Syntax-Takes

Professional Kettle + MFBC Diva

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Mid-20s pastyfaced transfem
manifesting online as a 🦓ZebraDragon🐉
writing about horny queer things,
and horny queer supervillains.
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I've been waffling on how to set this post up for so long that I gave myself writer's block about a preamble so I'm gonna do what I do best.
I'm gonna wing it.
On my discord server there is a channel called "the library", it has a lot of my work. It doesn't have a few random shreds and shards that I like, and it's missing a couple stories. Some of those shreds and shards link stories together in a way that never got published. What I'm gonna do here is open with the MK universe stuff, because really it's Korps-adjacent and it was written very very early. The Korps direct universe stuff I'm gonna dump in mostly chronological order, so they make sense running together.
You'll see what I mean, under the cut.


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Lynne is, without question, one of the greatest writers I've ever met.

An eye for the cinematic, a mind for incredible depth in the scope of a world, an ear for natural dialogue, and a heart for every working class person in the world, she is truly talented. I'm hard-pressed to think of anyone who's even close to a direct parallel to what she does when she sits down to a computer. So much of the america she lived in, often radically different than the one I grew up in, bleeds into the page with pain and love in equal measure. The cruelty. The people just trying to survive.

And vision! Vision for the future, craft, truly digging into and exploring what the future of synthetic bodies could be! So much of what is taken for granted in the korps universe regarding synths and communication came either from Lynn's influence or Lynn directly herself. So too was her work foundational in the Morphic universe, filling in so many little details. Honestly, it's the only stuff in the MK canon I ever have any interest in touching again.

But in the same breath, I understand why this collection is so final.

For all the potential that the original Universe has, and everything a few good writers have done with it, it remains predominantly a kink scene. There's Cape kink, Hypno kink, and a littany of others. The community as a whole is very supportive, but it tends to come back to those things. Obviously there's nothing wrong with that. Part of why I got involved, certainly, but in the end this becomes a limit in and of itself.

On top of that, it is a community around a specific thing, bordering often on the concept of a fandom, though canon is loose and the only central point is Karen's art and worldbuilding. It can be an amazing space to write in, but at the end of the day, there's limits to how much energy and time one can dump into someone else's body of work, even if you build your own corner in it.

Lynn put in so, so much. I hesitate to use the word old guard, because that comes with all sorts of connotations I maybe don't want to put here, but her and I are both writers from an earlier era. The Korps is ever expanding, and much larger than Karen ever thought it would be. So many new voices have arrived, and slowly relevance for the older writers faded. Painful. Perhaps inevitable, but a bitter feeling nonetheless. To be frank, other than the strikingness of KDARC iconography, I have no idea how my legacy or recognition in that group is higher than Lynn's is, when she put out 5 times the work and put in ten times the effort. She deserves more recognition.

But this is it. Her complete Canon. The end, truly, of an era. I hope wherever you go next, Lynn, you get more of the recognition you deserve and the passion you put into everything paid back to you. There is an infinite horizon ahead of you.

To anyone else, especially if you found me because of the Korps, please give her work a shot. Every once and a while I meet an artist who is so proficient at what they do, instead of disheartened I am inspired, reminded of what anyone can be capable of, and that I need to put as much passion into my craft as they have.

It may have ended, but it's not gone. Not yet.


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