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very, very late question to an old work and I will perfectly understand if you don't want to reply to this and prefer not to bring the discussion toward your old works.
out of curiosity, how much did the hunger games, divergent, maze runner or other dystopian YA works of the time influence TGATNW?
the curiosity stemmed from the fact that while my initial perspective on your works were that they were a complete divergence from mainstream media due to its rawer, kinkier nature, a thought popped up that your works might have (purposefully?) satisfied the trends of the times they were created. the golden age (and fae tales soon after) was an appropriate dystopian rebellion story in the midst of the YA fever in 2014-2015 containing similar tropes.
On the other hand, falling falling stars and other efnisien centric works which address mental health and recovery more heavily than other works were published in the present day while shows on mental health discourse (for instance sex education and euphoria) are increasingly more popular. there are definitely exceptions, but those mentioned are some of your most prominent works.now that I think about it, my question might actually be: if at all, how do current trends influence your narratives? I think I remember a mention of these works' influences being old tales, so it would be interesting to hear how contemporary works have inspired you as well if it all.
thanks Pia! even if you don't reply, thanks for all the time and effort you've put into these works. they mean a lot and so much more to a many people.
This one is easy to answer:
my question might actually be: if at all, how do current trends influence your narratives?
So the TL;DR upfront -> I don't read, and often don't know about current trends. I have zero interest in writing to market. I hadn't read any of those books you mentioned when I wrote The Golden Age that Never Was with the exception of The Hunger Games, which came out over half a decade beforehand (except for the last installment in the trilogy, which was my least favourite lol).
In more detail:
I was inspired to write The Golden Age that Never Was - I can't believe I'm saying this - based on a dream I had in August, 2015.
I read Divergent for the first time in 2016 (er, so after I'd started TGATNW). I read book 1, gave it 2 stars, and don't remember anything about it. I haven't read Maze Runner and I know nothing about it.
Going back through my Goodreads account in 2013 and 2014, I read what looks like almost no books actually published in those years. I read books on cod (literally, the nonfiction book Cod, it's really very good), I read Manna Francis (defo not YA), I read nonfiction books on trauma, I read a bunch of Tricia Owens (M/M not YA), I read Eleanor & Park (YA but contemporary), I read a bunch of M/M, Hagio Moto's Zankoku na Kami ga Shihaisuru manga took over my life for a few months, and then I read a bunch more BL manga (none of it recently published that year) for consecutive months and checked out of anything written in the western world for almost half a year.
I got back into M/M at the end of / beginning of 2015 and it looks like that was all I was reading through all of 2015 with very few exceptions (one more Rainbow Rowell book, Station Eleven by Mandel, and nonfiction). I read no dystopian YA in the 2 year lead up to writing The Golden Age that Never Was. Not a single title. Out of like 200 titles. I didn't even read historical dystopian YA. I think we can safely say that was in no way a direct influence and I can bet you around $500 I had no idea it was a trend lmao.
I do not know exactly how to convey how little I give a shit about reading or responding to publishing trends. I don't care and have never cared. No, wait, I think I attempted to care for about 2 months after seeing a Facebook post about it and then was like 'wait, this is extremely demotivating' and stopped. There are some - few - absolute favourite authors who if they release a book, I will read it that year. (Like the latest Murderbot by Martha Wells). Otherwise I prefer generally not knowing what the trends are, and I don't read author blogs etc. that keep me updated on this. New genres rise and fall and by the time I hear of them, they've either already vanished, or new names have been invented for them.
I feel the same way about music and a lot of television as well. I started watching True Detective for the first time this year. A lot of the music I've listened to and discovered didn't release that music this year. And while I have watched and listened to things that did release this year, it was less because it was 'trendy' and more because they are musicians I've always listened to (Manchester Orchestra) or TV shows I would have wanted to watch anyway.
Also The Golden Age that Never Was isn't dystopian YA. But I wasn't reading much by the way of any dystopian romantic science fiction anyway (and certainly nothing released in those years), and no space operas or anything like that. If TGATNW synced up with any trends at all, it was a happy coincidence. But given I don't think it's YA, if people who only wanted to read dystopian YA found it, they were going to be really disappointed! Lmao.
