Labcoats and Lairs

A three-circle venn-diagram where the circles are "sex workers", "the furry community", and "people working in morgues". I don't know what the overlap parts are.

Fourth circle needed: IT workers

You say that with such confidence that I am compelled to trust your vision. Personally I have no idea where this is going.

i'd say the overlap between "sex workers" and "people who work in morgues" is probably "seeing naked strangers a lot"

"professional handling of bodies of strangers"?

if the emperors of rome can add extra months that actually fuck the calendar up i'm allowed to add a new month that lasts 0.0000 picoseconds

the last holiday that hasn't been commercialized

i made this up when i was a little kid and nothing would make me happier than to see people celebrating it for years to come

zenquish approaches. prepare to rejoice! briefly!

So briefly in fact that the preparation and the afterparty for the celebration makes up exactly 100% of the celebration, kinda like new years except even shorter

see, you get it

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watching ppl react 2 transfem ralsei moments because I love being right and like half the ppl r so fucking maddd "oh ok I guess we're just making every character randomly transgender now 🙄🙄" it's killing me badly I was on board w this since chapter 2 like the hints were there

just proves 2 me that she's never been more real with even transmisogynistic assholes having 2 admit it. I win I won haha

Same thing happened with Jax. Ive been calling it since the beggining and when it finally happened everyone acts like its out of left field. In truth, its their own fault for being biased against tgirl interpretations. Mind you this is the same fandom that took years to accept Kris uses they/them.

Characters in a lot of queer media often have the ability to identify pronouns on sight. Which is sweet, and convenient, but it also feels like a little bit like a lie to me. Misgendering feels like a fundamental part of how I experience queerness, not because everyone is cruel or anything, but because I don't live in a world of psychics.

This is one of the reasons (among several) that I just could NOT get into The Light from Uncommon Stars, despite all the applause it seemed to garner. The main character is a young transgender woman who runs away from home to become a violinist and much of her story is very sweet. But every time she met another character you could tell if they were going to be a "good guy" or a "bad guy" because all the characters you're supposed to like get her pronouns right on sight without any prompting, and all the characters you're not supposed to like misgender her as soon as they see her. It drove me up the wall. I get wanting wish fulfilment where your friends never mess up and hurt you by misgendering you, but it really made all the depictions of genuine allyship or bigotry in the book feel flat and contrived.

For years, sci-fi has asked, what if aliens were wetter than us. Project Hail Mary posits a new, daring question. What if we are the wet aliens

@apocrypals

If you're going to ask me to take your media analysis seriously I'm going to need you to - well get a bit of perspective and stop describing mediocre YA genre fiction like it's Camp of the Saints for one. But also, much more significantly, not draw a line between 'wrote a bunch of stories that are maybe slightly more thoughtlessly racist/sexist/whatever then the cultural background of the time twenty years ago' and 'literally a serial rapist' as if they're basically equivalent moral failings.

One popular take on "deconstructions" of children's media I'll push back on is the idea that talking about how fucked up it is that a bunch of kids have to save the world is inherently pandering to adult audiences. Kids love it when kids' media is about how fucked up it is to be a kid who has to save the world – you've just gotta not be condescending about it.