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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Idk if you don’t think LGBTQ+ folks deserve equal rights or think that social programs are “too generous” I’m not really interested in how nuanced the rest of you is.

    Not saying that’s your beliefs specifically. Just that enough of us are actively harmed by the results of conservative laws and governance that I’m not really interested in knowing the nuanced part of someone who supports those policies.







  • I’ve been working my way through Perdido Street Station after a friend recommended it to me. It’s a fictional story set in a fictional industrial revolution era setting.

    The world building is top notch, the prose is excellent, and I’m enjoying the story. But there is just SO much body horror. Some of it is minor, like a main character whose race has human bodies but beetle-like heads.

    Others are not so minor, like a wealthy man whose body is formed from many other species limbs attached to him like Picasso’s worst nightmare. Also the draconian magistrates of this city/society punish people by turning them into a race called “Remade”. People who have their bodies altered/deformed by integrating materials (like metal) or body parts (same species or otherwise) as a form of legal punishment.

    It really is a fantastic read but the pronouncement of the aforementioned theme means I have to take breaks.