#fictional people of course

[h0ney8ee]

just finished gone girl. i was upset amy decided to come back but thinking about it more......... i do love when two toxic people bring out the worst in each other

[dazzelmethat]

Cricket Cat concept. Do you see it? Do you see my vision? I don't think they'd purr or meow, just chirp with their wings.

[lazylittledragon]

ok someone please correct me if i'm wrong but am i weird for thinking those 'audiobooks don't count as reading' posts are ableist as fuck????

[radiotrophicfungi]

BLINKIE SET #66 . . . SELFSHIPPING!

a quick recolor set with lots of colors to choose from for your convenience! the original blinkie is the white one on the top left. I was going to make it a part of another lovecore set, but decided to do this instead!

[r-aindr0p]

Visual kei Rollo be upon ye✨

Ok if he’s 1m78 tall and these are 15cm heels that would make him 1m93/6’3f tall roughly the height of Jack/Tweels/Hornless Malleu and frankly, yeah. Just yeah. I’m all for high heels for tall characters too, just make em’ tower over everyone even more

Also started sketches for a glam metal Idia look and uh.. surprise Rook

[rjalker]

you can still have gender in a species that's monoecious, reproduces asexually, or even is just physically incapable of the normal means of reproduction, you people are just fucking obsessed with biological essentialism and the white supremacist ideal of gender.

[zzoupz]

saw a take on twitter that's like "toxic yaoi means an imperfect relationship, not abuse" and I

[ladyniniane]

"But this female character chose to become a housewife!!! It was what she wanted all along."

This female character isn't real. Therefore, all her choices are the result of the author's decisions. They must thus be critically examined, especially if they result in diminishing her, sidelining her or making her abandon her other goals and passions. Especially if this goes against the rest of the narrative or if this is presented as the desirable ending for all female characters.

Those choices can also reflect the constraints of the period during which it was written and the same point still stands.

[bucketsquid]

every time someone calls octavio "fascist" i want to physically hit them with my slosher.

have you considered that maybe it's seriously ignorant to use this term for a society that's had countless numbers of its people die to Actual in-universe fascism?? like commander tartar is right there. THAT is a fascist, not a guy who hates the people that started a war on his own race + made them live in the wastelands.

and that this term is extremely loaded + it feels very weird to call the "we've suffered incredibly from war, we were erased from history, and continue to struggle to exist", heavily-minority-coded people that?

it's not funny, it really isn't.

please please do some reading about the sino-japanese war. about the r/ape of nanking. about japanese historical revisionism. the octarians are pretty specifically meant to be commentary on awful real world events.

maybe I'm just cranky bc I really love the octarians and how they + their wacky leader are written, but I feel like a lot of the western fandom just Say Shit and don't read deeper into what's being said in this series!!!

[missaccuracy]

People: “It’s not that Azula can’t grow as a person. It’s just that she’d never choose to put in any real effort to grow as a person. That’s why she’s irredeemable.”

Me: “What do you mean? Surely she could grow to eventually choose to put in real effort to grow as a person?”

People: “Of course not!”

Me: “So you’re still really saying that Azula can’t grow as a person.”

The whole: It's not that I think Azula is irredeemable, but yeah, she's actually irredeemable🤦‍♀️

[words-after-midnight]

as a writer of very dark, ✨️Highly Cancellable✨️ fiction myself, i really don't think it's that difficult to understand that suggesting it might be advisable for writers to put actual thought into the ways in which they portray sensitive topics in fiction, and to do appropriate research where it's needed to make sure they're not writing shitty caricatures and/or perpetuating harmful stigma and stereotypes (eg. "people with X mental illness are violent monsters" or "domestic abuse is romantic" or "trans people are predators"), doesn't automatically equate to "supporting censorship" or wanting to burn "problematic" books at the stake, but I keep forgetting we're on the Allergic to Nuance website.

Reserving the right to criticize lazy or irresponsible portrayals of complex issues that affect real people =/= demanding that said materials not exist, trying to stop anyone from creating or engaging with them, or otherwise advocating for their censorship. Being opposed to censorship also means allowing readers to form their own opinions and engage critically with the media they're consuming, no?

[foxgirlmoth]

Once again I have to tap the "talking about this stuff on a major social media does not make this private" and generally I think you should be avoiding this shit overall. Why does this always seem to pop up like every 4 months, fuck off. If its not clear I'm talking specifically about the incest mention here.

[elbiotipo]

I can't stand the "Cute Girls Doing Nothing" kind of anime or any other media, but I also can't stand a male-only cast (or worse, a cast with a couple of women characters written awfully). Can you be ...just... normal about your characters. Write them... like people...

[girlbob-boypants]

Me when I cosplay as a straight cop for a pride event, openly say on my blog putting him in pride colors didn't look right, shout for fictional cop pride publicly at the event, people respond with "acab", and then get a bunch of defense posts and free art while the cop pride part conveniently gets left out of all the info defending me:

[lacnunga]

In the wake of the IA situation, I've seen a lot more posts circulating about using your local library and I just. Sigh

[foursaints]

Do you think you would like your Barty in real life if you met him? Not like sexual attraction or thinking he’s cool or whatever But like genuinely wanting to Be friends with him. Is he Better in theory, or would you like him if he were flesh and Blood and not ink and imagination

he murdered and tortured people bro 😭