Around 2013 I also just stopped reading anything heterosexual because I had a choice in the moment and exercised that choice. And I tell you - it's low key hilarious how much you get locked out of almost all the trends (certainly almost 10 years ago) anyway, if you exclusively read same sex.
I also just have general disdain for the idea of purposefully satisfying any kind of fiction trends in fanfiction. Like, no, that's not for me. I think that's a waste of my time, and it's not why I write fanfiction. I write fanfic for fun, and to me, looking at trends and writing to trends is one of the least fun things I can actually think of doing.
(Re: Your Sex Education / Euphoria example, I had to laugh. I haven't seen the latter, and the former I only watched for the first time late last year, when I'd already finished Falling Falling Stars.)
No trend has ever inspired anything I've ever written. And no book / show has ever directly inspired anything I've ever written too. I definitely have inspirations - everyone does - but like, yeah no, one of the reasons I let other people rec works similar to mine is because I can never think of any, because I write because of a perceived vacuum providing what I want to read. If what I want to read is already present and there's a lot of it, I won't write anything, because I don't need to. I am the opposite of an 'adding my book into the pile of a trend' author, like literally, that's a reason to not write for me.
I write what I don't see in the world, and it's pretty much that simple.
#asks and answers#personal#pia on writing#the golden age that never was#like i get that other people write trends very successfully#i hate doing it and i hate even knowing what the trends are#it never lasts and it leads to a bloat in that arena#and honestly anon most of that stuff is still painfully heterosexual#so it's not what i want to read anyway#reading almost exclusively m/m locks me out of almost all the trends#because this world is still heteronormative and writing trends#are still saturated in bigotry#it's gotten better slightly but not a great deal#there are also trends in M/M that i don't particularly care about either#like mafia romance being the rage for the last year or so#in dark m/m romance#like good for them if i feel like writing a mafia romance one day#it'll have nothing to do with what's trendy#will that lose me readers? probably#i can't remember what divergent was about but my review was very scathing and i didn't read any future books fsdalfkajsd
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how I'll sleep today knowing I just wrote a bad review of my sociology teacher to the university higher-ups
#tbf nothing will probably be done#and i kept my biased aside#which is stupid because i should be able to talk about her homophobia and racism#but alas#we have to answer questionnaires at the end of each semester of the teachers#i never once actually wrote a review but this time I hit my limit#i even fucking brought data from last year to back me up on how this teacher is bad#AND GUESS WHAT!? she actually deleted said data from our reach#how did i get it back? someone happened to have sent it to the class' group chat so I dug it up#i don't like her can you tell? i have the exam this week#random#random shit#random rant#maria papoila
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wrote a full chapter today besties :)
#this year i've been reviewing my book for the last time before getting it to beta readers and there are two sections that need rewriting#i've been in a slump these past few months trying to get through the first one#and as of right now i only need to do one chapter more to finish it#i was thinking of doing it today but. no <3#but at least i did another one !!! and i hadn't written in probably over a month
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I posted 45 times in 2022
That's 37 more posts than 2021!
41 posts created (91%)
4 posts reblogged (9%)
Blogs I reblogged the most:
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I tagged 41 of my posts in 2022
Only 9% of my posts had no tags
#witch's heart - 27 posts
#witchs heart - 25 posts
#illym art - 21 posts
#whnoc - 13 posts
#wilardo adler - 8 posts
#ashe bradley - 8 posts
#claire elford - 8 posts
#whtober 2022 - 6 posts
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#genshin impact - 4 posts
Longest Tag: 22 characters
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WHtober day 5 - Ashe route.
I HAD to draw the ShortCake Project for this. I just had to. Anyway this took me a hella long time lmao. Tried to replicate Iz's hair shine, I'll decide if I like it in a few weeks.
Minute timelapse under the cut since the 30 second version moved at the speed of sound.
Claire's hand and arm is genuinely killing me but I'm kind of worn out from this plus I don't know how to do it better lol.
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Happy Birthday (again) Claire !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! girl of all time she's my favorite character in the history of ever
this piece took me a few days and I'm pretty bummed I forgot to timelapse it. Very proud of it :)
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILARDOOOOO i spent like 4 hours on this and thats not including the tuneups i just did. love this dude. i think my issue with linearting lies in the g-pen, so i'll look for a good replacement for it. This is a redraw of one of the game cards :)
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this one i actually like enough to post on its own.
