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Iām going to phrase this delicately because Iām so deeply grateful and awed by the support Iāve received.
But I will say it is a little anxiety inducing how many people feel they can talk about coming home whatever way they want openly and publicly because it has ānumbersā or whatever (referring to my own work like this makes me want to claw my eyes out because they baffle me and I donāt necessarily feel I deserve them but itās important for context).
This is Especially true for the way people speak under things I very much see. Art of the fic. My Twitter mutuals posts. Things I will very obviously interact with. It feels like someone is walking into my back yard and talking shit as if I'm literally not standing in said yard like this š§
You make something for a community for free as an act of passion and then the community in turn becomes something that isnāt quite accessible to you anymore. Iāve seen this happen to a lot of fic writers in my previous fandoms and idk man itās just kind of a bummer.
Like. Fanfic and fanart is made by people in the fandom for the fandom. Itās not work being produced by some distant people in Hollywood who shouldnāt be in the fandom space in the first place.
Idk, itās actually pretty rare that this happens to me but I wanted to mention I am a human who can very much read the things you say guys š like if you reblog art related to my work and call it a bunch of petty names and say you had to dnf I can see that. Itās totally ok to feel whatever way you want. But maybe don't feel that way in my back yard.
Again. Iām so grateful for everything I really am. You absolutely do not have to fuck with my work. Fuck I don't fuck with my work sometimes DKLFJSDHF. This is probably the last time Iāll talk about this because the last thing I want to do is come off like I canāt take criticism and Iām ungrateful. But sometimes I really am chewing at my enclosure like IM RIGHT HERE MAN IM LITERALLY BEHIND YOU HOW DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THAT.
#on the upside I have definetly developed a thicker skin over the past month#I genuinely mean it things that used to phase me now just kind of annoy me#but on the other hand#I do feel fic writers should be able to be members of the fandoms they write for#Iāve noticed some of the other writers in this fandom once they get attention do not interact much#but idk I donātā¦. want that to be me#9/10 chance Iāll feel weird about this and delete in the next five minutes to an hour#but yeah sometimes I do feel thereās this āshut up and be gratefulā thing that gets imposed on me#but I can be grateful and also set boundaries and talk about things that make me stressed or uncomfortable me thinks#never something i'd do on twitter. but something i'm going to cautiously attempt here#honestly if this helps one person realize how to better interact in fandom spaces online i'll be happy#also side note since im leaning towards maybe keeping this up#im literally fine. i'm big chilling right now. posted this in a good headspace over my coffee yada yada#no need to defend my honor or point fingers you know#also i know to an extent that this stuff is inevitable#and i cannot stop it or whatever. but again. i'd at least like to say it just the once#at this point its not even the crit itself that makes me feel a certain type of way#it just makes me feel kind of invisible and dehumanized
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Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), a large pinniped found in the arctic and subarctic.
