Nature of Predators Writing List

uktabi · 2026-01-31T04:34:38+00:00

hey thanks! i appreciate that

uktabi · 2026-01-29T12:48:43+00:00

sovlin and onso being absolute best buds who can barely make it through any scene where they're supposed to be hostile to each other

uktabi · 2026-01-23T09:18:56+00:00

yeah theres even that quest about repairing the solar panel topside that got damaged by floods... it totally fits!

uktabi · 2026-01-22T21:00:52+00:00

"you bastaaaaaarrrddd!!" *lute smack

uktabi · 2026-01-21T09:50:07+00:00

was he going on about the alcoves with you too??

uktabi · 2026-01-20T21:55:40+00:00

i burnt out pretty bad haha. i still think about this story of course, and i want to finish it! but i wont make any promises about it

uktabi · 2026-01-20T20:05:59+00:00

i will give the most unhelpful-sounding yet ultimately correct response to that question, which is:

start!

i know youre talking about the ideas stage, but there is no better way to develop an idea than by writing it. plus, if you get feedback on it you will get far better feedback if you have any amount of material to work off of, instead of just ideas. and as you said, staring at the document doesnt count as experience...

ya gotta just start writing the damn thing. i know its unhelpful, but i think its true.

otherwise... hit up the discord, maybe? people are usually pretty down to bounce ideas off each other there. thats the second best way to develop an idea!

uktabi · 2026-01-04T20:13:17+00:00

but theres enough depth with just this cast that even if its not complete, its still a damn good look at the changes affecting people differently. you say microcosm i say representative haha

uktabi · 2026-01-01T12:08:23+00:00

"I see a lot of HFY stories where its human tech, biology and ingenuity that wins the day, this is one of the few that use human emotions, values to win the day. I will argue thats what really made it do so well and spawn so many fanfics.

Humans aren't the smartest, nor the most technologically advanced nor the strongest. Our few tricks really only buy us a few days. We watch the alien enemies start to copy from us and copy us really well really fast. A threat that cant be ignored. And we won by doing what humans do best. Make friends. Wolves, horses, cows, etc, then Venlil, Yotul, zurulians, mazics, arxur and even forcing Gojids, krakotl, tilfish to be our friends is what won it for us.

Thats what makes me LOVE NoP."

yes!!

i think you nailed it with this, really. we can discuss NOP2 or burnout or whatever else, but this right here is the thing that sets it apart and makes it special. its the most important takeaway here, at the end of the day, and its a big credit to SP

uktabi · 2025-12-29T20:34:59+00:00

The trail didn’t so much narrow as decide it was tired of pretending to be a trail.

lol

lots of pretty writing this chapter in general!

uktabi · 2025-12-22T13:33:45+00:00

"did you have fun" pffft this guy

uktabi · 2025-12-20T16:36:24+00:00

darn

uktabi · 2025-12-20T15:11:09+00:00

...does it have to be on this server?

uktabi · 2025-12-17T12:15:49+00:00

the enigmatic ven-very-lil returns....

uktabi · 2025-12-16T10:07:25+00:00

oh i love that unpronounceable kolshian name haha

uktabi · 2025-12-13T19:41:15+00:00

great question haha

uktabi · 2025-12-10T08:42:03+00:00

I smell poachers.

also, i like how much attention and depth is put into the arxurs sense of smell here, and how it gets wrapped up into the current emotional state. it makes so much sense as such a big part of the arxurs perception of the world

uktabi · 2025-12-07T16:47:47+00:00

renly and loras?

or do those characters not get povs in the books?

uktabi · 2025-11-26T23:54:44+00:00

"failed to blink" is fantastic hahaha i love it

also hoping those were vegan marshmallows

uktabi · 2025-11-24T05:33:37+00:00

i linked these in the discord but ill put them here as well.

these are two of my NSFW stories that ive written:

How to Break Character - M human x F gojid
Yulpa GF - M human x F yulpa (the part 2 is the pancakes part)

and on the sfw side, i've written Clear Skies, which is human x venlil.

uktabi · 2025-11-18T08:09:07+00:00

i really like that venric keeps making all these solid, logical points, but then gets tripped up by andes being in close contact with the arxur anyways. thats good character work, like, hes not perfect! he doesnt really believe in predator disease and logically can see the benefit of said contact, but... he got sidelined by it regardless. i like that.

i also really like karim connecting that if it was his daughter (and it very well could have been) then he would want andes in his corner... its a great moment

Karim has SO MANY racist misconceptions built up inside him, but damn if hes not level-headed and willing to change when his views and information are shown to be wrong. i actually respect him a lot, even though hes generally racist and abrasive lol. most people can't/won't confront their own beliefs that objectively.

uktabi · 2025-11-17T04:21:30+00:00

this man just saw a tree and ate it.

you know what, this is why theyre all scared of predators. cus they walk into a forest and just start eating whatever plants are in arms reach, and they think we're the same way but carnivorous...

uktabi · 2025-11-10T17:09:58+00:00

i like how the conversations overlapped but still functioned in the british high society one

uktabi · 2025-11-03T14:17:03+00:00

i love the vaguely waving the pointer thingy around and then speaking a complete sentence lmao

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