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Wouldn't it be cool if there was a genre were you could use plausible hypothetical scenarios to highlight emotions and discuss philosophical points? Like Fantasy, but specifically using what we know about the world as a starting point, like some sort of.... science fiction. That would be pretty awesome wouldn't it? Too bad a genre like that doesn't exist, or I'dve chosen it as the submission theme for this picture....
This was inspired by an attempt to explain depression I heard: "It's like the rest of the world is the Mothership, and you're drifting away in an escape pod."
EDIT: Because of Furaffinity's new layout, thumbnails are larger or smaller based on their width. This means that tall pictures are squeezed to the side and left forgotten while wide pictures hog all the space. A wide thumbnail can be as big as five tall submissions and this opens up a lot of oppertunity for abuse. If you can, let Furaffinity know this is a problem, that prolly won't change anything but one can always hope.
Wouldn't it be cool if there was a genre were you could use plausible hypothetical scenarios to highlight emotions and discuss philosophical points? Like Fantasy, but specifically using what we know about the world as a starting point, like some sort of.... science fiction. That would be pretty awesome wouldn't it? Too bad a genre like that doesn't exist, or I'dve chosen it as the submission theme for this picture....
This was inspired by an attempt to explain depression I heard: "It's like the rest of the world is the Mothership, and you're drifting away in an escape pod."
EDIT: Because of Furaffinity's new layout, thumbnails are larger or smaller based on their width. This means that tall pictures are squeezed to the side and left forgotten while wide pictures hog all the space. A wide thumbnail can be as big as five tall submissions and this opens up a lot of oppertunity for abuse. If you can, let Furaffinity know this is a problem, that prolly won't change anything but one can always hope.
Category All / Fantasy
Species Housecat
Size 800 x 825px
File Size 475.5 kB
The bulk of what I'm describing is speculative fiction, which would include both SF and Fantasy. The difference is methods, rather than goal. What I'm getting at isn't intelligence, fantasy isn't un-intelligent, it's simply written with more of a mythological mold in mind. It doesn't handle big ideas the same way that science fiction handles it. Not to say it doesn't handle big ideas, but the ideas it handles and the approach tend to be different.
And of course, there's a difference between fantasy and science fiction as a setting and SF and fantasy as a genre. A fantasy story about, say, a time travelling spell or a spell to bring people back to life that mainly focus on the philosophical implications of that would read, to me anyway, more like a science fiction story than a fantasy story while a science fiction story about a humble farmboy being contacted by a mysterious old man and going on a heroe's journey would read more like fantasy, even if spaceships is involved.
Granted, even then the distinction is fussy, but I think you can see what I'm getting at, at least? If the ethos of science fiction is "the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." (Clarke), the ethos of fantasy is more like "Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." (Chesterton)
And of course, there's a difference between fantasy and science fiction as a setting and SF and fantasy as a genre. A fantasy story about, say, a time travelling spell or a spell to bring people back to life that mainly focus on the philosophical implications of that would read, to me anyway, more like a science fiction story than a fantasy story while a science fiction story about a humble farmboy being contacted by a mysterious old man and going on a heroe's journey would read more like fantasy, even if spaceships is involved.
Granted, even then the distinction is fussy, but I think you can see what I'm getting at, at least? If the ethos of science fiction is "the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." (Clarke), the ethos of fantasy is more like "Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." (Chesterton)
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