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cannibalizedyke · 1 year

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❤︎︎ about me ❤︎︎

hi!!! i’m meredith, but you can also call me lottie, steph, briar, or elia <33 i use she/lil pronouns and i’m bi, demiromantic, and aceflux. i’m neurodivergent so be patient with me if i don’t understand things/talk too much!! i’m a writer and i used to have over 200 fics on this blog, but i’m starting from scratch bc tumblr broke my links <//3 hope you have fun here!!

currently reading: i kissed shara wheeler by casey mcquiston

currently watching: yellowjackets

currently listening to: preacher’s daughter by ethel cain

❥ my favorites

movies/books/tv shows:

steel magnolias, 10 things i hate about you, the corpse bride, marvel cinematic universe, mean girls, pirates of the caribbean, puss in boots: the last wish, the princess bride, monster high, tangled, edward scissorhands, easy a, colette, ella enchanted, the princess and the frog, barbie movies, beetlejuice, coraline, summerland, ever after high, six of crows, the school for good and evil, the hunger games, harry potter, if we were villains, edgar allan poe, the lunar chronicles, miss peregrine’s home for peculiar children, dc comics, shatter me, the folk of the air, lore, the arc of a scythe, percy jackson, new girl, avatar: the last airbender, a series of unfortunate events, winnie the pooh, teen titans, the amazing world of gumball, the good place, brooklyn nine-nine, community, newsies, yellowjackets

artists:

marina, lana del rey, lorde, børns, mother mother, poppy, studio killers, twenty one pilots, wallows, hozier, aurora, florence + the machine, phoebe bridgers, arctic monkeys, the neighbourhood, conan gray, harry styles, taylor swift, the smiths, zella day, declan mckenna, my chemical romance, fin, flower face, cults, melanie martinez, boys world, clairo, bad suns

things to do:

write, sing, read, listen to music, go on picnics, watch tv, swim, take walks, spend time with people, talk

❥ my comfort characters

patrick verona, peter parker, briar beauty, dexter charming, kitty cheshire, madeline hatter, lizzie hearts, darling charming, daring charming, jesper fahey, nina zenik, anadil of bloodbrook, hester of ravenswood, peeta mellark, johanna mason, finnick odair, harry potter, george weasley, cedric diggory, mary macdonald, lily evans, pandora lovegood, luna lovegood, sirius black, regulus black, remus lupin, james potter, meredith dardenne, millard nullings, hugh apiston, emma bloom, tim drake, stephanie brown, cassandra cain, bart allen, jason todd, harley quinn, poison ivy, aaron warner, kenji kishimoto, cardan greenbriar, percy jackson, leo valdez, hazel levesque, jessica day, zuko, klaus baudelaire, violet baudelaire, sunny baudelaire, the hook-handed man, isadora quagmire, quigley quagmire, winnie the pooh, robin, starfire, beast boy, chidi anagonye, troy barnes, abed nadir, jack kelly, nat scatorccio, jackie taylor, lottie matthews

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appleduna · 2 years

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We Hunt The Flame and accidental homophobia- a small rambling essay

BIG SPOILERS FOR WE HUNT THE FLAME//

Queerbaiting is a term that kinda varies on meaning from person to person. Personally I think it has a couple meanings, but the one that matters today is bait and switch. This is for all intents and purposes having a queer-coded character than punishing the reader for interpreting them like that. Benefiting from the queer aesthetic and not following through.

So anyways I recently read a book called We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal. It was pretty good, not amazing, but good. And people really like this book. For good reason, I think it’s much better than other novels of its genre.

The problem I have with this novel is pretty small but to me emblematic of a trend in YA Scifi and Fantasy, and that’s queerbaiting/sidelining. You might ask where is this book even remotely queer and I’ll answer that by introducing you to our main problem- Altair.

