#it's such a potent example of why I am quite jaded by all the um “dei” efforts in entertainement industries | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

rawliverandgoronspice · 2 months ago

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genuinely pretty disheartened that my passionate rants about marriage and conformity in the zelda series, and the risk of regression that could still be subverted since subversion is in the series' dna, became "zelda isn't here in the game and link must save her in the end :(" and saying it's what disappointed me in totk

like I get you have limited space but come on

#thoughts #it's such a potent example of why I am quite jaded by all the um “dei” efforts in entertainement industries #you want to talk about social issues and you go involve people who have lived experience and complex thoughts on the matter #but in the end you don't get to express the full breath of that experience as you are constrained by external pressures #and you end up looking like a bad caricature of yourself #and then that's what you are to The Public #anyway the journalist was pleasant and all and I'm sure the article is cool #but it does make me sad #in the same way some aspects of my work make me sad #(aka: I had to temper a young person who wanted to get far more queer and feminist with a project)#(not because I disagreed but because that was a lost battle and one that would hurt them if they got too invested)#(and that sucks honestly)#(anyway.)#also it's just not what disappointed me #I do not mind the formula if it's done with a point and with heart #anywayyYY

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