Lockout

(science fiction, 3900 words)

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When Jackie first met her next-door neighbor, she had no inkling whatsoever that there was six figures’ worth of military hardware grafted onto his body.

The man who answered her knock at the door of the neighboring apartment was somewhere in his early 20s, with the permanent five ‘o’ clock shadow of someone who only shaved with an electric razor. It was early autumn, not even cold, but he wore a hoodie and kept both hands tucked into its front pocket.

Jackie did her best to look friendly (a redundant effort, as she usually came across as the least threatening person alive). “Hi, I’m Jackie. I live next door.”

“Hi.” The neighbor looked pleasantly surprised, as if he’d opened the door expecting much worse. “Connor.”

“So, this is weird and I’m sorry to bother you about it, but my cat is on your balcony right now.”

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internet-sentences:

Sexually submissive straight bros are god’s perfect sexual creatures but you need to be careful with them and not escalate too hard because you can say things like I’m angry at you, you need to tattoo my name on yourself to make me less angry at you, and they say things like fuck yeah that’s really hot but you might need to brand me instead because otherwise it isn’t Kosher.

cardassiangoodreads:

ibetteracethatinterview:

In todays ridiculous homophobic news

This is awful, of course, but considering how much that book was built around the idea of trying to write gay content that is as desexed and “safe” as possible and how much the author buys into that whole respectability politics mentality…. I believe there is a lesson here, something something homophobes will hate you no matter how uwu you are, you will never be small enough to fit into their boxes unless you just stop being LGBTQ+ at all

thealogie:

thealogie:

If I were Barack Obama I’d simply commit to the bit and make history a second time.

If I were Barack Obama I’d post “it wasn’t just in my imagination” and turn off my phone

3liza:

if I could beam one minor idea into the brain of every internet proletariat instantly with full comprehension it would be that “photorealistically copying a photograph using pencil, charcoal, paint or digital medium is neither difficult nor impressive, it just takes a long time, which isn’t the same thing” but it is really the “mechanical dog endlessly catching a wooden nickel on its nose” of social media and people who don’t know anything about painting will always clap like seals for it no matter how many times they scroll past it. I get it, it’s a neat magic trick, it’s just one of those things that pops instantly to mind whenever I see one of those “what’s one thing about your industry you wish everyone outside of your industry knew” posts.

argumate:

sometimes I see people comparing the potential risks of medical transition with the potential risks of American football but I’m never sure whether they’re suggesting that transition should be banned, football should be banned, or that US colleges should create a competitive gender league and pay drag queen coaches million dollar salaries

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