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Basic rules for analysing fiction, an incomprehensive list jotted down in a hurry:

The protagonist isn’t always right

The protagonist isn’t always good

The protagonist isn’t always written to be relatable or likeable

The narrator isn’t always right

The narrator isn’t always good

The narrator isn’t always telling the truth

The narrator isn’t always the author

The protagonist’s moral compass, the narrator’s moral compass and the author’s moral compass are three entirely different things that only occasionally overlap

Pay attention to what characters do and not just what they say

Pay special attention when what the characters do is at odds with what they say

A lot of the time the curtains are blue for a reason. If they aren’t, you should read better books

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Queer Muslims are beautiful and deserve respect. Queer Muslims are valuable to the LGBTQA+ community.

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letting a traumatized character have their happy ending where they can recover from their trauma will always be a thousand times more powerful than killing them off for shock value

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was it all worth it?

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from Picture Play Magazine, November 1923

original caption:

Sapristi!—How Foreign!

Photographer: Pach Brothers

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GUESS WHAT TIME IT IS KIDS

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there’s this interesting tendency that especially young ppl have when it comes to art where they want to “consume” art by women, lgbt ppl, poc, to make themselves more feminist, anti-racist, etc, and then when they discover these artists have flaws too, that they aren’t perfect representatives of the social movement that’s being projected onto them, they don’t know what to do with that so instead of engaging with these new perspectives they return to art by straight white men who avoid saying something wrong on these topics by simply not speaking of them at all

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March, 1924 Ad for Ford Closed Cars.

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Front Line Stuff, c. 1919 by Claggett Wilson

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1914 Fashion page from a women's magazine for "The New Spanish Dress". From Fashion of Bygone Days, FB.

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Nishimura Goun -”Quietness”.  Early 20th century, Japan