Maker: Write newsletter; resume HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT.
Manager: Finish transcribing HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT (8p remaining).
Marketer: Rough out a promo stack, probably?
Today’s image is…
OK, look, I’ve developed this, you know. Habit. Of — so, Chinese, right? China is not the greatest place to be LGBTQ+, and it’s been hard not to notice that all the Duolingo content for Chinese is, going by the words at least, extremely heteronormative? So you’ll see “he goes running with his girlfriend every Saturday,” but not “he goes running with his boyfriend.” Which isn’t to say that this is unique to Chinese content on Duolingo, I only really do Chinese, I’m just saying I notice it and it annoys me; and so I have this, like I was saying, habit. Of screenshotting quietly and/or inadvertently LGBTQ+-positive content on Duolingo.
Currently reading: BATMAN/CATWOMAN, by Tom King, Clay Mann, and Liam Sharp.
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