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beccaelizabethToday's excitement was the shopping arrived 50 minutes early.
I had to tell him I would be A Minute because I was still getting dressed.
... I had expected and prepared for half an hour early, but an hour is Many.
But then he brought the trays right to my flat door so it was much easier than the last few times.
... other than that, not much do.
I have been reading things but not liking them but not being sure there's anything wrong with the story per se. Everything is a bit flat when it has been basically a year indoors, bar weekly exercise walks this year.
Also again still too: published stuff needs trigger warnings. A few trigger warnings go a long way. Even just the Ao3 obligatory ones would go a long way, though a warning for suicide would also help. I defend anyone's right to write on whatever topic they want, but I want more of a run up to reading some of them, you know?
I'm tired and cranky today. A combination of being Jumpy whenever I'm sleepy and having to hear the neighbours get used to the new door box (errors lead to shouting).
I was thinking of fictional characters who might end up pandemic deniers, and so far they're people who have been gaslit pretty heavily. Like, anyone who grew up in Sunnydale is primed to look for the 'real' truth under a cover story, and a ton of fictional settings are about people who Know The Truth, so conspiracy theories are, like, where they live. And some people have been controlled by false stories. Or like Lindsey's hell, where it was all ordinary on top and telling people what to do every minute. If the government told him Stay Inside he would be disinclined to do so.
So much fiction has the pattern that the Chosen Few are the only ones who Know the Truth.
Bit of a concern.
I figure if almost any of the fictional people I've been thinking of were to happen to be in my flat and be told Stay Inside they would think I was just trying to keep them in my flat. Which to be fair would be appealing in many cases. Or they'd think I was trying to keep them away from someone, or something. They'd go on patrol or similar.
Then reality would happen.
A few characters would be able to do their own analysis but they'd all be shocked at how research doesn't happen at the speed of the plot here.
Most characters have a very small selection of people who they'd trust. There's just their team. Everyone else, nope, not until the team checks it.
Proper messes.
So then the good trick is: how would any given team come to accept new data, if they couldn't Biology it themselves?
Tricky.
Hope you all have nice days.
I had to tell him I would be A Minute because I was still getting dressed.
... I had expected and prepared for half an hour early, but an hour is Many.
But then he brought the trays right to my flat door so it was much easier than the last few times.
... other than that, not much do.
I have been reading things but not liking them but not being sure there's anything wrong with the story per se. Everything is a bit flat when it has been basically a year indoors, bar weekly exercise walks this year.
Also again still too: published stuff needs trigger warnings. A few trigger warnings go a long way. Even just the Ao3 obligatory ones would go a long way, though a warning for suicide would also help. I defend anyone's right to write on whatever topic they want, but I want more of a run up to reading some of them, you know?
I'm tired and cranky today. A combination of being Jumpy whenever I'm sleepy and having to hear the neighbours get used to the new door box (errors lead to shouting).
I was thinking of fictional characters who might end up pandemic deniers, and so far they're people who have been gaslit pretty heavily. Like, anyone who grew up in Sunnydale is primed to look for the 'real' truth under a cover story, and a ton of fictional settings are about people who Know The Truth, so conspiracy theories are, like, where they live. And some people have been controlled by false stories. Or like Lindsey's hell, where it was all ordinary on top and telling people what to do every minute. If the government told him Stay Inside he would be disinclined to do so.
So much fiction has the pattern that the Chosen Few are the only ones who Know the Truth.
Bit of a concern.
I figure if almost any of the fictional people I've been thinking of were to happen to be in my flat and be told Stay Inside they would think I was just trying to keep them in my flat. Which to be fair would be appealing in many cases. Or they'd think I was trying to keep them away from someone, or something. They'd go on patrol or similar.
Then reality would happen.
A few characters would be able to do their own analysis but they'd all be shocked at how research doesn't happen at the speed of the plot here.
Most characters have a very small selection of people who they'd trust. There's just their team. Everyone else, nope, not until the team checks it.
Proper messes.
So then the good trick is: how would any given team come to accept new data, if they couldn't Biology it themselves?
Tricky.
Hope you all have nice days.
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Date: 2021-03-02 05:23 am (UTC)100000%. A lot of thrillers have something close, if you know the lingo - specific vocab that implies rape, etc. But yeah, I don't think books should have age ratings, but I'd love if they had warnings on the back the way movies do. Fantasy violence, depiction of suicide blah blah.
That's a really good point about how many fictional stories involve not just real conspiracies, but this kind of gnostic special knowledge.