....huh. Because I can't stop poking, I tried a fusion of the previous two ficbits - OC proper names, with human gendered pronouns (to reduce the reading difficulty).

Wow. I can honestly say I hate this version. Apparently my brain says "either up the alien ante and roll around in it, or leave well enough alone!" =P ( Read more... )

Directly related to my recent posts about spinning the ridiculous TF AU epic to OC (and how it would let me dig myself into an even deeper hole of world building and renaming things) - here! Have a test sample.

This is the Age of Empires prologue alien section prologue (there's human perspective bits beforehand). I'm pretty sure nobody's read it. ( Read more... )

Things I realized if I were to turn Age of Empires into orig fic:

* If I remove my brain from "giant alien robots" and go for something more like "alien insectoid-based techno-organics" then I open up a lot of the tropes I rather personally love without having to do any hand waving (they're a species, they reproduce as a species, screw the ( Read more... )

Frustration is when your new model kit is made out of some plastic that not even acrylic paints or primer want to stick to. v_v ( Read more... )