I mostly dislike this because it leads to settings build entirely on human stereotypes that make no sense. Beastars is cool but it's also like what the hell. What kinds of material conditions could lead to this or maintain it!? Of course, in that particular case the reasoning just boils down to Paru Itagaki thought it was Hot as Fuck. And I can respect that. Better than Zootopia at least.

There's no one single right way, of course, but this kind of thing often just feels like kinda the worst parts of thoughtless fantasy and sci-fi writing in general. The way Ferenghi were in Star Trek TNG vs Deep Space 9 comes to mind. It's just good to think more deeply about your characters and world if you're going to go through the trouble of writing them.

God this is a good one.

We get this with music in particular. Trinket can't stand harsh music a lot of the time and if she pops up, even in the background, we'll often just turn off whatever we were listening to and regroup. Viper likes things a bit more fast-paced so might change songs, etc. Lately we've had non-music videos on in the background so this hasn't been so much of a thing.

Not exactly the same thing, but if something was especially affecting, or we got a commission or something, we'll go back and check it again and experience it from a different angle. It's not abnormal to feel someone's opinions on something when they aren't fronting, but it'll be a little more clear when experienced more directly.

For games and such, our differences are more a case of 'having more patience for X kind of thing' so it won't be such a direct shift but we're learning to keep it in mind for longer-term projects. We were plinking away at Block Koala a level at a time until July got the bug and did about half of it in one sitting.