created for the first @polarlightszine
#id in alt#walrus#i was going to reblog it For The Meme and realized i'd never posted the actual image here just the zine teaser and timelapse vid#anyway. he knocks on your door wyd#animals#wildlife#pinniped#marine mammal#arctic#animal art#illustration
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[bolts upright in the shower] i need to reorganize my bookshelves
#my showerhead is really low so i am always slouching in there#anyway currently my fiction is kind of vaguely by genre. but this is nonsense. i should be organizing it by what it's doing for me#a) mainly blorbos. or maybe the worldbuilding is really cool or the plot is really absorbing. comfort reads.#b) it's less about the story than it is about the way in which the story is told (though it can also be about the story)#b would be austen; woolf; ishiguro; moby-dick; the name of the rose; if on a winter's night a traveler; their eyes were watching god#but also definitely imperial radch; broken earth trilogy; the raven tower; green bone saga. and poetry by definition#a would be six of crows; graceling realm; some childhood favorites; possibly the dispossessed but i would have to reread to confirm#also the goblin emperor! and maybe babel. maybe connecticut yankee in king arthur's court?? i would have to reread#twain (and dickens) in general would be difficult because they are so fun to read so definitely comfort reads. but also! that satire!#everything i never told you (which i just reread) would go in a. i suspect i claudius would as well but would have to reread#my two favorite short story writers might go in different places? ken liu is definitely b but ted chiang might be a#i don't currently own piranesi because i gave my copy to my sister to give to our impossible-to-shop-for sister for christmas#but reacquiring it is a priority. and when i have it where will it go? oh goodness. that's really hard#with tmbd it would just be which shelf has room for all of them. bc they are doing everything & fit in all categories#i think battle of the linguist mages (which is not even one of my favorite books but it's just so batshit that i have to respect#how batshit it is. and therefore can never get rid of it)#could go in either bc i do really like the worldbuilding but also the main thing it is doing for me is just being really wild#and uncategorizable. and reminding me of how fun it was to discuss it with my sister#books#my posts#i guess if i started mixing in the french books instead of keeping them on their own special shelf i'd be putting dumas in a#and maupassant in b. sartre and queneau in b. ionesco obviously b. the dictionary in b.#verne in a. hugo probably also in a though i respect the grind. really not sure where to put valƩrie perrin. or colette#this is making me realize i can get rid of some french books because i'm looking at them now and i wouldn't put them in either#because i didn't really get that much out of them. so why am i keeping them?#wow maybe this will help me get rid of more books...the real endgoal. if it's not sparking joy then it's outta here#i could take this further and do it for the nonfiction too. roget's and le robert de poche would definitely be in b
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ARE YOU AND COWORKER DATING?! š š
Ahdkakskal perchance yes
#not snz#idk how it all happened so fast but it did#like i was here thinking I'd be hopelessly pining until i moved on#but no that's mine now š#thank god one of us can communicate honestly bc this never would've happened otherwise lmao#also i didn't realize how much i like being touched ahdjaksl like I've always been pretty touch adverse#but i like when he holds my hand or puts his arm around my shoulder#like he's warm and i feel like he's safe#but also I'm afraid this is just gonna end badly bc i have āØ trauma āØ he doesn't know about that might make him hate me#so there's that#so idk when to bring all that up in case it's a deal breaker but i don't particularly wanna talk about any of it#so I'm just gonna stress about that now lmao but other than that I'm just š„°#once again i wanna squish his face a little bit lmao#partner posting
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awhile ago i made that one reverse 1999 x tma entities post and now that i think about it more i realized that those two pieces of media have something oddly specific in common (they are centered on a traumatized brit involved in an institution in which they must play a pivotal role that is Greater Than Themselves and also related to unnatural happenings. oh and the institution itself is responsible for inflicting this trauma upon them)
#reverse 1999#r1999#the magnus archives#tma#all i'm getting at is that vertin and jonathan sims should sit down and have some tea#i kept thinking that for some reason i can imagine vertin as an archivist if she existed in the tma universe#and just kind of came to this realization#am i making sense here#never thought i'd refer to vertin and jon in the same post but here we are#timekeeper š¤š¼ archivist
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I did a fanart
There's no path of trampled flowers around so I guess they all flew down while in whimsical laying position idk, just don't think about it lol