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For day 2, I drew strawberry shortcake! The frosting looks like fondant... But the strawberries look good, and that's all that matters. This totally counts, strawberry shortcake is the driving force behind Ashe's Route.
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i completely forgot about the knife and fork huh LMAO
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I posted 4,183 times in 2022
That's 769 more posts than 2021!
502 posts created (12%)
3,681 posts reblogged (88%)
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I tagged 4,123 of my posts in 2022
Only 1% of my posts had no tags
#stranger things - 663 posts
#joyce byers - 495 posts
#winona ryder - 467 posts
#otp - 459 posts
#jim hopper - 336 posts
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#the wheel of time - 299 posts
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#i knew they’d stop making music but they always seemed to love performing so i figured they’d dust out their hits periodically and perform
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#tumblr2022#year in review#my 2022 tumblr year in review#I knew it was going to be all stranger things because there's so much content#just so many posts to reblog no other show I watch compares#And because I tag everything actor and character#(except text posts or fanart or fic then i just tag character)#But wheel of time and snowpiercer hanging in there despite so much less content#I was so obsessed with wheel of time last year it was probably problematic#I needed some space#but I've had space#too much space#please come back show where are you?#and thank you rosamundpikesource for being a well organized blog so I can type in random years do a scroll on my phone and reblog something#nothing better than a well tagged source blogs#I appreciate it#impossible to find anything on the source blogs that don't tag#and the long tag is about no doubt#the band#I dont know why I said that but there's only one band I'd say that about#your tumblr year in review
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im really considering convincing my parents to get me tested for adhd at this point bc shit feels like its getting worse.. downside is i dont think we can afford it :/
#ive suspected it for years and ive been peer reviewed by my friends that have adhd#but even then i cant get my parents to take me seriously (anti medication and also they probably see it as this horrible disease idk) rip#man!!! i just want my life to be easier my life could be so much easier i think#especially in my last years of high school sigh#brighton.txt
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I posted 1,013 times in 2022
That's 145 more posts than 2021!
150 posts created (15%)
863 posts reblogged (85%)
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I tagged 1,013 of my posts in 2022
#funny - 304 posts
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#cute - 185 posts
#i lol'd - 144 posts
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Longest Tag: 136 characters
#there has to be a balance between “amoral asshole who treats everyone badly” and “gene but with slightly fewer qualms about misbehavior”
My Top Posts in 2022:
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While one could argue that all of the squad being orphans is a convenient excuse so that no one has siblings or parents (or children) interfering with the plot, in universe it's both heartbreaking and heartwarming. This band of monster hunters really are a found family. They truly only have each other. Even Lucy was an orphan when she died. No wonder they're all so close and warm with each other. T_T
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I would kill a man for one of these.
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I feel like this is a useful image for the future.
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“Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?“
*immediately goes to AO3 to find the fanfictions*
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My cousin Julie is the best butch that I know, a community elder, and so sweet that she’d give you cavities if she didn’t also have a salty wit. Kind of like a chocolate-covered pretzel of a person. Please donate if you can and share if you cannot. As usual when I post such situations, I’m open to providing creative returns such as fanart, fanfiction, and so on. Please direct message me here or email me at [email protected] if you’re interested. I like to think that my work is decent and I love to create for other people.
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Finished Stranger Things Season 1! Super flawed series, but I very much enjoyed it.
Vague thoughts on a season that’s been out more than half a decade out:
1. What is an eggo? Is it just a waffle?
2. Barbara?!?!
3. I still don’t like Jonathan Byers, but he somewhat redeemed himself by the end.
4. Must we force romantic relationships between kids in these kinds of series?
5. When does the girl from the Taylor Swift video come in? I want an excuse to listen to ATW again.
6. I think I’m going to like Steve Harrington a lot. I’ve just got those vibes.
7. Still not looking forward to the inevitable Jancy (?)
8. The acting in this! Winona, my gal! 🥰
9. I got very confused by the time run of this thanks to that Christmas music scene.
10. I feel a bit sorry for Mike and Nancy’s dad. Guy’s clueless.
11. I’m just writing this because I wanted to write up to 11.
#stranger things#nought reviews a season well over 6 years old#it was good though and lots of my mutuals seem to be fans#I’ll be on to the pirate show in six years time probably#that’s sort of my niche#reviewing shows incredibly late#I honestly just watched twin peaks last year#22 years late#anyway looking forward to more good guy Steve Harrington#goodnight
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Just finished listening to the Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy...
