Yeah, I don't take a lot of time to build alien cultures. I mean, I can write a whole lot of Rodney without getting into Canadian culture (to my detriment, I'm sure he'd say). At the same time, I guess I'm odd -- I wouldn't mind being jossed for a time-consuming alien culture as much as jossed for a character. As soon as I start constructing an alien culture it's such an AU-building exercise that I find it easier to shift to AU. Whereas I read, say, Jeannie McKay stories and just cringe wondering what'll happen to them.
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