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Sunday's Hot Topic: The Impact of Cultural Representation in Children's Literature

🌟 Cultural representation in children's literature is vital! It helps kids see themselves in stories, fostering identity and empathy. Let's celebrate and promote diverse books for young readers. 📚✨ #DiverseKidsBooks #RepresentationMatters #InclusiveStor

Children’s literature plays a crucial role in shaping young minds and fostering a sense of identity and belonging. As a voracious reader and ESL kid, I felt a bit empty when I read books but didn’t see myself in them. At such a young age, when I was trying to understand myself in relation to everyone else and build confidence and self-love, that landscape was challenging. Thus, cultural…

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The Power of Diverse Voices in Literature: Why It Matters

As storytellers, we are constantly striving to create engaging and impactful stories that resonate with readers. We pour our hearts and souls into crafting well-rounded characters, compelling plotlines, and thought-provoking themes. But have you ever stopped to think about the importance of diverse voices in literature? In today’s world, where diversity and representation are crucial topics of…

[redysetdare]

Soulmates are inherently amatonormative and it's so wild how many people refuse to acknowledge that and instead go around trying to "make it more inclusive" which mostly just leads to then forcing aspec characters into a amatonormative narrative.

[jamechloe]

Trans women are women

[eddiesketti]

Happy birthday Childe 🥳⛈️

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[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 3 - Monstropolis

[uncanny-tranny]

Medical racism isn't important to address just because it's mean to be racist to patients (I mean, it is mean), but because medical racism kills people. It contributes to systemic suffering of those deemed non-white, and the disinformation that spreads about non-white people.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Concept: LQR big naturals but also with the flattest ass. Make him a titty dorito

Lan Qiren Breasted Boobily down the stairs of Cloud Recess

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Transphobia/ micro aggression idk story cuz I see a lot of posts talking about transandrophobia but not as many stories about experiencing it. (Maybe it's just my Tumblr algorithm but regardless posting will hopefully help that too)

Anyways I'm 21 recently started transitioning and I've been performing at a drag place for a little bit. This elder queen (I don't even remember her name I think she was trans but with drag queens that have spent their lives In Drag it can be difficult to tell even when you hear them talk about themselves because many of these people kinda use male and female names pronouns etc interchangeably etc. I'll use she -her pronouns in the story because I'd rather not accidentally misgender a trans women and ik she doesn't care about being she/hered even if she is a cis gay) Anyways she asks bout me and I tell her my name, pronouns, and identity as one does in queer spaces. Upon hearing I was a trans masc she immediately feels the need to tell me the story of the time she *gasp* almost slept with a trans man. The story goes like this.

Shes at a drag night in some bar and a drag king approaches her and they hit it off. Shes into him and vice versa. They ditch the bar and make out in a car somewhere and when it's getting hot and heavy the dude pulls his strap out and tells her he wants to fuck her. All standard shit. But she goes on and on about how surprised and disgusted she was at both the fact that she's been fooling round with a "woman" and how off-putting it was to even suggest a BOTTOM get fucked with a dildo. She picks up. A. Drag. King. And gets surprised when he's trans. If a lesbian went to a drag night and picked up a trans woman and reacted in the same way people would call her an idiot for not bothering to have the critical thinking skills to consider that maybe that person performing gender up there is performing a different gender than they were assigned at birth. (Side note if you're gonna pick someone up without knowing anything about them you can't be mad about surprises. I swing both ways so a surprise is just fine for me but if you have a severe genital preference maybe fucking ask people before you're making out with them and wanting to fuck. Sorry you hate dildos but you should have checked, and honestly even if it's a cis dude you should at least try to verify that they get tested + use protection etc

Unfortunately the majority of drag kings I've run into have been CIS men. The place I'm in is very supportive and kind to cis men doing bare minimum performances (no choreography, no makeup, usually the dude just takes his shirt off at some point and that alone is enough to be praiseworthy. Or he wears a suit stands around and barely lip-syncs ) whereas drag kings that aren't cis or arent men are more often than not treated as outsiders.

The story also cemented what I was afraid of that ultimately I was viewed as an invader of the space. That for some reason cis queens and cis kings are more acceptable in a space that was pioneered by trans women and drag queens. The trans drag shows Ive gone to haven't had any trans men in them unless they are open call. It's hurtful it's alienating and it's frustrating. I AM STILL TRANS. IF YOUR TRANS INCLUSIVE SPACE ISNT INCLUSIVE OF ME ITS NOT INCLUSIVE. It's frustrating that as a trans man when I enter "trans friendly gay bars" I'm often treated like an annoying presence getting in the way of everyone else's dicks only zone. Sorry I don't have a cock but that shouldn't be a requirement to occupy these spaces and you can't call yourself trans inclusive when you really mean just cis gays and trans girls. At the time I couldn't really articulate how fucked up what she said was so I just kinda said some non offensive topic change and moved on but like most of the other queens ignored or avoided me and that moment I figured out why I always felt like the odd one out. Because I was.

