Res Publica

It really might happen this year. I have a feeling.

Look I hope everybody has lesbian sex and gets their license and moves out and whatever but this post is about one thing only and you guys are diluting its power. No offense I hope that all happens but this post needs to be aimed at one point and it can't move.

what's that one thing where they asked how ripely from alien was so realistic and believable as a female character in scifi for once and they were like "well we just took the dude from the original script and made him a girl and changed nothing else. it works bc men and women are the same?" and people were like "woah no way" and then didn't learn anything from that for 20 years

"how do you write such believable men as a woman?" "how do you write such believable women a man?" and the answer people who are good at it always give is "i just write people. were literally the exactly the same. do you think the opposite sex is some sorta totally different animal???" and people respond "woah that's wild. yea i do. and im not gonna stop thinking that goodbye :)"

The other fun thing about shipping Marcille/Falin is that you might think it's going to be toxic because of Marcille's criminal background or Falin's repressed death wish, but then you read the supplementary material and it turns out the actual vector for potential toxicity is that Marcille has weird hangups about tallman culture's gender expressions that come out in ways that make Falin uncomfortable, and neither of them will ever have the vocabulary to unpack all that because they live in vaguely German Renaissance fantasy land.

not putting my whole pussy into it today lads. you're getting my left labia at best