[Image ID: Tweet from Emily Forney (@/ EmilyKaitlinnn) reading: I was on a dating app and a guy jokingly wrote “what should we name our first child?” as his intro message and I had to tell him that in fifth grade I lost a bet to my best friend Hannah and have to without question name my first born child Megatron and then the man unmatched me /End ID]
Twitter: what level of enshittification are you on? Tumblr: I dunno, 4, maybe 5? We took away the ability to easily go directly to an individual post off the dashboard and we’re still trying to Pivot to Streaming Twitter: you are like little baby. watch this Twitter: [BANS READING POSTS]
writing sci-fi sucks ‘cause on one hand it seems like this character would say “son of a bitch” but then you have to pause and think, do they have dogs in space? Does this character know about dog breeding? Is it insulting to be compared to a dog in space? Is there misogyny in space? Do space people use misogynistic slurs? Does this character say bitch because they’ve absorbed a low level misogyny and it’s just part of the cultural lexicon of their world?
and then you shrug and give them all lasers because life is short and death is imminent
I keep making stories with cultures who are primarily areligious and have little history or cultural awareness of religion, and you would not believe how many swears this cuts out of your available vocabulary
on the plus side you do come up with some really fun alternatives
J.K. Simmons playing J. Jonah Jameson in every timeline has to be one of the funniest running gags ive seen in a movie. anyone can be Spiderman but there can only be one J. Jonah Jameson
tbh i never asked myself what did it feel like to listen to the pure mess that is we didn’t start the fire at the time of its release when all of the events were fresh and it felt weirdly insensitive but fob sure did deliver on the experience
like i finally understand the full impact of “north korea south korea marilyn monroe” but at what cost
