I am not a teen.

  • zoostation@lemmy.world
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    Writing a story and having to make my characters not want to have sex because of the existence of an unrelated industry outside the context of their universe.

    Striking out any gambling references in my stories because of the rise of online gambling.

    Then I realize I’ve stupidly written scenes where my characters eat, having forgotten like a stupid hack how many restaurants there are in the real world.

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      Do you characters take big stinky poops? Because that’s a real thing too. Do they pop pimples on their body or on their partners? The list goes on. There’s an audience for everything, but it’s pretty obvious sex isn’t as much of a driver for movies anymore.