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Jacek Yerka - Tsunami --
worldbuilding
omg this is so cool gosh I love all the different kinds of machines and the way they're integrated into human society ^^
Addressing the lack of children in HDG
So, one of the more controversial aspects of HDG is that whenever the lack of children is bought up, there are generally two arguments that get bought up. The first is that "children in a kink setting are bad vibes" as if the mere existence of children would make the Affini act like pedophiles or smth. Keep in mind that this issue gets (rather poorly danced around) by the means of CG/L and ageplay anyway, so aesthetically, children (or child like sophonts) do exist in some capacity anyway. The other is that the presence of children would clash on a setting level with the domestication of the human species as a whole and that it would introduce eugenicist vibes (see: selective breeding or how we got from wolves to poodles and pugs). Now, while there is more of a strong bad vibes argument to be made here, I feel that both this and the previous point can be made moot by one simple change. Just...just have there be a rule in the Affini compact preventing the domestication of sophonts whose brains have not fully developed. Like, you can even make it a technological limitation of the haustorium in that it poses an undue risk to the sophont should it be applied to a brain that has not fully finished developing, or is still substantially underdeveloped. Like, you don't need to rule out the existence of children, and not putting children in kink scenarios should be, at bare minimum, something you as the author should be doing. But having that sort of worldbuilding absolutely removed as something you can use to paint descriptive narriatives is absurd. Like, even when it comes to Affini biorythms and the potential bad touch of a kid getting addicted to a Affini's biorythm, that can easily be explained away by the same mechanism as the afformentioned haustorium fix. If children are incapable of recieving an implant, the Affini have no reason to engineer their biorythm to affect children or adolescents. Like, holy shit people, it's not that hard to worldbuild around these potential ethical conflicts of putting the mere mention of a under-18 in a kink setting, and you can get cute scenes of, like, florets interacting with children and families. It's literally cutting off a large chunk of non-kink and non-problematic scene writing opportunities that are whimsical and kinda cute.
I think it's mostly the fear of putting children in a kink setting while large swaths of this community is trans and trans folks get accused of being groomers all the time.
So even attempting on putting something that could even vaguely resemble grooming (and considering many pieces of hdg writing insist that any sentient creature will want to become subservient to the affini that's kinda hard) could cause some of that to spill out into other areas and us who love this world don't want to have it be associated online with that kind of stuff.
I personally headcannon that if florets have kids those kids can be sent to a special boarding school that lets them grow into proper independants outside of affini influence so they can choose for themselves when they grow up, kinda like those alternative schools where students learn about what they're passionate about. Chances for recreation and friendships, found family and growing up to be the best version of yourself you can be.
Here’s the thing. I, as a trans author, already got two of my non-kink, non-HDG (in fact, pre-HDG, as I was not involved with the community back in November 2024) attacked by right wing nutters who accused me of being a pedophile and a groomer for daring to write a cyberpunk story involving children in a high school. And writing an underage lesbian romance. Like, their claims were groundless, but they still did it irrespective of the fact that this was absurd and solely because I was a trans person.
I get the desire to fly under the radar; but bigots gonna bigot no matter whether or not you hige them reason to
Im not sure why some of yall think the affini wouldn’t allow you to curse. If my dog called me a fuck wit i would laugh my ass off
Notice how the brain is nice and smooth, too :3
The bonus art for Chapter 12 of my HDG fic, Gold Laced Cuffs (You can read the story here!)
"We came here as fast as we could Benjamin"
Anyone else think the reason ds9 deeply resonates with Queer people is because, at its Heart, its about a third space created but a group of patriotic people fundamentally alienated from their own people. Like obviously garak and quark but consider how were told in the first episode that Kira has been sent there to get her "out of the way" of the civilian government, how the things shes needed to do to both survive and secure their freedom seem deeply uncomfortable to all the civilian leaders. Dax considering both Joran and her eagerness towards reassociation make her basically a non entity on Trill. Bashir takes a while but the augment reveal puts him firmly in this Category. Obriens difficulty with his ptsd and moving passed personal préjudices puts him at odds with a lot of federation ideals. Siskos deep trauma around the loss of his wife and inability to move pass this, makes him very inconvenient to a federation desperate to pass itself off as a Utopia. He then becomes more and more unacceptable as he leans further into his role as in emissary, with the federation seemingly very uncomfortable with this religious expression. Jesus, Worf begins his tenure by getting himself exiled from klingon space.
