The best [citation needed] ever.
Now that #reddit is going the way of bullshittery akin to Twitter, I'm looking at the two best alternatives: #lemmy and #kbin. Both are in the fediverse and can communicate with each other, even with Mastodon and pretty much all sites that use ActivityPub. Problem is, browsing Reddit-like threads from Mastodon is less than ideal, so an extra account on such would be more convenient. Lemmy: '+ Lots of people moving there, lots of instances '+ Seems to be fully featured, has mobile app o Its software and its default instance are run by tankies. While one could avoid them by using an instance that blocks them, they still provide the tech behind it o Interface is lacking Kbin: o In its early stages with few instances o Missing features, but has a microblogging tab that integrates with Mastodon and the likes. Has mobile app (?) '+ Doesn't seem to have developers that have questionable or worse political views '+ Decent interface, more reddit-like(1/2)
@cloymush scripting?? Is that was it’s called? I had no idea that was a thing xD
But yeah I often pause shows to talk to myself about what’s going on, or to replay the scene in my head. It must look insane from the outside but it’s so much fun!
And NO! HE JUST DIED FOR THE LULZ! Not five seconds went by after I unpaused before the dude knocked himself into the afterlife. I was crying of both sadness and laughter because what are the odds??? It happened out of nowhere! He just died 
One time I was watching #TheNewsroom and I paused the show to talk to myself about how much I loved this one character. I must have gone on for about 5 minutes just gushing about how great this character was. Then I unpaused the show and he IMMEDIATELY fell over, hit his head, and died.
The next episode was his funeral.
Stuff like that just doesn’t fly with publishers.
Yet another thing publishers lack: balls. The bravery to obliterate mainstream appeal. Not just in terms of having actual queer characters. But also:
I read an Animorphs fic where one of the main characters had an orgy with a pod of dolphins. The whole scene was written as a serious character study that explored how he was coping with the horror of the story’s plot. THAT was unexpected. Took guts to include it!
I don’t want to be able to tell who the target audience is. I want to be surprised!
Tbh Watership Down would have trouble getting published today. It’s not for kids. But a book about talking rabbits isn’t exactly aiming at adults either. It wasn’t written with a specific audience in mind. It just tells a story. That’s what I want!
I want: Stories where controversial things happen. Stories that make the author nervous to post them. That make me uncomfortable.
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Ngl the majority of what I read is fanfic, unpublished original stories, and bs people write on subreddits like r/HFY. I need to read more published works.
But tbh I love how unpublished works are unfiltered. Untouched by the editors of a publishing company. How authors are free to write what they 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 to write without having to keep a target demographic in mind. Without having to censor their story for the sake of being marketable.
Jam
Renée