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Just another day for Clorinde

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Are all the themes in “in other lands” supposed to be a commentary on something? Or do you just like writing sex scenes between minors, age gaps, and reverse misogyny?

Genuine question.

Ohhh, my dear anon, I don't believe this is a genuine question.

But it does bring up something I've been meaning to talk about. So I'll take the bait.

Firstly. Yes, my work contains a commentary on the world around us. I wonder what I could be doing with the child soldiers being sexually active in their teens (people hook up right after battles), and the age gap relationship ending in the younger one being too mature for the elder. What could I possibly have been attempting when I said 'how absurd gender roles are, when projected onto people we haven't been accustomed by our own society to see that way'? I wasn't being subtle, that's for sure.

Secondly. Yes I do enjoy writing! I think I should, it's my life's work. Am I titillated by my own writing, no - though I think it's fine to be. The sex scenes of In Other Lands aren't especially titillating, to be honest. It is interesting to me how often people sneer at women for writing romance and sex scenes, having 'book boyfriends,' insinuating women writers fancy their own characters. Women having too much immoral fun! Whereas men clearly write about sex for high literary purposes.

… I have to say from my experience of women and men's writing, I haven't found that to be true.

I’m not in this to have an internet argument. Mostly people use bad faith takes to poke at others from the other side of a screen for kicks. But I do know some truly internalise the attitude that writing certain things is wrong, that anyone who makes mistakes must be shunned as impure, and that is a deeply Victorian and restrictive attitude that guarantees unhappiness.

I've become increasingly troubled by the very binary and extreme ways of thinking I see arising on the internet. They come naturally from people being in echo chambers, becoming hostile to differing opinions, and the age-old conundrum of wanting to be good, fearing you aren't, and making the futile effort to be free of sin. It makes me think of Tennyson, who when travelling through Ireland at the time of the Great Famine, said nobody should talk about the 'Irish distress' to him and insisted the window shades of his carriage be shut as he went from castle to castle. So he wouldn't see the bodies. But that didn't make the bodies cease to be.

In Les Mis, Victor Hugo explores why someone might steal, what that means about them and their circumstances, and who they might be - and explores why someone else is made terribly unhappy, and endangers others, through their own too rigid adherence to judgement and condemnation without pity. The story understands both Jean Valjean the thief and Javert the policeman. Javert’s way of thinking is the one that inevitably leads to tragedy.

Depiction isn't endorsement. Depiction is discussion.

Many of my loved ones have had widely varying relationships to and experience of sex (including 'none'). They've felt all different types of ways about it. If writing about them is not permissible, I close them out. I'd much rather a dialogue be open than closed.

I do understand the urge to write what seems right to others. I've been brain-poisoned that way myself. I used to worry so much about my female characters doing the wrong things, because then they'd be justly hated! Then I noted which of my writer friends had people love their female characters the most - and it was the one who wrote their female characters as screwing up massively, making rash and sometimes wrong decisions. Who wrote them as people. Because that's what people do. That's what feels true to readers.

I want my characters to feel true to readers. I want my characters to react in messy ways to imperfect situations. I love fantasy, I love wild action and I love deep thought, and I want to engage. That's what In Other Lands is about. That's even more what Long Live Evil is about. That sexy lady who sashays in to have sexy sex with the hero - what is her deal? Someone who tricks and lies to others - why are they doing that, how did they get so skilled at it? What makes one person cruelly judgemental, and another ignore all boundaries? What makes Carmen Maria Machado describe ‘fictional queer villains’ as ‘by far the most interesting characters’? What irritates people about women having a great time? What attracts us to power, to fiction, and to transgression?

I don’t know the answers to all those questions, but I know I want to explore them. And I know one more thing.

If the moral thing to do is shut people out and shut people up? Count me among the villains.

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Azriel: just found out you have to actually talk to girls to get a girlfriend

Azriel: I’m throwing up rn

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Nesta: The path to inner peace starts with four words.

Nesta: Not my fucking problem.

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Cassian: don’t bite the hand that fingers you

Nesta: that is not how that saying goes

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Gwyn: *looking through the window, pensively*

Azriel: woah, she's so beautiful, so thoughtful... i wonder what she's thinking about

Gwyn, in her mind: dragons can't blow their birthday cake

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Feyre: I want to wake up with you everyday for the rest of our lives.

Rhys: I wake up at 4:30 AM everyday to train.

Feyre: I want to see you at some point everyday for the rest of our lives.

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Cassian: the word daddy has been so sexualized

Cassian: my kids are gonna have to call me bruh or something

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Feyre: What are you writing?

Azriel: The Spring Court wants to know what kind of weapons we are bringing to the meeting of the High Lords. I'm letting them know it's private information.

Feyre, looking over Azriel's shoulder: This just says "fuck around and find out" in calligraphy.

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hoyo after seeing all the guns n roses posts:

anyways… WE WON YALLL ARGENTHILL IS REAL

i love them ❤️

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its fuckin over dude

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Actually I'll just post my baroryuu sketch because finishing anything rn is up in the air

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Toby Stephens as James Flint BLACK SAILS | 1.07

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a toast to new beginnings 🥂✨

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bewitches you, body and soul 💫

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[ !! DGS POST GAME SPOILERS !!]

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Category: M/M

Chapters: 1/?

Fandom: 大逆転裁判 | Dai Gyakuten Saiban | The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (Video Games)

Relationships: Naruhodou Ryuunosuke/Barok van Zieks

Additional Tags:

Post-Canon

Spoilers

Ballroom Dancing

Getting Together

Longing

pride & prejudice insipired vibes

the Van Zieks manor is just Pemberley

Long-Distance Relationship

i am bad at tagging

Summary:

The final trial done, Ryunosuke is set to leave London behind. But his journey delayed and a letter inviting him to spend a few days at the Van Zieks manor make him wonder if leaving is such a good idea after all. And between dances and skies tinted of purple and red, he will find truths he yet had to pursue.