I guess. It just feels like they had such a monumental success (mostly deserved) that there’s no lesson for them to learn other than “be more careful with the placeholders.” And it also feels like I’m betraying my own principles by feeling so fondly about the game. That might be the bigger issue.

And it’s not a Harry Potter situation where actively harmful ideologies are being directly funded by supporting the creators. These are well-intentioned people who clearly care about art as a human-driven endeavor (that’s what the game is about!). But zero tolerance is the only way to do this right.

So, this is something I’ve really struggled with myself, because I don’t know what options there even are once you get outside the masc/femme spectrum. How do you express a negative?

Hey now, no need to lose your head over it!

For real, though. I've set myself a goal today to just... not work on anything and forcibly give myself a break, and I'm worried that it's not going to work because all I can think about is What I Need To Create.

“Oh? You keep writing multiple entities sharing a single body? Even when you don’t mean to? Uh huh. That’s something a singlet would do. Definitely.”

Like, what am I supposed to do with that? I even agree! But there’s nobody else here! I’ve looked! A lot!

I’ve had people say this about my writing and I have no idea what to tell them. Because even after a ton of genuine introspection and contemplation on my part I can’t reasonably conclude that I’m plural. I just keep writing plural-coded characters somehow????? Just because???????

Literally in need of rose-tinted glasses.

IMO the only reason it's not outright canon is just because of the lack of that specific language in the author's vocabulary.

I need to figure out how to make a cool, self-indulgent sona-type character like this. I yearn for the lore-dense, chuni wish fulfillment.

Instead I just keep writing sad piles of angst because I'm addicted to pathos 😔

Some of those voids can hypothetically be filled, but most can’t.