You can use the following letter as a template to send to your representatives. Or you can write your own letter.
Dear President Biden,
My name is ______ and I am a ______ in _____. I am writing to you to ask that you please oppose the Kids Online “Safety” Act. This act harms children, especially queer or abused children , and allows children to be indoctrinated into their parents’ worldviews.
Children, especially teenagers, deserve the freedom of the current internet. They deserve to listen to many different viewpoints, to hear the stories of many different people, to learn about many different experiences. They deserve to meet many different people and learn from them. They deserve to interact with many different forms of art expressing many different viewpoints. This allows them to form their own ideas and opinions about the world and become their own people. It broadens their horizons and makes them more open minded.
If parents are given control over what children learn about on the internet, then many parents will ensure that their children are not exposed to any views that contradict their own.
This will make it so that future generations can no longer learn more than and become better than older generations. The only thing making our society progress is younger generations learning more and becoming more accepting than older generations.
LGBT+ children under KOSA will often be stopped from accessing resources that help them learn that being LGBT+ is okay. Many children won’t be able to go against their parents’ homophobia and learn to love themselves. This will lead to many mental illnesses and suicides.
Also, abused children often go to the internet to access resources that teach them that what is happening to them is bad and they deserve better, and to access resources that help them escape. Their parents of course will not allow them to access these resources under KOSA.
Thank you for reading my letter and please take my concerns to heart.
A sort of coming of age story following a young "human being" who is forcibly institutionalized after a psychotic breakdown.Love,tears,dissociation and waiting eternally for a spaceship that never comes ensues.
tw for mention of death and murder, hallucinations,psych ward,ableism,ableist language,main character losing touch with reality thru most of the story,dissociation,memory loss
Worrying about Halara Nightmare, Rain Code's non-binary beauty
Despite seemingly presenting as female at first impression, Halara Nightmare from (Master Detective Archive: Rain Code) is non-binary. Or, to be clearer about it, their character profile says that they "have no specified gender." However, they are described as "beautiful" to both men and women, which... yeah, I can see that. Halara definitely rocks that look.
Look at 'em sweeping that coat around. Every detective should rock an epic coat.
And they're more than a cool coat — Halara's a really compelling character! Like so many characters that've been born from the minds of Kazutaka Kodaka and his supporting team, Halara is an odd duck who possesses believable complexity thanks to a mix of positive and negative traits — some of which seem to come out of left field in the best way.
But here's the thing: I've been doing this for a while. I've seen all the raging discourse that follows video game/visual novel/anime characters such as Chihiro Fujisaki, Naoto Shirogane, and R/Luka Urushibara. So I know a significant chunk of players aren't going to just see Halara as another character participating in the larger narrative who happens to provide some nice diversity to the cast. Even though this is the kind of story where a massive amount of the cast isn't going to make it out alive, many would-be fans are going to take it extremely personally if Halara gets killed or — god forbid — winds up being a culprit at some point. Even MORESO if either of those happens in the first half of the game, for that matter. And worst of all... I can't even say that such a reaction would be wholly unjustified. Y'know?
That's why Halara isn't just a compelling non-binary character who could go any number of directions from my current point in the game; they're a powder keg waiting to go off. I love the representation, but... they also make me nervous.
I'm simultaneously both totally open to whatever story Kodaka wants to tell me AND crossing my fingers for Halara to avoid sparking a bunch of discourse.
I've been reading this webcomic called Millenials Kill made by my partner and apparently it's an ARG (Alternative Roleplaying Game)
It takes place in a mafia town and there are a lot of secret codes and mysteries that reveal hidden lore and stuff about the story.
BUT I haven't managed to solve a single secret puzzle so far!😂 This thing is too much of a challenge for me. I'm honestly starting to consider cheating and asking metamour what the correct answers are.