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What are some terrible takes in your world? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml to c/worldbuilding@lemmy.world

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Are there people in your world that just don't get it, and keep spouting opinions that make no sense given the context of your world or would be disastrous if actually implemented? What are some of the most common bad takes in your world and what makes them so bad?

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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TBH I have only really focused on the small fuzzy woodland creature side of the animal kingdom, but implicitly yes, everyone is spaient.

I specifically intended everyone to be sentient/sapient because part of the reason for me making this world was I hate cop-out "designated food animals" that so many other animals living in harmony stories have. The Lion King and Simba eating bugs for example, or how Zootopia implies that everyone there just eats fish instead of each other. Even when I was a a kid this had always annoyed me because it's so hypocritical, when it really wouldn't have needed that much more suspension of disbelief to just say the cats in this world just can digest plants or something. So I specifically chose to have every single animal be sapient so there can be no cop-outs to the predation problem.

I also chose this as to not limit myself in what kind of animals I can have as characters, but admittedly I haven't developed the lore beyond small fuzzy animals.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.radio 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So they do address what the predators in Zootopia eat. I'm blind (literally, I have a guide dog) and I guess there was a visual reference to it somewhere that I missed. I was so irritated that the whole point of the film was about predators not eating prey anymore but it didn't address what they ate instead.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah there's a shot of a fish market in one of the scenes. It wasn't directly mentioned, but I think the implication is they eat fish.