#cheshire crossing#fanart#Cheshire Crossing fanart#Does Wendy look dramatic?#I tried to make her look sad/not thinking happy thoughts but also in a whimsical victorian girl fairytale aestedic kinda way#and in the Wizard of Oz movie Dorthey lays in a similar position to the one she's in here in a field of flowers#And Alice is supposed to have her Disney-falling-down-the-rabbit-hole silloette#Wendy didn't really lay down in her story I don't think#at least not that i can remember#but then i noticed she does lay down in Cheshire Crossing#on her bed#its like the first thing she does when getting settled in#but by the time i realized this i'd already drawn all those flowers#so... many... flowers...#Wendy and Dorthy are accepting how sucky their lives have been being gaslit and borderline torchered in Victorian asylums for years#(they seemed a little in dinial in CC)#while Alice is just happy she finally has friends who believe her and aren't torturing her in a Victorian asylum#get it?#its like the opposites of their worst habits or something#they're free to feel their feelings at Cheshire Crossing#that's what the daisies symbolize#btw why did Sarah Scribbles draw Cheshire Crossing (the building and its grounds) the exact same as Alice's childhood house/mansion?#it even has the same green plants on both#No one ever mentions it!#And it's not like that in the og artwork#why did Alice never mention this is her old house?#or did she just materialize near the future Cheshire Crossing when coming back from Wonderland?#But then why was her dad walking through some random field that wasn't his?#I should probably make this its own post#but I'm leaving this rant in here cause I think it's funny
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23 days until jungsu's 23nd birthday
day 9 - mi gente
#xdinary heroes#jungsu#kim jungsu#gunil#ode#junhan#jun han#gaon#jooyeon#goo gunil#oh seungmin#han hyeongjun#kwak jiseok#lee jooyeon#jungsu23#forfreddy#there's something about gunsu's eye contact here............. this little moment before gunil turns around#also when i giffed this moment i realized i wrote something similar just a while ago#a campfire evening and gunil holding an imaginary mic for jungsu#but i didn't think of this scene when i wrote it#apparently it's stuck in my unconsciousness hehe#oh boi i queued almost all the posts for jungsu today!#which also meant i noticed i wasn't able to count ONCE AGAIN#i was like oh i need five more gifsets#(there's one i wanted to do for MONTHS now and i've got one planned for his bday)#and then i was like... ah no just the two last ones. and then i was like 'oh i miscounted the gifs i prepared i counted one twice'#'so i need three'. and then put all the gifs i had prepared into my queue and........... REALIZED I ONLY NEED ONE MORE GIF#which is the bday gif anyway. so yeah. counting is hard and it NEVER adds up :((((#(also i counted so many times when i should start the countdowns but i forgot to consider that i'd post the last gif earlier.....)#(next time. for the next countdowns.)
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TS2 DEFAULT HAIR REPLACEMENT
All natural hair colors are Vidcund's Sunshine System and retextured by me unless otherwise noted. Credit and links for mesh, original defaulter, hair texture, and sims used can be found in the .rar file, if I could find the info.
barrettearmuffs_brown replaced with Anto Ainhoa
barrettearmuffs_black replaced with Simpliciaty March
barrettearmuffs_white replaced with Newsea Weed Flower
barrettearmuffs_pink replaced with Anto Marble
barrettearmuffs_blue replaced with Skysims 120
EDITED 2 DEC 2024: Originally the above barrettearmuffs_brown also defaulted simpleearmuffs_brown. I have now separated the two. Simpleearmuffs_brown (with this same hair) will be released soon. Sincere apologies for any trouble this may have caused.
#ts2#the sims 2#ts2 default replacement#ts2 hair#ts2 defaults#ts2 hair default#madegeeky cc#madegeeky hair defaults#simsmadegeeky cc#simsmadegeeky hair defaults#there's a lot less info here than i usually have in my posts i know#however i realized the other day that i have something like 50ish hairs#that i've never put up here because i hate having to write these posts up so much#so i decided i'd keep doing the detailed credits in the documents i include in the rar files#and just let myself do the bare minimum here#i'm not really happy with myself about it#but i had to be honest with myself and figure out a way to make this work so here we are
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My favorite part of being alive is that I've never felt welcome in any space except for that one year when I thought I was a non-binary bisexual asexual girl when I was 13 :)
