James Lynch

James Lynch

@jamesblynch.bsky.social

6'4'' short Writer and artist of science-fiction/fantasy novels and comic books. he/him/his I got depression https://linktr.ee/jamesblynch

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James Lynch
@jamesblynch.bsky.social

Websites keep telling me to set up my account so I can sign in with a fingerprint or face scan or some shit instead of a password. I'm using your fucking website on my computer, not my phone. I don't have a fingerprint reader or camera on my desktop computer. And even if I did, the people who run

James Lynch
@jamesblynch.bsky.social

"Is this character trans?" Well, she got her wife pregnant, so... probably? (I mean, that's not the only evidence she is, but I thought that'd be a big clue)

James Lynch@jamesblynch.bsky.social

At least part of getting beta reader feedback (at least for me) always seems to be worrying that I've been too heavy-handed with explaining stuff and then getting notes that people didn't understand why something happened or what a character's motivation was. 🤷‍♂️

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️
@eliseswords.eurosky.social

And Happy Ace Week again! 🖤🩶🤍💜 (For real this time!😆)

Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️@eliseswords.eurosky.social

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James Lynch
@jamesblynch.bsky.social

Oof, okay, another beta reader mentioned this scene as problematic, not because one of the participants is asexual, but because they're royalty, which this reader is telling me means that the other person cannot consent to have sex with her? I guess they're saying because a member of the royal

James Lynch@jamesblynch.bsky.social

Huh. One of the pieces of feedback was that they didn't think a scene was written properly for an asexual character & that I should probably consult members of the asexual community to rewrite it better. I... already did. That's why it's written the way it is. So I'm not sure what to do with that.

James Lynch
@jamesblynch.bsky.social

family has authority over the whole empire, anyone living in the empire is technically their subordinate and thus the power dynamic means any sexual activity is coerced? Sorry if I'm rambling, but I'm really trying to wrap my head around this. So, like, a member of the royal family can never engage

James Lynch
@jamesblynch.bsky.social

At least part of getting beta reader feedback (at least for me) always seems to be worrying that I've been too heavy-handed with explaining stuff and then getting notes that people didn't understand why something happened or what a character's motivation was. 🤷‍♂️

James Lynch
@jamesblynch.bsky.social

I was just watching Winter Solider. In the post-credits scene, Bucky is at the Smithsonian looking at the exhibit about him. By that point, Nick Fury and Black Widow had dumped all of SHIELD and Hydra's files online, plus there'd be eyewitnesses of him doing all the stuff he did in the movie. He'd

James Lynch
@jamesblynch.bsky.social

And now I'm left wondering if there's any term of endearment that wouldn't be flagged as condescending. Pretty much any can be, depending on tone and circumstance (and since I'm 44 and have never before heard that "sweetie" is automatically condescending, I don't know what else I'm missing).

James Lynch@jamesblynch.bsky.social

Okay, is the term "sweetie" inherently condescending? I've never heard that before but some people are trying to tell me it is. I'm sure it can be used in a condescending way (almost any term of endearment can), but I'm 44 and have never heard that before. Or is it like a regional thing?

James Lynch
@jamesblynch.bsky.social

Okay, is the term "sweetie" inherently condescending? I've never heard that before but some people are trying to tell me it is. I'm sure it can be used in a condescending way (almost any term of endearment can), but I'm 44 and have never heard that before. Or is it like a regional thing?

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Greg Pak
@gregpak.net

Okay this crap has made me angry. You wanna find some REAL activists who will share things you can actually DO instead of stare at deactivist "A.i." bullshit? Here's a thread of starter packs!

Greg Pak@gregpak.net

I'm blocking @mary1kathy.bsky.social and adding the account to my blocklists. Life is too short and the times are too serious to fuck around with disinformation and "A.i." bullshit. For accountability, here's the screenshot of the video they posted.

James Lynch
@jamesblynch.bsky.social

See, this is why we have beta readers: two of them flagged a passage as being "repulsive" and saying they wouldn't have read further if they didn't know the author. I went back and looked at what was so offensive to them and it's a part where someone is holding a flashlight in their mouth.

James Lynch
@jamesblynch.bsky.social

To me, it reads completely neutral (someone is working in a dark room and needs their hands free for other things), but to the beta readers, it was over-the-top suggestive that it ruined the book for them. I still don't see how they got that from what I wrote, but if they both think that, I have to

James Lynch
@jamesblynch.bsky.social

defer to their judgment. It's not really plot critical that this character hold the flashlight in their mouth, it was just a very matter-of-fact action (something I've done while affecting home repairs dozens of times).

James Lynch
@jamesblynch.bsky.social

Heard from my doctor today. They couldn't figure out what this lump was with an ultrasound, so they ordered and MRI, and the results of the MRI are basically 🤷‍♂️ They're pretty sure it's not cancerous, but other than that they don't seem to have any solid idea.

James Lynch@jamesblynch.bsky.social

I had an MRI on Monday and while I'm not claustrophobic, it's still not a ton of fun to be slid into a tube barely bigger than your body.

James Lynch
@jamesblynch.bsky.social

They gave me the same "You should only be worried about it if it gets bigger or starts to hurt" and I was like, "It does hurt, that's why y'all were doing all this, to see if it can be removed. I have a surgical consultation on Monday."

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bossk baby
@bonnnt.bsky.social

found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

James Lynch
@jamesblynch.bsky.social

It was either An American Tail or Star Trek IV. They were both in theaters around the same time 40 years ago and no one in our family remembers which we saw first.

Mark Thompson@markreckons.bsky.social

First film you saw at the cinema. The real first one, not the pretend one you tell people! Mine: The Empire Strikes Back, 1980, Wigan. We were near the front and I can still remember how massive the AT-ATs looked, looming over us out of the snow :) Film, year, where, and whatever stuck with you.

James Lynch
@jamesblynch.bsky.social

And it's weird we saw 2 so close together, because we rarely went to the movies. The next I saw in theaters was TMNT in 1990, then TMNT2 in 1991, then TMNT3 in 1993. I even had to explain to my younger brother what a movie theater was when we saw TMNT because he'd never been to one before.

James Lynch
@jamesblynch.bsky.social

I was considering purchasing something from Amazon Japan, and shipping was already going to be absurd ($52 on a $55 item), but then when I go to checkout, there's a random addition $22 tacked on. And for some reason they don't itemize the charges on that page, so I have no idea what the $22 is for.

James Lynch
@jamesblynch.bsky.social

Is it import duties? If so, I can get the same thing on eBay for cheaper, and the listed price there includes customs and import fees. But Amazon won't tell me, so I don't actually know.