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When I watched Behind Her Eyes on Netflix, one of my first reactions was: “yet another (love triangle) drama that could’ve been solved by polyamory”.
When I shared this on reddit, one of the answers were: “casually destroys whole movie genres”.
Indeed, normalizing polyamory / non-monogamy, or imagining an alternative world where it’s normal, would make a lot of drama baseless. But it would also give space for another types of stories.
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- One year for Nanowrimo I brainstormed a bunch of polyamory and matriarchy based fiction idea. Where are they? I must look for them.
- One of my all time favorite fanfictions is a polycule one.
- I had an interesting conversation with my friend A about Crusader Kings III not sounding appealing for her, since it only replays the same dramas we know so well from history, yet when I offered my enthusiasm for the Brave New World, she found the society too foreign.
- I seem to trigger people by my take that I really thing that Brave New World is a true utopia. moc-brave-new-world-is-a-true-stoic-utopia
- Harari said that a lot of sci-fi fails to imagine a new human, and only replays the same age-old dramas in front of a shiny background. I appreciate that Brave New World really imagined a new human.
- I seem to trigger people by my take that I really thing that Brave New World is a true utopia. moc-brave-new-world-is-a-true-stoic-utopia
- Here’s a story how you know I’m a sci-fi nerd. During a brewery tour, our brewmaster talked about the interesting differences on how we perceive wine and beer differently. He said that in our world, we accept that the same wine is different every year in every region, because of the weather, the soil, etc. But we expect the same beer to taste the same every year from every brewery, no matter how the weather or local soil or local water or anything affected the crops. A Heineken must be a Heineken. But, he said, let’s imagine an alternative world, like if we traveled through a stargate like in the series Stargate, and we arrive into an alternate Earth, where people’s expectations are switched. They allow beer to be different, because the crops and the water tastes a bit different every year in every region, but we expect winemakers to have recipes and techniques that provide the same taste, no matter what year or in what region the grapes were grown. A Merlot must be a Merlot. Cool thought experiment, but I really had to strengthen myself and not to raise my hand to say… you are thinking of Sliders, friend. A stargate in Stargate takes you to another planet within the same universe. While a vortex in Sliders takes you to alternate Earths. If you use a sci-fi reference, know your sci-fi reference!
- I used to tell my friends that if something happens to me and every resuscitation attempts failed, just try whispering “Foundation and Earth” into my ear. I might come back from the dead to rant about it.
- When I’m high on edibles, it has pretty standard phases, and one of them is the sci-fi reference phase. One time I grabbed a notebook and started to write down stuff. The next day I flipped back and turns out it was 38 pages mostly of sci-fi references organized into different categorized lists. Very few original ideas sparkled in-between, mostly just lists.