joyeuse

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The dream of a gently woken lamb. Each blade of grass as it lies down. Sibling to those other blades you might have heard of. I've been described as "resilient; optimistic; patient."

Non-binary, agender, transneutral, neutrois. Begrudgingly attached to another word for my gender group starting with β€œN”.

You might know me by a pen name, and you'll find I've got another profile under that pen name.


I will say that being cute and twee about everyone's favourite military-industrial blacksite was not Half-Life: Alyx's most tone-deaf writing decision - they gave their main character (someone else's biracial character) a "racist discovers they're racialised themself" arc and then stripped out the "discovers they're racialised themself" part so as to leave in only the "racist" part how does no one talk about this


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(A dilemma which I never quite answered in the process of working on Half-Life: Jeremy was the question, "what the fuck am I going to do about the racism scenes?" The central joke of HLJ was in how the psychotic personalities of HLA's characters could be recontextualised simply by changing the main character's name, but even or especially in that context I didn't want to touch the racism scenes with a ten foot pole.)