#but it led to this unspoken but visible class divide bc it would cause people’s skin to darken and turn purplish
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Me, 22 years later, realising I was NOT nearly as slick as I thought I was and one of my classmates was “I know what you are :)”-ing me
#we had to do book reports#I chose The Child Garden which was the second gay book id ever read#and the first wlw one#anyway I dont remember who it was#but they were like ‘wow you really understand the book…it’s almost like you were the writer 😏😏😏’#me whod only figured my shit out months before and was quite certain I was hiding it perfectly enough to get away with this: wow thanks!!#I haven’t reread it in some years but it’s a cool af scifi#also?? in retrospect the MC has major autism vibes#but yeah one of the things that stuck with me is they’d ‘solved’ world hunger by bioengineering people to have rhodopsin in their skin#so they could essentially photosynthesize (great!)#but it led to this unspoken but visible class divide bc it would cause people’s skin to darken and turn purplish#so people who could afford traditional food were paler and. not purple.#it also had space lazer rose gardens set to symphonic music
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