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[feotakahari]

 "This message can't be sent to [REDACTED] because the recipient has chosen not to receive messages."

Hey!

Well, I might as well post it. 

I've been wondering what you would make of this story. It seems like this author is trying to invent you without knowing you exist? (And also go on weird rants about consciousness, but that's neither here nor there.)

https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781618248992/9781618248992___2.htm

Warning for all kinds of emotional manipulation and power-dynamic fuckery.

Comments

[lb_lee]

Oh, if this was to me, yeah, I had to turn off PMs because for some reason like 50% of mine were getting dropped, both sending and receiving, and it was leading to problems of people getting angry, thinking I was ignoring them. It was easier to just turn them off, so at least people would get an error message, you know? Sorry about that; I haven't found a better way. I keep an announcement on my sticky entry, but I can't blame folks for not checking it when they've known us a while.

As for the story... I mean, it's kinda interesting, though nothing particularly new, for me anyway. In some ways it IS kinda familiar, though the protagonist of the story is more serially singlet than plural! More akin to dissociative fugue. Though I admit, had we been in Terry's place, we would've been way cagier and less aggressive; dealing with psychologically compromised strangers who have the legal ability to commit you at will is a dicey game, and my main complaint would be that the narrator seems WAY too confident that she can just leave and get out, that there's absolutely no hazard in just being bluntly herself. But perhaps that's just me projecting my own psychology onto it.

--Rogan

[raspberryrain]

I downloaded this thinking it would be interesting, and maybe help me understand LB_Lee a bit better. It took me a while to get around to reading it, but I have done so now. I think I identified with the main character a lot more than LB did!