Oct. 31st, 2023

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Idea: a setting where monsters and humans live together, somewhat awkwardly. Monsters have an instinct to cause fear, but there’s only so much of that you can do in an orderly society. The knowledge that law constrains them keeps them from being too scary. So it’s well-known that you should never try to rob a monster. They’re allowed to defend themselves, and they take a little too much advantage of the chance to blow off steam.
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Reading an old webcomic. The author set up a nameless villain with vague motivations who seemed to be manipulating the entire plot, then decided not to do anything with him after all. In the end, he begs to be a part of the story, and the protagonist tells him he was never interesting.
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A memory from old forums: someone posted about her friend the intersex porn star who was slowly dying because period blood built up inside her with no way to exit, and the doctors couldn’t operate because she also had hemophilia. I replied that I didn’t believe her. (I swear I was really that mild in my phrasing.)

It was to be expected that she got angry. What surprised me was that the rest of the people in the thread also thought I was a jerk. I’m not sure if they really believed her, or if they thought it was tactless to openly disbelieve.

(I made it up to her by recommending a drug that prevents periods.)
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Honestly, I don’t think Palestinians deserve or have a right to “their” land. Neither do Israelis currently living there. I give a slight preference to continuity of ownership, since it would be pretty disruptive if you kicked me out of the house I’m currently living in, so I guess that balances things towards Israelis. But at the same time, there are folks who still hang onto their house keys to symbolize how they want their houses back, and I won’t disrespect them by saying they deserve the houses much less.

That’s how I feel about a lot of this Israel stuff. Like, I respected one writer because she was one of the few military fiction writers who seemed to recognize civilian deaths were bad, and then she stopped recognizing civilian deaths were bad when Israel caused them. I can’t ask for policy change among randos on the Internet who can’t control policy in the first place. But I can at least ask for consistency.

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