OLD ART - THE GALACTIC CITY, PART 3More of that old comic I sketched when I was 16 because pandemic

OLD ART - THE GALACTIC CITY, PART 3More of that old comic I sketched when I was 16 because pandemic got me in a creative slump. I didn’t really have a lot of consistency in the physics in those days and so the black holes were vulnerable to things like poison, electrocution, etc. They also lived in underground caves and entered buildings, because in my conception at the time, the setting was like those cartoons with talking animals that live in cities and act like humans.Of course, once I entered college, I realized that while there are no laws of physics stopping you from putting clothes on an aardvark and making him work an office job in a cubicle, there is a lot of physics stopping you from making a star walk around on a street and live in a townhouse. So the setting for these characters now is Very Definitely In Space ™.They still are pretty anthropomorphic though in their thoughts and actions and desires so it’s not a masterpiece of realistic world-building.The problem is that when you make a “realistic” black hole character you get some incomprehensible alien eldritch abomination, and at that point they can’t be a main character you sympathize with anymore (*cough* *cough* Gregory Benford *cough* Eater *cough).I’ve always been enamored with the idea of a world in which powerful forces of nature orders of magnitude more vast then us still struggle with very humanlike faults and foibles (I wrote a whole short story told from the perspective of a sympathetic Hurricane Harvey for Pete’s sake), even if that is not the most “realistic” perspective to take. -- source link

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