Like idk, I dont think its all that shocking a Bunch of Queer people most liked the show about having a complicated relationship with your culture and never being allowed to go home.
One thing I've been doing for Girl Frame (my mechspoitation/lesbian mech pilot ttrpg) is basically trying to make rules for the characters that get in their way more than they help them
I've been reading Jay Dragon's Expressionist Manifesto, which talks about tension between what the player might want to do and the rules of the game. Rules not so much as an aid but as a restriction that has to be fought against or worked around to achieve your player goals
That led me to the special play for the Mockingbird Girl Playbook:
Hounds should either be:
Completely useless outside of their mech, taking a team of people to remove/put them in it as their body has atrophied from years of houndom
Or
Absolute hellbent berserkers who also take a team of wranglers to keep contained otherwise they paint the barracks red with recruits who were too slow.
Both should kiss on their handler’s lap post-mission for a job well done
Fun Ways To Have A Handler Defect From Fascism!
The Rookie: A brand new Handler who got brought into this program for her psychology knowledge, but is immediately horrified at what she sees. Very easy to subvert; when given the nearest opportunity, she will ride in the copilot seat with one of the main Handler's Hounds for 'close-up analysis', only to cut comms and tell the Hound to book it. Generally well received by Rebels, due to strong sense of morals.
The Grief Stricken: This Handler used to be at the top of her game, until she fell in love with her prized Hound. Then that Hound either died or was permanently crippled. Now she wants out, but is stuck due to countless eyes being on her due to her status. May defect if given a definitive opportunity, especially if it means that her crippled hound(s) get a better home.
The Paperclip: This one defected out of the sheer incompetence of her superiors, and figured that if the Imperials didn't value her efforts, then maybe the cute little rebels would. Is she still a piece of shit and very fascist? Oh 100%, but the rebels need her expertise to win the war. When this war is over, then they can discuss consequences.
The Burnout: This one was already on rocky ground, always being too invested in the lives of her Hounds. After witnessing fifty deaths too many, always pointless so that some military officer could get another shiny medal for her sacrifice, she's about had enough. Similar to the Grief Stricken, but is more likely to shout Carpe Diem and breach her way out in a stolen mech.
The Broken: This Handler was captured by her former Hounds, now turned rebels. She is no longer a Handler, or a person for that matter. She exists as a warning to the Imperial Handlers, used as an example of what will happen to Handlers if they even consider joining the rebellion, much less give their Hounds kindness. These warnings often fail because Imperials are legit just that shitty to everyone, including their Handlers, that many just chance it anyways.
The Deceased: This Handler ceased being fascist because someone put a bullet through its skull.
It's a shame that porn games and sim games don't have a lot of present overlap, because I feel like "horny mechsplo game where you have to actually win the fights to get to the sexy bits and it's one of those hyper-detailed 1990s era mech piloting sims that uses every single key on the keyboard" would do numbers with a very particular audience.
so I spent a lot of last year working with / around this local activist group mostly made up of your typical ambiently queer, ambiently leftist college students. like every loose affinity group it struggled with the sort of unpredictable fluctuating capacity problem of most participants being tied to day jobs or college term times, variously disabled, turning up when they could make it and then vanishing for months at a time. it's to be expected with that kind of organising but it does also make for kind of a pain in the neck.
anyway this particular group does (or did?) have kind of a nucleus of very committed members who were more tight knit and ended up taking on a lot of the practical work themselves. they were your more serious vanguard party type communists, very much structure and role enjoyers, which is probably why things eventually played out the way they did. they took their commitments seriously and were constantly sort of irked that others saw the voluntary nature of the group as a reason to deprioritise it in favour of what might be life necessities but are still basically capitalist pursuits. fair, maybe.
about this time last summer, that inner circle apparently decided to get more serious about recruitment and figure out how to do outreach in a way that would bring in more committed membership to reliably spread the workload. the way these things go, a couple of these guys had originally met through a local gay bar's drag nights (specifically the drag king circuit) so one of the first things they did was draft in another friend who did marketing for those events already and get him pushing for more eyeballs on their event listings via twitter and instagram.