Honestly don't recommend lol
#the mc was so annoying until the last book and i feel like we really didnt get any reason for her character growth#let alone actually seeing it play out since the last book takes place 2 years after the third#also there was way too much time spent with the other tm love interest imo and then his character changed dramatically in the last book too#and not for the better... it almost felt like the author was trying to find reasons for us to think the mc should be with the other boy#aside from the obvious reasons that had already been beat to death#my favorite character was probably steven#which is sad because he basically dropped out of the series after the first book#i will say this has been a fun series to rant about hehe#jules reviews#the summer i turned pretty
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I tagged 193 of my posts in 2022
#lmao - 12 posts
#yes - 5 posts
#i'm 47 - 2 posts
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#:((( - 1 post
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#nami and usopp having the sensible reactions again i see - 1 post
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#unless my brain short circuits and i decide to write an 8 page one shot that turns into like 89 pages in present tense
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So my couple of days turned into a couple hundred days, but I had to deal with crippling falls, diabetes, Christmas and an eviction. Life is rude. In fact, this got pulled off my old hard drive while I sit here surrounded by boxes and bubble wrap, so it’s a last minute rescue for you \o/
...anyway, for everyone else, enjoy this blast from the past and kindly imagine the video creator cringing at all the editing mistakes in it, because this was one of my first.
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I think this article succinctly (and irreverently) makes a good case for why MDZS and all its adaptations just soaked immediately down into my bones tbh
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I posted 35,175 times in 2022
That's 4,857 more posts than 2021!
217 posts created (1%)
34,958 posts reblogged (99%)
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I tagged 6,015 of my posts in 2022
#lick - 626 posts
#smiles - 338 posts
#persona 5 - 197 posts
#lucy - 185 posts
#answers to questions nobody asked - 169 posts
#cats - 151 posts
#destiny 2 - 136 posts
#art reference - 103 posts
#mind your bees and queues - 99 posts
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Fresh buzz cut and new cleavage window crop top, I'm feeling human again and feeling pretty fuckin gender.
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Sometimes I think about the Destiny 2 Leviathan raid Titan armor.
And I wonder how many advisors it took to convince Calus not to put a cleavage window in the chest piece that is basically just a bustier over a breastplate.
How many psions died to keep us from getting shot in the tits?
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Thank you boosting!
Friend had a surprise stroke of luck, thanks everyone for trying to help, and especially to the one entire person who donated anything.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!
Thank you so much to @saplingdraws for this lovely sketch of my girl Thaavia "Godbarter" Elanigo, watching one of her party membt get chokeslammed through a table with the same tired fond amusement one watches their cat get its head stuck in a tissue box for the third time in the last hour.
Y'all should go commission Allie, they're great and so damn talented, and as soon as I have a little more money to throw around, I'm getting another.
And a special thanks to @de-luka for the present, I swear I'll have my revenge for this ya nerd 💜💜💜💜💜
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No more catboys with abs! No more catgirls with flat tummies! Give them back their primordial pouch!!!
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I posted 8,984 times in 2022
That's 2,782 more posts than 2021!
488 posts created (5%)
8,496 posts reblogged (95%)
Blogs I reblogged the most:
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I tagged 2,882 of my posts in 2022
#pokemon - 705 posts
#dragons - 443 posts
#yugioh - 387 posts
#musings - 253 posts
#dungeons and dragons - 173 posts
#sonic - 163 posts
#castlevania - 136 posts
#mario - 126 posts
#dracula - 93 posts
#current events - 51 posts
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#and because that ball awards 150 points that team will almost certainly win unless they played so badly that the other team was still ahead
My Top Posts in 2022:
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King Bob-omb throwing you off the mountain so you have to climb all the way back up again: Heehee
King Bob-omb when you try to throw him off the mountain (he can immediately jump back up): Hey you can't do that >:( You must fight with honor
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I think Dracula being energetic, friendly, and excitable is actually an important element that's been lost in most modern depictions of the character, and that's a shame because that was such a great part of him in the book; after seeing all the townspeople terrified and sobbing, Jonathan's trip interrupted by a pack of creepy wolves, and arriving at this sinister castle, seeing how lively and welcoming Dracula is is jarring and strange. Like, it makes SENSE, but all of those signs combined with how peculiar Dracula seems, with his pointed ears and sharp teeth and nails, contrast with his politeness and good-natured demeanor to make the scenario seem more surreal and socially uncomfortable. Like, if Dracula were rude or outwardly sinister, Jonathan might have good excuses to leave, but he's so POLITE, so NICE, that Jonathan can't justify to his employer why he'd leave early and cancel the deal, and it's enough to keep Jonathan second guessing himself, and that uncertainty is crucial to the atmosphere.
