User talk:JonBuck/Changing America

Blog Comments?

Just floating an idea for the other Paradise authors. Since much of this story is written through blog posts by the characters, is there any interest in submitting comments I can use? --Buck 03:18, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

I'm guessing some of these comments should be rude, since Serena mentions that she was "outed" by the commentors. After all, the anonymity provided by the Internet does make people more daring and willing to flame, so I guess that it would be logical to have a couple making a lot of insults, sexual innuendo and the such. And also, with the "flame war" that began on the blog, I guess quite some commentors would be interested only in arguing and insulting each other, so I imagine a number of the comments may not even be related to the topic in question.

Not all the comments would be mindless insults, of course, since some of the commentors should be still be, y'know, logical and mature to an extent. So a few might be discussing the topic, some others would be engaged in flaming combat, and others will be trying to break up the fight, right? And the comments don't have to have any part in the storyline, right?

If the above is correct, I can try dropping a bunch of comments for you! If you don't mind? Just give me the green light, and I'll do my very best! Oh, and great story, by the way! It's awesome. :)--Drake 18:15, 10 June 2009

Go ahead and write down your comment ideas here. If I like 'em I'll make them official. :) --Buck 06:56, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Followup: Thinking about it, "canon" comments should add to the story in some way. Otherwise I doubt people will read them. --Buck 20:04, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Got it. I guess it makes sense that the comments should add to the story a little. They don't need to be as long as Robotech Master's, right?--Drake

There do exist people who post long comments on blogs, you know. :P —Robotech Master 04:25, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Comments

Post One: Introductions (Comments)

This one is the part where Serena gets "outed" by commentors. Comments are short and succint, like most are on blogs. If this is ok, JonBuck, then I'll drop more comments for other sections.

  User: SilverFox
     Good to meet you to. Can't wait to see what you'll post later on. Cool blog!
  March 15, 2010, 10:12pm

  User: AsianLeopard
     Cool, another leopard. Lucky here in Asia we don't have the Veil breaking and stuff. Much
     less furs 'round here. And the climate's a lot easier on us. Guess you just have to bear 
     with the cold...
  March 15, 2010, 11:23pm

  User: Furry1337
     Awesome blog you got. Looking forward to your next posts. I'm sure they're gonna be 
     interesting!
  March 16, 2010, 1:07am

  User: AwsimAlpha
     Hey Serena are you a tomboy 'cos you used to be male? I heard somewhere that you're 
     transgendered, right?
  March 16, 2010, 9:02am
       
         User: xXFreakyDogXx
            Holy shit ya I heard about that too!
         March 16, 2010, 9:26am

              User: LemmingsREVOLT
                 <This comment has been flagged as Discrimination>
                  This blog is such a rip-off, then. All that bullshit about "female
                 perspective", it's crap. You've spent your whole life as a male, now 
                 just 'cos you got tits you say you're full of female perspective? MY ASS! 
                 I'll go somewhere else with real perspective!
              March 16, 2010, 9:45am

              User: AwsimAlpha
                  WTF this whole blog is a scam I agree with Lemmings. You're just a man in a 
                  woman's body.
              March 16, 2010, 10:23am

                     User: AsianLeopard
                        Come on pal, chill. You haven't even given the lady a chance yet. 
                        I'm sure she'll surprise us.
                     March 16, 2010, 11:47am
 
                            User: LemmingsREVOLT
                               <This comment haas been flagged as Explicit Profanities>
                               Fuck that you asshole she's not even a real woman how the hell 
                               will she give any "female perspective" you dick?
                            March 16, 2010, 2:35pm

                                     User: AsianLeopard
                                        Who do you think you are to define "real" or "false" 
                                        woman yourself? It's objective and undefinable because 
                                        everyone has their own opinion, so what makes you 
                                        think you can say she's not a real woman?
                                     March 16, 2010, 2:48pm

                                            User:LemmingsREVOLT
                                               That's it, I'm not wasting my time on fags like 
                                               you. I'm heading over to some other blog. This 
                                               one's so gay.
                                            March 16, 2010, 4:10pm

         User: SilverFox
             Please keep all your sexist comments off the blog, Lemmings. It's really annoying.
         March 16, 2010, 3:52pm

         User:S3XYFur
         <This comment has been deleted by an administrator for having explicit sexual 
         references>

--Drake PS Can someone get rid of the wierd boxes? I only wanted the layout. Thanks!

Serena's "Suck It"

You go, girl! If you want to belong to the superior gender, who am I to discourage you?

Seriously, I think this is something people are going to have to think a lot about. Everybody should be thinking about it, because they never know if one day they're going to wake up and find they're playing for the other team. Isn't that scary?

Anyway, it's not as if this is the crude surgical method people have had to use up 'til now, that sorta makes you look or feel like the other sex. This is the real deal. You get your genes scrambled but good, and a fully-functional bod with all the right hormones and natural cycles included. If that doesn't make you the gender you end up, what does?

I'd like to think it'll bring about greater understanding to have people out there who can write how-to-relate guides from personal experience on both sides. But people being people, they'll probably just screw it up again.

Posted by: Long-time vixen, first-time poster, March 21, 9:07 pm.

—Robotech Master 03:01, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

The Envious Alan

Of course you're being manipulated. We all are. Some people have been since as long ago as 1987.

Think about it. There's no possible cause that could explain the Change. No disease, no nanite grey goo, no genetic mutation, nothing. Maybe some of those could explain the form change, but what about the intelligent nature of the "reality distortion field" around us? The way it first kept anyone from seeing anything weird, and now it selectively edits everything associated with us? When "John Doe" suddenly wakes up Jane and a doe, and not only has all his ID cards and all photos of him everywhere changed to female but suddenly has a wardrobe full of girly clothes to match?

Something is messing with reality—editing reality. There are all kinds of theories floating around about what or who, but I don't think we'll ever really know. I would just like to point out that one philosopher thinks there is a 20% chance we're living in a simulation instead of real life. So if we are, maybe whoever's running it is poking the anthill.

It does seem like whoever's doing it at least isn't randomly cruel. If we're being forced "out of the closet" by the veil slipping away, it seems to be doing its best to smooth things over. Your furry comrades might have been hassled in Detroit, but they weren't chased by a mob with torches and pitchforks. Something's overriding humanity's tendency to hate and fear what they don't understand.

From my perspective, that can only be a good thing.

Posted by: A vixen fixin' to get her licks in, March 22, 9:17 a.m.

(Perhaps it might be too blatant, but on the other hand it's so obvious that it has to be said out in the open sometime... —Robotech Master 20:42, 11 June 2009 (UTC))