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I want to be an evil wizard. but I keep choosing kindness

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We need to clear something up: nonbinary or agender aliens and robots aren’t problematic. Neither are ace or aro ones. These are normal traits that you’d expect of robots and would not be surprising in aliens.

I’m bringing this up because I’ve seen some really weird criticisms lately that take the stance that if you make a robot that has no gender or sexuality, that’s somehow… bad? That a single sex alien race, or a trisexed alien race, or a hermaphroditic alien race, is somehow inherently insulting to trans people? And this take is fucking baffling to me! These are exactly the traits you would expect in robots and aliens! (This applies to robots that seem to act autistic, too; many common autism traits also happen to be traits that you might expect in artificial intelligences.)

I can see the logic. At some point, we noticed all the stories with human cis men and human cis women who were almost entirely heterosexual, and some robot who doesn’t have a gender and explains this to someone at some point, and some people went “woo, agender representation!” and then everyone had to be like “that’s not agender representation, it’s a robot.” Which is correct; the robot happens to be agender, but if none of the humans are then having all the robots be agender isn’t agender representation. So some people started thinking that the robot was the problem. The robot isn’t the problem. The robot is fine. The problem is the humans. The robot’s existence isn’t some insult to the agender community, or the nonbinary community, or the ace or aro or autistic communities, depending on what traits it was given. It’s not representation, but it’s not an insult.

“Oh, but making all the robots asexual is saying that being asexual makes someone a robot!” No. It doesn’t. Making none of the humans asexual and making them all confused by it and having them treat it like some big division is what says that. “Making aliens that don’t have genders gives the impression that genderless people – ” NO. IT DOESN’T. Making all the humans cis people who treat the absence of gender as a weird alien thing is what does that.

The aliens and the robots are fine. They’re not the problem. The lack of diversity among human characters is the problem.

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sorry for acting weird. that was me following my heart

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Crazy thing about #healing #recovery Small Victories is when you'll have some shit going on that's like, saying this would involve admitting how you used to be doing. You know? Like hey guys good news I'm gonna change my bedsheets this year

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hello my fellow Horror And Houses fans.... i have come to recommend the book "horror in architecture" and its sequel "horror in architecture; the reanimated edition" by joshua comaroff and ong ker-shing to you all. ive been reading horror in architecture for the past couple days and it is excellent

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I’m gonna go throw pebbles in a small body of water about it

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it is funny when people act as though no transitional program for family abolition exists when cuba’s family code is right there

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Do you ever interact with someone and you realize “this person has never had to consider or think about what their place in the world is, and why they believe certain things or act certain ways, this person has never considered society at length” and it’s just terrifying

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"Did you know people are masturbating to your smut fics-- 🤢" I hope they get twice as wet as I did writing it, mind your fucking business.

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Solution to the “MB has more non-organic parts in the books than the show”:

Its body goes through the normal wear and tear of its disaster life, but it doesn’t have as much access to medical/repair systems. (Somewhat canon)

Its biological parts break down most and are harder to repair, so as the show gets more budget and can accomplish more SFX, more of its mechanical parts are visible.

This could also be used as a visual indicator of its changes over time — the mechanical parts make it more visibly non-human at the same time that its surgeries make it more visibly human, so it progresses along both axes as it changes and evolves over the seasons.

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qprs are so cool. like you can just do that

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First off. Murderbot's pronouns are it/its. This is the correct pronoun usage when refering to Murderbot.

However. You cannot convince me that if directly asked what its prefered pronuns are, Murderbot wouldn't just squint in confusion at the nearest wall until you tried to explain yourself: "Like, what should we use to refer to you?" then blink once before saying "Don't refer to me" and then walk away

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Girls only want one thing and it’s to flip a series of overhead switches and to punch a few glowing buttons to start up the spaceship

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Of course it goes without saying that I am intrigued and amazed every time you subtitle a poem as something that is not a type of written literature. "A Jewel," "A Tango," "A Fabric" that means nothing to me but it fucks severely

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welcome to my farm where I keep my dark horse my black sheep my scapegoat and my underdog. my canary in the coal mine died ages ago

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Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?