I had a long conversation with Sh-San the other day and one of the things I was really glad to hear from him, and glad that he pointed out to me... While I did abandon his world, I didn't abandon the essence of the story. It's basically mutated and matured into the world Jim is from. It's always been about trying to get different types of people to get along. I suppose robots make a good metaphor for autism or any kind of growing up similar but different from most people around you.
Later on in the story with Sh-San, things got way less focused on aliens and way more focused on robots. I would up back on Earth with a small group of experimental sentient robots created by humans. And... it turned out to be a situation we couldn't win. We ended up beaten down so badly the aliens had to come rescue us (and that's where the story ended for me). Meanwhile, in "real life", I actually had yet another robot story going on. I had a small group of goofy characters in middle school that I publicly wrote about, and I threw in an android as a way to let some of my other story out of my head, without actually letting it out of my head. But that robot also ended up in a situation he couldn't win, and I abandoned that story in high school because the universe was too nonsensical. Then I took a break to learn more about the "real" world, wrote Space Explorer (purposefully not letting any of the main characters be robots), learned a lot about people and autism and self-advocacy, and now I'm back and trying it again. I started off with Joseph as the main character, he started getting beaten down and I was worried this was going to be another failure, then Jim shows up out of nowhere and all of a sudden things pick up energy and start looking up.
That's sort of what Sh-San was trying to explain in his previous post. But I think he's allergic to talking in a straightforward manner. :P
Sh-San: It is nice to meet you, Daria. And I am glad to hear that your world lived. But I do not want my world to live. If someone handed me a book, the story of how Sh-San and Margaret tried to get two planets to work together, failed because of politics, then Margaret got chased off the planet twice while Sh-San had to sit on his ass and deal with more politicians, I would say "What is this shit?" and throw it in the trash. That is not a story I want to hear. That is not in our spirit.
I want to hear the story of how the robots and humans on Earth start to get along. I know it can be done. I have seen it. I want to watch from the sidelines and cheer and maybe give advice. And I do have a personal investment in this story, beyond just knowing Margaret. I am also a robot.
Me: Where he's from, being a robot is a complete non-issue. If anything, they think it's cool.
Sh-San: But nobody wants to hear the story of how the Ra-Has built robots and thought they were cool, then they all went on together to build more things. Well, nobody on Earth. I very much like hearing that story.
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Later on in the story with Sh-San, things got way less focused on aliens and way more focused on robots. I would up back on Earth with a small group of experimental sentient robots created by humans. And... it turned out to be a situation we couldn't win. We ended up beaten down so badly the aliens had to come rescue us (and that's where the story ended for me). Meanwhile, in "real life", I actually had yet another robot story going on. I had a small group of goofy characters in middle school that I publicly wrote about, and I threw in an android as a way to let some of my other story out of my head, without actually letting it out of my head. But that robot also ended up in a situation he couldn't win, and I abandoned that story in high school because the universe was too nonsensical. Then I took a break to learn more about the "real" world, wrote Space Explorer (purposefully not letting any of the main characters be robots), learned a lot about people and autism and self-advocacy, and now I'm back and trying it again. I started off with Joseph as the main character, he started getting beaten down and I was worried this was going to be another failure, then Jim shows up out of nowhere and all of a sudden things pick up energy and start looking up.
That's sort of what Sh-San was trying to explain in his previous post. But I think he's allergic to talking in a straightforward manner. :P
Sh-San: It is nice to meet you, Daria. And I am glad to hear that your world lived. But I do not want my world to live. If someone handed me a book, the story of how Sh-San and Margaret tried to get two planets to work together, failed because of politics, then Margaret got chased off the planet twice while Sh-San had to sit on his ass and deal with more politicians, I would say "What is this shit?" and throw it in the trash. That is not a story I want to hear. That is not in our spirit.
I want to hear the story of how the robots and humans on Earth start to get along. I know it can be done. I have seen it. I want to watch from the sidelines and cheer and maybe give advice. And I do have a personal investment in this story, beyond just knowing Margaret. I am also a robot.
Me: Where he's from, being a robot is a complete non-issue. If anything, they think it's cool.
Sh-San: But nobody wants to hear the story of how the Ra-Has built robots and thought they were cool, then they all went on together to build more things. Well, nobody on Earth. I very much like hearing that story.