slopjockeyTracingWoodgrains launches a defense of Manifest's controversial reputation, all without betraying a basic understanding of what the word "controversial" means.
Amoeba_GirlTracingwoodgrains is a reference to one of the sillier plot points in Card’s Ender series, right?
deborahoh god is it from that messed up OCD plot line in one of the bad ones – Xenocide? – which I’d forgotten about until just now? I guess if someone has an OCD diagnosis you could imagine taking that as a reclamation…
flere-imsahoI’m assuming they do have OCD, but given the context I don’t know if I’m very confident about how much ironic distance there is to the name…