Onigashima
@quinn2win
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:08 AM
spinoff of eric's most recent plurk but here's my sickass novel idea
Onigashima
@quinn2win
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:08 AM
genre: retrofuturist pulp sci-fi
Onigashima
@quinn2win
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:09 AM
it starts in the Martian golden age of scientific advancement
Onigashima
@quinn2win
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:09 AM
a Martian scientist sets off an experimental device that transports him across the solar system
Onigashima
@quinn2win
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:09 AM
and he has pulpy adventures amidst the primitive tribes of the merciless Blue Planet
RobotApocalypse
@ninjarobotclone
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:10 AM
i'd read it
Onigashima
@quinn2win
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:10 AM
separated from his home, fighting to survive amidst the barbaric Earthlings
Onigashima
@quinn2win
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:10 AM
where it's like, 1400 AD
Onigashima
@quinn2win
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:11 AM
witnessing the terrifying alien beasts that they ride into battle
Villain
@Overbringer
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:11 AM
You know what I'm into it
Onigashima
@quinn2win
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:12 AM
through his adventures, he comes to respect the primitive yet noble heroic spirit of the Earthlings
Villain
@Overbringer
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:12 AM
Does he fall in love with an Earthling princess?
Onigashima
@quinn2win
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:12 AM
yes
Villain
@Overbringer
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:12 AM
And rescue her from peril?
Onigashima
@quinn2win
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:13 AM
maybe the villain is another Martian interloper posing as a wizard with his Martian hypertech
Onigashima
@quinn2win
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:13 AM
or a Venusian or something
Villain
@Overbringer
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:13 AM
I do want to call out the books I was talking about
Villain
@Overbringer
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:14 AM
Where in the mars book the heroic earthling actually spends like a third of the book in peril and tied up
Villain
@Overbringer
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:14 AM
And is REPEATEDLY saved by the martian princess love interest
Villain
@Overbringer
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:14 AM
And her sick sword moves
Onigashima
@quinn2win
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:14 AM
nice
RobotApocalypse
@ninjarobotclone
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:14 AM
he gets a native earthling sidekick, a knight a who is constantly talking about this noble earthling concept of Chivalry
Onigashima
@quinn2win
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:15 AM
YES
Villain
@Overbringer
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:15 AM
yesss
Onigashima
@quinn2win
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:15 AM
their exotic alien code of honor
Villain
@Overbringer
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:15 AM
primitive, but not without merit
Onigashima
@quinn2win
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:16 AM
buddy cop narrative
Onigashima
@quinn2win
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:16 AM
forced to work together, gradually learning to respect each other's strange ways
Princess Emily
@deerleisure
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:26 AM
and then something happens and the Earth civilization of Atlantis sinks
dragon time
@MadarFoxfire
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:50 AM
I want fascinated yet horrified descriptions of horses
Villain
@Overbringer
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:52 AM
comparing earth life to martian animals that he never explains
dragon time
@MadarFoxfire
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:54 AM
A small predatory mammal, like a four legged zerflesk
dragon time
@MadarFoxfire
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:55 AM
It would also be very funny if Mars had cats and he sometimes compared things to them, no explanation
dragon time
@MadarFoxfire
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:55 AM
It's just this one thing
Villain
@Overbringer
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:56 AM
constantly refers to how Earth cats are much smaller
dragon time
@MadarFoxfire
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:57 AM
If he sees a lion does he go "well now we're getting somewhere" or "oh that's TOO big"
Princess Emily
@deerleisure
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:57 AM
funnier:
Princess Emily
@deerleisure
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 4:57 AM
sees a lion "what the FUCK is that doing on Earth?"
chrome
@Cromalin20
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 5:51 AM
this is absolutely a sickass idea
Echo
@EchoDoctor
Wed, Aug 30, 2023 11:23 AM
Fuck yes.
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and then something happens and the Earth civilization of Atlantis sinks