Brutal Commentary From A Video About A Guy Who Was Sent To Jail Because Some Pig Thought Krispy Kreme

Forgive me.

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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. 

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'm getting a therapist but like, I don't even know what goes on in my own thoughts half the time o.o

Prompt

A conspiracy theorist is convinced that an FBI agent is listening to her through her phone. Instead of being overly cautious, she spends her time talking to the agent.

Little does she know, there actually IS an FBI agent listening, and he has a huge crush on her...

- submission by daughteroflight1999 on instagram

"Uwahhhh! A talking weird thing!"

Prompt

You discover that you're an almost exact replica of another person and have only existed for the last six months. One year ago, the original person died, and the family decided to use DNA and AI technology to create you: a physically identical body to the deceased with their memories downloaded into your head. You were never meant to find out that you're not a true human and your only real memories are of the past half a year. The government long ago banned this type of tech. If anyone finds out you exist, you'll be exterminated. Concealing the truth becomes a lot harder when you discover that your significant other is secretly part of a government agency that deals with regulating (i.e. getting rid of) outlawed, advanced tech.

- Lynn

Everyone wants the pleasure

No one wants the pain

But you just can't have a rainbow

Without a little bit of rain