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I finished the podcast and made some of my food for the trip. Phew! Now, I just need to finish sewing the bras, and then I'm pretty much done. Sewing the fold-over elastic on is really hard on me, probably because of spacial something or other and how it interacts with my brain damage. However, I divided it up into two parts, so I think I can make it through the next batch of sewing with minimal whining. After that, I'll just be attaching everything together (which, I guess technically is what almost all of sewing is), so it won't take too long.
In other news, I am having a really good time with the interactive fiction story. I like interactive stories that don't ask you directly or out of context what your gender, sexual preferences, etc are, and I feel like I have found the right place to ask for gender, gender presentation, pronouns, and if you are keeping your status as a child of Zeus a secret. Up next is introducing some characters and asking the reader about flirting, how racy love scenes should be, and giving them the option of turning off all mentions of romance/sex/etc. I think this should be as simple as setting a variable and then displaying only the amount of detail that the user wants. It is no where near as difficult, I think, as trying to have verbs agree with both traditionally singular and traditionally plural pronouns ("he is" vs. "they are"). We'll see how that goes. I realize now that none of the games I play let you make the characters whose gender is swappable be someone who uses "they" as a pronoun. Based on how pro-pronouns some of these games are, I assume that this is because of the verb issue. I could use "xe", but I do not have a feeling for that pronoun at all. I think what I might do is have characters who are non-binary in some way or other, whose gender you can't choose. Then, I can hard code in the correct verbs. Also, based on the time period, one would probably not be terribly out about gender nonconformity in many cases, since if you weren't a guy with a beard and functioning genitals, you lost a lot of rights, not just social status.
In other news, I am having a really good time with the interactive fiction story. I like interactive stories that don't ask you directly or out of context what your gender, sexual preferences, etc are, and I feel like I have found the right place to ask for gender, gender presentation, pronouns, and if you are keeping your status as a child of Zeus a secret. Up next is introducing some characters and asking the reader about flirting, how racy love scenes should be, and giving them the option of turning off all mentions of romance/sex/etc. I think this should be as simple as setting a variable and then displaying only the amount of detail that the user wants. It is no where near as difficult, I think, as trying to have verbs agree with both traditionally singular and traditionally plural pronouns ("he is" vs. "they are"). We'll see how that goes. I realize now that none of the games I play let you make the characters whose gender is swappable be someone who uses "they" as a pronoun. Based on how pro-pronouns some of these games are, I assume that this is because of the verb issue. I could use "xe", but I do not have a feeling for that pronoun at all. I think what I might do is have characters who are non-binary in some way or other, whose gender you can't choose. Then, I can hard code in the correct verbs. Also, based on the time period, one would probably not be terribly out about gender nonconformity in many cases, since if you weren't a guy with a beard and functioning genitals, you lost a lot of rights, not just social status.
