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bee-a-ts · 2 years ago

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told my boss I had insomnia last night and didn’t sleep which is true, but what I didn’t tell him is it’s because I remembered a /conversation/ I had with some Discord peeps a few days ago about Video Game that was basically me saying "I’m tired let’s agree to disagree” and them saying “you’re wrong and here’s why” and I got so mad again I spent hours mentally composing a 35 minute academic essay via voice memo to my best friend about it

#chastising me for calling my wol a black woman bc the area I say she's from is middle eastern coded when this game's only curly hair option #is a mockery of an afro #trying to map irl geopolitical socioethnographics onto a fantasy world where everyone in fantasy india is light skinned or an elephant #then a few minutes later repeatedly arguing with me about why a story needs main character deaths to maintain believability #as if everyone comes to fantasy stories for the same thing and as if Ursula Le Guin never argued for a happy ending as the braver choice #I cannot possibly condense my voice memo down in tags but know it was thorough and impassioned and I got #checks notes #less than one hour of sleep because of it #personal

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