Easy promots: - You're not from around here and I like that. Let's be friends! - How are those Terramagne aliens doing?
Harder one: What if Pat and Chris fell into the 'verse where A Brother's Price is set? Only subverting the expected Reality Ensues, Pat uses his social skills to keep them out of trouble (and Chris follows along) until the rest of the team can arrive to be the 'platonic battle harem.' Maybe they also jump start a civil rights movement, or take a bunch of people back with them. (That place ain't nice unless you're female, one of the oldest-born, _and_ decently wealthy.)
Master-level: This, maybe first contact? "Now I want to see a scifi where the lingua franca isn't picked just because it's what the rich folks speak, but because it is what the rich folks (alien traders and diplomats) are /able/ to speak. And of course, these end up being very non-European, indiginous, endangered language isolates - or possibly a combination therof." https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/12524338.html?thread=40813106#cmt40813106
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Date: 2020-10-07 03:57 am (UTC)- You're not from around here and I like that. Let's be friends!
- How are those Terramagne aliens doing?
Harder one:
What if Pat and Chris fell into the 'verse where A Brother's Price is set? Only subverting the expected Reality Ensues, Pat uses his social skills to keep them out of trouble (and Chris follows along) until the rest of the team can arrive to be the 'platonic battle harem.' Maybe they also jump start a civil rights movement, or take a bunch of people back with them. (That place ain't nice unless you're female, one of the oldest-born, _and_ decently wealthy.)
Master-level:
This, maybe first contact?
"Now I want to see a scifi where the lingua franca isn't picked just because it's what the rich folks speak, but because it is what the rich folks (alien traders and diplomats) are /able/ to speak. And of course, these end up being very non-European, indiginous, endangered language isolates - or possibly a combination therof."
https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/12524338.html?thread=40813106#cmt40813106