#Before that I was a weird kid whose only source for human communication instructions was the shows on CN Nickelodeon and Disney XD/Channel#And even though I had friends I never felt loved enough#And AFTER that I realized I was more of a trans guy and that I don't trust women enough to know if I could be in love with one but that#maybe I like men but I can't know for sure because I have the bad habit of falling for any guy who pays attention to me for long enough#And I haven't felt included in queer spaces ever since I realized I wasn't any sort of girl because people in here seem to hate men a little#too much for me to feel safe being anything but a gnc emo girl#And not even getting started on being gay cause people on online spaces that I'm around often act like āgirls and the gays!!ā as if I'm#effeminate and flamboyant just for my sexuality when truly I'm heavily uncomfortable doing anything deemed as girly#vent post#And even the thought that I MIGHT be a straight trans guy makes me feel horrible cause so many queer people seem to hate straight people#Like hi did you forget that this place is supposed to make people feel safe and respected and proud of being themselves#Oooh and don't forget the autism! Cause I get why people complain about the diagnosis being only for cis white boys but like#I've literally never seen that. Ever. I'm not saying it doesn't happen I'm just saying that it's much harder for me to find any sort of#online diagnosis tool for someone who's not an adult or a parent or a cis woman than it is for me to find any for a girl#Like seriously man#And how I feel like I'm a horrible person for not having g empathy. DUDE I HAVE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES THAT I'VE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO KNOW ABOUT#like chill I'm not automatically a murderer and rapist and toxic and manipulative just cause I can't put myself in someone else's shoes#I'm just a guy who hardly feels alive or human. Of course I'm not going to reel very much about a stranger when i feel like I'm not supposed#to be this person in this place in this body in this mind. I don't feel like I'm here I don't feel like this is me and I don't feel like I#can care about other people and I don't know why but I'd really appreciate it if I could get yk some support instead of feeling like I#deserve death#anyway i'm normal
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'Normally, a strange, disguised, illithid wouldn't be his first choice of people to trust in any other situtation, in this situation the last choice. However, he has held off the worst case scenario once already, which Ilztaun figured was worth not distrusting him just yet. He owed him that little, surely? Or simply this was a more interesting path to that inevitable worse case, a line of thinking better kept to himself than used as a justification to the others.
#fic snippets#that never would have made it#screenshots#.....as I realized I've posted so many...so many...#but usually a specific exchange#and not since solidifying the shifted tav design#nor just for pure aesthetic#alas the 2nd is way more shot reverse shot or I'd combined both here#instead just post dream 1 reasoning which is the way more 'FUCK IT WHY NOT' of the two#....dream 2 is the 'this is my friend and ally whom I'd protect at least as much as I would everyone else outside of the prism.'#oc: ilztaun#you strange strange man who I'd hate to write from someone else's POV due to the levels of masking and code switching he does.#Emps is the person he's /most/ open with directly....mainly since it's not worth lying to someone who can go into his head that easily#before even going near the real reasons....
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Wounded Warrior's Dream
#just realized i'd never posted this here so. here ya go#they're two of my ocs <3#oc art#my art#art#my drawing#fantasy art
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hi I hope this doesnāt sound like a demand lol but I love how you draw jupiter and I hope you draw him more
your art is so cool by the way I really like your character lineup š„ŗ
Thank you so much!! I literally never draw Jupiter, on account of my inability to draw 1. adult men and 2. beards, BUT itās something I need to / want to get better at. The only other time Iāve drawn him was that lineup which I did super quick, so it was fun to try and think of an actual design so I can try to draw him more!
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[ID: Three half-colored digital sketches of Jupiter North from Nevermoor. They show him as a kid with messy hair, a young adult with a mullet and mustache, and an adult with longer hair and a fuller beard. End ID.]
Details on my Jupiter design / headcanons (?) for his life under the cut:
I started with the middleā in my layers, I dubbed him to be āteenā Jupiter, originally intending for him as a senior scholar, but as time went on I figured he was more like, early 20s young adult Jove. The Wunsoc sweater is just still there on the adults because I didnāt want to redraw <3
I feel like Wunsoc, especially with Dearborn and Murgatroyd prowling the halls, holds its studentās appearances to a certain standard. Sure, society members are representatives of the society for the rest of their lives once they graduate, but their time in school is their first introduction to that life. It's their debut as society members. We see this in a lot of stuff with Holliday, in Hollowpox and in the one Silverborn snippet, how she's manufacturing an image for Mog and co. and physical appearance plays a part in it.
