#and they're not obligated to take it

[hoochieblues]

I'm currently working on a ms that has some significant classism issues, and it's making me want to chew off my own arms.

Writers. Please. Whatever historical period you're writing, whatever genre, whatever the makeup of your worldbuilding... poverty doesn't make people immoral. Lack of education doesn't make people stupid.

I think the vast majority of people know this, but "The Poors" should not exist in your story to either be "content with their lot" and whimsically prop up wealthier characters' privilege, or to be handwaved or judged as venal, desperate, or cruel by those wealthier characters, especially with the condescending veneer of pity.

Sure, poverty is cruel and can change how you think. It can veer you towards sketchy decisions, limit your options, and embitter you. It can normalise certain things in a community that you don't see in wealthier places. But a lazy caricature of the type of person who is poor is a bullshit avoidance of those issues, and it's pure classism.

By all means, write antagonists or unpleasant characters who are poor. But, for the love of fuck, give them some interior motivation beyond being poor. Contextualise them. Show some variety.

If you've never lived under the poverty line, if you're not sure how to write it, do some research. You have the sum of human knowledge in a tiny computer in your pocket. It can show you worlds you never knew existed, and viewpoints far outside your own.

[destinyandcoins]

lmao i know it’s 2 seasons later but it just occurred to me: what if, at the beginning of s1, instead of deciding his funeral was the best way to get everyone back in one place, reginald decided to have a wedding instead

not only do we get the entertaining side-plot of this poor person reginald has bribed/blackmailed/begged to marry him For The Con, but the only reason any of the kids show up is because they got a wedding invite and immediately went “oh now this i gotta see”

[nativehueofresolution]

it stands out to me how armand frequently uses endearments for daniel ('beloved', 'my love'). it's something i can't recall him ever doing with his other lovers - typically, he expresses his affections through grand romantic speeches (which has its own appeal, to be sure). but with daniel, he's a little sappier, a little sillier. they will spend nights together people watching or putting on a movie they've seen a dozen times already. there are still grand gestures, like giving daniel night island or showering him with precious items, but daniel is also the one buying all the airline tickets for armand as he makes them fly around the world and explain things like long distance phone calls and tax brackets. the sweeping romance also exists alongside the mundane acts of existing together and indulging your loved one's weird habits and using petnames. it's very humanizing and sweet.

[benevolenterrancy]

relistened to Last Beacon, aka Ianto And Owen's No Good Very Bad Hiking Trip

[campingwiththecharmings]

ever get the feeling some people are just...tolerating you?

[mtt-burger-emporium]

thinking about chara and the implications of the line "chara hated humanity. why, they never said..." like ok i KNOW something was happening at home. chara baby you didn't deserve that shit i'm so glad you fell down a thousand feet in a cave hole and right into the arms of people who would keep you fed roof over your head and would never raise their hand against you. "eradicate humanity" you're 10 years old how about eradicating your shitfucked surface fam by calling cps first

[gaykeithbilance]

i keep going back and forth about my opinion on genderbending characters. is it enforcing the gender binary? or is it actually transgressive to turn men into women in the very male centric world of fandom? am i thinking about this for too long and should i touch grass?

so anyways i think my solution to wanting to draw your male blorbos as women but stay cool and unproblematic as to my personal standards (which are of course universal tumblr law) is to just trans their genders. they're transfem now good for them

[just-aro]

y'all have no idea how much effort goes into trying to interpret and respond to some of the questions we get about aromanticism lol.

like kee does so much tonal phrasing to be nice about this, but. please. "what is aromantic?" i am not google. "i don't know if i feel romantic attraction." cool, i'm not gonna be able to tell you what it feels like either. "hi, what if I am a person and not one of the major aro stereotypes?" then you are a person who is aro and doesn't fit that stereotype.

and like, whatever, we deal with those fine. but the worst. the absolute worst. is the ones where the ask is more or less requesting me to speak for aromantic people as a whole, or - worse and more commonly - a specific subset of aro people who i may not identify with, and almost always insist they aren't trying to be bad, but have such a questionable mindset behind it that i feel like i need to start with "how to identify that you haven't unlearned shit, you just realized you have an identity and stuck your tongue out at the people who taught you that shit"

[dnotive]

Why is it just hyperbolic "sillyposting" when you do it, but when I put a bunch of random thoughts in the tags informed by my own experiences it's automatically a "defensive" "angry essay" fueled by "brand loyalty...?"

