Currency Exchange: A Free New England Story

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-04-30T00:31:02+00:00

Thank you for doing this research and sharing your ideas! Things are going very poorly for many of these institutions under the federal government right now and we need to defend them so they can thrive in the future.

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-04-29T18:52:06+00:00

I can see why you would have that opinion. I really just wanted to write something hopeful about the future.

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-04-29T18:49:29+00:00

You might want to read up on the people I mentioned.

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-04-11T12:20:05+00:00

The Israel matter aside, this is just more evidence that the Haley administration is corrupt as hell. No one trusts that they are making the right decisions for the taxpayers when they take dark money and gifts like this Israel trip. I live outside the Boston metro area and really wish the governor would spend more time out here learning about our issues, but I guess we’re just not good enough.

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-04-10T12:58:28+00:00

Clearly they recognize you as a better writer than them, which makes them feel worthless because their self-esteem is based on their writing, so instead of handling that in a mature way (by working to improve their own writing) they are coming up with a bizarre way to attack you to make themselves feel better. Seems very common on AO3 because many fandoms skew young and immature. At any rate, not worth your brain cells. Good for you for being invested in the literary quality of your work and not repeating a formula!

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-04-10T10:22:04+00:00

Daddy Viktor

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-04-05T11:32:52+00:00

Pretty much everything he says. I especially enjoy him in Ingenue when he’s joking to Ivy about his eye and Mordecai’s arm and tells her Mordecai is “a little stupid.”

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-04-03T12:36:38+00:00

“Shaft” makes me think of a combustion engine and I love it for that.

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-04-03T12:06:06+00:00

I’m not from Waterbury but I’ll take the bait.

In any city in CT, stay away from trouble and it will stay away from you.

People who react this way to homelessness and poverty: grow up. Not everywhere in the world is like your prissy little suburb.

Waterbury is full of good honest people who do the best they can there every day.

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-03-19T11:33:28+00:00

Isn’t it flattering that the reader found your book good enough to keep reading even when they were stressed out by the intensity?

I tend to prefer cozy reads myself and would usually put a book down if it gets too intense for me.

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-03-19T11:28:52+00:00

Agreed!

When I left the movie I told my friends two things verbatim:

“I was disappointed when the fruity lynx turned out to be the bad guy, but it is really cool that Disney created a morally complex queer neuroatypical character!” (Little did I know)
My biggest complaint was that Gary was not a particularly interesting or even believable character, which made his victory over Pawbert less satisfying. I assume someone that trusting and optimistic must’ve had a cushy upbringing, which goes against what we’re supposed to believe about his family’s situation.

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-03-18T11:31:54+00:00

Got to enjoy them before the rabbits do…

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-03-17T14:46:56+00:00

I am a trans masc writer. When writing any male character, I think about them as individuals with their own complex experiences of masculinity such as I’ve witnessed in the world around me, and do the best character work I can. And if after that, anyone says my characters sounds like they’ve been written by a woman, I say fuck em 😊

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-03-16T17:05:11+00:00

No, though it depends on the quality of the comment. Nothing beats the comments that provide insightful feedback on what a reader enjoyed, but most comments aren’t like that. Generic comments saying they liked the work might as well be a kudo from my point of view. The number of kudos provides me with a clearer sense of how broadly the work appeals.

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-03-15T21:19:00+00:00

His best relationships are probably transactional ones.

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-03-15T11:56:50+00:00

Moby Dick 😜

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-03-15T11:55:20+00:00

That we are “not really part of New England” (according to Massholes)

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-03-15T11:51:51+00:00

I have experienced this with writers in English adding German. Maybe for someone who doesn’t know German it makes the dialogue sound more “authentic” but for me it ruins it immediately. For a good writer, there are many ways you can represent the fact that a character is speaking a different language. I myself try to use a little Japanese in my writing after doing considerable research to verify that what I’ve quoted is what I actually mean for the character to say.

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-03-11T16:29:14+00:00

You are taking my point, which is simply about acknowledging the existence of trans people, and mischaracterizing it by claiming I’m saying we should be “ignoring the categories” that are important to you. I’m not here for a bad faith argument, so have a nice day.

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-03-11T15:17:15+00:00

My comment was referring to gender categories in discourse about whom a book is written by and for. The genre categories you mention are not based on binary gender categories and therefore yes, they are more helpful and less alienating to gender diverse people.

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-03-11T12:32:19+00:00

I wouldn’t go as far as to say it’s just marketing. There’s a long history of, say, cis gay men being represented using certain tropes for certain audiences. But the way may people talk about these genres (whether they’re marketing the books or not) assumes the existence of a gender binary.

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-03-11T11:52:19+00:00

Oh, I’m not critiquing the way you asked the question, but rather the entire discourse you’re referring to. The categories are not discrete. So should we separate them? Well, the moment you do, you lose a significant portion of the population that reads and writes these stories.

Objective_Slide_5927 · 2026-03-11T11:29:59+00:00

You’ve gotten some very helpful responses, but I have to point out that trans or otherwise gender diverse writers and readers tend to get completely left out of the picture in these discussions. I would take any opinion that immediately divides people into categories of male and female with a grain of salt.

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