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If you want to find out how politically free or unfree your situation is here is a simple test for you to do which works EVERY time regardless of country or culture:

Ask yourself how free people are in your society to live the gender and sexuality of their choice and how much autonomy they have in regard to them.

NEW ESSAY about Helen Lewis debating AI hallucinations of my work & Victoria Smith inventing vile lies about me. Why? Because that's what "gender critical" activists do:
on Substack (no paywall)
https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/why-do-helen-lewis-victoria-smith
& Medium (friend link)
https://juliaserano.medium.com/why-do-helen-lewis-victoria-smith-and-other-gender-critical-activists-lie-about-my-work-fbcdda455be9?sk=be3aeaaf7e5e073cbdc2387d96175880
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660 — What is your MC’s relationship with their family like?

Thorn Rose's mother was smuggled out of the dragon lands in a crate of onions and garlic to prevent her from becoming a slave, but her mother is obviously an immigrant with an accent and foreign ways despite resembling the majority. Her mother lives in the bad neighborhood because it feels safer. Since her mother has no brother, Thorn has no uncle and was raised by servants. Fathers play no role in the Reluctance Series. Her mother is a grandmother's age, runs a business, and is strict about school and study; that's okay with Thorn because she loves both. What's not okay is her mother thinks boys are a distraction, but is too old to perfectly police a frequently appearing male nuisance. What makes it difficult, and it's because her mother insisted on living in the wrong 


2025.05.02 — If you paint, do you have “recipes” or tricks for mixing colors, or do you eyeball it?

I paint with light. My two main recipes is to recognize bright colors on a dim background (which will render black in posts) or to recognize contrasting colors that will render a bright foreground (orange, purple, yellow, white) against a contrasting background (usually blue, brown, or green). Though it's a bit harder, I try to imagine the scene as bright against dark, as monochrome. This renders as either painterly (low contrast) or blown out (solarized). I do these things instinctively without having to raise the camera. Lots can be fixed in post.

Technique described in .

[Author and photographer retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

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A rose practicing bright red against dark green, with side lighting and shadow defining the rose so it is full and gorgeous. The technique of imagining monochrome in this case provides less total contrast like an oil painting. Photographer retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.

Currently thinking about the gender differences when a parent-kid relation is shown prominently in manga. So far I'm here, please correct me if I'm wrong:
- most of these relations focus on mum and son and are pornographic (that's a whole other subject 😑 ). Now let's check the remaining non-porno titles.
- when the relation is positive, we see more dad-kid (brave single dad doing his best) than mum-kid relations. Actually, maybe there's even more grand parent-kid than mum-kid relations.
- when the relation is negative, the dad-kid relation can be overcome for the character to grow and the mum-kid relation is more likely to break the character.

What do you think? Please share, I'd love to get other's opinions and examples!

Rebecca Helm, Biologin und Assistenzprofessorin an der University of North Carolina in Asheville (USA) schreibt:

Hier ist eure freundliche Biologin aus der Nachbarschaft. Ich sehe, dass gerade viele Leute ĂŒber biologisches und reden. Viele stellen das biologische Geschlecht als super simpel dar. Naja, wenn's so einfach ist, lass uns doch mal die biologischen Wurzeln finden, okay? Lass uns ĂŒber Geschlecht reden...

Wenn du ein bisschen was ĂŒber weißt, wirst du wahrscheinlich sagen, dass biologisches Geschlecht durch bestimmt wird: und du bist , und du bist . Das ist das "chromosomale Geschlecht", aber ist es auch das "biologische Geschlecht"? Tja...

Stellt sich raus, dass es nur EIN auf dem Y-Chromosom gibt, das wirklich wichtig fĂŒr das Geschlecht ist. Es heißt SRY-Gen. WĂ€hrend der menschlichen aktiviert das -Protein mĂ€nnlich-assoziierte Gene.