Dystopian Worldbuilding is still dumb (and also still bad)

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  @JamesTullos · 3 years ago · pinned

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• RA

  @RawbeardX · 3 years ago

  the famous gemstone &quot;coal&quot;

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• SE

  @SergioLeonardoCornejo · 3 years ago

  The problem is dystopian fiction is nowadays focused on aesthetics instead of logic because of trend chasing.

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• BL

  @blitzunddommer · 3 years ago

  My dream is to write a book and have James Tullos rip it to shreds

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• SN

  @Snp2024 · 3 years ago

  You know what i hate about many dystopian novels is that protagonists are almost always teens or very young PPL . I want more dystopian novels where protagonists are old veterans or just generally middle aged washed up dad . It be fun

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• SA

  @samuelline9573 · 3 years ago

  It&apos;s funny how the testing tried to parody a real thing but ended up falling into the same pitfalls as the thing it was trying to mock

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• EV

  @EvolverForU · 3 years ago

  ngl this series is singlehandedly making me confident in being a writer because i get to be like &quot;you know, my worldbuilding may be flawed, but at least i&apos;m not the one making racist hunger games&quot;

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• JA

  @Jane-oz7pp · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2SZVudg-u8&amp;t=468">7:48</a> Black people and dark South Asians actually suffer a higher rate of melanoma related fatalities because it&apos;s just literally harder to see the cancer on them and doctors aren&apos;t taught to properly inspect darker skin. I think they also tend to actually experience more skin cancers in general because not burning as easily means they&apos;re less likely to wear sunscreen as religiously as say, very white people

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• RA

  @RachaeltheSpicyHobbit · 3 years ago (edited)

  What I&apos;m super sick of is a setting where it&apos;s meant to be post-apocalyptic but there&apos;s either plenty of a normally scarce resource like gasoline, or there&apos;s plenty of resources to still have a decadent aristocratic society at the top. Never mind that in real life, decadent aristocracies were only ever enabled by vast trade networks or empires, and times of relative world peace providing them with stability. &quot;The world is an irradiated desert, but it&apos;s also still Versailles somehow&quot; is the lazy starting point for dozens of cheap, bad YA dystopias.

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  @triccele · 3 years ago (edited)

  For people who don&apos;t get the scale between Mexico and Ecuador, is about the same between Seatle and Houston. Putting Aztec people in the Ecuatorian Amazon Forest is incredibly ignorant.

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• AN

  @anevenbluerjay · 3 years ago

  The problem with the Testing is that if the goal is to create more—and more talented—doctors, engineers, etc., limiting it to a select number of students who get top grades <i>and</i> can survive this insane test is the worst possible way to go about it. The more barriers there are to becoming an engineer, the fewer engineers you&apos;re going to get, and the less talent is going to end up in the field. And flat out killing a massive portion of your brightest students just takes even more potentially skilled workers out of play.

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• AB

  @abcdef27669 · 3 years ago

  Aztecs living on Ecuador.<br><br>If they&apos;re Inca/Quechua I could let that pass, because the Inca Empire reached Ecuador during their expansion era. The capital of Ecuador, Quito was built during that era, being the oldest capital on the Americas.

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