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Been thinking about the animorphs series (been getting back into the audiobooks too), specifically how much would change or not change if Tobias has been trapped in the body of a female red tailed hawk all those years. I think Tobias would have at least become genderfluid, definitely genderqueer in some aspect.
As a fellow animorphs enthusiast, do you have any thoughts? Do you think it would have changed much?
Not really. I don't think Tobias cares much about the sex of his hawk body, and I don't think the other kids would talk about him as a girl if he was in a girl hawk, if that's what you mean -- they morph across sexes all the time and never have much to say about it except for that one time really early on that Marco complained about being a "girl wolf". Being a hawk is a radically different experience than being a human already, and I don't think that female hawkitude is any closer physiologically or socially to female humanity than male hawkitude is. I think the main difference, if Tobias had a female hawk body, would be slightly different teasing from Marco.
More illuminating re: Tobias' gender is his reaction to being in a female human body, which he finds to be an incredibly positive experience in a very pointed way. Also, his discomfort with his own human body, which can have a lot of causes (his shitty home life and the bullying will cause this regardless), but in combination with his reluctance to be a human boy when he has the option even in safe and supported circumstances and his reaction to morphing Taylor, is extremely telling. Tobias has a lot of indicators of being trans (I personally think of him as trans), but I don't think being a female hawk would have changed much.
I think a more interesting conversation re: morphing as gender fluidity is Rachel's tendency, when given the option to pick her own morphs, to target male morphs. She explains this as wanting the biggest animals and working from species where those happen to be male, but it's interesting that the Cheerleader Popular Girl who learns to react to stress with physical violence, a response somewhat acceptable in teenage boys but utterly unacceptable in teen girls in her culture, always indulges this stress reaction by turning into something male first.
ooooo thats a really good point
A different version of animorphs in a more trans-friendly environment at the time of writing could have had many transgender animorphs, especially if they learnt how to do the dna combo Ax does for his human morph. You could create your own, custom body to feel euphoric in for 2 hours a day and then never question that for several years.
There is some Animorphs fanfiction of that.
The online draft link for ttou 2 directs to ttou 1, is the antarctica conspiracy not available besides purchase?
The antarctica conspiracy is the second half of TTOU. The javelin project is the first half. It was written as one story but the printer I use won't print 1400 page books so I have to release it as two books.
Have you tried printing it in A4
New mission to just fuck up everyone's bookshelves by selling them books that absolutely will not fit
The books already barely fit. Clearly blatantly not fitting at all might almost be an improvement, as libraries would be forced to sit it out on a table instead of putting it on a shelf. Then everyone walking by would be all "my god what is that thing" and then, because they are the type of person who goes to the library, take it home with them.
I should print them in scroll form. Just one huge fuckoff scroll.
This is the kind of thing you'd find in an Evil Library
#jurgen leitner ass books
They supporting
nonsense words such as "blorbo" and "skibidi" are outliers and a minuscule minority and thus do not invalidate that statement

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This stupid exchange between friends has become a cultural icon.
This stupid exchange
between friends has become a
cultural icon.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
happy pride to girls who didn’t know that women could be nice to you, inscrutable polycules, straight people in forbidden marriages, body snatchers who kiss their own reflections, poets obsessed with long-dead warriors, predatory cougars, lesbians who are in fact the problem, and girls who are in love with a corpse
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I self publish for a lot of reasons, but one big one is that I love designing the ENTIRE book. I want the whole thing to tie together in fun ways. With my volcanic eruption book right now, the title is "Without a Star" so the scene dividers before and during the disaster are an empty star. But once the characters are safe, the scene divider becomes a solid star.
And that's such a tiny little detail that 99% of readers probably won't notice, but I love it!
And I put little decorations around the page numbers that look like seismograph lines! And the chapter header font has a feel of seismograph lines/an earthquake too! The little details are so fun, even when they aren't part of the actual words in the story.
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kitty car 🐱
soundonsoundonsoundon!!!!!!!
I'm coming to realize how vital it is to keep a running list of shit you did in the past few weeks so that you can participate in small talk. It's literally not anything to do with them being interesting at all it's just having Something to say to give people even the barest thing to hold on to. It's so you don't get into the "what have you been up to" "nothing much what about you" "yeah same" trap. Literally just say something.