Altair throughout the novel is a classic YA archetype- the funny man who’s got a hidden badass side, and FUCKS. So basically a sexy crouching moron hidden badass. I usually am not a fan of these characters despite them often being the best in their series. Examples of this character are- Jesper Fahey, and Kenji Kishimoto. (And let's be clear Jesper is a good example of this trope) They usually steal the show away from the other characters by virtue of being more interesting than most of the other characters. And also they’re usually bi-coded.

Maybe it’s cause people associate biseuxal people with a sorta funnyman attitude which is sourced from homophobic tropes but we’re not getting into that today. The problem I have is not following through with this coding.

One of my least favorite thing straight authors pull is the one-off line that this character is queer, and never elaborating on it outside of maybe a line at the end of this character actually doing something queer. This is tokenizing. I shouldn’t have to explain why- but here we go- They’re benefiting off of the reader thinking ‘oh theres a queer character so this book is progressive, and the authors not homophobic But never actually doing anything with that character, they don’t show this character being queer, they don’t have to do the hard thing and research what queer people are like, what being queer is like, what coming out is like. They don’t have to work, and that show’s a lack of giving a shit.

I’m so desensitized to this that I give straight authors a pass when they pull this stuff cause frankly I’m not gonna have every review ranting on why ya book no.45 is homophobic.

But We Hunt the Flame somehow makes it worse, and taints an otherwise good book.

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So lets get to it.

Altair is a general, and the Sultan wants him dead, that’s most of what we know about him at first. But we do know that Altair is the closest thing the male love interest has to a friend. And throughout the book they’re kind of a dynamic duo. They chat and banter, and Altair forces him out of his comfort zone more than most of the other characters, cause he’s the only one with that close of a relationship with him. This is kinda required, since the main character has no interest in either of them, seeing as they ‘killed’ her closest friend. And for Nasir to become an attainable love interest for the MC, he needs to be socially loosened up. This is fine, I see the narrative purpose and I actually think it makes both characters better. But here’s the problem- Altair flirts with Nasir very openly, and very brazenly. Which is a normal thing for YA books who employ these tropes. Besides the fact that they have more chemistry than the MC and Nasir, there’s no problem.

Until the reveal.

So YA fantasy tends to feel the need to have huge twists at the end of the story, that changes everything! (except they usually don’t) and dishearten the characters (except when they don’t) and recontextualize the whole story! (except when they don’t) And We Hunt the Flame is no stranger to this.

The Twist?

Altair and Nasir are half brothers.

So any of yall read Cassandra Cla-

I hope I don’t have to explain why this is homophobic but I will cause I LOVE writing this all out

Faizal uses Altair’s flirting to show off a piece of his character, to show him as a funnyman who everyone gets along with. They show it off to show that Altair is not afraid of Nasir, and see’s him as a human being. All of this buildup, the tension, the dynamic, the friendship of Altair and Nasir are at least a little bit romantic coded- and what Faizal does is punish the reader for thinking this. She punishes them by making them brothers. She benefits from the setup, from the characterization that their queerness brings and then slaps away any queer interpretation of these characters pretty soundly.

(Seriously I have no clue why someone would have characters who are sibling have any sort of romantic/sexual comments to eachother UNLESS they’re Cassandra Cla-)

It’s a showcase that these tropes are not only harmful but not productive for your story. Faizal shoots herself in the foot for this one, because her decision to tokenize Altair’s bisexuality, to use it as a joke, ends up with her either looking like she either supports incest, or is homophobic. SHE’S NOT EITHER (I hope) But it makes her look that way, and that’s a shame. It’s plainly just bad writing. Cause there’s a very simple solution to these problems- remove the lines, or remove their brotherhood, and it’s suddenly not homophobic, this bait and switch only makes the novel worse.

And once again, I am not accusing Hafsah Faizal of homophobia, or anything else, I think this is a problem with the YA Fantasy in general. But I want to hold her accountable for this. I don’t know why other’s haven’t mentioned this before, but it needs mentioned.

