#marginalized characters

[amaliazeichnerin]

Writing is political.

January 20, 2025 To some extend, everything is political - wherever people get together, live together, build communities, all of it is political, because there are so many things influencing each other. Also, your private life is political. Don't believe me? Think about health care. About care work for children or the elderly. Who does household work? Who works and under which circumstances? Also think about relationships, even these have political aspects to some extend, just think about reproductive rights in the US and other countries. Think about other human rights which get threatened all over the world.

Even saying you are not interested in politics is a political decision in one way or another. This is mostly done by people who are so privileged that they do not have to care about politics much, because the political system works in their favour.

Likewise, stories are political, because they are reflections of the human experience, of societies, of private life and public life in communities. The existence of queer people and other marginalized people is political, because while there is equality for everyone on paper (or it used to be), reality looks very different. Queer and marginalized people get discriminated, bullied, gaslighted, manipulated, and worse. There is a growing right-wing backlash to progressive politics.

Lately, I have written two fanfictions and I couldn't help myself but bring politics into these. "Beau and the Beast" has anti-monarchist ideas in it and a bit of a queer, inclusive utopia. In "The Story of Alexander Lemtov", which is set in 2024, the Russian protagonist starts to question what to do with his immense wealth and cuts ties with his home country because he can't tolerate and accept the war against the Ukraine.

I often write queer or otherwise marginalized characters and I am going to keep doing that, showing their joys but also their struggles.

[pebblegalaxy]

Exploring Marginality and Love in Lahore: The House Of Clay And Water by Faiqa Mansab

Exploring Marginality and Love in Lahore: The House Of Clay And Water by Faiqa Mansab #Lahore #PakistaniLiterature @FaiqaMansab @PenguinIndia #Sufism #GenderIdentity #SocialJustice #ContemporaryFiction #AwardWinningNovel

The House Of Clay And Water by Faiqa Mansab is a debut novel by Faiqa Mansab, a Pakistani author who has an MFA in creative writing from Kingston University London. The novel is set in Lahore, the city of saints, and explores the lives of three characters who are marginalized and alienated by the society they live in. Nida is a wealthy but unhappy wife of a politician, who seeks solace in the…

[grand-line-shenanigans]

For those of us who cannot comprehend big numbers (me) I have done the math. FOUR FUCKING YEARS. SECUNIT WHAT THE FUCK.

[rimatsu]

"something is missing" yeah, your intelligence! when did 911 ever market itself to be the eddie show exactly? opening credits reflect the narrative importance of characters and ryan isn't anywhere near the top of that list. we just had two back-to-back el paso heavy episodes, he's hardly neglected. eddie is 1200 miles away, how could he possibly be involved in the big emergency? did you expect buck to pull out his phone for a facetime call mid-crisis while hen and chimney were in immediate danger? maybe let eddie speak to the colonel military man to military man? magically acquire a sample to sequence rna all the way from texas, identify key viral proteins and express ship his own homemade vaccine? this is biblical level of greed 💀💀💀

[finleycannotdraw]

Charles: I like your new pants!

Edwin: Thanks, they were 50% off!

Charles, flirtatiously: I’d like them better if they were 100% off.

Edwin: The store can’t just give away clothes for free.

Charles: No, that’s not what I-

Edwin: That’s a terrible way to run a business, Charles.

[ms0milk]

thinking about mithrun dunmeshi who could incapacitate most opponents in hand-to-hand (update: he’s a trained knife-fighter!) but chooses to use extremely fastidious teleportation magic without blinking at how easy it would be to accidentally blow himself or everyone involved, friend or foe, all the way up

(and finding something in all of his lackthereof, to smile about here which only ever happens one more time SPARE me SPEAR me anything love this guy forever)

[ambrosiagourmet]

I dunno, I kinda think that describing an often-viewed-as-autistic character as relatable to everyone is fun and rad actually. I think that the idea of autistic people being relatable to neurotypical people is cool as hell

[luckthebard]

I’m probably going to make a longer post about this addressing a specific situation on my side blog, but I am completely over people who engage with intense, dark, adult, and violent media because of canon queer characters or couples and then throw a tantrum when those queer characters don’t have plot armor or the story doesn’t consist solely of them living in a fluffy rom com where nothing bad happens.

[the-meme-monarch]

what if there were little guys. what if they were flowers but also vaguely animal shaped. what if they were like the smurfs or perhaps fraggles

edit: hey i drew more of them :]

[starridge]

thesis is making me even more mentally ill than i thought possible

[canisalbus]

Nervous Machete from my class notes!

we were learning about the spread of christianity.

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[shivroy]

season 1

[bookwyrminspiration]

Dex's initial response to the Song twins has always bothered me. I understand how Sophie reaching out to them shows her different background and the mindset she brings, but Dex is the son of a bad match, his father is talentless, and his siblings are triplets.

While Tam wouldn't have trusted Dex enough to take him along for that first real introduction, his later defense of ability discrimination (Neverseen pg. 432) and his silence when Sophie's trying to arrange something for them (pg. 458-459) feels out of character. Like it's ignoring that in favor of making Sophie look extra special and different.

I'm not opposed, of course, to exploring how Sophie's upbringing changes how she interacts with the elven world. I think it's critical to explore. I just think lumping Dex in with Biana, Fitz, and Keefe in this instance downplays how his upbringing changes how he interacts with the elven world. He's not the same as Sophie, but he's not the same as them, either.

I think he should've stood by Sophie in defense of them--Tam's ability, helping how they could. We can make Sophie's human upbringing stand out without sidelining the negative experiences of those from the elven world to do so

[margindoodles2407]

@whyoneartheven @peppermintsandbones5 hey i did it

[reminiscentrainclouds]

They infect my art history notes once more.

[thepunkmuppet]

I know basically nothing about rowena, but I now finally get what people mean about shipping things aesthetically. because what do you MEAN love of my life sam winchester, 6”4, deeply damaged but lovely straight white dude-man, has a cute, interesting and disgustingly tragic relationship with A TINY GINGER SCOTTISH WITCH WHO’S THE MOTHER OF A RECURRING VILLAIN AND PLAYED BY AN ACTRESS WHO’S OLDER THAN HIM????? WHAT??? I NEED THAT IN MY LIFE RIGHT THE FUCK NOW

like what is this. I love it. I’m obsessed. enemies to friends to lovers, height difference, age difference, and just generally UNCONVENTIONAL AS FUCK for a straight ship??? spectacular gimme fourteen of em right now