Yessss, I converted so many anti-China fujoshi with The Untamed (Mo Dao Zu Shi). Oh, your mainstream anime or western tv isn’t about a bunch of gay romances?? It’s just queerbaiting at best??? Destiel gets one scene and then the gay gets buried but Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are husbands???

Just talk about China like it’s normal. Same with the DPRK. You’re dealing with idealists, starting with the good China does will just make you sound utilitarian, because they think these countries are nazi Germany x10. Make them remember Chinese people are people first, then later slide that article about how they did good thing in their DMs

CW sex work related things, cus you mentioned you might

FWIW I really suggest not doing IRL sex work. Occams razor is they just want sex, but they still lie about STDs constantly (people with undetectable HIV will never admit they have HIV or use a condom), will stiff you, and can be violent at the drop of a hat. From my experience you will get an STD (I got syphilis twice, chlamydia, anal warts, and herpes type 1), they will stiff you, you can’t say NO. I was only raped once (although sex work as a whole constitutes rape, even in the best, safest situation) and drugged once (because the dude didn’t want to party by homself). Only ever beaten by random queerphobes on the street, then again I also never fight back when someone is forcing me

And this was while I escorted people who knew me from porn. Porn btw tests the day of the shoot usually, although HIV has a 2 week to 2 month window. Also think you’ll only do work online? Well eventually someone will make a really really good offer

And eventually you’ll get old and not make the sweet bucks anymore and be saddled with all that royalty free trauma

legitimately consensual sex worker

no such thing, really. Not a lotta rich kids signing up to be sex workers.

Wait, so did Kim Il Sung actually kidnap a Godzilla director? I remember this being a talking point back in the 00s, like it sounds ridiculous

Since the first game. She was the one that hid the Triforce pieces in all of the dungeons behind all the locked doors and monsters and puzzles that kick Link’s ass, then got caught by Ganon, but only after sending Impa to get some help

Eli5 price discovery? Not at a place where I can watch videos

Elder scrolls 6. I was just lamenting how AAA released used to take a few years, then the 10s happened and several franchises kinda stopped releasing games in favor of re-releasing

I guess, personally, my major piece of advice is that you probably will not be able to write everything you want to write within the same story without it losing a sense of coh

This is really great advice and basically what I was struggling with! I had a near comprehensive list of Marxist and liberal themes that I was trying to shoehorn into a pastiche of short stories I’ve written and it just… wasn’t working

<3 hell yeah lol