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L + ratio + one or more non-Tuner monsters
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Taking the Among Us babies to a field trip at the natural history museum
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I hate Wikia I hate Fandom I hate auto playing videos I hate the messy UI I hate how it lags all the time because of all the unnecessary shit clogging up the screen I hate the fucking search button that takes you to a full search page with no suggestions if you click it too fast I hate the obnoxious side bar that tries to direct me to other wikis
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Aqua fact time did you know dgr was a sp/in of mine for years and I had like a kajillion ocs for it. In general, media with aspects of killing games tends to pique my interest more than other things and I enjoy reading about it even if I don't have the guts to handle actual gore or other things associated with that. (mentioning this for media such as sa.w, nyat so much for dgr since. it's. animated. pepto bismol ass blood. etc etc)
#➳ the fool speaks#I'm a sa.w fan in spirit but nyat actually in any shape or form I'd probably get legitimately traumatized watching any of the movies dude#but rereading the tv tropes pages over and over and over and looking @ posts about it was my OBSESSION for 1-2 months ish last year#i blame my massive interest in aln.st partially on the death game aspect of it (although because it mainly focuses on the character#relationships and the music that's. well. obviously a bigger factor. y'know)#hell i even watched a review of one of those. really gratuitous horror novels. and i mean did it make me paranoid Yes was it also really#intriguing Yes did i manage to un-paranoia myself by imagining my fictional fiance protecting me Also Yes Why Did You Ask That#That's An Oddly Specific Question But Okay#i think that's very silly of me btw. and mature. like maybe it seems childish but fighting a fictional threat w a fictional protection who#i love dearly was actually a good idea on my end. and hey. it worked. wahoo !#anyways i ♡ death game media actually. i can't watch/read like 99% of it but I'm a fan of those in spirit ♡♡♡
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Congrats on sending that application!
THANK UUUUUU
#it was to a dominos and my partner is a gm in training at a different branch and i have over a year delivery driving experience#already and know Exactly How Low Their Standards Are so im not worried about getting it‚ mostly just that my brain will still be too mushy#to handle a job again#but i mean since it is just dominos and im only aiming for part time it hopefully shouldn't be too bad#and i do not care if they don't like me bc my resumes already pretty good as is i don't need a glowing review from dominos#esp bc i could just put my bf down as a dominos reference and theyd probably just Assume i worked for him and call him#instead of the store i actually worked at KWNDLABFKSBFJD#which is v good bc having seen a lot of what goes on behind the scenes on the manager side via my bf. i already know i am#going to cause problems LMAO#i have the Transgender Working In Very Liberal Area Right Next To Very Conservative Area Protection Aura#wherein the bosses here are So Very Scared of getting in trouble for bigotry and want to look sososososo woke. that i can get away#with being way more blunt abt when shit sucks lol#bosses don't really know what to do when The One Openly Transgender One directly calls out unfair expectations to their face#and to be clear i do mean liberal as in Liberal we're still very much in the North Idaho Splash Zone so like#open bigotry doesnt happen and the public will be on your side if it does. but boy do they know actually nothing about it#you know the type i mean kwbfksbfkd#like the best example i can think of is a couple ppl at my last job still she/her'd me long after i started passing as male#and me Being A Transgender™ had made the news rounds#and my other coworkers wouldnt correct them and would just he/him and they/them me back#which im fine w bc thats how my pronouns work is just. idk whatever you think‚ if you wanna she me you can just look dumb LMAO#but crucially 99% of my coworkers Didnt know thats how that worked‚ they just knew im A Transgender and look like a man#and that everyone else didn't use she/her for me anymore‚ so like an actually left place would rightly assume#they were doing it deliberately to be shitty and correct them‚ whereas here theyre just like. ah im sure they just havent noticed#since you went by she/her when you started here#and its like no i dont think the beard i grew halfway through working there went unnoticed actually#given that Thats When The Universal He Himming Started#im rambling again sorry for this word avalanche irt a simple congrats i got distracted JEBFKABFKSBFKDBFMD#anyways. tyvm it was stressful and i still dont want to do it but its out of my hands now so i have to follow through and at least give it#a try and i appreciate the encouragement‚ it rlly did make me feel a lot better just seeing the ask
