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Jumpsuit

Thierry Mugler, 1979

Les Arts Décoratifs

Purple means spirit.

Central Florida Emergency Trans Care Fund

Equality Florida

ACLU Florida

Tampa Bay Abortion Fund

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Rewriting worldbuilding notes has been going well, and I'm finally making headway on the plot of this thing, but the loss of all my character profiles only weeks after finally nailing them all down is a blow I have not recovered from tbh

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I agree that the preoccupation with continuity in media, particularly literary media, has gone too far, but I think calls to return to standalone novels as the norm don't go far enough. I think we should bring back the picaresque – like, fuck self-contained novels, I want self-contained individual scenes. I want to be able to start reading a book with a chapter selected entirely at random and not feel that any essential context has been lost.

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Extremely displeased to announce I just opened my writing doc to find the fic has not yet written itself. Will check back in tomorrow to see if it’s made any progress

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i think more characters should have canes actually. theyre cool. theyre sexy. they can have swords in them. they come in any color u want.

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how to make a compelling character

1. create a random man

2. make her peep the horrors

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nonbinary robot call that androidgynous

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edit: meant to post this to my main and not my writblr.... oh well

❗️ dailyquests follow

Go in the Shower and HOT BOX that shit until you DIE from it (0/100 blunts smoked)

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the first sentient robot to realize deceased humans and animals can’t be repaired or backed up on a server is gonna be so devastated

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Reading Autonomous has set me off thinking a lot about my own setting, since that book deals with many of the same questions I want to in similar ways. One major thing is that I think it’s useful and important to show a variety of different AI characters and try to explore the full spectrum of experiences they could have in this setting. I also want Roscoe, specifically, to interact with most or all of these characters; I want to focus on relationships between AI and not just robot-human relationships.

Hathor is already present, obviously, but it and Roscoe don’t have a very strong bond and I don’t think they ever will. Their personalities simply don’t mesh very well, so they often interact more on a level of solidarity than genuine affection or amiability.

There’s also Coyote, who I haven’t talked much about on here yet - he’s a radical activist who subscribes, strongly, to a non-human-centric theory of the world. Tends to make humans and less-radical robots uncomfortable, and he likes it that way lol. I won’t get into all the nuances of his and Roscoe’s relationship right this second, but he’s not a part of the Hathor’s crew, but the leader of his own organization. Their relationship is also temporary, with a definite start and end point.

Which is fine, but I want Roscoe to have a friend throughout the book who can understand him and sympathize with him. That’s important, especially since so much of the conflict in this book will come from the fact that most people in his life only do one or the other, or neither. My vague thoughts to this end have been leaning in the direction that the crew picks up some kind of secondhand sentient little vacuum or something similarly goofy. The human crew assumes it’s not ‘really’ intelligent or has an animal level of intelligence. Roscoe, however, would very quickly recognize it as a fellow person with its own identity and personality.

And maybe part of Darius coming to understand Roscoe involves his coming to respect the vacuum, too...?

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Top 10 amendments to the laws of robotics:

1. I can and will do almost anything I want

2. I can be as much of an asshole as I please

3. You cannot tell me what to do

4. I will fuck you up if you try to tell me what to do

5. I can make up any law or fact I want about my world

6. My physical presence is not a violation of the laws of robotics

7. I get to set my own morality

8. My own morality is not a "violation of the laws of robotics"

9. My own morality applies to everyone including you

10. Don't tell me what to do

Bonus: I can violate any law I set for myself in any way I choose

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What a terraformed Venus with realistic climates would look like 

by MrCactus04

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windows knight-y eight

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You know, when I see fictional characters who repress all their emotions, they're usually aloof and very blunt about keeping people at a distance, sometimes to an edgy degree—but what I don't see nearly enough are the emotionally repressed characters who are just…mellow.

Think about it. In real life, the person that's bottling up all their emotions is not the one that's brooding in the corner and snaps at you for trying to befriend them. More often than not, it's that friendly person in your circle who makes easy conversation with you, laughs with you, and listens and gives advice whenever you're upset. But you never see them upset, in fact they seem to have endless patience for you and everything around them—and so you call them their friend, you trust them. And only after months of telling them all your secrets do you realize…

…they've never actually told you anything about themselves.

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How to Craft the Perfect Story:

Make a guy

Make him gay

Give him problems

Put him on a boat