About TheSusie Books
From my “TheSusie FashionMemo: A fictional art memo”
Updated 4/2/25 at 9am ET: My novel is my work of fiction. My names, characters, places, and incidents are products of my imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is coincidental.
NOTE: Unless the material is quoted clearly, I never copy and paste words from AI or any other source into my self-published books — please go to fashiontext.com for more info.
__Todd’s Memoir__
TheSusie Books and zines specify, instantiate, and designate a fictional character named Susie who represents the impact that my Undiagnosed Disability could’ve had and still can have in relation to my life.
Asks AI: “What happens when we fictionalize the most misunderstood aspects of our lives?”
Answers AI: “By transforming challenges into stories, and stories into systems, I seek to empower others to rewrite their own narratives.”
And so these materials are also on track to become like the DNA, source code, and foundation for various catalogues of AI-generated videos, chatbots, interactive book interfaces, next generation social networks, and community-organization footprints, as follows:
1) My platform Book1 = “TheSusie FashionText” (TSFT) = the fictional autobiography of a billionaire journalist in tech named Susie — plus two zines.
2) My application layer Book2 = “TheSusie Fashion Show” (TSS) = the fictional characters from TSFT talking about Facial Disfigurement Disability.
Such that my Book1 (as a platform) + Book2 (as an application of Book1) = TheSusie Books = TSB.
Whereby TSB (TheSusie Books) also offers a case study on the challenges of living with facial disfigurement.
But there’s a lot of often silently visible disagreement and controversy in relation to something about me.
And yet there’s still a lot of opportunity to discuss whether or not it makes sense for mainstream business people to recognize the disfigurement of my face.
But it’s well-documented that there’s been a subtle displacement of my right cheekbone ever since I sustained a facial injury a long time ago.
And then there’s an increasingly strong argument to be made that essentially all people develop unconscious bias toward me — unless they don’t…
As I started writing fiction about this billionaire journalist in tech named Susie who has a pretty good platform for telling the story of another fictional character named Conri, as follows:
So then here’s an example of what AI can generate, but this is just the beginning, as the bigger opportunity with AI will involve making arguments like this to audiences while elaborating conversations between the fictional characters in TSB.
For the next two paragraphs can also be understood as, “An AI chatbot that’s imitating the aforementioned fictional character named Conri within the fictional world that he shares with Susie…”
AI: “A preponderance of evidence indicates that my facial disfigurement causes most individuals to misinterpret my emotions in ways that tend to become self-reinforcing. This dynamic persists unless those who interact with me consciously work to distinguish the displacement of my right cheekbone from the natural movement of the muscles below my left eye.
NOTE: the creation of such official language, along with the broader definitions and frameworks that accompany a Disability Designation, should be a collaborative effort. It would require input from professionals, advocates, and people with lived experience to ensure accuracy and sensitivity”
But channeling the fictional character named Susie has been part of a socially responsible AI research project if nothing else, in my opinion.
And I might get more effective at working with AI to do new scientific research in the future.
At the same time, my Zine1 = “TheSusie FashionZine” via thesusiefashiontext.com/zine shares the first 30-pages of my Book1 in a magazine format that includes a few dozen AI-generated images from TheSusie universe.
But now I’ve been taking or preferring masculine pronouns he/him, only, for several years.
And so it’ll be interesting to see who else starts to recognize my experience of living with Facial Disfigurement as a good reason to invite more and more people to think about taking my story into account — in the sense of celebrating opportunities to share inspiration.
For my fictional character named Susie probably continues to be compatible with all the critical structures or whatnot within the American system.
As my Zine2 = “TheSusie FashionMemo” via thesusiefashiontext.com/memo zooms into a place on my textile map of reality where I can thrive.
Please go to thesusie.com for more info.
Last content change: Apr. 2nd, 2025 around 9am ET
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