Dilemmas when writing speculative fiction

[Bramblethorn]

You gotta roll dice to know how well you preformed, how many times someone came, and if you're not wearing the right protection, whether you got an std or if someone got pregnant.

caveat lector: https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14567.phtml

 

[SimonDoom]

I need to check the books again. I don't remember the Balrog wearing a flame bikini?

It's tucked away in a hard to find section of the Notes at the end of Return of the King: On balrogs and their swimwear.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

caveat lector: https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14567.phtml

And here I thought the week of character building for EACH character in Operation Adon was bad enough. At least this review made me smirk.

 

[Lifestyle66]

Fantasy and sci-fi are great for letting your imagination run wild. Even if you're going for a more grounded setting, you can still come up with outlandish stuff and your readers won't bat an eyelid.

Right now I'm writing a story about a hapless sorcerer's apprentice who summons a succubus. Great fun, of course. But because he's so hapless she decides to show him how it's done - by putting on a show with some imps.

In my description of the succubus, I decided to give her a tail. Because, well, sexy. It goes with the red hair, the curves, and the flame bikini that's all she's wearing.

But now with three imps going wild on her, the tail gets in the way. I almost forgot about it, and then thought about ignoring it, and now I've decided to just delete the mention in her description. It's a shame, but this succubus will just have to make do without.

Has anyone else had to make these choices? Between aesthetics and practicalities, for example?

Okay, I'll admit to reading you original post and just having to opine (after a few glasses of wine.)

DUH! What's the difference between a succubus/tail/imp gangbang and any other human gangbang/air-tight dynamic?

"His foot was in my way, and I had to twist it out of the way to get in position to enter her at the correct angle. And his scream when I twisted his ankle killed the whole group's vibe!"

Think through it !

 

[TheWritingGroup]

As funny as that is, it also makes a certain amount of sense. In cephalopods, the limbs have their own brains and can act independently of the main animal. True they don't make the brightest of decisions when cut loose so the main brain is still the brains of the operation... But I could totally see this being applied to demonic tails and amped up.

Consider the Polynesian palolo worm (Palolo viridis), which, when it comes time to mate, separate their tail (epitoke) from the rest of their body and send it off to do the deed with the epitokes of other worms, while the main body of the worm continues to hide in a crevice.

No, literally hide in a crevice. I guess this would be the place to find dirty minds.

--Annie

 

[NuclearFairy]

@TheWritingGroup There's something I've been trying to research, with very little success. See, my orcs have blue blood, because it would help to explain their coloration, and also because of the cool things that copper based blood can do. But, I can't find anything that tells me where the horseshoe crab acquires the copper for their blood?

Now I could just have them have a magical organ attached to their liver that transmutes excess iron into copper, because it's a fantasy world and there's nothing stopping me from doing so.

 

[iwatchus]

@TheWritingGroup There's something I've been trying to research, with very little success. See, my orcs have blue blood, because it would help to explain their coloration, and also because of the cool things that copper based blood can do. But, I can't find anything that tells me where the horseshoe crab acquires the copper for their blood?

Now I could just have them have a magical organ attached to their liver that transmutes excess iron into copper, because it's a fantasy world and there's nothing stopping me from doing so.

Lots of food has copper: https://www.nutritionadvance.com/foods-high-in-copper/

 

[NuclearFairy]

Lots of food has copper: https://www.nutritionadvance.com/foods-high-in-copper/

Why didn't I think of just looking up which foods have copper in them. Thanks!

 

[UsuallyPresent]

@TheWritingGroup There's something I've been trying to research, with very little success. See, my orcs have blue blood, because it would help to explain their coloration, and also because of the cool things that copper based blood can do. But, I can't find anything that tells me where the horseshoe crab acquires the copper for their blood?

Now I could just have them have a magical organ attached to their liver that transmutes excess iron into copper, because it's a fantasy world and there's nothing stopping me from doing so.

A quick dig online found 2 different claims - they take it out of seawater, or via eating other critters. I can't spend more time right now, sorry

 

[Britva415]

@TheWritingGroup There's something I've been trying to research, with very little success. See, my orcs have blue blood, because it would help to explain their coloration, and also because of the cool things that copper based blood can do. But, I can't find anything that tells me where the horseshoe crab acquires the copper for their blood?

Now I could just have them have a magical organ attached to their liver that transmutes excess iron into copper, because it's a fantasy world and there's nothing stopping me from doing so.

Lots of food has copper: https://www.nutritionadvance.com/foods-high-in-copper/

So does the very seawater itself, 50 to 350 ppb of it.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Copper is also an essential mineral for us mammals. While it has many functions, the best-understood (by me) is as a component of important enzymes.

--Annie

 

[Britva415]

Why didn't I think of just looking up which foods have copper in them. Thanks!

Heh, horseshoe crabs eating their spinach and almonds

 

[iwatchus]

Heh, horseshoe crabs eating their spinach and almonds

I believe kelp may be high, instead of spinach. I grant you almonds is silly for horseshoes. But @NuclearFairy was also trying to figure out how her orcs can get more copper.

