Forgive me.
"W-why did you do all of this? If I'm not the chosen one, then what was the point of training me?"
"To hurt you."
"To hurt me?"
"Yes. I needed to destroy you and make you into someone new. Into the new chosen one."
"Why am I needed at all? Who's the real chosen one?"
"I am. And I've failed."
- Lynn
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.
in 2020, we will finish our WIPs.
we :) will :)
this is a threat.
“I wasn’t very kind to myself for a really long time and I’m trying to learn that now. So do what you need to do, and push yourself, but also forgive yourself if you fuck it up, or if you’re struggling.”
— Chelsea Wolfe, from an interview with Julian Lara c. November 2019
i have an image i made last night while Not Sober that’s technically accurate but it mentions 9/11 so i will show it to you but you’re not allowed to get mad at me if you think it’s insensitive for mentioning 9/11
Jason + Janet + I Love You’s
A place for thoughts no one cares about yet I still feel like sharing oh, and I like cute things.
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