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.
Everyone I crush on is a lesbian
i think the best thing about gen z is their dedication to self care and by this i mean when john mulaney performed at a college and he took a sip of water the crowd would start applauding and someone yelled at him “hydrate before you die-drate” therefor confusing an already confused man even more
Me when the temperature drops a tiny bit
The hero/protagonist comes home after a tiring day to find the villain/antagonist conked out in their rolling-chair, their cat snuggled on their lap. It appears they’ve fallen asleep waiting for them to come home to deliver their “I’ve been expecting you” speech.
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Forgive me.
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
A place for thoughts no one cares about yet I still feel like sharing oh, and I like cute things.
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