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One of the stranger phenomenon I’ve observed is how transphobic some people who declare themselves “cyberpunk” can be. 

You’d think for a genre that’s got such concepts as body swapping, cortical stacks, human minds being put into everything from space-whales to nanite swarms, malevolent intelligence emerging from machines and declaring themselves a man or woman or neither, and countless other things, they’d be a little more open to me calling myself Serena despite some fuzz if I don’t shave for a day or two.  

Seriously, Cyberpunk has a really fucking big theme about bodies =/= people, something that so deeply permeates the genre. Every time you see some wacky cyborg who can change bodies, from Ghost in the Shell to Eclipse Phase to Altered Carbon, it’s just confirmation that Body does Not Mean Person, and that the two are entirely separate concepts. 

Of course, maybe it’s just because they like Katanas, leather jackets, and cybernetics, and don’t actually care about the basis of the genre they claim to love. That’s always a possibility. 

Watch: It’s your right to share your salary, not doing so could be holding you back.

i think the best thing about gen z is their dedication to self care and by this i mean when john mulaney performed at a college and he took a sip of water the crowd would start applauding and someone yelled at him “hydrate before you die-drate” therefor confusing an already confused man even more

Three Object Prompt

A glowing opaque cube, a silver wax seal, and a violin case.

- Lynn

I am morally opposed to there being glass between me and these puppies (Underlook.org)

Dialogue Prompt

"W-why did you do all of this? If I'm not the chosen one, then what was the point of training me?"

"To hurt you."

"To hurt me?"

"Yes. I needed to destroy you and make you into someone new. Into the new chosen one."

"Why am I needed at all? Who's the real chosen one?"

"I am. And I've failed."

- Lynn

"I had a bad childhood"

says too much

sounds sad

people will assume things

"I come with lore"

makes you sound like a character

is cooler

people will be so distracted by the wording that they won't see how badly you've been doing