honestly so many stories about the horrors of transformation are about the ways one feels alienated from their own body but tbh i feel like more often its the way society reacts to a body its decided is strange thats so, sooo much more frightening/painful
like not just because the concept of monsterous transformation is exciting to me in a ‘move gayboy im bout to get it’ whenever i hear protagonists lamenting about it BUT, i also think it’d be interesting if a character were intrigued by, if not pleased by their transformation only to hide it because of the way the world would react. because there isnt a place for someone LIKE them yet, not because they dont want to be that way.
Twitter: what level of enshittification are you on? Tumblr: I dunno, 4, maybe 5? We took away the ability to easily go directly to an individual post off the dashboard and we’re still trying to Pivot to Streaming Twitter: you are like little baby. watch this Twitter: [BANS READING POSTS]
Wild how the queer community has been fighting tooth and nail for generations to have some semblance of inclusion and just the desire to not be beaten, arrested, or killed for existing.
Then there is less than 10 years of policies put in place to help us start being treated more humanely and the Conservative party is like “Actually we rather you die again” openly and proudly.
Wild how allowing ppl to live has made them so angry and more open about their fascism.
Meanwhile half of the younger queers online are too preoccupied with terminology and gatekeeping fandom engagement while our country actively works to eradicate the community honing social media to propagate propaganda.
It is going to sound mean and im not gonna sugarcoat it:
Telling other lgbtqia members that using the term “queer” is problematic and bad is more aligned with conservative’s views of hiding and destroying queerness. When you get that gatekeeping towards your own community you are making it easier to break us apart.
hey writers if you want to make a metaphor for racism, please maybe remember that racism is literally based on nothing. Africans weren’t enslaved en masse because the Robo-Musa threatened to destroy the world, they were enslaved because it was economically rewarding and politically convenient. If at any point your allegory for racism includes “so <oppressed group> did this major catastrophe and” then you have not only missed the point but you are literally reinforcing the ideas that racism have let racism self-perpetuate (that e.g. black people are naturally dangerous and violent and must be contained or begrudgingly accepted by the Nice White People)
One of my favorite things in fiction is when all of the major antagonists are sympathetic characters with understandable motives and/or tragic backstories, but then you have one minor villain who’s just a mustache-twirling bastard in every way possible
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