-core As A Suffix Serves The Exact Same Function As -esque And Yet They Throw Tomatoes At Me When I Say

Okay, so here's my problem.

I have issues and criticisms of Contrapoints and Lindsay Ellis that I would love to actually discuss with people who would actually know who and what I'm talking about, which excludes everyone in my real world life.

But I also can't really discuss this sort of thing online either because both of these women have hatedoms that will glom onto any reason to harass them and I really don't want them using anything I might say to do so.

Like, look at the contrapoints tag here on tumblr and, aside from the fans just enjoying stuff they like, you'll find that most of the criticism is either full TERF bs or quickly attracts full TERF bs.

And I want nothing to do with that. I don't want to read the nasty vitriol they spew out or in any way contribute to their gross bigotry.

My issues/criticisms really don't have anything to do with either of these women being women. And I don't want to get mixed up with the crowd for whom that is their issue.

I just really don't like feeling like I need to bite my tongue because bigots want to act in bad faith

What in the 1990s is this

I redid this older comic I made for my storytelling class based on this post. Have some cute wlw love in your day.

It’s hard, if I had more free time I could make it so pretty, this is what I could throw together for the assignment.

Earthlings by sayaka murata; the fmc was annoying, it was always this weird bragging mixed with "poor lil me" also, it dragged sooooooooooo bad, it felt like half the book was only 15 minutes of plot, and it was the most boring 15 minutes u could imagine, nothing happened and it keep dragging and dragging and i couldn't finish it

I haven't heard of this one, but I accept your offering and will hate this book on your behalf

Come join me on twitch for more talk of mage rights with Dragon Age: Origins

i’m suffering from divine madness so let me assign you a new identity metaphor/motif based on my own experiences with gender and being alive.

this quiz includes images of meat and viscera.

to be perfectly honest, long before everyone realized jk rowling was a piece of shit, i thought her writing was terribad. fit for second graders at best, even with her aspirations to tell a "darker" story. i literally picked up a book, saw a character named remus lupin, said to myself and he's a werewolf hurr hurr. 400 pages later, big SURPRISE REVEAL HE'S A WEREWOLF. who was already named remus lupin before he even got turned. frankly get the fuck out of my face with that shit.

Dude I get it. I guessed the big twist of every single one of those books, and I was reading them back as they were coming out. Joanne does the most hand-holding foreshadowing I have ever seen.

I think everyone (including Baby Robi, I'm not innocent here) just fell in love with the sandbox she created and didn't want to look at all the cat turds that got mixed in

this should be a tweet but I don’t want to deal with people on Twitter. everyone stop having every character in your fiction talk like their goal is to get an A in therapy. 

Literally learning how to speed read just so I can get through The Secret History faster. I just want to be done with this terrible book

Ever since the latest Dune adaptation came out it's been like the thing for booktubers, booktokkers, etc., to talk about how much they hate the book.

Now, Dune is literally my favorite book. I've read it so many times. I am in love with it. Not so in love with the son's additions to series, but that's a whole vitriolic rant that I don't want to get into right now.

Anyway, despite how much I love it, I absolutely do not fault people for not liking it. I can see why people would dislike the characters, would find the plot boring, think the political structure is confusing. I don't agree with those criticisms, but whatever. You don't have to like what I like. It's fine.

What isn't fine is the amount of people talking about how they hate it when they clearly didn't try to engage with it in good faith. I mean, they are really people out there saying that it lacks depth, that there's very little worldbuilding, that the characters are one-dimensional.... Honey, I don't know what you read, but it sure as hell wasn't Dune