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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/twitterblueskymastodon/p/1054594/barely-disguised-fetish

what if instead of "the author's barely disguised fetish" it was blatantly obvious but done in the most mundane way possible, like you got a 100-foot tall woman in the story but the focus is a complex legal battle about her struggle to get planning permission for a house her size and not much else

get the findom guy in the writer's room but just before the main character can send hundreds of dollars to a hot babe he realises he needs the money for groceries, so then the show just follows him doing that and taking 10 minutes to decide if spending a lil extra for the organic peppers is worth it Bluesky.

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Does having 5 minutes of closeup of a woman's foot because she's just awaken from a coma and is trying to get her legs to move, starting from her toes count?

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Woman fills out legal paperwork" is also a fetish.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 34 points 2 days ago (6 children)

That raises an interesting ethical concern. Should a 100' tall woman have equal access to housing assistance? You could house hundreds of normal sized people for the same resources it would take to house her, but is she not deserving of the same benefits other people receive? Is it greatest good over equality?

[–] GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Clifford the big red dog has a house that's larger than his owners'. He's gotta eat at least truck's worth of food every day, right? I bet they need to rent out heavy machinery to have his dumps removed, too. Not to mention how many property damage lawsuits he regularly causes by wagging his tail or rolling around at the park.

This has nothing to do with equality or whatever, I just want to know what Emily Elizabeth's parents do for a living to be able to afford such a financial black hole of a dog.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Perhaps taking care of Clifford is what they do. The government just pays them to do it, and helps cover the costs, because the alternative is having Clifford rampaging around the city completely uncontrolled. They're functionally zookeepers for kaiju.

[–] pooberbee@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can tell that Clifford is fiction because the police haven't shot him.

[–] GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

On the one hand ACAB, on the other hand if a dog this big was dragging a cop around by the wrist like this I don't know that I could really blame him for it

[–] Janx@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Well... Someone did tell him to "fetch" the police!

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

Selling Clifford's droppings as fertilizer, or to research labs

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is why the zootopia economy baffles me...

Yeah, how can there be effective arbitrage of popsicles for elephants to popsicles for lemmings? Shouldn't everything be priced by weight, so that the big animals must have much more costly needs?

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago

She's an abomination and needs to be put down

[–] baahb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Thousands even. Presume she's 6ft naturally cause that gives us a normal sized house... Presume a living space 35 ft by 35ft. now scale that 50 times... And now make it vertical too.... Presuming the house is roughly twice her height, which is probably understating, and no basement, we are looking at a 12 million ft³ volume

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I reckon that's where her equalised value comes in. Are the costs on sorting out such a big domicile larger than most for tax payers? Certainly. And let's not forget assistance with food, hygeine, medical, etc.

But the things a 100ft woman can do for their community and larger society are endless. In return for the effort put in for her, she is able to contribute largely in ways no other can.

I would not want to be her aged care worker down the track, though.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

She's going to struggle to stand if I learned anything in biomechanics

But the things a 100ft woman can do for their community and larger society are endless. In return for the effort put in for her, she is able to contribute largely in ways no other can.

Is this still a description of a sexual fetish?

[–] Caveman@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

Probably be on her to build it at that point.

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

A tentacle monster is in a toxic relationship with a human. The entire story is about the divorce proceedings and how society treats non-humans in the system

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I would like to see a lot more short stories for nerds that just go super fucking practical about scifi premises.

Ghostbusters suing the EPA.

Pacific Rim: All litigation edition

Planet of the Apes - getting a permit for an indoor human

Terminator 2: Custody Battle

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a completely unnecessary courtroom scene in Project Hail Mary (the book) that really feels like Andy Weir just wanted to make his disdain for the legal system known. It's not necessary to the premise of the story, or even the background.

It's not enough that this multinational organization has completely seized control over the Sahara for an alien microbe farming operation or nuked Antarctica in widespread geo engineering, but, get this, they even got an exemption from copyright law!

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

they even got an exemption from copyright law

See, that's how your know it's fiction.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pacific Rim doesn't really work when you think about it, I'm not convinced the damage from the monsters is necessarily any less than the damage caused by the giant robots walking around fighting the alien monster things.

But then again they never explain why you can't just drop a bomb on them from high altitude.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

There's a backstory that basically told the tale of the first kaiju and they tried to nuke it and it didn't go well. Video explainer. It took 3 nukes, so especially since they go underwater for most of the trip and then surface close to shore, it's not worth the risk.

And yeah, I would expect that there's some law about "can't sue if the jeager steps on your house" or something.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

DaiGuard touches on this. It's a giant robot anime but the pilots are just wrong-place-right-time workers, the mech is hard to control because it's a giant mech, and they have to deal with insurance claims and shit for all the stuff they destroy in the fights.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

OH MY GOD! THE INSURANCE! I totally did't even think of that. Good call!

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Someone mentioned on YouTube that they would kill to see Truman's lawsuit from after The Truman Show ends.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ugh. I mean, 20% of them already are boring practical stuff.

Phantom Menace: Coruscant wires credits to Tattooine. The whole movie is waiting around for the shop to do some work. Sitting in a miserable waiting room.

Attack of the Clones: Bugs??? Bugs in my Senator Condo? Padme's going to find the contract and see if the landlord should spray for bugs or if she has to pay for that.

Rise of the Sith: Crashing most of a ship on a landing strip earns Anakin several tickets and he has to go to traffic court to get them dismissed.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Watto doesn't accept republic credits. That was the whole issue.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ok but here on earth, where we only have one species to transact with, we still have currency exchanges everywhere so that you could exchange the republican credits for something usable - and while, maybe, tatooine doesn't have one ON THE WHOLE FUCKING PLANET, which seems dubious if there's a whole galaxy out there using republican credits, somewhere else in the star system might or in a nearby star system would surely have the ability to exchange currencies, right?

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sure, we have those, but most random small shop owners don't want to deal with that. Try and go into a mom & pop in the US and pay in Euros

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@mojofrododojo@lemmy.world is right. Go to any moderate-sized market in Africa and if you just show up wit USD or GBP or EUR, someone will gladly exchange it for local currency. Not at the bank rate, just whatever they feel like. It's a 20 minute conversation.

"OK, Mister Watto - who does currency exchange in this truck stop town?"

"Eeehh, talk to Martin down at the cantina."

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yup, and roll the credits.

sure it'd be a short movie but it'd make so much more sense!

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The movie could have been 90 minutes more of Trade Federation stuff! Oh YEAH!

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

ooh we missed out

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

but the whole fuckin planet? no one on an entire planet with multiple cities?

eh....

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Startrek, finally wiring in some damn cameras after manually hunting down intruders for the fifty eight thousandth time.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

Notice how they don't have cameras, they've just got sensors that get easily blocked by convenient subspace shenanigans, but no one thought of adding any actual light detecting cameras.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Honestly, I would fucking kill for a Star Trek take on The West Wing. Like, how does the Federation government work? How do you legislate when you're made up of dozens of species?

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd have to have a look at a pacific rim ground crew story, jim was testing the brain link but was caught scratching his nuts, it's been five days and parts we need haven't showed up so we might have to send a limping mech to let them know we are serious, someone got fired after security cameras recorded them hanging a date up in the cockpit for the third time

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

The jagers can't go out because one of the pilots hasn't changed his password in 30 days

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 10 points 2 days ago

Get to it then, OP.

[–] mr_account@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

The author's barely disguised fetish of available and affordable housing. As an American, this just sickens me to the core. How am I supposed to explain this to my kids‽

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 2 days ago

All the shots are at human level, so lots of upskirt but somehow panties are never shown.