Skulldrinker
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Skulldrinker
6d ago
I may read too much sci-fi, then, because I was all-in on the jargon.
The audiobook has good delivery with distinct voices for all the characters; Spindel and Cunningham talk quite differently while both being stemlords.
Skulldrinker
6d ago
I tried reading Alien Clay. Didn't quite finish it; repetitive prose and ideas, some degree of oppression porn, . Felt like Avatar written by an ecologist who is also a labor-of-my-body lets-have-a-commitee-meeting marxist rather than a blue cat native-american fetishist who likes submarines. The creatures were initially interesting, but then the planet becomes an anonymous blob of empathy breaking through the false consciousness, solving the coordination problem, and overthrowing the bootlickers. I think my personal grudges prevented me from enjoying it. TL;DR "What if [bad thing: hiveminds] is actually good?"
I liked Blindsight much more.
Skulldrinker
6d ago
All my examples come from IRL interactions in Chicago. It happens with randos, it happens with people I meet socially.
Three separate people said "ewww, there's a lot of white people around here" while wandering around the north side with me in 2020. Way back when I brushed it off, and went on to regret associating with them after how they behaved later.
It's not even Red America being shit on, it's White People in general or Men in general. Sometimes they complete the trifecta and complain about Straight people. Since I'm the person they're talking to, I honestly can't tell if they're telegraphing that I should go away, or they just think this is how people interact.
Regardless of who the target is, it's still a fucking unhealthy and unbecoming amount of open vitriol for the people who claim they're all about Empathy/Niceness/Inclusivity.
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