now, bar guy was very very good at this. one of his big innovations was the idea of using club promoter type strategies to get more students more consistently engaged with the group's activities. that basically meant appointing some of the more active members as 'outreach officers' and encouraging them to do things like organise socials for new volunteers and train those people in turn as recruiters, with a tiny bit of a floating budget for pot lucks and house parties every couple of months.
this worked astonishingly well, like beyond anyone's wildest expectations. at a certain point they had brand new members throwing their own parties just to introduce their friends to the people who recruited them, who in turn had been recruited by the volunteers the outreach officers trained. it worked so well that it got to be a problem because most of these newer members were also relatively new to organising and didn't have a whole lot of theory. it was getting very vibes based and suddenly there was a huge influx of people to handle who most original members didn't know. and also, because they'd asked a gay guy who promoted gay club nights to organise all this peer-to-peer recruitment, it turned out almost all the new members were gay men.
in itself that's not necessarily a problem, but obviously it presents a challenge for a group that's supposed to be open and diverse. especially because outside of the little clique who started all this, most of the old guard were not gay men. it didn't blow up into the kind of messy schism it could have, fortunately, but a lot of the older members (especially those who were less into the hardline soviet-nostalgia communist utopianism of the main organisers) decided around this point that they didn't feel the group was a good fit for them any more, and split.
so now the inner circle had a new problem. the remaining group was overwhelmingly now made up of very sweet well intentioned young gay men who wanted to volunteer with this cool voluntary circle of other young gay men who liked to party, and vanishingly few of them actually knew a whole lot about mao or lenin or the practicalities of community organising or what have you. but club guy was like "don't worry I've got this", and suddenly out of nowhere started producing all this orientation literature and politics 101 material that he was chain emailing to his army of new recruits and recruiters. like he just had all this shit ready to go. he had slogans, he had essays, he had these weird point by point breakdowns of what karl marx would have to say about your college courses and why communism was like actually a lot like bdsm if you think about it.
you will probably not be shocked to learn that it very quickly came out he had been generating all this shit with chatgpt. the group went into absolute meltdown, the vanguard party shut down their website and disassociated themselves completely from the whole mess, and the last I heard they're back to organising with some of the older group members and whoever turns up whenever they turn up. but club guy was unrepentant, he'd already sent out all his ideologyslop to his recruiters, who had sent it to their guys who sent it to their guys, who I guess are still out there recruiting twinks into the fully automated contentless communism mill,
or the MLM MLM LLM MLM if you're nasty.
hello once again everyone! as of a few days ago, construction on the floret den has concluded! new post rather than a reblog because tumblr won't let you attach video to reblogs:
in just a couple of days, i will be importing my wife @dumtranskitty-3 from overseas to come live here; and then the den will be complete with a floret inside of it!
Sometimes I think it's a little disappointing that the affini are so efficient, actually. For instance, imagine if it took them years to decipher a new language, so they would take over a planet, but with no way to communicate, the terrans have no idea what the rules are.
Obviously you can't attack them, or you get taken, but I heard of a guy who didn't do anything and got taken (too much social isolation) and maybe it's just random. Sometimes they show up and force their way into your home, look around, and leave (wellness checks).
They kind of figure out that sometimes they're taken for medical checks, but with no words, it's hard to know where mandatory doctor's visits end, and random petting begins. Some people say that if they pet you, you can just pull away and leave, but others don't want to risk it.
you should not be drawing art of HDG with florets getting fucked or having any other form of traditional sex with affini; incl. vinejobs or anything else like that. HDG is a setting made by asexual people for asexual people: the people drawing allo art of it are - for all that critics like to talk about this being The Imperialism Kink Setting:tm: - doing cultural imperialism by allowashing a formerly ace setting
if you are desperate to draw a floret nude just have them cuddling with their affini, that's fine and has been done for ages. sex is irrelevant to the setting and there is no lore-friendly reason a floret would even be having it given that they can just do drugs to feel even better than fucking would
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“Cradle” this
“Terra” that
Why do SciFi writers never call it what it is
EARTH
The only exception is Helldivers, and the planet they call “Super Earth” might not even be the original Earth!