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After chewing on this part of your comment, I've slapped open paint and come up with this (terrible) visual diagram. (I'm still mulling on Social vs Cultural Xeno as labels because I feel like Social and Cultural Xeno are distinct enough to be their own labels) Anyway, I'm going to take a...

I'm still processing the full of your comments, so I'm not really ready to respond to the whole post, but the answer to this specific question is that I always intended for the slide between alien (the emotion of something which feels unfamiliar/alien) and the familiar (the emotion where...

Since I've been going a bit hard into the Xeno, we need to get a bit clearer so I can actually make this more approachable if you're not already into Xeno. If you're feeling overwhelmed by the last post... Well, I was told that this thread is a decent "Xeno 101" curricula, so us Xeno-lovers...

Managing Reader And Author Energy Or: Xenofiction is Hard, Both to Read, and to Write Or: Gods, Zoru was full of energy when they started writing this but then the energy went away while in the middle of writing, and how the hell do they pick up the pieces to keep the points coherent? Heh...

The Reader - Fiction Contract (Or: When fics should not use the Xenofiction tag) Or: Tagging and Classification is Hard You, the astute work of fiction, might say "Uh, I'm a normal pokefic. I'm not tagging myself as Xeno just because I use some light Xeno elements" and you would be right! So...

If you write pokemon fics, you are already including Xenofiction elements. Pokemon, by nature, is Xeno[fiction]. If you're writing pokemon, you are including Xenofiction elements by default. Because it's a franchise of magical monsters who do not all behave, act or think like humans. Even if...

For a kind of mind-teaser or provocative on this topic, consider this picture of a mantis wearing a sweater and sewing: https://www.deviantart.com/barukurii/art/Sewing-Mantis-466376276 This is the essence of xenofic, in visual form. I'm currently hyperfocusing on Xenofiction, if you can't...