sparks to fire them I feel this is optimistic.
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@ringles "Which means men can't use guns." Given that the first guns (Arquebuses) used smouldering string to fire them, later flintlock guns used sparks to fire them I feel this is optimistic.
Exactly. Humans in our timeline *needed* mechanisms to ignite things.
In an alternate timeline, (half of) humans can make all the sparks they want without any tools or materials. Why *bother* with semi-reliable flintlocks or matchlocks? What's even the motivation?
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@aeva Short of a shinier trinket to distract VCs I don't think there are any.
I dunno, dig into quantum computing and see if there's anything cool you can make and/or fake?
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lol. LLMao
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Werner Herzog's Peggle: Reloaded
"The ball is still bouncing off pegs, but its trajectory is clear: soon, it will hit the bottom, and the catcher is nowhere near. It is headed for oblivion, as are we all."
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Don’t follow Trump’s gut, you know where you’ll end up.
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@jeffjarvis his git is full of mcd's, wtf do they think it's gonna have???
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@efi @aeva true, but dissolving metals is still pretty slow.
And a surprising number of plastics are resistant against acids as well
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@jeffjarvis And now headlines that rhyme! #DrSuess
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"Follows his gut." The #BrokenTimes finds a new way to normalize a fascist starting an illegal war.
Trump Follows His Gut. His National Security Advisers Try to Keep Up. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/us/politics/trump-national-security.html?smid=tw-share
