Been thinking about isekai again and how few of them actually play off of the structure and  conventions of it as a genre and instead just use it to lazily simplify a fantasy setting.
A Meat, May 31, 2024, 04:32:33 pm

EXACTLY

JUST WRITE FANTASY

Dad bought me a "Love is Love" rainbow spatula for Hanukkah one year, which was very cute. I second this suggestion.

Pro tip: if you get gay married, a lot of straight people will buy you more expensive kitchenware too

I think sometimes it can be really hard to be a heterosexual couple early in the relationship living in a studio apartment in Manhattan in a building that’s almost entirely gay men.  Because the older, coupled, gay men always look really happy with their partners in their studio apartments.  The walls are thin and you never hear them fight, but you’re fighting.  And the younger uncoupled gay men are constantly chatting each other up in the elevator, inviting each other to parties, maybe having parties in their solo studio apartment.  So you’re comparing yourself to both these cohorts and coming up short, saying what’s wrong with heterosexuality?  Why can’t we do that?  And then you hang around a little bit and realize for the old guys, it’s that they’re just older and richer, which takes stress off, and they do fight but while on vacation.  The young guys from appearances are just having a great time.  Happy pride

Anyway, back again! This is one of my fav Extra Credit episodes so I decided to check up on our fav and his Ao3 experience right now.

Some of the fics read in this episode are still online! They're not particularly well-liked, though, the rate of kudos to words is something like 1:10000 at this point. Probably cause of the lack of punctuation, but also maybe cause he doesn't know how to tag pairings etc correctly?? so people just won't see his stuff?

However, HeirofRedfield, and his other alt BroomRider have gone offline.

What I have found however is definitely other alts of his (it's uhh pretty easy to tell) DaanofSweden, NoSpokenWord, Switch_Hitter and CanICallYouDaddy. Hey, there's maybe others too! Who knows. I'm deeply impressed by his word count.