#we hunt the flame #bookblr #criticism #small little essay #booktok #booktwt #hafsah faizal #sands of arawiya #altair #whtf #queerbaiting #homophobia #spoilers

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bubblegumstardust · 4 years

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Me: *Finds a new character I adore and/or really relate to*

The character: *has no confirmed sexuality*

My queer ass:

#amy's inane ramblings #all my faves are queer idgaf #Tyler Jones? bi.#Scarlett Jones? pan.#Nikolai Lantsov? bi.#Hysan Dax? bi.#Admiral Adams? gay.#gay and always secretly or not so secretly in love with Jericho Jones #Noah Czerny? pan.#Kenji Kishimoto? pan.#Bea Fox-montchristen-windsor? ace/bi.#do i need to go on? because I can #aurora cycle #im tagging thag fandom bc y'all need to know that Admiral Adams is a gay man in love with the Jones twins father

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egoisticmallard · 6 years

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try ur best, but it's impossible cause it's true

#Restore me #Shatter me #tahereh mafi #Unravel me #Ignite me #Series #Ya #Young adult #kenji kishimoto #aaron warner #convince me otherwise #juliette ferrars #Bi #Bisexual #YALL KNOW HE IS AND I LOOK FORWARD TO HIS ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS WITH MEN IN THE FUTURE

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jqcksons · 3 years

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i don’t know how to explain it but characters like percy jackson, leo valdez, kenji kishimoto, nikolai lanstov, jesper fahey (canon!), and enrique mercado-lopez (canon!) always end up being bisexual or give off bi vibes.

#percy jackson #leo valdez #heroes of olympus #kenji kishimoto #shatter me #nikolai lanstov #shadow and bone #jesper fahey #six of crows #enrique mercado lopez #gilded wolves

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dahlia-molinas · 4 years

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tagged by @acourtofbooksandmemes to do favorite male characters challenge! Thanks for the tag

1) Tony Stark (marvel)- surprise surprise i love Tony Stark. you would’ve never guessed right? Tony is honestly an inspiration for me. he struggled so much, and yet he still chose to help other people. he still chose to be iron man. and of course, he’s the one and only iron dad.

2) kaz brekker (six of crows)- my favorite murderous genius emotions-who? thief. six of crows is probably one of my all-time favorite books and i’m pretty sure kaz brekker is a part of the reason why.

3) kenji kishimoto (shatter me)- he’s honestly my favorite character from the whole series. he’s so funny and he cares so much about everyone. he deserves the entire fricking world.

4) phil coulson (marvel or i guess it’s agents of shield whatever you want)- he’s such a great guy. i’ve loved him from the moment he appeared in iron man, and i was so mad when loki killed him bUt then we got a whole ass show so i guess it’s fine. anyways he’s such a dork and a dad i love him.

5) lucifer morningstar (lucifer)- listen y’all i just binged this series over the last four days and let me just say i am in LOVE. lucifer is such a complex and interesting character, and i love him so much.

6) fenrys moonbeam (throne of glass)- there was not nearly enough fenrys content in the series. he’s such a complex character and ugh i would love to read more about him. his powers? his brother? and his relationship with aelin is honestly one of my favorites.

7) magnus bane (the shadowhunter chronicles)- magnus is the only bitch i care for. actually well that’s not true but you know what i mean. he is an iconic centuries old bi glitter-y warlock, and i would die for him.

8) sherlock holmes (sherlock)- he is an absolute genius and an ass sometimes but he cares a lot and that’s all that really matters. i love his relationship with everyone on the show

9) geralt of rivia (the witcher)- his two favorite words are hm and fuck and honestly i’ve never related to anyone more. anyways i’m dying to see him be a dad with ciri

10) dean winchester (supernatural)- listen i don’t know if you can tell from all the last 9 guys i mentioned but i am a sucker for sassy boys with repressed emotions who are also complete dads.

if you wanna do it consider yourself tagged.

#about me #tag game

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