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 No.98863>>99766 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

SFW Art, Worldbuilding, Characters, Ideas, Philosophies, etc is allowed as well as most forms of general purpose artistic merit to try and add significance into your life. Discussion amongst Furry-related artwork or media is allowed too, what they do right, what they do wrong, etc. Anything to express your purpose in being a Furry or about the Furry community.

The other similar threads might as well be dead, and I decided to combine a lot of concepts to create a general purpose artistic thread.

No NSFW Art, Discussion of Porn, etc.

 No.99738

buump


 No.99748>>99809

Since this thread is currently just the op- fantasy/historical, contemporary or sci-fi?

Which do you prefer?


 No.99766>>99767

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>>98863 (OP)

Well there you have it, people mostly care about porn and little about anything else, furries being a fetish-centered culture even moreso. The other similar threads are as good as dead and so is this one.

I'm putting together a furry light novel thing, hopefully my art skill could produce passable illuminations. It's moderately hard sci-fi shit, action with a smidge of drama and slice of life, kinda like Cowboy Bebop except with more violence and less space travel. It's set long time thereafter, in a star system not so far away, in a densely colonized binary star system (most stars are binary or more so there's that).

Most of the story is on an exo-earth ocean world with a single small continent stretching 1/4 of the equator east to west, entirely covered by a megacity with varying levels of development. The planet also has solid ice caps but no one gives a shit about those. It rotates in the ecliptic plane in a neat circular orbit so it doesn't have seasons; it has no moons so there are no tides. The planet historically doesn't have a formal government. The city has highly developed zones as well as ghettos and slums that look like third world by comparison; zones stretch hundreds of miles so they sort of act like different countries. The rich part of the city is filled with ground effect vehicles and occasional jet hovercraft, mostly rectilinear streets have one-way traffic with vertical separation. The poor part has virtually no roads, in much smaller numbers there are all-terrain wheeled vehicles, many of the business vehicles bear anti-vandal features. In the bedrock, hypertunnels are carved for rapid ground effect vehicle transit, these are basically tubes 150 meters in diameter with sound-absorbing lining and minimal illumination, in there vehicles accelerate to as much as 8 000 km/h, naturally the windspeed easily crosses supersonic region and the flight is fully automated; some people commute across the entire continent using those. The food is generated though harvesting material from the sea (fish, plants, krill) and by growing in the city using artificial methods, processing it into nutritious material and manufacturing food out of it; actual natural food is limited and expensive, it's mostly fish, crustaceans and vegetables, the only non-processed food that's affordable are mealworms and urban bushmeat. Public services are provided on the basis of subscription, on-site payment or compulsory charges in extreme cases. Public safety is provided by numerous security firms - for paying customers - and the law is upheld by justice firms alike, which are, however, are more like glorified slave trade houses: they keep a registry of rules similar to laws on other planets and they issue compensatory and punitive charges, putting people to slave labor if they don't have enough savings and property to pay for their crimes. In the poor region, however, people mostly just use their guns and put bounties on people's heads, though latter is not restricted to the shit part of town, that's how overly successful businesses fade off the radar in a matter of weeks.


 No.99767>>99768

>>99766

Then there's the ice world planet outside of star's habitable zone, it used to have two Lagrange point mirrors providing additional illumination but they failed over the millennia. It has over twice the orbital period of the other planet, and nearly twice the day length, it has stronger gravity and almost 90 degree axial tilt. It has a ring system and a small moon jammed in it. The orbit is a bit elliptical but not as much as to melt the snow anywhere; the sky is almost completely clear all the time and the atmosphere is arid. A handful of plant species adapted to blistering cold by substituting water with glycerine and similar adaptations, though they would grow at a glacial pace. I decided to give those almost black, deep purple leaf color; it makes the planet appear to have large dark patches and clear poles. The government is a military state, population is very small and the long time native ones have arctic adaptations (reduced size, extra fluffy solid white fur, smaller rounder features). Their main export is weapons (mostly to the other planet) and military space ships (for the union self defense fleet), and they import large chunk of their goods. Small cities are scattered around the the planet, mostly at large mineral deposit sites. Most people work at factories and mines. In general it's a less advanced society, country and a planet in general. Related to the plot, they don't recognize collecting bounties as a lawful activity.

