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omg did not expect to see “we have mainstream research evidence for transmisogyny now” this morning but happy friday?? thanks dr. devon price for pre-digesting it

and of course there’s the angle of, well lmfao yes trans women have been saying this in mainstream print since at least 2007 and doubtlessly in other fora for much longer, but sometimes an argument from authority has more force and how do we emotionally reckon with ongoing lack of agency in conversations about us, but i digressss

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In a world where being a robot is illegal. And people are racist towards robots. The robots are trying to have a heavyhanded civil rights movement. There's robot super crack that gives robots super powers. All robot racism comes from Senator Racism, who is running for president.

Our protagonists, model minority robot, and nice cop, must work together to ensure that Senator Racism is not elected. And guess what? They are lesbians.

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pixiv artists logging in after decades of being inactive to post porn of the dragon quest 3 priestess

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Babe that last essay gave me a raging thinker I'm gonna have to go muse off right now

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Tool below, result above. By Ian Parberry, 1975.

Here is my first attempt. It’s made from four sheets of typing paper glued together. If you look close up, it’s made using just a few letters including M, I, and M overstruck with X or $ to get the darkest shade approaching black.

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Even though I'm a bit guilty of it myself with my own space opera setting (it's supposed to have a retro aesthetic), it's surprising how science fiction has been so permeated by cynicism and what I can best define as "End of History" thinking that the only thing pop sci fi seems able to imagine is "the future will be the same as today (or even worse), but there will be Cool Laser Guns"

(lately even the lasers have been replaced by regular bullets)

What I mean is that much like it's harder to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, it's easier to imagine our current capitalist system extending indefinitely but now In Space rather than imagine societal changes. Like, this it guys? We're gonna have to pay rent and fight pointless wars and be ruled by corporate suits forever? are we actually gonna have fucking CEOs as we explore the galaxy?

This is it? You can't imagine a better world than this?

Even when sci-fi authors talk about realism, it's usually about how to make ships pound each other harder with missiles, not how about society will evolve in the future, what changes might technology bring to society (the whole point of science fiction in my opinion). It's just Today, But With Lasers. We will still have corporations, nation-states, cops, war, the same society we have now. But Now With Lasers.

anyways, for a good start, read Banks and LeGuin, but there are others, lots more, who dare to imagine what actual futures might look like, they just aren't as well known

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Zeiram, 1991

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related to nothing. you can no longer watch sgf's deadly premonition LP in full because a few of the videos were copyright claimed due to containing movie reviews. they are replaced by short messages telling you to watch them instead on blip.tv, which has of course been dead for years. lmao.

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there are 43 days left to fulfill the municipality of gaza's life-saving campaign!!!

water is life. infrastructure must be rebuilt. about 190k usd are left to reach this goal.

donate here! every dollar gets us closer!

if you have a clean and consistent water source that is a privilege. it always has been in this world. here is a chance to give that back to a place in dire need. take it! this goal can and must be filled!

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given that nanami's egg ends on the strong implication that the egg held chuchu, and the whole scene halfway through where anthy says "boy, nanami is acting exactly like my hen, nanami, when she laid an egg," it's reasonable to read it as anthy fucking with nanami, which then has direct thematic implications for how to interpret the episode...

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The Simpsons are at the core of the show that bears their name

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#reading the nanami episodes as anthy magically fucking with her in the background

wait, just quickly skimming through Nanami's Egg suggests this is basically a textual reading

psychologically tormenting nanami has got to be the most fun anthy's had in a million years and if nanami was YOUR narrative foil you would be no better

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psychologically tormenting nanami has got to be the most fun anthy's had in a million years and if nanami was YOUR narrative foil you would be no better

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Thinking about the extremely specific fake anti-marijuana PSA meme for the greatest Thanksgiving film in history, 1987's Slasher Blood Rage

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#the ol' fortean/fortran section

Unexplained Phenomena, Software Programming

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i don't know if this actually is useful for anything, but Umineko is a much better example of how to manage plot device-as-character. lambdadelta and bernkastel actually have, y'know, consistent motivations that drive their plot devicing.

witches from umineko, as a category, seem to have at minimum Star Power and Creature of Fable. Star Power is where I'd tuck away their specific narrative rules as a personal mythology they enforce on the world, and Creature of Fable covering both their role as editors and the method they use to navigate Ninuan (read: the sea of fragments)