As this piece on The Passive Voice begins by remarking, there are lots of (mostly sad) stories to be told starting from the premise “people, including young people, can easily manipulate images of themselves before posting on social media, in an attempt to reach an unattainable, unrealistic, and harmful beauty standard”.
One story I just thought of: a teen subtly manipulates images of herself and her best friend to make herself look better and her friend look worse (to increase the contrast between them).
Mike Reeves-McMillan lives in Auckland, New Zealand, the setting of his Auckland Allies contemporary urban fantasy series; and also in his head, where the weather is more reliable, and there are a lot more wizards. He also writes the Gryphon Clerks series (steampunk/magepunk), the Hand of the Trickster series (sword-and-sorcery heist capers), and short stories which have appeared in venues such as Compelling Science Fiction and Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores.
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