Second impressions: more sex than I’d prefer. I’d call this a humanist (sapient-ist?) fic rather than a rationalist one—the difficulty of writing (what I’d call) rationalist fiction is that the audience can’t just be told “and then Sherlock Holmes solved the mystery,” Holmes has to actually go about it in a reasonable way.
I can live with ‘humanist’ (or ‘personist’, or etc), though I really was trying to aim both for ‘rationalist’, and to describe how Missy actually went about doing things.
As for sex—I tried to have a discreet fade-to-black for any actually adult content, while still having the protagonist in a relationship. How would you suggest, or have suggested, I manage that differently? (Or are you referring to something else?)
Second impressions: more sex than I’d prefer. I’d call this a humanist (sapient-ist?) fic rather than a rationalist one—the difficulty of writing (what I’d call) rationalist fiction is that the audience can’t just be told “and then Sherlock Holmes solved the mystery,” Holmes has to actually go about it in a reasonable way.
I can live with ‘humanist’ (or ‘personist’, or etc), though I really was trying to aim both for ‘rationalist’, and to describe how Missy actually went about doing things.
As for sex—I tried to have a discreet fade-to-black for any actually adult content, while still having the protagonist in a relationship. How would you suggest, or have suggested, I manage that differently? (Or are you referring to something else?)