Gen X: [raises hand] Can... can we also maybe not get worked to death?

We remain latchkey kids.

Gen X: quit telling everyone we're dead

absolutely everyone: sometimes we can still hear their voices

WITCHCRAFT!!!!!!!!

The same person!!!

They did a tutorial watch it here :)

All of Us Strangers (2023) dir. Andrew Haigh

retired 🩶

The person I reblogged this from is awesome as fuck.

Hey you know what's super funny about the idea of "good bi rep"?

For a character to be canonically bi you have to make sure and establish that they're attracted to multiple genders. Not all mediums allow you to get inside every character's head or show what they're thinking. Flirting can be read ambiguously, and god forbid they flirt with a character who's not into them and be read as pushy or predatory. So it can be super handy to just mention an ex or two! But you better not mention too many exes because that would make them a slutty bisexual which is (checks notes) bad, and you definitely better be careful about making them poly, because that might make them, uh... greedy. Oh, and those exes? They better be perfectly amiable breakups with no conflict or drama, because it's bad to represent queer people in toxic or abusive relationships (especially queer women! very bad), and you definitely can't have them have lost a partner if the partner was queer because that's "bury your gays..." You should probably also eliminate all trauma from their backstory, just to be safe. You should probably also make sure they're not involved in crime, deception, or anything of the sort, because that would make them "deviant" and a stereotype.

But don't worry! Once you've carefully crafted your nice, monogamous, experienced-but-not-too-experienced Lawful Good bi character, you will be rewarded with your audience deeming them "boring" and quickly passing them over for other characters. :)

#"establish bisexuality in 1 sentance by having the character say they banged your mom and dad

bisexual representation solved by @go4ino everyone go home.

have them say they're bi

Setting aside that this post is about the stifling effects a narrow concept of Good Representation has on the creation of interesting and compelling characters--yes. That's sometimes a good option. Having a character say "I'm bi!" can be great. As a bisexual myself (if it wasn't obvious from my passionate investment in this topic, lmao) it is nice to see writers embrace the word and not shy away from using it where appropriate.

Can we also acknowledge, though, that sometimes there's no good place in a story to have the character just outright state their sexuality without it seeming awkward? Or that the word "bisexual" fits just fine into contemporary stories but can feel out of place or anachronistic in fantasy or historical fiction, given that the term didn't come into common usage as it's currently used until the 1970s, that prior to the 20th century it had a different meaning altogether?

As an audience member I absolutely understand why people say, "Just say bi!" but as a writer I also feel like sometimes that's oversimplifying the question. Sometimes it does in fact work better to show and not tell. Sometimes just telling feels out of character or awkward. How to effectively establish a queer character's queer identity beyond doubt for the audience in a way that feels true to the character and the setting is not, in fact, always as simple as "Just say it," and I think sometimes that minimizes the genuine challenges we face as queer creators, some of which I tried to express humorously in the original post.

Two things came to my mind: first is a YouTube video I found that talks about Schrodinger's Sexuality, or basically player-centric sexuality, specifically using Stardew Valley as an example. The most you get from the romanceable characters is a line like "I didn't know I could feel this way about another [gender of speaker]." Leah, however, is an exaggerated case of this in that she has an ex-partner whose gender always matches the player's.

The other is a manga I had recommended to me, Sex Ed 120% (which is an inreresting manga, not sexy but about sex education and how it could be so much better), where, near the end, the main teacher character says, "yeah, I'm bi, but I've only ever dated women." She outright says she's still attracted to men, she just never actually dated any for various reasons.

see i am gonna make a whole gifset of tommy but for now have this one because he cute

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The AI tech bubble finally bursting is going to be both catastrophic and very funny.

Like it’s going to be wild, it’s already starting to hit NVIDIA stock. The chain reaction will hit tech giants and everyone depending on them.

Line goes down.

It really is the perfect example of a bubble.

The nature of ai was ESPECIALLY seductive to investors because it promised to be the capitalist holy grail:

The ai bubble wasn’t just a representation of its own overpromised potential, it also inflated every major tech corporation as they all expectantly awaited their first financial quarter with a 95% reduction in labor costs. Some of them prepared to lay off significant chunks of their workforce, expecting a fully automated replacement any day. But customer service chatbots are giving away free flights, some lethally unreliable books on mushroom foraging got published on amazon, and the wonka spectacular guy practically got a public stoning. It’s apparent (and more so every day) that the ai hatchling was pushed out of the nest without any feathers.

clark, discussing what to do about kon with bruce: you know what this means right?

bruce, nodding: yeah, you owe luthor a buttload of child support

clark: what - i - no??

bruce: i mean, it sucks that he baby trapped you but you don’t want to be a deadbeat

clark: he did not - i am not his father, luthor stole my DNA and put that [pointing at kon] into a tube

bruce: i want you to take one good look on how damian came to be

clark: … oh my rao… i am dead beat aren’t i?

environmental storytelling

i hope this email finds you panting and moaning and begging for it

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