About TheSusie Books
From my “TheSusie FashionMemo: A fictional art memo”
Updated 1/14/25 at 7am 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.
__Afterword by Todd__
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 FashionShow” (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 are best understood as, “An AI chatbot that’s imitating the aforementioned fictional character named Conri within the fictional world that he shares with Susie…”
AI: “My facial disfigurement is subtle - — so subtle that most people instinctively assume it couldn’t possibly qualify as a disability. But it is. For over two decades, the trajectory of the law, both in America and beyond, has been steadily converging toward formally recognizing the scientific reality: subtle facial disfigurements like mine constitute disabilities because they trigger an extremely predictable and well-defined pattern of unconscious bias in others.
When people act as though it’s a false belief to say my facial disfigurement is a disability, they’re inadvertently revealing something deeper. Their actions signal a struggle with self-reinforcing patterns of false assumptions, rooted in ignorance of a cold, hard truth: my facial disfigurement has always been a disability.”
NOTE: AI’s quote ended with “That’s the reality at play here,” but I truncated that, because I like ending AI’s quote on the word disability better [Fig. -1 (Todds)]
But channeling the fictional character named Susie has been part of a socially responsible AI research project if nothing else, in my opinion.
For I’ve never run experiments on people. As I explored the idea that art is the science of not running experiments.
And I might get more effective at working with AI and allies to do new scientific research in the future like this fictional character named Susie does, as follows:
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 when I represent my Undiagnosed Disability in the form of fictional character, I do prefer for her to be a woman, because TheSusie from my TSB is not just an abstract and fictional representation that relates to my disability — she’s an abstract and fictional representation that relates to my Undiagnosed Disability.
But the whole idea of TheSusie Books is just an excellent and practical solution to a well-defined problem, and I hope to be acting as if I have real Disability Designations or equivalent soon.
So then it’ll be interesting to see who else ultimately starts to recognize my experience of living with Facial Disfigurement as a good reason to invite more and more people to think about restructuring their worldviews as needed so as to take my story into account more efficiently if not also more joyfully too, 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: Jan. 14th, 2025 around 7am ET
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