[ SECRET POST #3525 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3525 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

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See, I do understand this, I guess perhaps my peeve could more accurately be called:

I hate that everyone does this so fucking badly. It's pretty obvious most aliens, having been designed and made by humans, are going to have human-esque emotions and frames of reference simply because the truly alien is kind of hard for the human mind to conceptualize and capture. The more human-like the alien is (bipedal, intelligence at or exceeding human level, complex evolved social societies), the more likely that alien is going to be human-esque. Same with robots. However, those bits of them that aren't human, sometimes I wish they would just leave it alone, or at least attempt to show us, not equate it directly with a human emotion.

Something like:

Character X's visor flared brightly, the sudden stiffness of his body clearly portraying his shock.

Sounds better than:

Character X's visor brightened, which would be like a person with eyes widening them in shock.


I do suppose it's more or less about finding a balance, and that many, many writers fail miserably at this. The examples you give are all things I wouldn't bat an eyelash at. It's just when it's done badly, it's often done spectacularly badly in an otherwise competent fic.