[ SECRET POST #5391 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5391 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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02.
[House of Games]


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03.
[World Trigger]


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04.
[The Bug Butcher]


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05.
[Great British Bake Off]


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06.
[Father Paul from Midnight Mass]











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Comments

Is this concept offensive?

[(Anonymous)]

So I have this one sci-fi/futuristic fantasy setting concept I keep coming back to.

I have this idea of whole planets across the galaxies ruled by one particular countries.

But like the idea being that we discovered this one galaxy with like an insane amount of planets or something and all the countries of Earth started claiming planets.

I'm worried that this concept is offensive but it really appeals to me for some reason. I try to build the idea so that a wide variety of countries have planets of their own.

If I were to develop this idea into a thing I'd make it a sort of open world where people from certain countries not covered could write their own stories about them. Or like register the series with something like Kindle Worlds or just make it open to guest authors. I know that I would feel nervous writing about cultures and countries I didn't know much about.

Would there be something wrong with making a story like that?

Re: Is this concept offensive?

[ill_omened]

Peter F Hamilton did this, or at least had this in the world building for one of his series and it got absolutely no blow back that I can recall. Own it fam, a few people with their heads up their arse might whinge but is what it is.

Re: Is this concept offensive?

[(Anonymous)]

At the risk of sounding like an enabler, no? I don't think it'd be inherently racist, but your execution needs to be excellent. This idea sounds inherently cartoony to me, and maybe that's what you're going for. Sure! Just avoid stereotypes or presenting any single IRL country as being the worst. People who are smarter than me could probably pick at potential flaws better than me.

Re: Is this concept offensive?

[tabaqui]

I don't see how it could possibly be offensive, unless you took the most out-there stereotype of that particular country and made the WHOLE PLANET like that. I mean - do they want a planet of their own to become an insular and 'untainted by outsiders paradise'? (I can see a group like the Taliban doing this, but not the entire country of Afghanistan.)

Or do they simply want to stretch out, grow, explore, and nurture their culture and people while also engaging in the outside world?

I think you start with what countries you're going to write about, figure out why they are claiming a planet, *do the research*, and go from there.

Good luck! Sounds interesting!

Re: Is this concept offensive?

[(Anonymous)]

Depends, are these 'blank' planets (ie if Earth colonized Mars) or are these inhabited plants (a la Christopher Columbus). Because the second version could definitely be offensive to people who've already suffered under colonialism.