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When long fantasy becomes tedious it's because you can only save the world SO many times. You can only describe things in SO MUCH torturous detail. Same old deal, just a bigger boss. After a while it just becomes repetitive, whereas with sci fi, you have essentially all of infinity to explore. You're not confined to one magic land on one magic planet, forced to differentiate it with "exotic" apostrophed names (though this is not always the case, I am generalizing).
DUDE. Even though I had She-Ra growing up, the boy heroes always got the best lines, the coolest adventures, the most swag clothes. I was like, eff princesses, I'm going to be a boy. So I probably went the opposite way from you and instead tried to conform to the books (which wasn't a big deal until high school/puberty/my body's betrayal of me since we were raised feral anyway). And by then there were at least a few cool female heroines, but Uncle Howl had already chased them out of my head with his hyacinth bodyspray and hair gel; dear child, you feral thing, let's teach you to be fancy...do you like long sleeves?
Also female heroines seem to have the unfortunate habit of rubbing it one's face "YEAH IM A GIRL HAHA BET YOU THOUGHT I WOULD BE STUPID HUH". We get it, you're a groundbreaker.
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Date: 2012-06-29 02:38 am (UTC)When long fantasy becomes tedious it's because you can only save the world SO many times. You can only describe things in SO MUCH torturous detail. Same old deal, just a bigger boss. After a while it just becomes repetitive, whereas with sci fi, you have essentially all of infinity to explore. You're not confined to one magic land on one magic planet, forced to differentiate it with "exotic" apostrophed names (though this is not always the case, I am generalizing).
DUDE. Even though I had She-Ra growing up, the boy heroes always got the best lines, the coolest adventures, the most swag clothes. I was like, eff princesses, I'm going to be a boy. So I probably went the opposite way from you and instead tried to conform to the books (which wasn't a big deal until high school/puberty/my body's betrayal of me since we were raised feral anyway). And by then there were at least a few cool female heroines, but Uncle Howl had already chased them out of my head with his hyacinth bodyspray and hair gel; dear child, you feral thing, let's teach you to be fancy...do you like long sleeves?
Also female heroines seem to have the unfortunate habit of rubbing it one's face "YEAH IM A GIRL HAHA BET YOU THOUGHT I WOULD BE STUPID HUH". We get it, you're a groundbreaker.
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