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Oh. Whoops. There it is, right in your profile.

I'd like to tell you how much it means to me that you described yourself as having curled up on the bed w/ batteries in a pillowcase.

Lying down while afraid.

Not owning anything heavier than a bunch of batteries with which to defend oneself.

These are scene details that women include all the time in narration but that men really don't very often.

Thanks for normalizing them for your gender. Every voice does that just a little bit more (kind of like Granny Liz from the old "Granny Gets a Vibrator" blog normalized a female civilian non-body-builder obsessing about her weightlifting results). :-D


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