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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 9 months ago

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Holy GOODNESS, this is IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This story embedded itself in my brain, I am BEYOND excited to read it again!!! Oh my stars. 99 cents is an absolute bargain to be able to add this to my personal digital library, holy crackers.

If you haven't read O Human Star (which is free to read online!), then I am..................so envious you get to read it for the very first time. (Confidentially, it's equally amazing to read for a second, third, and-so-on time around.) O Human Star is...one of those works you encounter once-in-a-lifetime, if you are very lucky. It is exquisite, and will pick you apart like a jigsaw puzzle, and reassemble you into something new. It is just very very extraordinarily superb. It will probably make you cry (mostly in gratitude). It will change you, and you will be glad.

(((And there are robots! and sexuality! and gender! and reflections on the self and the meaning of identity! and also more robots!!!)))

Um yeah so: you should read it!

got a worm nibbling my brain. can someone help me find a piece of obscure media?

webcomic/indie comic from the 2010s. basically a sci-fi short story about a young girl (with red hair?) who was being raised by scientists as part of an experiment. she receives a haircut/has her head shaved, in preparation for her annual brain scan/testing. it is revealed that while her body is human, her "brain" is artificial, made of computer implants throughout her skull and spine. at some point her biological mother (also a scientist on the same campus?) encounters her and is repulsed, viewing her as a machine who has murdered her daughter.

it was very poignant and it bruised my heart and i can NOT find it anywhere

#spoilers under the Keep Reading (consider reading the comic first)#if you like queer indie comics that will re-wire your soul...#let me just say i encountered O Human Star about the same time as Nimona #(yes Nimona was an indie webcomic! a very queer very indie literally-published-on-tumblr webcomic!#yes it was a WILD journey to watch it get made into a oscar nominated? mainstream film??? yes it was a fever dream that actually happened?)#anyway O Human Star and Nimona were...you know how a handful of talented athletes/gymnasts/ice skaters etc sometimes appear #like ever 30-50 years or so...the talent of a generation appears and completely REINVENTS what we think of as possible?#and then everyone else has to up their game and get on an Entirely New Level? because the rules have changed irrevocably?#yeah. Nimona and O Human Star were THAT. they were the Sudden Brand New Pinnacle of what was POSSIBLE for indie graphic storytelling #i remember biting my fingernails waiting for updates. hoarding newly released pages like dragon's gold.#re-reading the whole story every few months. understanding the THEMES and the MOTIFS and the SYMBOLS holy SHIT #the dawning realization that this was LITERATURE! this was a LITERARY EVENT!#whether the critics knew or not we were watching LITERARY HISTORY HAPPEN #because This Story would never happen again. there would be the stories that came Before and the stories that came After.#but never another story exactly like This Story. this here. this now.#it was...it was an experience. i need to go lie down #....honestly didn't think anything had the power to make me nostalgic for the 2010s of all things. gonna go fume in a corner about it

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