Then there's a third planet that's a sub-earth orbiting a little too close to the star, but unlike the ice world this one does have a functioning Lagrange point mirror between it and the sun, blocking some of the light; it sustained damage and is now more permeable than it originally was, but the star is also dimmer so the temperature didn't increase by a very large amount. It has smaller gravity but much denser atmosphere, a bit shorter day and a lot shorter year. It has elliptical orbit and despite not having axial tilt, it has seasons, and it has a large moon so it also has sizeable tides. The climate is arid at the equator but temperate closer to the poles, which don't have ice caps but have oceans; at winter there is polar sea snow and desert rains. The government is a federation of independent states, it follows socialist policies; while generally very advanced society, technology development is not bleeding edge. They do have ground effect vehicles but not quite as many, and they don't have hypertunnels (supersonic flight is only allowed over the equator or vertically upwards). All but equatorial regions are moderately to densely populated by all species. Of the three, this planet would somewhat pass as future-Earth. They recognize bounty collecting as lawful, but it is heavily regulated. They don't always abide by the their own law.


 No.99768>>99769

>>99767

The two failed Lagrange mirrors double as megahabitats, one of which have completely failed, and the other have maintained basic integrity and allowed for a population to exist. It's a tube-habitat but its rotation rate have gotten slow and haven't been restarted, and it had accumulated a lot of rocks and dust on it; it has much greater natural gravity towards its center than artificial centripetal gravity, so it's almost a vertical world. Society-wise it functions like the first planet but on steroids.

The other star has a strip-mined planet rotating around it. It has low density foggy atmosphere but also low gravity, the surface is a sponge carved out of bedrock covered in lush vegetation, and few kilometers down there's the bottom world in near complete darkness. Most of the planet's water is in the air. Bottom ecosystem is supported by scraps of nutrients dropping from the surface. It has two isolated populations, bottom-dwelling one and the surface-one. Surface population has a few large historical clusters, bottom population is clustered around seas with volcanic vents. The government of both populations is severely reduced, and while constituting separate cultures, neither holds life as very valuable. The entire population is monospecies and they mostly stick to this planet.

Robots with man-like AI perform some of the jobs, notably asteroid mining, but they're far from cheap, and the AI treaty says that they cannot be resold after 50 years of service, instead having to be released. Not many make it that far but some are built tougher than others, and some simply don't care to abide by the rules. Simple automaton machines fill in a lot of places where basic automation can be expected, but again, depending on how much it costs - and there's certain basic bar beneath which the costs cannot drop, costs of material, machines and labor involved in manufacturing. Black hole reactors have been banned from space as well as from planets in recent years, so the robots that's been powered by these had to either downgrade to baryon saturation batteries or live in places that don't recognize the law. Contrary to campaign claims, black hole reactors are safe despite having potential to obliterate planets; even though person-robots don't live very long on their own in such harsh new conditions, none of their reactors undergone runaway decomposition as it has been fearmongered; people wouldn't have been selling these reactors in bulk if they had such design flaws. The socialist planet governments had been in tense relationships behind the curtains, disagreements over who sets what laws have been fueling long running feuds and people are not exactly happy about it either. They're also not happy about having to support a massive space fleet in spite of the fact that there seem to be absolutely no one to defend against in hundreds of light years radius - space is a big, empty place. But all that is only tangentially mentioned and isn't super-relevant most of the time, as the story is focused on adventures of a bunch of scoundrels waiting for a bullet to bite.


 No.99769>>99784

>>99768

r8, h8 & b8


 No.99784

>>99769

All the physics and income-inequality? could make for some pretty cool visuals. If your story's going to feature any political upheaval at all, this three way ancapistan/ussr/future-earth standoff seems way too stable than it should be, especially if one or more governments can move enough rock to mine a planet.


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>>99748

All of them have their merits, there's not one genre I would say is inherently superior and I enjoy delving into all sorts of genres, themes, and varieties.

Although I would say contemporary generally runs higher risks due to possible allegories, messages, and themes people might read into, as well as ignoring world-building aspects for what is already familiar. Contemporary authors most often use their work to touch upon contemporary issues or use it as criticism for what they wish to change in society. This isn't necessarily bad, but more than not, it comes off heavy-handed or ham-fisted. When it does work, it can lead to scenarios to better help someone understand magnificent philosophies or perspectives to life.

Fantasy or historical often times will struggle to create their own identity or vibes either borrowing too much from Tolkien or using real world cultures verbatim instead of adding it's own personality or style to it. Fantasy when done right creates a world which someone can reflect on and compare to their own. Sci-Fi runs this risk too and can come across as a Star Trek or Star Wars knockoff, but has an easier time avoiding it due to the uncertainty and variety of factors a futuristic or space setting can have. However, it also has an easier time coming across as cringeworthy in comparison to it's genre counterparts due to the dissociation or lack of familiarity it can cause. Sci-Fi when done right presents questions regarding the direction of the future.

All of them can be as equally interesting to me given the right amount of effort and depth.




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