[pinsterwglasses]

Popuri from Harvest Moon: Back to Nature

[luckloveandwaterfalls]

When you think about it, those first seven people who started the tournament really went wild with their assumptions about the Landmarks, Relics, and how future generations of their families would behave. Just creating the curse like "obviously only seven types of champions will play this game: evil, sketchy, loser, egotistical, hero, engineer, and pacifist"

[genshin-scenarios]

Reunion: A Ripple [Part 1]

Summary: The sequel to Adopt a Wanderer is finally here!

Note: This sequel series will be more open-ended in terms of romantic/platonic interactions (nothing that cements either one will be included), so readers can read it how they like!

Read the first series here! (an AU where Scaramouche/Wanderer gets isekaied to your world, found-family series)

-> Part 2

There are many sayings to explain what one sees in their dreams; that they are fragments of memories strewn together, visualizations of yearning, or fears brought to life.

To Wanderer—who stands knee-deep in a dark blue and violet sea—it is a mixture of all three.

He sees a figure in the distance that wades through the scenery. Their visage grows hazier the more he tries to look closer, and they take a silent step away from him—followed by a drop of water that reverberates through the dreamscape, transporting him into a different place altogether.

Wanderer is in a house, its floorings and decoration something he cannot identify as Teyvatian. It is foreign in a way that doesn’t seem like it’d be able to hold him; as if a hunter dropped a woven net over the puppet, expecting it to be enough to snare the callous soul. 

He stands, as if frozen in time, like a creature taken aback by this new sensation, and allows himself to stay still as he turns his gaze to the sound of running water.

A person washing dishes. Wanderer barely recognises your face at first, but an odd sense of familiarity calls out to him from your movements—relaxed, humming to a song playing from your phone—and his eyes widen as something clicks in his mind.

The last thing he manages to do before he is snatched away, is reach out his hand towards you. Does it in such panic that his arm aches, as if his action could race against the way his consciousness closes in on itself, engulfing everything in a voidless dark. 

His lashes flutter open, and a sharp pain throbs at the back of his skull.

He groans, cursing the headache, and covers his eyes with a hand as if that would keep the dream from slipping away.

Irminsul. Wanderer clenches his jaw. What has it done?

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-> Part 2

[once-delight]

Lestat and Daniel fight fight fight!

Live dog walker reaction:

So my friend Jay @radiocurrency writes this fic where Vamp!Daniel and Lestat gets into a fight in a park near the Golden Gate bridge (Lestat is trying to help Daniel lure out Armand by making him jealous, but oops they try to outbitch each other instead and it ends in a fight where Daniel gets so angry he literally learns to fly just so he can punch Lestat.)

The story is so well written, and the characters are on point, yet I couldn’t help but imagine a poor dog walker pass the scene by and trying to pretend he didn’t just see the rockstar Lestat and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Daniel Molloy (he’s cultured and reads The Times when not walking his dog) flying through the air, hissing and punching each other. Just another night in San Fransisco.

Full pic under the cut!

[imbecominggayer]

How To Not Stereotype Characters

So you want to write a minority, eh? Think you tough, eh?

This is a post that applies to all types of minority groups from religion to race to gender to disability to everything else!

In All Cases Involving Minorities The Trick To Avoiding Accusations Of Stereotyping Is TO AVOID TOKENIZATION!

Tokenization: to take one example of one type of person and call it perfect overall representation of an entire community

You want to write a villainous trans character? Cool! Just take a character on the hero's side and incorperate trans characteristics into them! Heck, take fifteen random cannon fodder characters and incorperate a trans identity into them!

You want to write a flamboyant gay man? Great! Just take that accountant character you have and make them have a picture of their sam-sex lover! Take a best friend, love interest, protagonist, ally, or enemy, and make them gay!

If you are a dummy you might think that this is "unrealistic". You want to know what isn't realistic, your plotline! Most people don't get into the shit your characters do!

But seriously, minorities are as omnipresent as white straight cismen neurotypical and able-bodied men are. Probably more so! Those list of characteristics I just mentioned aren't the default! Besides, minorities are more likely to be seen together than seperate!

[basilone]

y'all have got to stop interacting with posts that contain uncredited gifs istg

using my gifs in your post without crediting me gets you blocked without pardon, I am sick of chasing after credit for my work

(also in that same vein: gifmakers can see when you use their gifs with credit because we get a notification if you do, and not every gifmaker wants their gifs included in other people's fics/posts. please try asking us first, esp if you want to use it for explicit content.)

[aro-who-reads]

Found another "aromantic" mention in a book out in the wild, in Australian queer fairytale retelling anthology 'Everything Under the Moon'.

According to the forward, one of the stories is about an aromantic character!