Setting aside the issues of maintaining a reasonable population, I wonder if the people who say things like "let's have a world where there's no men at all, just women and nb people!" think that there won't be any oppressive power structures in this hypothetical world? Like even starting over and not having men ever, and again, setting aside ( Read more... )

So like. I had a misunderstanding about wetsuits in the Shark Teens draft that Wolfy corrected me on, and I was thinking about how to deal with it, like whether to do a whole rewrite or see if there's anything I can do with it, and I realized that it's a really good way to introduce Terry-Marie's family to the story. I've been looking for an excuse ( Read more... )

I want Cheery Littlebottom to have a son and name him Avery

What he says: It’s just a show I should really just relax

What he means: Professor Bobo clearly held contempt for his culture; while his initial interactions with Mike were largely him looking down on humans (and the bots) as “unevolved”, it becomes apparent almost immediately that he believes ape culture to be less civilized than he says. He ( Read more... )

I was thinking earlier about how the Rangan Donpa fandom has always had Discourse about whether or not Chihiro is trans, and I just realized that while the fandom is very insistent that he's a trans girl, in fact his narrative works a thousand times more coherently if he's a trans boy.

• He was referred to as "a boy in a dress"
• He said he was a boy ( Read more... )

Setting aside individual complaints about oversexualization, oversimplification, 2Edgy4You, and patronization, I think the major defining difference between cartoons for kids and cartoons for teens and adults is the sliding scale of idealism vs cynicism ( Read more... )

I have constant thoughts about the relationship dynamics on MST3k but every time I try to put them into words it comes out all incoherent and garbled. And I wish I could get them clearer because I would love to talk about them ( Read more... )

So I read A Boy Like Me the other day, and I enjoyed it very much! It was a good book and I'll probably give it a reread at some later date when I've forgotten most of the details. Because I enjoy things by complaining about them, here some things that really frustrated me reading, mostly in a "very immersed in the story and invested in the ( Read more... )

I started an au about Mike as a single foster dad trying to raise Tom and Crow while neighbor Pearl keeps trying to use him to take over the world.

It's under the cut.

( Let's click, won't we? )

I've got an idea for how I want the next stretch of Shark Teens to go, but I'm not quite sure how to wrangle it ( Read more... )