Going with this: I feel like Wunsoc would expect their students to keep their appearance clean and approachable somewhat. Jupiter gives me a vibe of the kid who had a crazy growth spurt, and was able to grow a beard before graduatingā BUT I don't know if Wunsoc (really just the Scholar Mistresses) would be crazy for that. So I imagine that he's relatively clean-shaven for the most part, nowhere near modern Jove, and then starts to grow out his facial hair a bit more as a senior scholar where I imagine things would lax a bit, and then just commit fully to growing a beard once he properly graduates.
So young adult Jupiter is perhaps in his early 20s, a somewhat recent Wunsoc graduate. I'm a mullet Jupiter truther, where his hair is longer in the back, and had to represent that. Younger Jove's is messier and more fun; he's not too concerned about his image as he hasn't quite reached that laundry list of titles and accolades yet.
Present-day adult Jupiter is still rocking the mullet style, just now it's longer and styled a bit more professionally. But let's be realā it doesn't stay this way. It totally gets easily messed up from his hats, and Jove loves to have fun and entertain people, Plus, he's a busy man, constantly stressed and running around. While the hair here might be great for say, a formal meeting or a magazine cover, the hair most folks end up seeing him with tends to be a bit more wild. He definitely starts to resemble his younger self's hair more after a rowdy night or a stressful endeavor.
Kid Jupiterā not much to say here, tbh. I figured I'd stick with the longer hair he has as an adult, kinda rowdy. Not a mullet yet, though! I was thinking of the part in Nevermoor where he starts talking about the rules he broke and stuff he got up to as a Wunsoc student, and how Hawthorne started taking notes, and made his hair similar to the rowdy hair of our favorite bestie. However, while Hawthorne's hair is curly, I'm of the belief that Jupiter's hair is definitely pretty straight. So no curlicues for him </3
Hopefully now that I've started to nail down a design for Jupiter, I can draw him more!! I always have soooo many Nevermoor ideas circling around in my brain. I love thinking about designs for various characters and the reasonings behind different aspects of their appearance.
#asks#nevermoor#nevermoor fanart#jupiter north#I have an issue of drawing super small on super large canvases so. sorry for blurry screenshot lol#my references board was just. ewan mcgregor and domhnall gleeson lol. heavy on him tbh#if you saw this in the discord I moved the eye highlights. no reason other than vibes. āidk how they work tbh itās just for fun.#I can always expand on my general philosophies (?) for when it comes to drawing characters progressing thru time#/ at different stages of their lives. I have lots of thoughts.#it's easier to apply to adult characters like squall + jupiter and then characters with active development throughout the series like mog#meanwhile other characters like 919 and etc haven't really been through anything Revolutionary yet that I feel would change how I draw them#anyways I'd love to elaborate if anyone has any Qs. was gonna include in this but didn't want to hide it under a cut after a jupiter ramble#i really need to post more nevermoor art. I look on here and realize I've actually barely done much lol.#but also I'm the busiest person alive and never draw and just think abt it so. oops. š¤·
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braids :)
#low stakes š¦#doodle while i tell myself i should be working on artfight cmon at this rate i might not even finish all my attacks hhhh#sketches#just realized i forgot to post a few artfights here but i'll worry about that later#also no this is not a permanent change hghdhfhg#thinking about that one twt user who got upset the one time i drew einarr w/o braids and probably thought i'd never give him braids again#it's hair#my characters are dynamic and so are their character designs#they're little people from my head#sometimes i play dressup with them
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Me: has my sixth sudden crying spell of the week
Also me: "yeah but I'm probably not ACTUALLY depressed"
#gonna be honest boys. I have been feeling like dogshit#started with me having a good ol' existential spiral at 4 am a week ago and now I don't even know what's bothering me#and then there's all of the bad stuff going on making me anxious for myself and everybody on top of everything#all the abhorrent transphobia has been making me feel worried for the future#(as if the passing of time doesn't already horribly scare me but I digress)#idk man. I already feel like I'm unequipped for the future because I've realized I never thought I'd still be alive right now#majority of my childhood was filled with adults preaching at me to think about where I'd be going in the afterlife so I did just that#that plus they were the type to believe that the rapture is soon cause āthe signs are all coming trueā#so I always thought that either that would happen or I'd die before now#well. I'm still here and I don't know what the fuck I'm doing.#and I'm lonely. really fucking lonely and I'm going mad cause of it#never had actual friends besides the kids I was with at my old private school. now they're all raging conservatives who mock minorities#I was able to get away but moving on isn't as easy as I hoped#it'd be so much easier to betray all my beliefs and act ignorant again so I can have my friends back#but of course I can't do that. I can't throw out who I am and all of the wonderful people I know who would be āsinfulā in their eyes#idk man. I think I've finally reached the breakdown I've been feeling coming for the past two years#fuck. sorry for this trauma dump of a post. I've just felt numb for months and now everything's catching up to me#needed to yell about it I guess#vent#phoenix prattles
