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2023-03-13 -Great Cultural Revolution

‘This Is What Your Worlds Are Lacking’: Artists Are Using AI To Create Fat, Black Sci-Fi And Fantasy Characters

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Posted by Omiting Theting7288 2023-03-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 When your superpower is IBS caused by adding sugar to your Frosted Flakes.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-03-13 12:33|| 2023-03-13 12:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Like there aren't already enough characters.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-13 12:40|| 2023-03-13 12:40|| Front Page Top

#3 “Fat, Black people deserve to be main characters capable of anything.” --Cheyenne M. Davis

Why? I can't jump high so I don't play basketball. Why should a "fat black person" be capable of anything only because they are 'melanin enhanced™'?

Posted by magpie 2023-03-13 14:01|| 2023-03-13 14:01|| Front Page Top

#4
Who wouldn't love to read
stories of cyber Joes.
Of superluminal ships,
and dense black hoes.

Posted by Dron66046 2023-03-13 14:11|| 2023-03-13 14:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Behold our new utopian ideal - and dating will be strictly enforced.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-03-13 14:12|| 2023-03-13 14:12|| Front Page Top

#6 All hail the Gleichshaltung! One reason I stopped buying SF magazines...

Posted by magpie 2023-03-13 14:52|| 2023-03-13 14:52|| Front Page Top

#7 My world is not lacking this: I deliberately excluded it.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-03-13 18:24|| 2023-03-13 18:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Put it this way, when they finally do a woke remake of Dune, I believe we've found our new Baron Harkonnen.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-03-13 19:10|| 2023-03-13 19:10|| Front Page Top

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