#misdirect

[imkeepinit]

[stay-silly621]

Look, I’m really trying my hardest to treat trans people the same way I would cis people but please understand how difficult that is when literally every trans person I’ve met has been the coolest person ever

[bensbitterblog]

Cosplay Bitterness

We all have a Mecca of sorts. A place in the world that we dream of going someday, because it has some sort of significance to us. Some people would love to visit the North Pole and have a visit with Santa Claus, because they love being cold. Others would love to visit the homeland of their great-great ancestors, because they actually like their family. Others would love to go to Japan to visit…

[physalian]

Quick Foreshadowing Tip: Misdirection

Nothing quite like a line coming out of nowhere to make you go "Well, that'll clearly be important later."

There's a line to walk between leaving an obvious breadcrumb trail so audiences know the whole time that A Thing is going to happen, and are just waiting for the chracters to realize it, and leaving hints for only the most savvy audience members to pick up on the first read through.

Misdirection is your friend.

If you want to include important details that audiences can but aren't supposed to notice, you should hide them as something else.

I have a natural disaster that needs to happen in a WIP, and then cascading plot consequences coming from it, but "natural disasters" aren't a big focus of this story and tossing in a Surprise!Earthquake to keep the plot moving out of nowhere, even if that's how earthquakes work, is not how quality fiction works.

But if I start mentioning it, it's a concept so out of left field that the reader would immediately notice and wonder why I'm randomly talking about earthquakes.

So: Misdirection.

First, I have two characters talking about fishing, a pre-established concept, and how much of their food survives off hydrothermal vents that are only in their region, reminding the audience that the geography is unstable without saying any of that. We're just talking about fishing.

I have a character already unused to weather and natural phenomena that other characters take for granted, necessitating an explanation of basic concepts like lightning and thunderstorms. But it's not exposition, it's a fundamental trait of this character and their growth and flaws, self-concious about not knowing these things.

I have baby quakes happening during a later scene, ones that every other character would dismiss as just a thing that happens sometimes, meanwhile the narrator notices, as they've never experienced one before, necessitating a call to attention to explain it to them, and thus the audience with them, while the narrator complains about being patronzied to. But we're not really talking about earthquakes, are we? No, we're watching this character get insecure about another gap in worldly experiences.

The whole time, I am priming the audience for the possibility of a natural disaster that you probably wouldn't expect, but would see coming after the fact as something that makes sense for this world and this story.

All this is so Surprise!Earthquake has as much setup as an unpredictable geological event can have because, when you toss in an "act of god" to fuck with your characters, it has no agency, it's just the hand of the author deciding to throw a wrench in things entirely outside any characters' power and independent of their choices. So having it as embedded in the story as possible instead of coming out of nowhere helps it feel less random and contrived.

Misdirection is your friend.

[consultingfujoshi]

yknow I think this is a conversation a large portion of this fandom is not ready for but truly we really do need to start addressing crowley's anger issues and the way he treated aziraphale throughout this season before we can even begin unpicking why aziraphale would choose to leave him like that

[fisheito]

He's a magician

[thatsbelievable]

[mysterycitrus]

bruce and jason are the scariest bats because they’re physically intimidating — boring, obvious, overdone

dick and cass are the scariest bats because you’d never see them coming — brilliant, incredible, amazing, revolutionary, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique

[imkeepinit]

Guess Whether These Headlines Came From Breitbart or 1920s KKK Newspapers

[theabigailthorn]

Just wrapped on the new Chube lads

Took two days of filming, but it's in the can and headed to your eyeballs soon. Dead chuffed with this one: it's ambitious and creative and cool as hell

This isn't even the best outfit: there's more on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/93358888?pr=true

ALSO - an old character from Season 2 of Philosophy Tube is going to be making a comeback!

[that-satireguy]

I feel like the erasure of trans men, who come from violently misogynistic cultures and countries needs to be studied. Like trans discourse is always white and us-centric, but this is a particular phenomenon i've noticed.

I think its because it doesn't fit in with the current theorisation of trans men's 'male privilege'. Because its really hard to claim that misogyny is not a force directed at trans men, that we are not part of the intended targets when looking at laws that allow- and even encourage- the treatment of us as property.

Trans men experience FGM.

Trans men can be child brides.

Trans men are beaten for showing skin.

Hijab is enforced on trans men.

Trans men do not have access to abortion.

Trans men do not have access to education.

Trans men are lower in priority in being given clean water and food.

Trans men are legally defined as the property of their fathers.

A trans man's word is equal to half of the word of a male (because of our inferior female brains.)

Do not look away.

Do not brush experiences like mine under the rug.

ANY form of trans or queer discourse that ignores us is misogynistic, dismissive and (usually) racist.

[sakuraluck]

when i said i wanted to understand whatever’s going on in ivan’s head, i didn’t mean like this 😭😭

[archiepelago]

Moonpawwwww

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

Throughout my schooling up through undergrad every time we talked about a Red Scare or the Cold War's anticommunism it was invariably framed as a time when the United States lost its collective head and went about unjustly persecuting people for completely made up crimes and loyalties. Like when The Feminine Mystique came up they'd be like "and they even accused Betty Friedan of being a communist! Imagine!"

Thing is though, as I learned later, Friedan had been a member of the communist party. As is often the case. The two people named as members of the Hollywood Ten in this textbook--Ring Lardner Jr. and Dalton Trumbo--were members of the communist party, or at least had been at one time.

And listen, if the argument is that you shouldn't persecute communists, then you should say it. But to frame it like it was insane to think these people were communists in the first place is dishonest.

[cinnamontoastcrunch-15]

Today's @wolfstarmicrofic prompt is betrothed!

(145 words.)

Remus notices the nickname evolution. The stupid words Sirius attaches to Remus that make the boy smile and roll his eyes, pretending there isn't a blush spreading across his cheeks.

"Moony, my moonshine, want to go to Hogsmeade?"

"Rem, darling, when's the potions test?"

"Remus, my beloved, my one and only, what's the name of that muggle device again? The one that spins and heats stuff up?"

"Moons, my complete and utter ray of light, could I borrow a book?"

Until one day it changes.

"Moony, my betrothed..."

Remus snorts a laugh, eyes still on his food.

"We're not exactly engaged, love, you'd have to ask first-" He glances up and freezes. Sirius is on one knee in front of him, a soft, nervous smile on his face, holding out a blue velvet ring box.

"Okay, sorry, I'll try that again. Moony, my soon-to-be betrothed?"

[genderkoolaid]

i think trans-affirming cisfeminism's problem is that it views trans people as a way of analyzing cis gender relations, so trans women are going from the status of cis men to cis women, & trans men vice-versa. there is no appreciation for "trans" as its own status, because that would require viewing transphobia as something the patriarchy does on purpose instead of like. something it trips into on its quest to oppress cis women exclusively. and this is also why by and large feminism (including trans feminists) has fucked sucked at talking about NB/GQ people's experiences without binarizing them