An Empty Spaces Creature
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Glittering fragments in chaotic, unstable orbit. A sharp friend with a fungal halo. 🔞
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in reply to @arachnixe's post:
Princess Natalia is like, the linux user of sapphic harem havers, I love her
This is a fascinating comment, and I am dying to know what it means.
Okay, so I drifted away from this for a while (still plan on finishing the series, while I can) but I think it was based on there being some discourse among computer touchers about whether linux users were elitist or not, and that led to some linux users talking earnestly about why they used linux, and
-something that came up repeatedly was the idea that it was worth putting up with difficulty to have full control over a computer, because a computer couldn't be your home if outside forces were changing it without your knowledge all the time and it is important that a computer be a Home in this sense.
-but it did also kind of feel in the descriptions like it being difficult was kind of the point even if they didn't admit it, there was an element of conquest to it.
-and on a broader level there was a kind of interesting assumption that knowledge/experience was control and control was knowledge/experience, at least in an ideal, correct computing environment, which is pretty standard among computer touchers but is also not necessarily a typical belief outside of people who post about how they use computers online.
And in the threeish chapters I've actually read I get a lot of those same vibes from Her. She's an intellectual who thinks 'mental strength' is the only true power and giggles inappropriately when offered supernatural command over others. She assumes that an effective god should have an opinion on where every rock and stream should go, but isn't unraveled by things being unexpected or out of place; rather she delights in it. She debugs her girlfriend as a date! (by running multiple instances of her!!!) She keeps everyone she cares about safe in a place where they're shielded from outside influence and she can gradually acquire greater and greater knowledge of/experience with their workings, and returns to that space to recharge. She's dismissive of "playing with dolls" but still gives Nina some, and treats Nina rather like a doll herself, so it seems like her objection is related to their complexity and not linked to free will or autonomy itself; ultimately she does think of them like linux users think of computers; complex, but still knowable, and simultaneously tools and intimate companions.
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