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thatneoncrisis · 13 days ago

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race as an element in fantasy stories will never not intrigue me btw i will always yap about the external choices and author makes affecting the internal machinery of text itself and how intentional any given off the cuff statement appears to be

#andrew 'the kids are aracial but the striders cant be black' hussie your days are fucking numbered #genuinely bizarre thing we all just let them say what was up with that huh #also aracial is stupid and made up you wrote a bunch of white kids say it with your chest nerd #for taz specifically its way less. i dont read it as disingenuous or malicious #just interesting #like the specificity of breaking down that x is tongan and y is maori and z is samoan #what does that Mean. in the Story. its not even in the story its a blog post you made like 4 years ago #this is 'dumbledore is gay' levels of rep its jsut saying things without having to like. actually mention it or do anything with it ever #and i think that makes it uuuuh. lazy #not bad or evil or you should go back and tell me everyone is white #but it is just lazy the way the information is delivered to people who go looking is uninspired #and then that footnote about her not caring about what the fans think they look like or draw them as is whack too but i dont think shes lik #a bad person #like yeah dude i think its dumb and lame if you have maori dykes as your protags then say its chill if people think theyre white

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