You can look at banned book lists. There are plenty of banned books which are banned simply because there are queer themes. Some because they talk about race in a frank way. The top 10 most challenged books of 2022 include books by John Green and Toni Morrison. A Handmaid’s Tale also often pops up on banned books lists because we can’t have girls learning about what fascists have planned for them.
By the way, your local public library should have all of these books, but if they don’t, you can either request the library get them or get them through inter-library loan.
I guess it just means I’m not a big nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake guy because I’m Gen X and I didn’t like Ready Player One either. The book was marginal and the movie was awful. I’m not sure why I even watched the movie after reading the book. I guess mostly because of The Shining part, which, meh.
“Let us tell you the advantages of adding your uniqueness to our own. Have you thought of what will happen if you don’t join the collective before you die?”
Except there are tons of free calculator apps, so they aren’t charging more in this case. Your criticism of Apple, in general, is warranted. Just not in this case.
There are a lot of weird anime fans I’ve encountered who seem to think that everyone is as familiar with anime as they are. I don’t get it. I’m a massive Trekkie, but I wouldn’t expect strangers that aren’t on a Star Trek forum or something to understand what I’m talking about when I discuss Rick Berman’s role in preventing queer characters from being a major presence on Star Trek shows until the kiss between Jadzia and another Trill host in the late 1990s being a microcosm of the television landscape of the 1980s and 1990s as a whole including the acceptability of queer women (such as Ellen) on TV vs. queer men… Because they have no idea what the fuck I’m talking about or who Rick Berman is or what a Jadzia could possibly be even if I could expand upon that and write a nice tight little essay.
Copyright law in the U.S. used to be 19 years with an option to renew after that 19 and was that way until the early 1970s. That should be more than long enough for any copyright to last.