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It is so funny seeing the world's biggest dolts try to turn the tables on people by being like "Um actually YOU'RE the weird one for seeking out art created by people with different perspectives and cultural backgrounds, because actually the weird one is YOU for assuming people of different racial and cultural backgrounds may have different things to say ☝️🤓" Like damn you really owned us with facts and logic. I really hope you don't own us further by never speaking to anybody ever again I would hate that

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this was like genuinely years ago On Here which is like 70 years in normal people time but I have never ever ever ever stopped thinking about when there was a post on my dash that just said something to the effect of "when's the last time you read a book by a Black woman?" and the notes were just. absolutely festering with people old enough to be on god's green internet openly admitting that they genuinely weren't sure if they had read a book by a Black women literally ever in their entire lives. and I think about that just constantly because it really is evident in the greater tumblrina culture.

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horsey

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cause im your one and only [friend] like COME ON

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it really gets to a point

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Manga x Sailor Moon Crystal 4

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the dark hour

find me on twitter @/driftwoodwoof

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Linktober Day 2 - FRIEND

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“they were flirting with you” and how was i supposed to know such a thing when everyone speaks in codes and puzzles

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a sound is still a sound around no one

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Gaurav Gupta Haute Couture Spr/Sum 2024

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XII

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i want to play but my mind has been destroyed

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when i have a crush i dont kick my feet or twirl my hair instead i am in my kitchen at 3am pacing in circles with my hands clasped behind my back like a middle-aged divorced detective haunted by a cold case he just cant crack

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lol. lmao even

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I think people tend to assume that any criticism of worldbuilding is ultimately a demand for a story to grind itself to a halt and give the reader 20 paragraphs of exposition, and like. Most of the time good-faith criticism of this nature is coming from a core aspect of the story not being grounded in the setting in a way that outright detracts from the story's quality. You fix it not by Explaining but by Showing it passively in the makeup of the world.

Like the last instance I saw this critique in was like 'you can't expect an author to stop and exposit the nuances of gender roles/Queerness in a fictional society' and it's like yeah I don't, and in fact this is actually one of the easiest things to show in the text without exposition. If a society has gender norms to begin with you'll see aspects of these norms baked into EVERYTHING. You'll see it in its stories, its religion, its taboos, its etiquette, its clothing, its family structures, its language, its insults, its labor, its leadership, etc. It will have massive impacts on how characters interact with one another and how they perceive themselves. It will help Shape your characters.

If you do this legwork to begin with for the core facets of your story, you will find very natural places for this concept to be demonstrated without derailing the plot and with little to no exposition. THAT sort of thing is what's being asked of you.

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it's time for top/bottom discourse to end. the only thing i want to hear about is which one is the sex crier.