earlgraytay @earlgraytay@dragon.style

i'm in the middle of helping someone sort through some Trauma Shit and

i'm really glad i'm doing so over the internet

because right now i'm wheezing helplessly
not because of anything related to what they're saying

but because I have stuck in my head the voice of the narrator

of the Dramatic Reading

of that seminal classic, Legolas by Laura

"WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME"

Oh, hey, this might be a good place to mention this--

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/765585

^ My #ownvoices #nonbinary #actuallydisabled retelling of #kafka 's Metamorphosis is free on #smashwords until the 31st of May.

If you ever wanted Gregor Samsa to have a shot at a happy ending, this is the book for you.

I love giving adorable characters heavy weaponry. It's such a fun clash of designs.

There ARE still heroes left in man!

egghhhhhh
I am the WORST PERSON TO GO TO FOR HELP in situations where someone is doing one of my friends dirty. I just go full hot-blooded rage and want to beat them about the ears with a frying pan and that is NOT HELPFUL to the friend who needs help!!!!!

... I only know the Witcher through fandom osmosis, but...
...I've got a lot of feelings about the girls who were taken through the Law of Surprise.

I'm trying... quite literally... going to the cafe in Animal Crossing City Folk, because I can't go to the diner on my street IRL because quarantine.

With the music muted, some IRL coffee, and some lo-fi-hip-hop-radio going in the background, it almost works.

Almost.

i hate, hate, HATE my innate sense of Justice (TM)
I go into bleak blinding rages when the world isn't fair and because the world is frequently unfair and horrible... yeah

anyway i know people on here don't like self-promo but I have gay-ass short stories for sale

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/sciencefair200

https://www.amazon.com/Malcolm-Schmitz/e/B00R9XYDEA

stories include:
- Steampunk trans skyship captain hunts eldritch angels, deals with gender roles in a pseudo-Victorian London, smooches a girl

- NB autistic veterinarian must cure evil queen's sick unicorn- or it's off with their head!

- Kafka's Metamorphosis retold in the age of memes. On the internet no one knows you're a bug- unless you tell them. But when Gregor undergoes a horrifying transformation, he'll need the help of his internet friends to stay sane. probably the best thing I've ever published

(image descriptions: three book covers. one is an abstract image of gears and chains holding up a large rock, with "The Captain's Sphere" in white text on the rock surface. one is a historical painting of a red-haired woman in a red dress holding a goat-like unicorn, with the words "the Unicorn's Beard" written below it in a cursive script. the last one is an image of a cockroach on a green circuit board with "chrysalis" in red letters above it.)

okay this is just me bitching about someone on tumblr because i feel like if someone contradicts me i'm not allowed to have my own opinion unless i JADE myself at length

and i understand why you could hate bioshock infinite. i really really do. it's incoherent. it's structurally fucked from the beginning. it's racist as hell. it's written from a very politically liberal/moderate perspective-- which *as* a filthy Voltarian liberal I'm fine with but I understand that that's not everyone's cuppa.

but someone on tumblr said that not only does it get everything wrong about race it gets everything wrong about religion and i. bzuh?! bioshock infinite's take on religion is probably *the* thing it gets right.

bioshock infinite is the most SCATHING indictment of american christianity (especially the protestant/evangelical variety and DOUBLE especially mormonism) that i have ever seen and it is GLORIOUSLY pointed and nasty about it. it is aggressively anti-cheap-grace. it goes out of its way to make fun of how american christianity is more focused on YAY MURICA and on racism than on anything related to Jesus or redemption or forgiveness

comstock is really blatantly based on a couple of mormon prophets and he takes all the worst parts of mormonism to a parodical extent and it's just.

*chef's kiss*

and as a cult survivor- i have issues with how Elizabeth was written but the way she's written REGARDING HAVING BEEN RAISED IN A CULT is not one of them. future!elizabeth included. that whole sequence just... broke my goddamn heart.

... like. i get it. i get why you might not like it. i get why you might think it's bad.

but gods in fucking heaven the way religion is handled in bioshock infinite is the best thing about it