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   Linda Woodrow (lindawoodrow@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 08:04:46 JST Linda Woodrow

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   @LifeTimeCooking I worry about this.Some things that have been central in my life are permaculture, feminism, science, history, art.Mollison called permaculture "revolution disguised as gardening".The feminist saying "the personal is political" is part of my life story.My thesis is about storytelling climate science as a novel.I find Anzac stories profound. Beyond party politics, what to call politics & what to call ethics, stories, science, how to be a good human, is not always obvious to me.

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   Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 02:41:03 JST Warner Crocker

   A old Sunday morning story.

   My wife: I need to get out of the house. (She’s been heads down on a project for the last 9 days.)

   Me: It's f*king cold out.

   Wife:Can we just drive somewhere?

   Me: Where did you have in mind?

   Wife: Target.

   Me: Oh, so you want to go shopping?

   Wife: What do you think get out of the house means when it's so damn cold?

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   Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 11:48:14 JST Matt Hamilton

   I don't think I've ever told this story.

   My grandfather was an appraiser and had to travel by car a lot through Pittsburgh. He was extremely frugal and wise with his money so he drove a beat up old shitbox.

   One day, two fine upstanding melanated individuals were looking to liberate some drivers stopped at the light of their belongings. One of them looked inside my grandfathers car and yelled to the other one "Sheit, this nigga poorer than you is!"

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   RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist (sfwrtr@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 07-Oct-2023 15:38:27 JST RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

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   @wendypalmer @strangeseawolf @Nichelle

   "I’d most like to write a book as usual, then click a button and have every pronoun switch, and see how that affects the story."

   Character tags (little bits of description or telling action attributed to the character) are subtle bits of subtext that we use to make a story flow transparently. In my /Mask/ story, for example, the character "wipes unexpected hot tears" after being shot down. Feminine, right? Wrong. Men will react privately, or unconsciously, or if they haven't bought into guy-culture, easily. But without pronouns and gender subtext-ing, the statement becomes fodder for the reader deciding not only "what" but "does it actually matter?" My removal of the few gendering words didn't change the character, except in the reader's mind. Yep. Caveat, very short story.

   My bet is switching "she" to "he" globally will be less jarring than vice-versa (make-up and dresses notwithstanding, maybe.) These days masculine behavior in women is much more accepted still than the other way around. In the end, your result depends on how you write your characters. I-POV makes a big difference, of course.