What have you been up to? Um well it's getting warmer so I've been having to brush my cat every day.
Like no it's not that interesting of a thing to say. But now they can respond to it. They could say, man yeah it really is heating up, I've been trying to think of things to do inside more often. Or, oh you have a cat? What's their name?
Like. It's Something. All you need is Something. And if you're like me and your brain immediately goes blank upon entering small talk then keeping a list will help you remember things to say.
they should invent a way for me to do tasks without the mind torture
there is a world out there I can’t comprehend
behold, context
Been thinking about the animorphs series (been getting back into the audiobooks too), specifically how much would change or not change if Tobias has been trapped in the body of a female red tailed hawk all those years. I think Tobias would have at least become genderfluid, definitely genderqueer in some aspect.
As a fellow animorphs enthusiast, do you have any thoughts? Do you think it would have changed much?
Not really. I don't think Tobias cares much about the sex of his hawk body, and I don't think the other kids would talk about him as a girl if he was in a girl hawk, if that's what you mean -- they morph across sexes all the time and never have much to say about it except for that one time really early on that Marco complained about being a "girl wolf". Being a hawk is a radically different experience than being a human already, and I don't think that female hawkitude is any closer physiologically or socially to female humanity than male hawkitude is. I think the main difference, if Tobias had a female hawk body, would be slightly different teasing from Marco.
More illuminating re: Tobias' gender is his reaction to being in a female human body, which he finds to be an incredibly positive experience in a very pointed way. Also, his discomfort with his own human body, which can have a lot of causes (his shitty home life and the bullying will cause this regardless), but in combination with his reluctance to be a human boy when he has the option even in safe and supported circumstances and his reaction to morphing Taylor, is extremely telling. Tobias has a lot of indicators of being trans (I personally think of him as trans), but I don't think being a female hawk would have changed much.
I think a more interesting conversation re: morphing as gender fluidity is Rachel's tendency, when given the option to pick her own morphs, to target male morphs. She explains this as wanting the biggest animals and working from species where those happen to be male, but it's interesting that the Cheerleader Popular Girl who learns to react to stress with physical violence, a response somewhat acceptable in teenage boys but utterly unacceptable in teen girls in her culture, always indulges this stress reaction by turning into something male first.
There is a not-insignificant part of me that wants to grab the AO3 source code and set up a website for original web serials one can monitise.
Specifically because I want to post my original work online where someone can easily access it, like my mutual @derinthescarletpescatarian does. Which means I must not post it on AO3 because that goes against their TOS for good fandom-protecting reasons.
But I love the layout of AO3. I love making long detailed author's notes at the end of each chapter of my fics to explain why I made certain decisions I made, because I can't shut up about my own work once you get me started. I love the scene breaks, and the way you can add chapter summaries, and organise things into series, and tag stuff so people can find it if that kind of story is what they're after.
And I can't do that in blog posts. Not the way AO3 does.
But I have no money to keep a server running and making such a site just for my work seems frivolous...
Royal Road is a site for this, but I have no idea whether it's good on screen readers or not.
royal road is decent on screen readers unless you’re using a strange font or formatting. I often listen to royal road stories thru the built in screen reader on browser
Fantastic

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that poll going around of the guy who thought "people only eat tofu as a bit because they're deranged vegans" or whatever really crystalizes something that i have never been able to precisely say - which is "a nonzero fraction of people who start picky-eater discourse just happen to precisely hate those foods which are not from north america and refuse to introspect on this whatsoever"
In contrast some people say "there aren't any picky eaters in Asia 🙄" but this is laughably untrue. I have a cousin in India who refused until his 20s to eat anything in a sauce. as you can imagine in India this was difficult. he basically had to pick things out of curry and wipe them dry
i would rather see the information for an event handwritten in sharpie on a paper towel than see another AI generated flyer
Saving this post to show my boss who I told the AI flier makes us look lazy and ignorant, and offered to hand draw one. She still printed tons of ai fliers and I'm tempted to make a better one just because it annoys me so much.
Fun update: event was canceled because literally nobody rsvp'd to the AI flier.