Elizabeth Bear: "I want to read some books about competence-porn queers instead of disaster queers," I think, writing another book about a lesbian trapped on a strange planet with the girl who dumped her, a pirate, a space marine, and a giant bug.

"I want to read some books about competence-porn queers instead of disaster queers," I think, writing another book about a lesbian trapped on a strange planet with the girl who dumped her, a pirate, a space marine, and a giant bug.

At least she's really good at her job.

maybe the bug is a competent lesbian bug

The bug is very competent! It's Mantis Cop! Actually they're all quite competent, it's just that my protag is pretty mopy over her ex.

Zorak (from Space Ghost: Coast to Coast) thanks you for your praise.

You just somehow got his love song to his sweetie, Zingor, stuck in my head. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLGs... "Green is the color of my true love's exoskeleton."

Zingor Space Ghost Musical Bar-B-Que Track 6www.youtube.com Zorak

I (very sloppily) made him topical! Apologies to both you and Scott.

Hah! Also, Cheeirilaq's pronouns are it/its. :D

Ah. My apologies to Cheeirilaq along with reassurances that it won't happen again.

The Goodlaw thanks you! Gender is a fraught conversation when you're a giant mantid.

Having both hands and mantis grabbers is cute

Cheeirilaq has so many limbs it's kind of ridiculous.

Yeah, I would naively have said your main characters in that series are generally both :-).

Hah, thank you! People gotta have problems to overcome, right?

Re BDOs: George O. Smith's "Lost Art" is about what gets left out of technical documentation. I could see an analog where ancient aliens go to tremendous trouble to mark a site or artifact as lethally dangerous, only for humans to interpret the warnings as "To Find Cool Stuff Dig Here."

That is not exactly the plot of this book, but it is definitely in the same ballpark. It's the whole THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR problem, isn't it?

My default for any extra solar colony is that in case of a galaxy wide social collapse, instructions for the creation and necessity of flush toilets will be engraved in easy to understand pictographs in the middle of each urban center

I was gonna say, if Cheeirilaq's there, you've got 'competence' covered for the exoskeletal set anyway. They're quite good at their job.

Thank you! I'm very fond of the giant bug. :D

But the giant bug is awesome.

Why thank you!

@premeemohamed.com is this you?

I'LL GET HOME EVENTUALLY

There might be some scary adventures first!

It could be both though. Disaster competence.

It's me, competence-porn queer

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