when you weathered the onceler storm of โ12 and you can see the bendynoodle cucumberpatch grinch wildfire on the horizon of 2018 but you follow a select group of blogs whose judgement you trust
โa writerโs characterโs viewpoints donโt reflect the writerโs viewpoints!!!โ actually, they do.
that doesnt mean having a, for instance, homophobic character means the author is homophobic. but how is the homophobia treated? is it criticized? is it excused, idealized? is it framed so that the homophobia is clearly wrong? does the inclusion of homophobia in the narrative serve a point? ย
writers, especially professional published writers, know that their writing has an impact, and the morals they put forward in their work reflect deeply on themselves. they know how they frame and present their work can completely change the result and effect it has.ย
so maybe the characterโs viewpoints donโt say much about the writer, but how the writer presents this character and its viewpoints says a hell of a fuckin lot about the writer.
i think i just saw a blog i followed run by a genderqueer person get sucked into terf shit?
their archive had a bunch of antiterf posts pretty solidly debunking the myth that trans women transition to fucking assault cis lesbians, and a whole bunch of good trans pos posts but more recent cotton cieling shit reblogged by terfs. particularly nasty ones blogs like, fucking dedicated to the idea that all trans women transition to bget away with rape, and all trans men are guinea pigs for sadistic doctors who are doing it bc they hate women? convinced that the government is trying to forcibly transition women w hormonal disorders or something?ย like buddy ur blog says ur genderqueer how are u falling for this shit?
how do people get convinced terfs are going to let them into their club itโs like 100% based on exclusion and gaslighting people into thinking their own gender was forced onto them by the medical industry or whatever. how does this happen. who looks at a blog dedicated to gaslighting people exactly like u and think, hey this looks lgit? this looks like something i should check out just to be fair u know? give them a chance
or like who even experiences being genderqueer thing and thinks, yeah Doctors love letting ppl transition! no jumping through hoops here! doctors just line up to give people like me hrt! society loves me! my identity isnโt for myself, itโs part of a plot to either erase or assualt cis women! this is either like someone nonbinary who really has it out for trans women, or a form of self harm tbh
ppl who dont even like shakespeare: WOW how DARE you alter the original text these are CLASSICS have you no RESPECT, going around DESECRATING these sacred texts in the name of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!!!!!!!!!
people who love shakespeare: im going to stage a production of hamlet where all the actors are dogs
What she says: I’m fine.
What she means: Nurse Christine Chapel was in as many Star Trek episodes as Chekov and even had an entire episode devoted to her background and how she wound up on the Enterprise. She was an interesting character with a bunch of hilarious lines and appears in several photo shoots with the other major seven characters, but for some reason no one ever considers her part of the main crew. The fact that she isn’t considered a main character but Chekov is is likely the result of the overvaluation of male characters and the undervaluation of female characters. Christine Chapel is part of the main crew and I’m so pissed that she isn’t included in very many space family posts.
“supermom”: loses baby weight immediately, works outside the home, cooks all 3 meals for whole family, prepares packed lunches, cleans whole house, microcleans daily and constantly (dishes, laundry, folding laundry, wiping counters, sweeping, organizing, picking up after children), stays pretty, nurtures and feeds infants, emotionally supports children, brings children to extracurricular activities, puts children to sleep, grooms children, micro-grooms all day (wipes mouths, cleans hands, changes diapers), bathes children, clothes children, shops for children, grocery shops,
“superdad”: braids his daughter’s hair
Reminder: Donโt let your brain bully you, sometimes our minds are cruel to us. You deserve to live, you deserve to eat, you deserve to express your feelings. People do like you! Youโre doing a pretty good job, and you are worth more than you give yourself credit for.