Trope-a-Day: Unusually Uninteresting Sight

Alistair Young

Jan 24, 2016

Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Played slightly straight, inasmuch as that given the degree of species and clade diversity to be seen in cosmopolitan regions (most of the Empire, the Conclave Drift, the Rim Free Zone, the Free Eilish Confederacy, other hub worlds, etc.) is sufficient that merely looking weird will not draw huge amounts of attention on the street, because it happens all the damn time.

You have to be acting weird. No, weirder than that.

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