aeolianblues reblogged
didn't need to be. i just love him that much 😌
@peachy-artist @ranidspace absolutely!! here's a blank version for your convenience
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aeolianblues reblogged
The way queer people online police other queer people's work is just so weird. They're like "killing off a queer character is Bury Your Gays regardless of the context behind the death and it's illegal for lesbian relationships to be unhealthy in any way also homophobia should never exist in fantasy worlds ever. The fuck is self expression."
I feel like this take is intrinsic to the idea that has destroyed Fandom and hobby writing spaces. The idea that writing reflects explicitly what you want in real life with no care to the fact that writing has centuries of history of cathartic exploration.
Maybe that queer wants to explore the homophobia that has ripped apart their life? Or deal with the emotions of losing friends? Or maybe writing is just fun when there's conflict that interests you but you don't want to see in real life so you play with your toys and make a fucked up abusive narrative that is safely contained in fiction.
Please don’t take this in a gatekeepey way, but it also shows that some people have not read a book outside of their fanfic circle in a long time
#Only in the sense that while fan fiction is great! On eg. Tumblr you can literally request an author to write something tailored to your#fantasy. Which is great! But books aren’t normally that customisable. That’s the point of them. You escape into a world that isn’t yours.#You learn to see things from a different point of view. It’s why reading has historically been so great.#It’s the thing the OP says about exploration. Not only does it let you safely experience things and process your feelings about them#It literally helps you see the world through a pair of eyes that has seen a different world. And god alone knows this website needs to get#some perspective sometimes#Anyway all hail books; all hail reading!#Books#writing#reading#fiction
Fuck, just found out my super cool space dystopia has already been done in some form in the film Elysium and now I'm sad.
I didn't know anything about the film except I think Matt Damon was in it
#what matters is that it be well written right#this is empty corns popping; I have lost the book I wrote months' worth in#writers#writing#fiction#dystopia#listen it was a very well though out idea I was quite proud of it#it kinda spun together the ideas that#privilege doesn't have just one face#and the ripple effects seemingly normal things can have#smh I'm sad now#also looking through the tags suggestions no one on tumblr can spell the word privilege