Poor Talita :(
Jan. 25th, 2026 21:37![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
abyssal_sylph
So I've caught up with Runaway to the Stars, and while I have a lot of emotions about it, few of them are able to be worded in a way that makes sense. But yeah one thing I can say about the webcomic is that it's very human? Not applicable since a lot of characters are very much alien... Sophont? Sophont. About the ways they think & feel about their situations. Also the situations the characters have been in? Very plausible. It helps the comic stay slice-of-life even when it's currently about getting an illegal ship back in orbit.
Also read this post byysabetwordsmith which was about how agriculture tends to get misunderstood why white people in specific (in the sense of "monocropping isn't the only thing that count"). Which makes me happy that Jay has clearly put in a lot of thought in the diets of the non-human characters, even if Talita gets the short end of the stick :(
Also made me think again about sci-fi worldbuilding... that + my au Marstuck, which is spiritually inspired by the RttS comic. Specifically with me getting a bit into making trolls more plausible + figuering out how they'd be as 2 seperate cultures prior to the Mars rebellion. With specifically Alternia having been a colony of Beforus before it's countercultural revolution which- it was countering the culture of Beforus! Just, also dystopic.
Also read this post by
ysabetwordsmith which was about how agriculture tends to get misunderstood why white people in specific (in the sense of "monocropping isn't the only thing that count"). Which makes me happy that Jay has clearly put in a lot of thought in the diets of the non-human characters, even if Talita gets the short end of the stick :(Also made me think again about sci-fi worldbuilding... that + my au Marstuck, which is spiritually inspired by the RttS comic. Specifically with me getting a bit into making trolls more plausible + figuering out how they'd be as 2 seperate cultures prior to the Mars rebellion. With specifically Alternia having been a colony of Beforus before it's countercultural revolution which- it was countering the culture of Beforus! Just, also dystopic.
