I'm gonna need y'all to inform me of the sex you were assigned at birth, because, apparently, as a Christian, I am only allowed to love my neighbor by respecting and using their preferred pronouns if those pronouns are "biologically and scientifically accurate," otherwise it is "bending reality and disrespecting God's creations."
So sorry, but I will either be referring to you as "male," "female," or "otherwise mentally ill."
/s.
Don't you dare overlook that little letter. Don't you dare. Yep, the one right above this. Move your little eyes back up a couple lines. See it? Good.
Sarcastic, but, unfortunately, not something that I made up. I am so mad right now. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU BELIEVE, IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN AND YOU ARE ACTIVELY AND INTENTIONALLY MISGENDERING SOMEONE, YOU ARE NOT A GOOD CHRISTIAN. "LOVE THY NEIGHBOR" DOES NOT HAVE A SINGLE FUCKING CAVEAT. YOUR RELIGION DOES NOT GET IN THE WAY OF RESPECTING OTHER HUMAN BEINGS
AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
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One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.
Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.
It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?
Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.
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You've always played easy
And I've always been stuck on hard mode
I praised you so you would play with me
But you never wanted to #literally
Figuratively
Too literally
Filled my pockets and wallet
Drain my laughs and made me think who you really are
Was my savioir
More like sanguine
I'm drained babe. Wish you well. Sorry you forgot this fun fact about me.
I may not be a doctor or have as many letters as my doctor or YOU
But men oh men
You both done diddly squat in it now on your own volition
Teabagging your own shit pretending like you shot me
I was always a better sniper/mage-type
You always chose different types
I played to my strength
"You're not supposed to play as yourself in games, you're supposed to play as who you wanna be cos it's your wonderland."
Guess what motherfucker,
I guess I want to be myself because I'm on my own fucking hero, the fantasy wasn't the person, the fantasy was all the stuff I could make and do in the game because I always knew the fastest and best and quickest way to get to the top, kill the bosses in a few hits and then start playing all over again and hard mode immediately.
That's me.
Right now I've seen the true you, and I wish it wasn't so. But I had to give up eggs for a reason, and Thank God I finally thought I could do it and follow through. And took accountability. Without trying to be too obnoxious of a vegan because I wasn't perfect but trying to be perfect because my vegan friend meant so much to me.
Nothing meant anything to you, Burr.
Your only consistent principle (The thing that you kept getting between us, I'm not going to say letting because if I didn't want it there it would not be there, I didn't because I cared about you and you couldn't communicate like me. But I still wanted to try talking language even though you were drifting apart for so long bracket). Thing was this whole time. I thought you were the one holding me up .
Just like I looked at the abyss wrong - upside down - and darker than I remember because I've been there so many times before.
(maybe because of you?)
I don't want to believe it.
Because you're a good man
You just continued this long enough to see yourself become my villain.
I told you the ball is in your court
You were standing up for yourself to the side facing away and hoping that people would sorted out themselves because you didn't want to deal with it. Because you didn't want to cuz you were too busy and important trying to run the world, but because
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I think there's no greater indication that disco elysium is sympathetic towards communism when it literally says "communism is failure" and then the literal gameplay itself rewards trying and failing. The most obvious one being the Shivers check at the FELD mural, which is an Impossible 20 check BUT opens itself up again and again the longer you spend in the world doing things, but even just looking at sheer probabilities, for any given white check, rolling first and THEN putting a point into that skill upon failure is more likely to grant you success than putting a point first and then rolling, but that would require failing first.
Other things too: Precarious world saying you'll 100% fail red checks no matter what (not necessarily a bad thing, btw!! throwing the boule into the sea is a success but like. in some other ways one would want a perfect petanque throw instead. but people wouldn't typically assume that failure is desirable sometimes from the start) persuading you to accept that you'll fail some things that is irrevocable, for a world where everything is just a tiny bit easier.
The faux game over screen when you faint after reading Dora's letter— emulating a sense of failure on the scale of the entire game. When it rolls up most people go "What?? Game over?? No way, what did I do wrong!!" and waking up after that, with no huge or lasting impact on Harry's health or morale really tells the player, "Sometimes things will seem so bad that it all seems like it's coming to an end, but it's not the end, it's really not the end, go drink so water, you can still go on despite this failure"
I'm sure there are other things as well that are eluding me but like. The literal gameplay rewards failing and succeeding far more so than simply succeeding every single time, and I think you get a fuller experience of Elysium that way too
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