(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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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
(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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Replying to @arthur_affect
...what use is slave labor that’s too fat to move?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
(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
The story ends with this kind of cheesily predictable Wham Ending The fully-trained-up H, transformed into this starved broken shell of a man, is told what his first assignment will be in his new career and we're only told it's "worse than anything he'd imagined"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
And he asks "Can I just know one thing? Where am I? What am I doing? The real me" The Company guy thinks he means the current clone, who ironically is codenamed "I", and tells him he's having huge banquets on a pleasure planet and well on his way to ending up back here
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Replying to @arthur_affect
So this reads to me as Card hating himself for not being able to stick to a diet (to be clear, not something I judge in the slightest) and of course coming up with a dystopian short story about it
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Like all his Problematic stories in terms of writing it's a very powerful story, I think, because the problematicness comes from such a deep core of personal self-hate
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
See this is why you've gotta watch who you hand The Tools to - right-wing Christianity is already a psychopath-making machine; when they get into genre writing it and aren't using it to get OUT of the machine itself this is what you get
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Replying to @the_moviebob @arthur_affect
I mean LDS hands the tools out themselves. That’s one of their weird peculiarities. The American Nerd Religion with the worst qualities of all those terms
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