i cannot find the words to keep you

you know what they say: bweh

enamored with the subplot in pluribus about. what if you stumbled your way into writing a wildly successful speculative historical romance adventure series (romantasy) (you hate romantasy) (it’s even straight to your chagrin) & then Every Person On Earth loved it & loved you & wanted you to keep writing it even when your world ended. & even with all that love you still find a way to be the loneliest person on earth. & you still don’t even like romantasy

I dunno I think Carol actually loves romantasy and loves her books I think what she hates is that she felt the need to make them heterosexual and I think she hates the fact that she just fuckin loves them. She would rather be like a serious like Shakespeare writer or whatever but she truly is just so passionate about making up fuckin ridiculous lore about a ship that sails in purple sand she loves it so much and she’s embarrassed about it

i really like this idea!! i think you could absolutely be right, bc she wouldn’t have started the wycaro project in the first place without being invested in the story—in my experience, it’s rare for writers who set out to write books for the express purpose of making money to then succeed in that goal. usually, if a writer’s heart isn’t in the genre, you can tell from the lack of passion & imagination in the worldbuilding & the books don’t get much fan attention. carol does not seem to have this problem, since romantasy readers love her books. i’ve met several writers who enjoy the emotions & conventions of genre fiction, but don’t really respect it for their own work. so it would make sense that you’re right & she’s moreso embarrassed about loving them instead, & frustrated that she feels like she can’t make them exactly how she wants (hence transfem raban!)

carol pluribus and gideon nav representing two ends of a lesbian spectrum of how okay they are with the girl of their dreams eating them to create a resource for their perpetuation

enamored with the subplot in pluribus about. what if you stumbled your way into writing a wildly successful speculative historical romance adventure series (romantasy) (you hate romantasy) (it’s even straight to your chagrin) & then Every Person On Earth loved it & loved you & wanted you to keep writing it even when your world ended. & even with all that love you still find a way to be the loneliest person on earth. & you still don’t even like romantasy

finished episode 8… also fascinated that it took the End of the World for her to make the love interest canonically a trans woman

A common theme in science fiction is that if you're in space, don't trust a corporation. And Earth is in space

Harrow The Ninth is primarily an exploration of the question “What if you were coworkers Forever”

happy pride I'm glad I'm gay I'm glad you're gay I'm glad we're both gay and alive

I have GOT to stop spending $30

Everyone say thank you american indigenous people for cultivating corn, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, cacao, pumpkin, squash, and anything i missed. Makes life more meaningful globally

Yes actually I will not shut up about how these foods are from the Americas/cultivated by the people there, and did NOT exist in Asia, Africa or Europe before the 1490s, there was an absolute food revolution going on in the 1500s. Whatever you think is traditional food for your country? Check again, you’ve maybe only been using that ingredient for maybe 500 years. Here is the full list of crops, it is very interesting :))

also your queerness and your expressions of it are literally sacred. by the way