genre fiction is fascist. the only ideologically pure fiction is slice-of-life with no plot.
any book with more than one sex scene is erotica
romance novels encourage women to have unrealistic fantasies, like “having enjoyable sex” and “being apologized to”
describing a female character’s body for any reason, even during a sex scene where her love interest’s body is described too, means you’re a gross male writer who doesn’t understand women
if the protagonist is an anti-hero or morally gray, each chapter should have a disclaimer detailing all of said protagonist’s moral failings
I can add at least one more, from someone I unfollowed last week because of it:
– if anything bad happens to any of your characters for any reason, it’s because you have unprocessed trauma and you should stop writing fiction and go to therapy
can’t forget these
if a romantic relationship between two fictional characters is anything less than wholesome and drama-free without it being explicitly condemned every chapter, the writer thinks it’s a perfect romance everyone should aspire to and is thus encouraging abusing relationships
if a book about queer characters does not perfectly encapsulate my personal experience and i personally didn’t relate to it or like it, it was definitely written by a cishet person for a cishet audience and is problematic and bad
feeling a little high reading these
If a character was ever shown as a minor, allowing that character to have sex as an adult is exactly equivalent to child porn
If a female character is under 5’4", she’s child-coded, and therefore your work is potentially child porn even if she’s not shown in sexual situations
The death of any character who is queer falls under “kill your gays” and is not allowed. (Actual example– “they should have changed the ending to Bohemian Rhapsody.”)
The death of any character who is a woman is “fridging”
The death of any character who is another minority is “the expendable brown person”
Any close relationship between two people of the same gender is “queerbaiting” (also includes “not referring to two explicitly agender beings in a queer-platonic relationship as men that fuck”)
Any cishet character who has a gender-nonforming personality trait, a personality trait that is found attractive by members of the same sex, or, for that matter, has any qualities that queer people can relate to is “queerbaiting”
Others I’ve also seen:
“This story takes place in the future, therefore the characters in it would CURRENTLY be underage, so writing them having sex is paedophilia.”
“The author of Naruto was sexualising him by ageing his character up to have a son, ie the literal passage of time is now problematic.”
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