Like I was even making fun of myself for doing it by pointing out that it's weird bait and then, with full self-awareness, still taking it.

I wasn't even mad before, but now I kind of am because this is such a bizarre cop out.

[july-19th-club]

i think it takes probably twenty years' worth of institutional and social reform in small nudging bits, but maia eventually manages to soften certain requirements of nohercherei. in their first year together they formulated - and had the conversation about - what kind of a friendship they'd be capable of, and after that there's no way he would be able to go the rest of his life knowing that even if when he died it was of old age, his bodyguards, if they were still alive, would be contracted by oath to commit ritual suicide and be buried alongside him. i think it takes him a long time, and he probably has to find some oath loophole to work with magically-speaking, and the athmaza is probably a real pill about it, and the potential for scandal and widespread disapproval is intense. and i think that he probably has to leave in a caveat, like, 'nohecherei have a retirement age now and if i die first and you still haven't reached it, you're encouraged to retire BUT if you really feel like a stickler for tradition you can kill yourself if you want to' because beshelar in particular would be adamant that the traditional option remain. but one day he comes to all four of them and says i've got a proposal i'm going to put before the corazhas, but because it's about you right now i want you to see it first. i want your input, i want you to tell me what does and doesn't work and if you'd consider it an insult to your profession or if you'd be willing to accept it.' and it's been a long time and they're all in their forties now and have known each other long enough that cala definitely thous him and telimezh and kiru maybe do and beshelar does if the situation is serious enough that he's willing to put aside etiquette. and they've been through dangerous days and busy days and boring days together, they were together for his wedding (though graciously agreed to stay outside the room for at least a few hours that night), they were there for the births of his and csethiro's children, they've watched them grow, and when he shows them the proposal - no nohecharis/o is obligated to die with their emperor; the death of an emperor of any causes shall mark the end of the nocheharis/o's career and they will instead teach the next generation (for who better to do it? it's not just sentiment; there's a practical reasoning here (maia having realized that certain parties would only accept the offer if it could be something more than sentiment))...when he presents it, cala cries. kiru likes it immediately; she's always been practical and forward-thinking. telimezh has outgrown his nervousness and starts looking through it for points that can be made clearer, for wordings that will make it most likely to get through the corazhas intact. beshelar, though, is the first to, out loud, say yes.

[kittlyns]

Something I've noticed amongst my family is that they would rather keep you at a distance but let you know they're "thinking of you" by praying for you, and not making any real effort to ask how you are, or if there's anything they can do for you.

[udurghsigil]

can't stress enough that you guys don't have to answer every single ask you get. in fact you can just delete them. especially if they are causing you psychic damage.

[ronanlynchbf]

hell day today and i'm only two hours into my EIGHT HOUR SHIFT

[honorhearted]

One of my favorite (subtle) things about Ben is any time he’s around an emotional woman, he lowkey panics and looks to the other male presence(s) in the room for help. 

[stepffan]

as much as i would like to see more banquet photos and shoma hanging out with the other skaters, if that's what he needs to do to stay focused on the skating and it helps keep away the competition stress of the "i need to win and fight and compete against others" mindset and then by all means i hope he continues what he's doing now, just focusing on himself and hanging out with his team of emotional support middle-aged men

[fangaminghell]

Suraya fully prepared to leave reborn after everything is said and done thinking that she has to go back to kalos in order to fulfill her duties as a guardian and heir to the company only for her parents to go " ARE YOU CRAZY?! AFTER EVERYTHING YOU WENT THROUGH YOU THINK THAT'S WHAT WE'RE WORRIED ABOUT?!?!?!" and insisted that Suraya stays in Reborn. They can all work something out together, but right now their son and daughter needs some fucking rest.

I like to think that was Suraya's first sign saying that maybe she can still have a good relationship with her parents after all :)