*shakes fantasy authors by the shoulders* You have magic! You have other worlds! You can do literally anything! Stop writing about bland white people oppressing other bland white people for their ability to shoot multicolored sparklers out of their fingers! Where are my black-skinned dragon riders? Where are my alternate magical philosophies between cultures? Where are my stories about indigenous civilizations using magic to fight off would-be colonizers? Where are my mathemagicians? Why are you like this?!
my best friend just called me to ask what color he should wear to prom and I was like “um?? idk??” and he was goes “well we have to match, so like what color is ur dress??” but he never asked me to go so I was kinda confused so I told him “hey, yeah since when are we going to prom?” and the line goes silent for a bit and he very quietly whispers “shit. I forgot to ask u”
i have an idea in my head where thor is just like. painfully incapable of being cissexist.
like some transphobic reporter asks him abt his sexuality and he’s “i have been attracted to many of your midgardian genders” and “what” and “my current paramor is genderqueer” “are they male or female” “they are neither of those two genders, that is what i have just said!” “oh well what were they born as“ “oh no, dear friend, u appear to be confusing genderqueer with genderfluid! the lady mystique assures me that these are two very different things, [extremely extended explanation]”
y/y
oh my gosh yes
“but what are they biologically?”
“…they are human.”
oh my god
“But what is between their legs?!”
“That is not of your concern, but on a good day, myself!”
BREAKING NEWS: DEMISEXUALITY AND GRAY-ASEXUALITY ARE REAL AND VALID IDENTITIES NESTLED SNUGLY UNDER THE ACE UMBRELLA ON THE SPECTRUM BETWEEN ASEXUAL AND ALLOSEXUAL
THIS JUST IN: IDENTITIES ARE A WAY TO CLASSIFY THE WAY YOU EXPERIENCE LIFE (SPECIFICALLY GENDER/SEXUALITY AND THE LACK THEREOF) AND FIND A COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE SIMILAR LIFE EXPERIENCES
SHOCKING NEW BULLETIN: DEMISEXUALS AND GRAY-ASEXUALS ARE CLASSIFIED AS SUCH BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF THEIR EXPERIENCE IS ASEXUALITY BUT EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE (UNDER SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES FOR DEMIS, MAYBE NOT FOR GRAYS) THEY FEEL SEXUAL ATTRACTION THEREFORE THEY DON’T FEEL THEY FIT UNDER ANY OTHER LABELS AND HAVE CREATED A COMMUNITY
TONIGHT AT 11: DON’T FUCKING SHIT ON DEMIS AND GRAYS IT’S OUR WEEK TOO YOU ATROCIOUS AIRPLANE VOMITBAGS
Too many good recommendations here to even single one or two out. We’ve been discussing how to read to become a better writer recently; now here’s a good, timely list to fit almost any need. Even poetry and comics.
like tbh i feel like my problem with the “dark and gritty!!” trend in modern stories is this
there’s this idea in our culture that cynicism is realistic? that only children believe in happy endings, that people are ultimately selfish and greedy and seeing with clear eyes means seeing the world as an awful place
that idealism is– easy, i guess. butterflies and sunshine and love are easy things to have in your head.
but i’ve known since i was fifteen that idealism– faith in humanity– optimism– is the most difficult thing in the entire world.
i constantly struggle to have faith in humanity, because it’s really, really easy to lose it. it’s easy to look at the news and go “what were you expecting? of course humans behave this way.” it’s easy to see the world and go “ugh, there’s no hope there.” and the years when i believed that were easy. miserable– but easy.
it is hard work to see the good in people. it is hard work to hope. it is hard work to keep faith and love and joy and appreciation for beauty in my daily life.
and when moviemakers and tv producers and writers go “omg!!! all characters are selfish and act poorly and don’t love each other, nothing ever happens that is happy or good, that’s so much more realistic, that’s so much more adult”
starry-eyed 