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Not to be a bitch but sometimes people engage with fiction in the most boring way possible, and nowhere is this clearer than in videogames. Like what you mean you hate a character just because they were kind of abrasive when speaking to the player character? "They were mean to me" and it didn't occur to you to wonder why? Like, what might their attitude toward you reveal about the world? About the social dynamics within it? About their own perspectives and backgrounds and personalities? Does it even occur you to ask? Would you only have liked them if they bowed to your presence and talked about how great you are? Like I'm sorry but you're so boring. How boring fiction would be if it cathered to you

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ppl who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoying pass it on

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hearing that your characterizations are good is like. the best thing to hear as a fic writer.

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the desire to save money works hard but my autism works harder

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Absolutely buckwild thread of ChatGPT feeding & amplifying delusions, causing the user to break with reality. People are leaning on ChatGPT for therapy, for companionship, for advice... and it's fucking them up.

Seems to be spreading too.

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i know all about allistic people. they really love loud sudden noises and bad textures

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I think people tend to assume that any criticism of worldbuilding is ultimately a demand for a story to grind itself to a halt and give the reader 20 paragraphs of exposition, and like. Most of the time good-faith criticism of this nature is coming from a core aspect of the story not being grounded in the setting in a way that outright detracts from the story's quality. You fix it not by Explaining but by Showing it passively in the makeup of the world.

Like the last instance I saw this critique in was like 'you can't expect an author to stop and exposit the nuances of gender roles/Queerness in a fictional society' and it's like yeah I don't, and in fact this is actually one of the easiest things to show in the text without exposition. If a society has gender norms to begin with you'll see aspects of these norms baked into EVERYTHING. You'll see it in its stories, its religion, its taboos, its etiquette, its clothing, its family structures, its language, its insults, its labor, its leadership, etc. It will have massive impacts on how characters interact with one another and how they perceive themselves. It will help Shape your characters.

If you do this legwork to begin with for the core facets of your story, you will find very natural places for these concepts to be demonstrated without derailing the plot and with little to no exposition. THAT sort of thing is what's being asked of you.

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personally I don't think if you're a kid you should be using your real name on the internet. very easy for people to find out too much about you. instead you should spend years using a different made-up name that becomes part of your persona to an arguably even greater degree than your actual name and then when you grow up and find out you're trans you have a ready-made name to switch to even if it's probably like Leaf or something

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obligatory post today

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you can be both employed & way too online. it’s called “posting on the clock,” and actually, it’s praxis.

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The USA has just bombed Iran

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a new self indulgent comic, another fork found in the kitchen

i ramble about their dynamic and this comic under the cut

this interaction is out of the ordinary!!! i don't think either of them are needy; but we all have our moments lol. i'm not a fan of shadow being a huge tsundere because I don't think he is. I think he's just scared of caring and it's difficult for him to vocalize his feelings but when he does it comes out super blunt, but he's always direct. also he's autistic so. yeah. communication between the two of them would've gotten better as they got older - I could nawttt see them getting together while in their teens so anytime I draw them they are at least 20/21. as much as sonic likes to tease shadow i think he'd genuinely recognize and appreciate how hard shadow tries to communicate with him and how hard it is for him to do that. gentle teasing would ensue but I don't think sonic would do anything to discourage shadow from opening up early on in their relationship. I need to organize my thoughts on these better but I have a bunch of longer comic ideas sketched out that explore their dynamic and them as individuals that I'm excited about.

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my sonic sona!! they're an island flying fox

he's a bartender and he doesn't hate you, their face just looks like that #autismswag

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love is stored in the fictional couple i’ve gotten overly invested in

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✨🏳️‍⚧️ A short pride comic, hope you’re all well 🏳️‍⚧️✨

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snow study

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a new self indulgent comic, another fork found in the kitchen

i ramble about their dynamic and this comic under the cut

this interaction is out of the ordinary!!! i don't think either of them are needy; but we all have our moments lol. i'm not a fan of shadow being a huge tsundere because I don't think he is. I think he's just scared of caring and it's difficult for him to vocalize his feelings but when he does it comes out super blunt, but he's always direct. also he's autistic so. yeah. communication between the two of them would've gotten better as they got older - I could nawttt see them getting together while in their teens so anytime I draw them they are at least 20/21. as much as sonic likes to tease shadow i think he'd genuinely recognize and appreciate how hard shadow tries to communicate with him and how hard it is for him to do that. gentle teasing would ensue but I don't think sonic would do anything to discourage shadow from opening up early on in their relationship. I need to organize my thoughts on these better but I have a bunch of longer comic ideas sketched out that explore their dynamic and them as individuals that I'm excited about.