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Dec. 22nd, 2023 07:00 amFound randomly: apparently, people really like this romance between enslaved gay AIs. Lots of reviews saying it’s good, but you may need to take a break after reading the stuff that gets done to the AIs.
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Sep. 10th, 2022 04:34 amFor that one mutual who asked what the hell Euphoria was, and why just reading a two-sentence description of a scene made me feel like I was gonna throw up. This sounds fascinating and terrifying.
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The point is less “God is a hostile force” and more “there are people who think rape is God’s will, and those people are a hostile force.” Or “there are people whose response to their child’s mental illness is to try to beat the demons out.” Or “there are people who think women are unsuited to philosophy, because someone with good karma would have reincarnated as a man instead.” Or “there is at least one person (the Conservapedia guy) who thinks the parable of Christ and the adulteress was a later revision, because a truly divine entity would have righteously killed the adulteress.” Philosophy means nothing without linking it to real-world consequences, and there are all manner of consequences that come from “divine entities chose how this world would function.”
Fiction for Utilitarians: Elsinore
Jul. 26th, 2019 01:07 amThis just beat Majora's Mask, Oxenfree, AND The Sexy Brutale for best time-loop game I've ever played. (I've yet to play Outer Wilds.)
In four days, almost everyone in Elsinore will die, and you're the only one who remembers. They don't respect you, but they also don't notice you, skulking around in the shadows and overhearing their secrets. Can you make them listen, or will they dismiss you--for your race, your sex, your status, or their certainty that they know what they're doing? Which lives can you save? Which horrors can you prevent? And where do you want this story to end?
(I told my mother this is a game about having all the information and none of the power to get people to act on it. She said that sounded like her life.)
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In four days, almost everyone in Elsinore will die, and you're the only one who remembers. They don't respect you, but they also don't notice you, skulking around in the shadows and overhearing their secrets. Can you make them listen, or will they dismiss you--for your race, your sex, your status, or their certainty that they know what they're doing? Which lives can you save? Which horrors can you prevent? And where do you want this story to end?
(I told my mother this is a game about having all the information and none of the power to get people to act on it. She said that sounded like her life.)
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Fiction for Utilitarians: Thalia’s Musings
Dec. 8th, 2018 07:08 pm
When I was a child, Greek mythology confused me. Human heroes tried to be like the gods, and they were cast down for their hubris. But gods acted like gods all the time. Why wasn’t it hubris when they did it? Thalia’s Musings is the first story I’ve read that examines that question.
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The cycle of life and death has been broken. The souls of the dead vanish, and the living are born hollow and empty. Society decays without a new generation, while the survivors squabble over who or what caused this. But by chance or fate, you may have stumbled across the real culprit …
( Read more... )Fiction for Utilitarians: Loophole
Dec. 8th, 2018 06:22 pm
I once read a book called Little Fuzzy, which was about the discovery of childlike animals that might or might not be sapient. It’s one of the few science fiction classics from before the 1970s that’s aged well, and I fully intend to write a post about it if and when I ever reread it. In the meantime, the closest thing I’ve seen to another story like Little Fuzzy is a fanfic for a webcomic I’ve never read.
( Read more... ) An early short story by Orson Scott Card, Eumenides is about a selfish, manipulative man who finds a baby drowning in a toilet. It’s short and devastating, and I’d prefer not to spoil it, except to say that the ending of this story is what I think of when I think of what atonement and forgiveness really mean. Have it for free: http://www.e-reading.club/chapter.php/72261/20/Card_-_27_Short_Stories.html
