I still really hate, and I know this is going to start A Debate we’ve already had, but so be it, I hate seeing Orson Scott Card compared to Wizard Book Lady either as a writer or a person, bc the fact is he’s a good writer and a vastly differently terrible person
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Card has put *incredible thought* into why he’s queerphobic. WBL has not, and all evidence is that she actually dislikes the Other in most forms from the way she writes her books; Card loves the Other but feels religiously obligated(excusing nothing to be clear) to hate queer ppl
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not saying Card deserves any passes or excuses or even that he’s necessarily less hateful toward queer people(although I think he’s definitely less hateful toward, like, fat people, awkward people, fat people, disabled people, etc.)just that..they’re not in the same weight class
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Card wrote a short story once that was INTENSELY fatphobic as its fundamental premise But it was meant as self-crit/self-mockery, since obviously he is in fact fat irl
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(It's a story about a billionaire who buys a service from a corporation to keep him young and fit forever by cloning him and copying his memories into a new body Normally people only do this once they get old, but he gets too fat to move every like ten years)
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(Then he finds out the company is lying about what they do with the originals after they complete the cloning process, they say they take care of them in a comfortable facility but actually they sell them into slave labor to save on costs)
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...what use is slave labor that’s too fat to move?
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The primary plot of the story is about the protagonist (the 7th clone after the original, codenamed "H") entering a horrific "training regimen" of torture and beatings to force him to lose weight and gain basic manual labor/survival skills within a few months or else be killed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
And during this excruciating process developing a seething hatred for his past self whose every past indulgence has made his life now correspondingly harder, and who put him in this situation by mindlessly agreeing to anything that made his life a bit more convenient
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(With, of course, the irony that it *wasn't* really his past self who put him in this situation -- he *put* his past self in this situation, when he was created And could've avoided this fate if he'd just been the first clone to not come back for a new clone)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
The overseer in charge of torturing him taunts him with the fact that 1) the Company doesn't expect the cycle will ever end until his money runs out, which won't happen for centuries, and 2) not ONE of the new clones has ever even ASKED about the welfare of their predecessors
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
If not for the fat phobia this is actually a wildly intriguing premise
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