THIS is why i keep talking about writing femslash fic as an expressly femininst act. because you have to CHOOSE WOMEN. you have to consciously take it upon yourself to INVEST in WOMEN CHARACTERS who are often underdeveloped and misused in the canon narrative. you have to think about WOMEN'S INNER LIVES and the COMPLEXITIES that motivate their ACTIONS. everyone is so good at reading the male queer subtext why can't we apply that to WOMEN !!! and yes fandom is for fun but if you are NOT choosing women then you're repeatedlymissing out on cultivating your own understanding of gender and womanhood and queerness etc etc INVEST IN FEMSLASH AND IT WILL INVEST IN YOU
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Always an experience watching the leftism leave FNAF fans when someone mentions that Scott Cawthon financially backed fascist politicians.
The switch from posting hardline leftist tweets about boycotts and signal boosts and critical takedowns of politicians and celebrities to ‘ohhh, well. everyone makes mistakes. who can blame him, listen he. he donated money to gay charities too. that makes it ok! a millionaire in his forties is allowed to have political beliefs. does it even matter? just let it go!’ is whiplash inducing. The antivaxxer celebrities have got to go, but this one horror dev who quietly handed wads of cash to antivax lawmakers? He’s chill, he can stay.
The charity thing is so funny too because suddenly utilitarian positive-negative point counting is the way to go. Maybe an abacus would help calculate the net good of donating to the Trevor Project minus donating thousands of dollars to Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump. -10 points if I push a kid in a lake but +11 points if I help an old lady across the street, so I’m chill. You can’t judge me. Hey, maybe. Just don’t push a kid in the lake period. How fucking low is the bar when we’re excusing maxing out the possible dollar amount of donations to Mitch fucking McConnell. That should be like. Default you’re a bad person.
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I'm so mad that post was misinformation because there is actually an EXTREMELY important conversation to have about the production schedules artists are forced into. There's no need for exaggeration, the conditions are bad.
I work for webtoon. My publication schedule is weekly. While publishing I'm required 10-15 pages a week. Fully colored.
This means I'm finishing a 150 page fully colored graphic novel every 10-15 weeks.
When my comic is not updating, I am not getting paid. Any time writing, editing, or off is out of my own pocket. I don't get healthcare. They do not provide any assistants. They expect me to promote myself; they chose to deprioritize me before I even launched and gave me an end date half a year in. I never had a chance.
And this is the industry standard! Every company has artists forced into crunch hours, overtime, and burnout. Artists are literally dying early due to it. So many of my friends can't afford to go to the doctor.
It's unsustainable and untenable, and it's also the expectation our audiences have.
If we want to have this conversation, there's plenty of conversation to be had with the realities of the situation. It's bad as is.
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Have been seeing some discussion again about tamlin being a good High Lord or not and I just have to remind everyone of one of the best little facts from acotar I never really seen mentioned.
Acotar, Chapter 25 Page 221
She [Alis] simply said, "Summer Solstice. The main celebration used to be at the Summer Court, but... Things are different. So now we have one here, too. You're going."
"so now we have one here too..." Because of amarantha and Tamlin being just a good person he allowed anyfae from any court to come to spring. And because no one could really go back to their courts for their respective solstice celebrations, Tamlin made sure Spring Celebrated all of them
I just think that's such a cool fucking thing. That Tamlin cared for the people coming to spring for safety, and he made changes to help everyone feel comfortable and at home. He cares about the people who live in Spring, he cares so damn much :(((
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normalize being a little bit in love with your friends
normalize being not at all in love with anything
normalize love being confusing and weird as hell
normalize love not being romantic
normalize love not being
normalize not loving
normalize loving in the wrong way
just. normalize being unapologetically yourself
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If it sucks, hit da BRICKS!!
Thanks to everyone who submitted their Rivulets, I hope I've got them mostly right, it was long and hard to do but fun!
This has only made me want to do more and I am staring at Spearmaster as my next victim-
Credits under here
@much-significant-harassment @rainworld-rivulet @soaricarus @pansear-doodles @whippiekippy @cosmikazie @verdeltiathedead @azrielfiend @chillysaint @fauxbia @girlbossespurr @mothlight-hours @shark-bytee @woopdeloopei @b1g-ju1cy @infinite-echoes @cyan-lizard @boiledegghole @ecliip @ssagesaurus @pookapufferfish @completeandtotalchaos @autism-yaoi @harborchild @emperormoth101 @tanzytechgem @dustyfandomtrashbin @the-jordas-trials @eggobuggo @subwaybug @mildeleef and then also my two at the other end
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