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softness-and-shattering · 1 year

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Seeing a post thats making me angry: ahh how do I disagree in a way that isnt confrontational and might help them see my point is there any point ahhhhh ummmm noticing that the post is from following a tag, not a mutual: oh fuck that, they can be wrong.

#not saying can never disagree w a mutual #this is about someone complaining about the queer shapeshifter character being bio essentialist and tagging double trouble and nimona #like uh those are both created by (the same) queer trans person so maybe pick different examples?#also murderbot. like. also. these are speculative fiction genres. That tackle big ideas through metaphor. its a metaphor.#like The Sunbearer Trials is a really good book has a transmasc protagonist and also hes part bird/quetzal?#and the author basically goes yeah I can address trans issues literally with this character but I am nevertheless choosing to do so metaphor #and #with trans creators #things are easier to deal with a step removed #i mean thats also why we engage in fiction to begin with #reading and creating #so if its cis people relegating queerness to shapeshifters and aliens and monsters yes complain about that #but queer people leaning into the tropes and exploring queerness through the tropes are not the problem!!#like in uh starsight cytonic series w brandon sanderson theres genderfucky aliens but no genderfucky humans. thats a place to improve.#anyway ahhhhhh people are wrong on the internet!!!!#mine

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