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ok, so
thereās two posts Iām gonna be making for the assassinās creed rewrite au. one which is just a long post about how the Toba catastrophe happened in the rewrite, as well as some supplementary info about the PoEs and why Desmond was chosen for his specific role.
and the actual chapter Iāve been vaguing about all this time. tbh, itās not going to be the full chapter, just about 30 pages worth simply bc I realized that in striving for perfection, i wasnāt actually making any more posts about protocreed bc i didnāt either want to spoil anything or get peopleās hopes up. but. the chapter ends when Desmond and Alex part ways, rather than when Desmond goes back to pick up Elijah like it was originally meant to, as it transitions a lot better into the next chapter which is in Alexās PoV
honestly, I was making an assassinās creed only rewrite before I got back into prototype but it was ideas from the wonderful @teecupangel @wolfofartblock and @neroangelus that made me rethink my entire rewrite to make it protocreed (as well as the art and fic that they had on their blogs that made me feel less like i was going crazy for even having the idea, god bless!) and @zero-saito @dezmondmyles @kingbob2-0 for asking me questions about the au when I started to get a bit lost in the overall process.
Like, if it werenāt for yāall and the entire protocreed community on tumblr, as well as my irl writers group, I probably wouldāve never shared anything about this au and wouldāve only spoken up about it once the game itself was complete (which is at the very least not coming out for a year, bc I need to make sure all the new mechanics i have planned work out when in testing and are fun to play) and that wouldāve been kinda a bummer.
special shout outs to @saturnineaqua who was one of the first people (and my mutual!! :D) who liked my posts about AC and stuff, I was honestly so nervous about posting anything about it, I was about to delete the post minutes after making it, but your initial like was what got me to keep it up.
also, i know i didnāt tag every single person that liked my posts but I just wanna say yāall are amazing! seeing that people actually like this content made me feel better about posting it.
since AO3 is down, iām gonna post the chapter here on tumblr and ff.net simply because itās not nsfw and i have little chance of it ever getting taken down or anything. iāll make a follow up link to it in the following reblog
#this is really rambly but#what i'm trying to say is#i felt like i was going crazy when i initially came up with a lot of this au and that it was too risky to even think about taking two#pre-established ips and make something new--damn the consequences#but if i didn't have you all on this site i'd have never gotten as far as even openly talking about it#and this is really a labor of love and appreciation for the people here#THANK YOU!!!#the chap will be posted within like an hour or so#bc i need to finish editing it and everything making it sure it's smooth to read etc#i was going to go to my writers group today but i stayed up most of the night typing the chapter to show them and just realized that by#the time i got ready and drove over to the library i wouldn't have as much as i needed annotated done and the chapter would've ended on an#awkward ending#not to mention i need my mom to take me since the car is in the shop and she's on a bunch of meetins#it just didn't work out but at the very least that means i can still devote my time to posting a polished chapter here
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thinking abt like. there's so much fiction out there that makes me feel bad! sometimes really deeply bad! and like, in many many cases i could present a whole argument abt how it makes me feel bad bc it's pressing on bruises inflicted by some systemic prejudice that has deeply wounded my psycheāand that argument would be true!āand still i don't want that fiction erased from existence, or modified to suit my taste, or anything else that enacts my will on it, rather than the artist's and the artist's alone; i don't even want the artist erasing it because my argument ultimately convinces them it's Bad! produce a revised edition of it, fine; stick an asterisk or other warning on it, fine; but i still want the original to be available somewhere, because i don't want to be responsible for blotting creation out of existence. even when it's a creation i hate, i don't think that should be my place (or indeed anyone's).
