thelittleredlightningbug:

thegreatskadoosh:

For the last thirty or so minutes, I was writing the intro to this short story for CW111 I’m making. The plot, I have already conceptualized, although it’s still a bit hazy to me. If this story’s not worth pursuing, please tell me immediately and I’ll scrap this idea, provided there’s a good…

What’s your plot? :) ‘Cause right now, I’m more interested in these strange earthlings and their peculiar ways. These Jujuvarians seem too perfect, which kind of makes them boring — unless you have something in store for them? But these earthlings really do fascinate me; maybe some sort of satire? Like, instead of a peaceful society, the Jujus can be the magnification of human ills, i.e. The only way they are capable of solving arguments is by shouting, etc., and the humans can see how strange it is pala, seeing themselves reflected in the Jujus when they have the capability to do otherwise and realizing: wait, what are we doing?. Or not; no one in the story has to see it. We the readers can be the humans, a la George Orwell, and you can leave it open and up to us to do the thinking about what you had just said. (Evidently, by all this rambling, I like your idea. So many things you can do with it! Run with it!)

I actually have two ongoing plots. One is about a Jujuvarian psychologist who studies humans and performs experiments on them (so he’s just presenting his findings for most of the story). And the other is a human who’s the subject of an experiment (although he doesn’t know about this) that studies which variables need to be tweaked to make humans go past their breaking point. I won’t say how it ends though. All I can say is I’ve been influenced by the Batman comics featuring The Joker. And a lot of Vonnegut. :)