#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 I'm betting on hunkering down and letting the ai-bros Malthus themselves into oblivion
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*puts on Bright Eyes to take the edge off a bad mood* [a child outside starts crying] aaah. much better.
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Do not go gentle into that good night... (bring considerably bigger ship)
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@pupxel I don't think that will have the desired effect.
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@aeva start a company that sells AI generated code but it's just you in a basement
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@aeva fair, I only have that one idea and would take more
nitric acid dissolves copper, which is what the cooling pipes must be made of
