Re: [NetBehaviour] Worldbuilding Thread (Horses)

Oh yikes things got busy busy busy and I just found this in my must- reply file. Bad Shibe is meant to be troubling and humorous to both its imagined constituencies. It is bathetic. Horses is more unipolar, and has a Gibsonian “the world ended and capital just carried on” vibe. There’s a style in

Re: [NetBehaviour] Worldbuilding Thread (Horses)

I find this incredibly chilling > It is all just incentives. > Bad Shibe manifested a similar world but all the cute jokes, along with suggestions of more-than-human agency (even if the agent was perhaps a living meme), somehow softened it. https://rhea.art/bad-shibe Its a good call to conjure t

Re: [NetBehaviour] Worldbuilding Thread (Horses)

Seconded! I had to read it twice before I started to understand it. There's an epic science fiction novel in here. On 30/06/2021 07:46, Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour wrote: Thank you for this strange and beautiful story Rhea On Tue, 29 Jun 2021, 22:48 Rhea Myers via NetBehaviour,

Re: [NetBehaviour] Worldbuilding Thread (Horses)

Thank you for this strange and beautiful story Rhea On Tue, 29 Jun 2021, 22:48 Rhea Myers via NetBehaviour, < netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > https://twitter.com/rheaplex/status/1402443000454672384 > > The RAFFLE Act (Retreat Away From Flood Level Elevations) mandated > withdrawing

[NetBehaviour] Worldbuilding Thread (Horses)

https://twitter.com/rheaplex/status/1402443000454672384 The RAFFLE Act (Retreat Away From Flood Level Elevations) mandated withdrawing from rather than fighting rising sea levels. It bankrupted entire cities and made landowners in the “RAFFLE Belt” into trillionares. As a legal dodge, all property