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box-dwelling · 1 year

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So the YA dystopia I started writing at 13 has a lot of problems that need rewrites if I ever choose to do anything with it but the literal dumbest one is that I had this uniquely British lib brain rot at the time that guns are bad and should never be used. Weapons were fine but these bitches were fighting for their lives and were using swords despite having just as easy access to modern artillery. It wasn't an issue with violence or taking lives it was just guns because "Americans use guns and mass shootings happen" as though that is in any way applicable to the scenario it was discussing. Yes common sense gun reform is an important legislative issue in the states but bestie facing off against genocidal super soilders is not the time to die on that hill. There was absolutely no issue discussed with the ethics of stabbing and neck snapping hordes of faceless villains just as long as they weren't shot by a pistol.

#there are genuinely ideas i still find interesting in that story but god it needs so much work to not be the most cringe BuzzFeed feminist #thing ive ever seen. i literally came up with an idea for an anarchist commune from first principles but then made the main character a cop #and had her make her right hand man be a tory dickweed to reach across the aisle #which was especially stupid given the fact that the whole thing was that these were kids being sent to die so maybe the rich pretty boy #would not have been included in that #i was so fucking cocky about how i had all that figured out but jesus christ its needs an adult eye and some systemic critque #ya idiot read the first 2 chapers of 1984 understood none of it and was like. yes. i understand fascism now #so cringe

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