candiedsmokedsalmon: candiedsmokedsalmon: I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: it’s more important to know and understand fully why something is harmful than it is to drop everything deemed problematic. It’s performative and does nothing. People wonder why nobody[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
boydykedevo: Literally it sucks trying to find any actually interesting queer worldbuilding its all “society where everything is the same but people are sometimes gay” or “this world DOESNT have a patriarchy” or “there’s a third gender ig” if you’re[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
tyrantisterror: funkypoacher: thecourtshrieker: suilesbianpoasts: apparently no one was paying attention in middle school language arts when we learned what a fucking protagonist was #while we’re at it the author is not the narrator or the protagonist either now THIS one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
mayskalih: Just a daily reminder that fiction is not a moral compass guide. It can be, but doesn’t have to every single time. Fiction doesn’t mean ‘I want this to happen to me or anyone else in real life’. Fiction[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
transfaguette: what is strange about the way people talk about media on here is theres an assumption that there is a correct way for a story to be written, and if a story doesn’t adhere to it, then it is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
zhabke: doctorscienceknowsfandom: ookaookaooka: I’m hardly the first person to compare them but Terry Pratchett and J K Rowling really are polar opposites in terms of the way their writing treats weird characters. In Rowling’s writing, any weirdness is there to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
dead-discourse-archive: You have to wonder where the idea that fic, romance stories and the like, MUST emulate healthy relationships, comes from. And then you realize that this is the generation that has been steadily fed the diet of shitty media[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…