Notices by kasdeya (kasdeya@cryptid.cafe)

@SuperDicq oh wow that sounds like such a stifling environment to talk to friends tbh - I’m really glad Fedi isn’t like that. and thank you for the reply! this is really good to know

I’ve noticed that people will replace certain words with euphemisms, like “suicide” will get turned into something like “self-deletion”. or they’ll censor a letter, like “rape” will become “r*pe”

is it helpful to do that? like if I’m writing a CW, should I avoid using words like “rape” or “suicide” and use a more euphemistic or censored version instead?

I fucking love stories where it never really feels like the main character(s) are threatened. where they’re never captured, humbled, tortured, nearly die, etc. mainstream writing advice says that this is a bad idea - that these characters are “Mary Sues” and that the audience will get bored or frustrated with them. so that’s why I like “bad writing” that deliberately or unintentionally ignores this advice. it’s incredibly rare to find, and it’s often notoriously bad or “cringe” but I love it

the thing is, I’ve been brought low and threatened and humbled my entire life and I’m sick of it, and I don’t want to watch it happen to anyone else. I want to see other people be empowered and make a difference in their world

unfortunately like I said above, these stories are incredibly rare. the Kino’s Journey anime (I’ve only seen the new one) is a good example with some exceptions, because the PoV character is almost always Kino and Kino always has a handle on things, even if it seems like she doesn’t

I also really liked the first season of the Overlord anime, where the PoV character is always empowered. but in the second season, it shifts away from that and starts focusing on Ainz’s cruelty and I hate that

then there’s Bofuri and Shangri-La Frontier where nobody can be meaningfully threatened because they take place in a video game

I could also mention a few different comics but they’re either very problematic in places or they’re notoriously bad to the point of being memes, so I won’t lol

infecting a robotgirl with maleware; now it’s a robotboy

if you put newlines
in random places
while typing a normal sentence
you can call it poetry
and nobody can argue with you