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(Light spoilers for act 3 of Hardspace Shipbreaker)
The story in Hardspace Shipbreaker is focused on unions/labor rights, and I was really curious how they were going to handle the conflict of, like... in-universe, you're doing extremely dangerous work under unethical conditions to try and pull yourself out of deep debt; but as a player, the "work" is the extremely fun and satisfying gameplay. So at some point the devs have to face a game design problem: squaring the story they want to tell with not stopping the player from experiencing the fun part of the game. And I really liked how they did it! They managed to meet both goals by telling the player to just absolutely destroy a ship - giving them something fun to do, a slightly different problem to solve that (probably) wasn't something they would have done in normal gameplay, as well as being a good in-universe justification (a work slowdown, destroying profits, showing solidarity). I haven't been totally enamoured with the story in the game - I'm into the themes, but the writing is a little clunky and the scenes tend to slow down the pace of the game - and I thought they might just have the workers go on strike, which would be thematically appropriate but kind of a bummer in terms of gameplay. It was a pretty clever way to solve that conflict.
#j rambles#i played like 25 hours of this game in early access but hadn't gone back to it since the 1.0 release#so i'm finally playing the story#and i am having fun but. mostly because the gameplay is fun#i primarily like story-heavy games and this doesn't have *that* much story but it still feels like it drags the game down in places#there are no dialogue options so all the dialogue that doesn't take place during a shift i'm just. sitting there listening to them talk#which isn't a universal negative for me in games! death stranding starts with like 4 hours of cutscenes and i watch every second of them#maybe it's because the shifts are so short that when i'm ready to just go on to the next day i don't want to stop all that momentum#but i also get that having *all* the dialogue happen during shifts would be hard to justify diegetically and would probably get annoying#but anyway. it's a good multitasking game. i've been watching a bunch of old drawfee streams while playing lol#and as i said i'm detoxing from bg3. still love that game and i'll probably go back to it but i really needed a break from playing every da#looking forward to my steam year in review this year lmao. last year my most played game was like. 13% of my total playtime?#doing some quick math i think i played almost twice as much bg3 as the next 5 most-played this year combined#wild
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...@ the rose release the rest of the dates for other countries so i can determine when i need to request pto
#honest to god i could... feasibly go to two........ one vvip and one vvvip if prices stay the same for europe#based on......well... yeah APPARENTLY automation is not a normal skill... bonus (also bonus is NEVER in my budget plans)#(my bonus has literally always been free money that i can do w/e i want with)#(so if that w/e happens to be....a two city vacation in europe to see the rose twice... hopefully it'll be that)#(now I REALLY REGRET not just doing atlanta last weekend tbh but BONUS IS NOT MONEY UNTIL IT'S PROMISED)#i feel like my review was like ADHD freak...repeatedly#it was like ''well she can reverse engineer any proceess and likes tinkering w/ things#BUT pls girlie... try to not interrupt ppl when u know the answer''#HEY if things stay the same with what our raises and bonuses have been#my fiance can have his girlboss malewife dreams (if his mom wasn't a psycho with ''traditional'' values he'd be perfect lol#like man has literally taken a pto day to batch make homemade dumplings cause i like them he's the best!!!!#i told him he's gotta save all his pto for our honeymoon next november tho like.... i have 2 more weeks than him)#BUT we're like in an okay position to be able to have kids....... and in a few years we'll probably be in the position where if#he wanted to he could be the sahp if we needed LOL#IDEAL#personal
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