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Writers: Bad people are still people with their own problems and emotions, even when they cause problems and distress and hurt other people.

Tumblr Gremlins: Problematic. Blocked.

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CHINA. Beijing. April to June 1989. Tiananmen Square massacre.

The Tiananmen Square protests were student-led demonstrations in Beijing in 1989. The students called for democracy, greater accountability, freedom of the press, and freedom of speech, though they were loosely organised and their goals varied. At the height of the protests, about a million people would assemble in the Square (see picture 2). The protests were forcibly suppressed after the government declared martial law. In what became widely known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, troops with assault rifles and tanks killed unarmed civilians trying to block the military’s advance towards Tiananmen Square. The number of civilian deaths has been estimated at anywhere between hundreds and thousands.

Public memory of the Tiananmen Square protests has been suppressed by the authorities since 1989. Textbooks have little, if any, information related to the protests. Print media containing reference to the protests must be consistent with the government’s version of events. Following the protests, officials also banned controversial films and books, and shut down a large number of newspapers. Within a year, 12 percent of all newspapers, 8 percent of publishing companies, 13 percent of social science periodicals and more than 150 films were banned or shut down.

Currently, many Chinese citizens are reluctant to speak about the protests because of potential repercussions. Many young people born after 1980 are completely unfamiliar with the events and are apathetic about politics while older intellectuals no longer aspire for political change and instead focus on economic issues. Youth in China are generally unaware of the events that took place, of the symbols such as tank man (see last picture), or of the significance of the date June 4 itself. The entire surface of Tiananmen Square was later resurfaced, to remove evidence of blood stains left there after the crackdown. 

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if you’re able to report her twitlonger for mentioning lizzy’s full name then please do. 

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My girlfriend and I talk a lot about our different generations of queerness, because she was doing queer activism in the 1990s and I wasn’t.

And she’s supportive of my writing about queerness but also kind of bitter about how quickly her entire generation’s history has disappeared into a bland “AIDS was bad, gay marriage solved homophobia” narrative, and now we’re having to play catch-up to educate young LGBTQ+ people about queer history and queer theory. It gets pretty raw sometimes.

I mean, a large part of the reason TERFs have been good at educating the young and queer people haven’t is, in the 80s and 90s the leading lights of TERFdom got tenured university positions, and the leading lights of queerdom died of AIDS.

“Excuse us,” she said bitterly the other day, not at me but to me, “for not laying the groundwork for children we never thought we’d have in a future none of us thought we’d be alive for.”

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Lily orchard is a hack critic and a hack writer with no legitimate talent whatsoever

The fact that she refers to her stuff as schlock is insulting to schlock. It still takes heart and skill to make enjoyable schlock, and it’s not made successfully by people who openly admit to not caring about quality.

She just wants an excuse for why she doesn’t write well.

The thing is, plenty of writers are out there making bad fanfics and enjoying the hell out of it and doing no harm to anyone. I would find it rude to give them critical feedback unless they asked for it.

Lily’s here begging in all caps for comments at the end of each pokemon comic, demanding comments at the end of each TSR chapter, and she gets upset if the comments are negative. Maybe the comments wouldn’t be negative if you put in the effort to make it good?

Also she has the nerve to call all of her followers bad writers. Just, all of them.

She’s aware that most of her following skews young. Imagine feeling comfortable telling a bunch of budding writer teens that they’re REALLY bad. As if she’s what...personally combed through the writing of all her followers? Yeah right. Add onto that, a lot of her followers are probably trans as well, and she’s just assuming they definitely can’t pull off writing trans people. Granted, I get that because of dysphoria, she would not be eager at the prospect of reading amateur writing takes on trans people, at the risk of getting triggered. But she doesn’t need to turn that personal problem into a reason that her followers are in fact BAD WRITERS and are the assholes at fault for making her upset. Before even sharing their writing!

I wouldn’t be tempted to point out how bad her writing is if she weren’t such a self-important, pompous asshole.

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https://lily-orchard.tumblr.com/post/623500093768826880/i-came-to-an-important-realization-for-a-while

“The Q-Slur has been a slur for DECADES. It’s supposed “reclamation” is less than ten years old.”

i mean…

from 1990

http://www.back2stonewall.com/2020/06/history-june-16th-queer-nation-signorile-arrested.html

from 1992

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13858290/sfs-first-black-owned-gay-bar-offered-refuge-from-racism-in-the-90s-queer-scene

For more on the history of Queer Nation, at least the NY branch, checking out their website where they still catalogue meaningful activism is a good start: https://queernationny.org/history

I don’t know how time works for Lily Orchard, but I don’t think the 90′s were ten years ago…she’s either willfully ignorant and will never pick up a book on LGBT history, or she’s purposefully lying because she knows her fans would rather take her word for everything than look anything up.

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Been thinking of doing a chapter by chapter review on The Sith Resurgence.

Idk, I write stuff too, and I can’t even imagine being as negative about critique as Lily is. To be fair, I’m sure it must be tiring to receive so much bad faith critique, but it just boggles my mind how she just constantly reduces anyone who doesn’t have strictly positive views on her writing to straw man haters who just want to watch her burn.

Obviously it’ll be on here and not on AO3, since Lily refuses to take any semblance of criticism and deletes any vaguely negative comment she receives. I’m not going to dunk on her writing, since I do want to make it as fair and unbiased as I possibly can. But judging from the snippets I’ve read, there are some legitimate issues that exist within her writing that I feel are worth pointing out by somebody, even though she doesn’t seem to want to hear them for whatever reason.

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oh, good god. it’s like she prepped a few pages of crash-coursing on every issue she’s ever had, just for the sake of showing me she hasn’t changed.

saving these two in particular as they’re vital for key points, and then i have to force myself to work on things that actually pay the bills.

1. good to see she outright admits she projects this extremely detrimental mental health take as a result of a trauma she hasn’t properly processed. had long suspected that, but it’ll be useful to have it in her own words.

2. how, exactly, does she know this anonymous person is lizzy? anyone bother to ask her?

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Lily does realize that some people take sponsors for financial reasons, right?

YouTube is a finicky thing at times, and the income people make from videos might not be enough to support themselves and their channel. Additionally, demonetization is a thing, and people who have to fight their videos getting demonetized for stupid reasons might actually need that extra income. Labeling people who might actually need sponsorship money as “sleazebags” who don’t have “dignity” is stupid and offensive.

...plus, is it really that much of a hassle to sit through three extra minutes or so of sponsored content? Especially if it means supporting a channel you like? I just don’t think it’s THAT big a deal.