Having read the rest of the conversation… I’d say that yes, I have a mild “dammit, aren’t condoms invented in this universe long ago enough to these issues to have gone away?!” to Starwars, but only after reconsidering it in the light of Homestuck. Which by the way, provides an excellent example in the alien Trolls considering both heterosexuality and incest-taboos in the kids to be trite annoyances.
I’m going out on a limb here, and saying that Muggle Plot is not a property of a plot, or even a plot-reader pair, but rather an emotion that can be felt in response to a plot, and which is scalar, with a rough heuristic being that it’s stronger the more salient the option that’d make the plot go away is in whatever communities you participate in.
I’d say that yes, I have a mild “dammit, aren’t condoms invented in this universe long ago enough to these issues to have gone away?!”
Why? Remember adaptation executors not fitness maximizers. And if condoms have been around for long enough for people to adapt to them, the first adaptation would be to no longer find condomed sex pleasurable or fulfilling.
Having read the rest of the conversation… I’d say that yes, I have a mild “dammit, aren’t condoms invented in this universe long ago enough to these issues to have gone away?!” to Starwars, but only after reconsidering it in the light of Homestuck. Which by the way, provides an excellent example in the alien Trolls considering both heterosexuality and incest-taboos in the kids to be trite annoyances.
I’m going out on a limb here, and saying that Muggle Plot is not a property of a plot, or even a plot-reader pair, but rather an emotion that can be felt in response to a plot, and which is scalar, with a rough heuristic being that it’s stronger the more salient the option that’d make the plot go away is in whatever communities you participate in.
Why? Remember adaptation executors not fitness maximizers. And if condoms have been around for long enough for people to adapt to them, the first adaptation would be to no longer find condomed sex pleasurable or fulfilling.