Jun 06, 2025
To:Mara
Talking about the solar system sol and slice of life sol not confusing in the slightest.
But yeah it's understandable not wanting to write sci-fi. You just have to write soft sci-fi rather than hard sci-fi and make very clear from the start that's it's soft then I don't think you'll get as much need to dig into a lot of things. You're trying to provide enough grounding and rationalization to justify your world building that it does sort of beg more questions to be asked if someone gets engaged by that part of the story. Because the story does read and you've commented as such that you've done research on very specific topics, but a lot of the more complex issues you gloss over with broad strokes. So it's clear you were wanting to paint broadly and be more soft sci-fi, but because you tried to inject harder science into elements it does introduce the notion that the world building should be approached as deeply.
It might have been G Gundam that's the only one that's really turn your brain off, even Wing as simple as it can be is deeply political and the moment your brain shut down you get lost. And Victory Gundam first episode ends with an enemy pilot killing themselves in despair that who they're fighting are sending 12 year olds to fight and can't stand that the war has sunk to that level.
