Not gonna lie: I’m positively vibrating with anticipation at the thought of this. I friggin’ adore the Culture series and the idea of seeing it realized on screen is giving me a pleasure overload. Prestige sci-fi has a good track record on TV right now (West World, Altered Carbon, Discovery (I know that one is…

Consider Phlebas is a wonderful book because it’s a riposte to jingoistic hey-yeah military space operas. It’s a book about a dumbass who doesn’t understand what’s going on, gets his backside repeatedly handed to him and then falls apart. It’s an inversion and deconstruction of space operas, which works very well as a…

I want to be so excited for this, cautiously optimistic is the best I can do because The Culture series is so dang important to me as a Sci-Fi fan.

Wow. I don’t even care if they screw it up, as long as I get to see a GSV and an orbital.

This is bonkers, this can’t possibly be real, can it?

Use of Weapons would have to be on a streaming service so you could watch the episodes in chronological order instead of as presented in the book. The venn diagram describing “people who would understand Use of Weapons presented as written on episodic TV” and “People who have not read Use of Weapons” is two circles on…

Consider Phlebas is an interesting one to start with, even if it is the first Culture book. From what I understand, Use of Weapons is a much better introduction, since Consider Phlebas is from the perspective of someone not a part of the Culture.

Yeah, I was trying to hit both sides of the argument, to head off a dodge. Probably did it a little clumsily. The “also” in my sentence “It is also absolutely possible for people to have no interest in sex” was meant to cover being asexual, but then I was unclear in the following sentence and kinda mucked it up. No…

Do you just go around looking for things to trigger you, or are you just triggered all the time by everything? If you go into articles about things that upset you just to upset yourself, you may be ignoring your own mental issues. Wanting to wear different clothes is not a mental issue, wanting to be angry about…

Will do as soon as you can prove to me more than two genders exist.

the commonly accepted scientific consensus among biologists, psychologists and sociologists is that more than two genders exist. no one needs to prove it to you, you need to educate yourself.

While inspired by LGBTQ students (yay!), it’s a bonus for the cis female students as well. My mother got her school’s skirt policy changed in the 60s — all of the girls in the school staged a “pant-in” (that is, they all showed up wearing pants) and there was even a newspaper article about it.

Sure, just as soon as you scan and upload that PhD in psychology from a credible university~

totally agreed, I went to high school in Japan and at first I hated the idea of wearing a uniform, but I quickly realized that 1. it got rid of class signifiers and made kids from high income families and kids from working class families look like equals, 2. it’s convenient and saves time - you roll out of bed in the…

To be fair they are both famous. The foreigner is from LadyBaby and the older older person is Hideaki Kobayashi “Sailor Suit Old Man”. Both were featured on Kotaku.

I’ve been here long enough that the weirdest part of that picture is that there’s a foreigner in it.

It’s less an out-of-the-blue surprise rather more an inevitable step forward. And uniform-swapping is not unprecedented in Japan.

Holy shit those kids are so lucky. I hated my school’s male uniform so much and fantasised about this exact scenario pretty much every day (and fucking hated myself super intensely for being some kind of broken sex deviant because I had no idea being trans was even a thing).

True, it’s progressive for Japan, but it’s still got pretty bad wrinkles of weirdness, if you think about it.

I just want to remind everyone that you do not there is a batter option to take care of the trolls that will inevitably swarm the comment section rather than dog-pilling on them with replies and pushing their thread to the top of the comments section.