mind you, i absolutely do want to feel that i've got somewhere i can analyze/vent about fiction like that, and people who will take my analysis/venting both seriously and sympathetically;
and i want fiction to exist that doesn't make me feel bad;
and i definitely shouldn't have to put up with discussions around fiction in which fellow discussants further express a prejudice towards me, or justify it, or whatever;
but it just seems so obvious to me that a world where framing yr discomfort with a work of fiction in sufficiently sympathetic (victimized) terms leads to its deletion [not that i think this is what all leftists who complain abt offensive fiction are looking to have happen! but i do get the impression that at least some of them might be?] is a frightening worldā
a world where, to choose a sufficiently sympathetic (victimized) example, authors who have themselves been harmed by prejudice become unable to explore the workings of that prejudice in their fiction, unless they're doing it in a way that's unambiguously, didactically condemnatoryāisabel fall is the obvious example here, but i'm thinking also of all the women and transmasc authors who write fic that, quite frankly, eroticizes misogyny and abuse of power, and how sometimes i think stories like that are hot and sometimes i don't feel particularly strongly about them one way or the other and sometimes they leave me furious or fucked up or both! but like. even when i hate it, even when it offends me not as a matter of abstract principle or allyship but right in my own personal gutāi still do feel that people have to be allowed to write, and to publish, fiction that strikes me personally as being in bad taste!
because the minute you let anyone's taste dictate what's allowable to express, even if it's leftist taste, you're going down a bad road; it's like saying monarchy can be a good system as long as the monarch is a good person. no! because (a) no system that relies on good actors to be good is a good system; and also because (b) no one who's happy to have power over others is actually a good person! [that's an awfully strong statement and i'm open to the idea that it may have some asterisks, but like. as a general rule: cincinnatus or bust.]
and similarly i feel like. if you personally want not just to critique other people's fictionāvalid and good and i do it all the timeābut to crush it out of existence because it expresses an ideology you may not (i may not!) like? i don't trust you. i think you're trying to substitute pain for principles, and like. i have huge sympathy for pain! i live with a lot of my own! but pain doesn't actually, in itself, necessarily constitute good moral guidanceāit can lead you towards valuable sensitivity that helps people we should care about, but it can also lead you towards impatient reactivity that harms people we should care about; and ultimately it's thinking abt our pain, imo, not the pain itself, that steers us towards the former outcome and away from the latter.
#this is SO fucking long and still not really a coherent position statement lmao#if only i'd written essays in the tumblr post editorā back when i had them to write#i never would've struggled to meet the required word count#but like. lotta issues tangled up here and i just think it's like. SO easy to be steered one way by yr gut on this stuff#and then think abt it for a bit and realize yr gut has left zero room for a lot of positionalities you actually find sympathetic#while providing potential fodder for stances you fucking hate#(likeāfrankly i'm astonished no fundie students have started arguing universities should provide content warnings for queer content)#(i obviously am not opposed to content warnings and use them on this blog all the time but. tools can be picked up by anyone)#and like. it's really easyā i thinkā to say that and have it come across as not caring abt other ppl's genuine pain#but like. i care a lot abt ppl's pain! i just think pain is notāĀ in itselfāĀ necessarily a great basis for policy#anyway. Just Some Nightblogging; happy 2 entertain non-ad-hominem discussion but also this isn'tāĀ likeāĀ a polished position paper
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