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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This is a great essay. I appreciate your honesty and I think you make a compelling argument about the sublimation of men's sexuality. I just wish I could have read it without having to pause a video and scrub through it page by page.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago

It's also incredibly cheap to produce, requiring no unusual props or location shooting, and generally tolerable to those who aren't interested in the kink, so it's a relatively safe bet economically

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Right, but that's a completely different thing than you were arguing. The likelihood of a character being queer is a Watsonian question about demographics of a space station, whereas whether it's plot relevant is a Doylist question about themes and conservation of narrative. And given that Garrick was originally conceived as a queer character and the actor has explicitly stated that he wanted the character to be queer, but Rick Berman insisted that this not be done and instead wrote in a weird love story between him and young girl, I actually think it's pretty f****** relevant to discussions around the culture of the show.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence. Bisexuals exist and aren't always obvious, so "absent evidence to the contrary, that person might be bisexual" is not an extraordinary claim — hell, assuming similar prevalence of bisexuality then as we see now, which is arguably the lower bound given the cultural changes depicted, it's statistically improbable that there wouldn't be at least one non-straight person in the main cast.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Superb advice!

 

It's probably not your fault. Year-long campaigns are just a very niche sell. Maybe you need to run a few oneshots instead?

Signed, someone just like you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, a light meal taken at 11am, usually including a hot beverage and a bakery product

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Fuck Andrew Tate and his shitty redpill memes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey! it's lovely and green, right next to the Peak District