 

[SandraMaus]

Fantasy and sci-fi are great for letting your imagination run wild. Even if you're going for a more grounded setting, you can still come up with outlandish stuff and your readers won't bat an eyelid.

Right now I'm writing a story about a hapless sorcerer's apprentice who summons a succubus. Great fun, of course. But because he's so hapless she decides to show him how it's done - by putting on a show with some imps.

In my description of the succubus, I decided to give her a tail. Because, well, sexy. It goes with the red hair, the curves, and the flame bikini that's all she's wearing.

But now with three imps going wild on her, the tail gets in the way. I almost forgot about it, and then thought about ignoring it, and now I've decided to just delete the mention in her description. It's a shame, but this succubus will just have to make do without.

Has anyone else had to make these choices? Between aesthetics and practicalities, for example?

Maybe this particular is not just sexy. It could have some naughty function

 

[Blake_Palafox]

This is not really an answer to the question, but one time I had a woman have sex with a tiefling (similar to succubus) woman's horn. It sounds dangerous, but I figured she didn't let it go too far in and mostly used to it to rub her clit on the ridges. (It was an impala-like horn.)

Don't we have great conversations here?

I guess I just always find a way to use the various parts in the sex scene. If it's too out there, you have the creature derive sexual pleasure from something different from how humans do.

 

[Blake_Palafox]

Maybe this particular is not just sexy. It could have some naughty function

You can have her roll the spade shaped tip up (like rolling a tongue up) and anally penetrate a demon while he fucks her from behind.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Extend (pun fully intended) the palolo worm idea. The succubus is being railed by the three imps. She detaches her tail for convenience and sends it off to molest (but not satisfy) the sorceror.

--Annie

 

[DeMont]

Fantasy and sci-fi are great for letting your imagination run wild. Even if you're going for a more grounded setting, you can still come up with outlandish stuff and your readers won't bat an eyelid.

Right now I'm writing a story about a hapless sorcerer's apprentice who summons a succubus. Great fun, of course. But because he's so hapless she decides to show him how it's done - by putting on a show with some imps.

In my description of the succubus, I decided to give her a tail. Because, well, sexy. It goes with the red hair, the curves, and the flame bikini that's all she's wearing.

But now with three imps going wild on her, the tail gets in the way. I almost forgot about it, and then thought about ignoring it, and now I've decided to just delete the mention in her description. It's a shame, but this succubus will just have to make do without.

Has anyone else had to make these choices? Between aesthetics and practicalities, for example?

@StillStunned,
You are, of course, quite right in what you say my dear colleague. The two subjects that can be held as most open to "wild imagination" are Fantasy and Sci-Fi. In my humble opinion, Fantasy more so for in fantasy writing you can literally turn, or obscure, the need for any form of reality from eating (food) to physics and the readers "suspension of disbelief " will accommodate that easily.

I would, in reference to sci-fi however, mention a maxim that has been touted by a number of Science Fiction authors (published) that says;
"In order to create good, readable science fiction there must, at some point, be a certain amount of science involved"

I won't say it's a "rule" of writing Sci-Fi but it certainly, in my view, bears some thinking about.
Deepest respects, as always,
D.

 

[StillStunned]

Wow, I thought this thread was off with the fairies! Good job bringing it back on topic, people!

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Maybe this particular is not just sexy. It could have some naughty function

There are stories on here that have critters with ratlike tails, with or without dexterity, pointy ends which might be sharp or flexible like a crop or just decorative. One I enjoyed has the tails end in a cockhead capable of impregnating people...

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Wow, I thought this thread was off with the fairies! Good job bringing it back on topic, people!

Hey,, don't be mean to @NuclearFairy - she's helping the conversation!!

 

[SandraMaus]

There are stories on here that have critters with ratlike tails, with or without dexterity, pointy ends which might be sharp or flexible like a crop or just decorative. One I enjoyed has the tails end in a cockhead capable of impregnating people...

Or they just tingle you

 

[ChuckWolf]

Fantasy and sci-fi are great for letting your imagination run wild. Even if you're going for a more grounded setting, you can still come up with outlandish stuff and your readers won't bat an eyelid.

Right now I'm writing a story about a hapless sorcerer's apprentice who summons a succubus. Great fun, of course. But because he's so hapless she decides to show him how it's done - by putting on a show with some imps.

In my description of the succubus, I decided to give her a tail. Because, well, sexy. It goes with the red hair, the curves, and the flame bikini that's all she's wearing.

But now with three imps going wild on her, the tail gets in the way. I almost forgot about it, and then thought about ignoring it, and now I've decided to just delete the mention in her description. It's a shame, but this succubus will just have to make do without.

Has anyone else had to make these choices? Between aesthetics and practicalities, for example?

Kind of; my story, Earthshaker involves a state-of-the-art vibrator that uses AI to constantly increase the pleasure, duration and intensity of the female that uses it.

In the first draft, I kinda got in the weeds with the origins (repurposed military software) and effects (addictive with intense orgasms that become increasingly unbearable) and felt they were slowing the pacing of the story down.