my favorite thing is bad genre fiction authors writing prose where protagonists talk about or consume whiskey in bizarre and alien ways because they think drinking a lot of whiskey is a badass thing to do and makes their character seem tougher
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I love how absolute monarchies, whiskey, and cigarettes that need lighters are ever present in bad scifi
What are your thoughts on "ignition patches on the side of cigarette packs" and the rebel who still chooses to use a lighter?
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I hate how every scifi protagonist has a romantic attachment to lighters, whiskey, cigarettes and/or cigars, combustion engines, old fashioned guns, and all the other boring shit we have in real life. Would love a technophile protagonist who hates anything old, for a change.
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also hate how the detective in Expanse wears a fucking fedora or the countless hackers, spaceship pilots etc. who wear cowboy hats. we get that the genre owes things to noir and westerns, you don't need to fucking tell us that
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I agree with both these sentiments.
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