Arcadia Jane Berger

  The Prompt (from a now-deleted account): I really want to get raped by a random stranger while on vacation and find out that their baby is in my belly a few weeks later. Tell me how you’d do it.   My response:  When I am cleaning the bathroom of your hotel suite (which you leave an absolute mess every morning - "The chambermaid will take care of it"), I take a careful look at your wheel of birth control pills. I recognize the brand and the dosage. Back in my wretched little room, I go through my collection of pills until I find the ones I'm looking for: Mexican children's chewable vitamins, but they're the same size and almost the same color, the same distinctive polygon shape. The next day, cleaning up the next day's mess, I make the substitution. I'm pleased to see that there is also a used tampon in the wastebasket. I begin counting days.... On the correct day, my alarm clock goes off at 4 AM. I use my staff key to enter your suite and find you, pass...

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 I've been posting a lot of stuff to deviantart.com lately. Once in awhile, one of them gets deleted, and I receive an autonotice of it. I have my suspicions that the deletion is done automatically, but hey, wev. It is kind of funny, though, that this was deleted, while this was not: https://www.deviantart.com/magusofpixels/art/Steamy-work-relationships-1129948438 As I said, I have some strong suspicions that these decisions are not being made by a living intelligence.

 Let's try announcing a big anti-trans conference, including a prominent notice that there will be restrooms organized to ensure the safety and privacy of "biological women and biological men" (use the TERFs' own made-up terms to help sell the impression that this is actually being organized by TERFs). Then when they get there, everyone gets a flyer announcing that the conference is carrying out a "complete simulation" of the proposed legislation they're sending to the state legislature. A copy of the model bill will be included, explaining it will make it a legal mandate that all public accommodations create a tiny single-seat restroom for every building. Accompanying text explains that "after all, "one should be sufficient. Even a modest restaurant should be able to pay the rent on a port-a-can, after all." That will make the TERFs positively giddy. Only when they are actually inside the conference facility do they learn that the port-a-...

https://youtu.be/laco8I-4_gE?si=eA6HIK3VGfHCNp9h I remember what an impact ASM #33 had on me as a kid. The overwhelming power of that massive weight of fallen machinery, the effort to lift it, the final success in throwing it off...the rest of the story, with the rescue of the canister, the saving of May Parker's life, the pain of Spider-Man not being credited as a hero, those things struck me very, VERY hard. It would take longer for me to fully understand the significance of things like Betty's horror at Peter's injuries, or Peter's loss of her and his willingness to let her go, of the importance of getting hardnosed with Jonah. It would literally take me until my forties to fully understand that it was all right if only one person like an intelligent doctor or a loving relative appreciates you, even if the whole world doesn't know who you are...or if the whole world thinks you're a pig.