
Episode 4: Civilization and You! (with guest star Fonda Lee!)
Worldbuilding for Masochists
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Choir of Lies Is an Aesthetic of the Industrial Revolution
I wanted to get away from that traditional fantasy renaissance Europe sort of thing. And I didn't want to go all the way to like full steam punk, so I have been settled in this place of where a society is as it's going to be steampunk in 2050 and 70s. It's interesting, I think that I tend to do mostly aesthetics. If I'm not doing like, okay, here is the environment that I want to tell a story, then I do something like, here's the aesthetic. In Choir of Lies, I very much started out,Here's the aesthetic, because I was like, I just want to write about like fantasy Amsterdam. So I'll
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