Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning,

figured i might as well make one of these lol

June Writing Goals:

ok poll time because i am genuinely curious about something (and this is not a call out for anyone, that's just me being in my head)

i love following people with kinks I don’t have because somtimes I’m like

I ran an Aliens rpg years back. But the players didn't KNOW it was an Aliens game until halfway through the first session.

Characters in a murder mystery should have some fairly good clues they're in a murder mystery.

One theme/trope/plot/character archetype I always come back to in fiction is Person Created For A Purpose. Droids, clones, androids, sentient AI, robots, genetically modified super soldiers, characters like Ender Wiggin or the assorted children of nobility who are born specifically to inherit a responsibility. The Chosen One sometimes falls under this, but not often. Narratives centering enslaved characters almost always fall under this. The key word is “created.” Made with intention. Exploring that relationship between the creator and the creation, between the creation and their Purpose and the people/duty/organization/body that Purpose represents.

Man, sometimes I think it might be helpful to frame the perennial murderbot shipping discourse as just like. Not (only) a moral representation thing but instead the very basic but cardinal fandom sin of. It is out of character.

I’m glad that OP:

This is only tangentially related to my other post but sometimes I will see this either stated or implied "why would anyone ever want to read straight novels?" and it's like well sometimes I just want to read about a woman and straight novels are the easiest way to do that, and sometimes I want to read about a man and a woman together and straight novels are the easiest way to do that, and sometimes straight novels are fantastic or interesting or funny or devastating.

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”