Dialogue Prompt

One of the stranger phenomenon I’ve observed is how transphobic some people who declare themselves “cyberpunk” can be. 

You’d think for a genre that’s got such concepts as body swapping, cortical stacks, human minds being put into everything from space-whales to nanite swarms, malevolent intelligence emerging from machines and declaring themselves a man or woman or neither, and countless other things, they’d be a little more open to me calling myself Serena despite some fuzz if I don’t shave for a day or two.  

Seriously, Cyberpunk has a really fucking big theme about bodies =/= people, something that so deeply permeates the genre. Every time you see some wacky cyborg who can change bodies, from Ghost in the Shell to Eclipse Phase to Altered Carbon, it’s just confirmation that Body does Not Mean Person, and that the two are entirely separate concepts. 

Of course, maybe it’s just because they like Katanas, leather jackets, and cybernetics, and don’t actually care about the basis of the genre they claim to love. That’s always a possibility. 

The sudden realization that this blog was intended to be less depressio than my old one o.O

Welp, hopefully this one stays stuck in internet limbo forever and no one ever finds it

Everyone wants the pleasure

No one wants the pain

But you just can't have a rainbow

Without a little bit of rain

Everyone I crush on is a lesbian

Watch: It’s your right to share your salary, not doing so could be holding you back.

I am morally opposed to there being glass between me and these puppies (Underlook.org)

Remember when someone on tumblr would post a rhetorical question like “I wonder why all us neurodivergent people love the rain so much” and someone would make up some garbage like “well you see rain carries negative particles (which is why you get depressed if you drink rainwater) and since neurodivergent people are depressed the negative particles feel natural to them uwu” and everyone would be like “thanks science side of tumblr”

"I had a bad childhood"

says too much

sounds sad

people will assume things

"I come with lore"

makes you sound like a character

is cooler

people will be so distracted by the wording that they won't see how badly you've been doing

literally how hard would it have been for jkr to say something like “listen I was writing it in the 90s, I was inexperienced, I was writing from my own point of view, I didn’t realise how underrepresented a lot of people are, I wasn’t thinking about anything other than the plot, I accept that it’s a little sparse on the diversity front, I can try to be more self aware with my future works” etc etc instead of.. this nonsense

STOLEN!