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[yvannairie]

So I have my materials and notes for a longer post about EM fields and I'm wondering just where I should start, what level of basic knowledge would make it the most enjoyable reading experience.

I could actually start with the science of it, but is there anyone so tech-illiterate among the TF fans who'd actually need that? Or would it just be patronising?

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[autobotscoutriella]

And everybody anthropomorphizes a little bit differently, especially when you get into different continuities and the (problems with the) ways canon deals with that, and...

Yep, there's a lot of reasons it's a post I'd rather read than write :D Just having the complications laid out like that is enough to make me want to go back to fiction. It's a good topic, though. Social Theory is fascinating to me, from a distance.

[yvannairie]

Yeah! Honestly, the parts where they're not working Exactly Like Humans are the hardest, because that's where I just have to cross my fingers and pray that whatever I come up with is compelling because I guarantee I have not looked at a single external source for either the physiology post or the social psychology post, I've just been writing them in the blind hope that my fanfic pleases a fickle audience of people I don't know 8'D

At least when I'm writing fic with characters, I can always just be like "you don't have to agree with my characterisation but my reasoning stands in the text for you to see". Here I'm kinda just throwing worldbuilding together and praying.

[autobotscoutriella]

The "Alien, But Still Makes Sense To A Human Audience" parts are usually where I get tripped up with my fanfic worldbuilding. It's a PAIN to try to establish how they're different from humans but still keep them understandable. (Which is why, at the moment, the extent of my worldbuilding for one big AU is "a handful of notes on robot superpowers" and "a document of Cybertronian slang that amuses me".)