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optiwashere · 4 months

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How do you manage to write smut that's like, actually arousing? What's the secret?

Well, first of all thank you! I'm glad you enjoy it, I really am. Happy to hear from you here as well 💜

Also, I'll let you in on my secret — I can't stand almost anything I write after it's posted. I see nothing but the flaws, grammatical choices, and technical foibles. This extends triple, quadruple, to smut. So if you're feeling the same kinda way, that your writing feels somehow off, then just know you're not alone.

I could give some pointers, but I don't really know how much benefit anyone will get hearing these from me of all people. But in my opinion it's a lot of the non-smut aspects that highlight the smut and make it shine. So here ya go.

Keep it in-character. I'm not out here talking as an authority on anyone's characterization, nor am I saying I'm some master of it and there are plenty of people out there with differing opinions, so take this with a colossal mountain of salt. But you should focus on making the voices, internal thoughts, and prose in keeping with the POV character. This is something called "POV control" and it's a very useful skill. Be able to flow in and out of a character's POV as the need arises. How Shadowheart interacts with sex is very different from Karlach is different from Orin, for example.

Strong focus on dialogue. This is a sorta addendum to the first point. Characters shouldn't suddenly turn silent when they're having sex. That is, unless that's the point of the story! They should also be speaking in-character even (or especially) during sex. Also, "porn dialogue" is something that gets brought up a lot in writing, and I think we all know it when we read it. That being said, people in the real world do say things during sex that, out of context, are hilarious. So it's a balancing act.

Fitting descriptions. This is actually one of the more important ones! If a scene is very romantic and meant to be light and fluffy, maybe avoid words for genitals altogether and focus entirely on simple visual aesthetics (how moonlight plays on a body, to give an example). If it's meant to be rough and focused on bodies or the mechanics of the scene, ham it up on those words. This also isn't a binary. Things flow back and forth all the time.

Firm language. I don't mean, like, power dynamics "firm." I'm talking about a willingness to use the words that fit the descriptions and sticking to it. Some people despise certain words, but other people will find the alternatives hilarious and completely tone-breaking. Find the words you like and stick to them; consistency gives your voice strength.

Don't try to appease everybody. You just can't. You have to write what you personally enjoy reading/writing/doing/thinking about, and go with it. If you try to cater to everyone's whims with any of the above, you'll wind up with a beige platter of nothingness. That doesn't mean you can't explore other tones or flavors, but don't try to do too much in one story.

Focus on emotions. Emotions could mean anything from love to lust to anxiety to fear to uncertainty and so on and so forth. My strategy is to center a fic on a theme/emotion that resonates with the characters involved and then I explore the smut around that central point. Revisit the idea between the action. Show how the characters' feelings around the theme change or how they're reaffirmed.

#hey you can ask me things!#random rambling about writing #i just write a lot i'm not the queen of anything (re: an anon that I fear answering calling me the queen of shadowheart smut)#everyone's voice will be different #so just remember this is My Style and not a Universal Constant #that bit in the “keep it in-character” bullet point is not a call for comments on my characterization #it's just a note on what I've noticed and the people I've spoken to OUTSIDE OF this very curated space #a space that is obviously much more likely to enjoy my characterization #so I'm also not saying I don't appreciate folks' comments on the matter! I love hearing that y'all enjoy my characterizations 💜#I had some more Tips 'n' Tricks but they wound up being personal quirks more than anything else tbh

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opinionatedscreamsintothevoid · 2 years

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Gotta love that TERFs immediately jumped on my last post. So, I'll share some highlights + My responses:

"A horse is an animal that identifies as a horse. See how stupid your argument sounds?" Answer: No, I don't. All I see is a strawman argument made with something that isn't compatible with identifying as a gender. Surprise to nobody: Identifying as a different gender is not the same thing as identifying as an entirely different species.

"-By your logic, if anyone can be a woman or a man, then why the trans? why a "cis" woman cannot be a "trans" woman then? Or maybe is because in order to be a "transwoman" you NEED TO BE A MAN IN THE FIRST PLACE?" Answer: The trans portion of 'transwoman' (As well as 'cis' for cis women) is a descriptive label. Just like how someone could be referred to as a lesbian woman, it doesn't make them any less a woman, it just makes them a different kind of woman from the 'norm'. Also, they weren't a man in the first place, because they were trans. That's the point. Are you even paying attention? Also, nice grammar, really helps you sound like you know what you're talking about.

"Female is a sex." Answer: Congratulations on passing first grade. Wrap your head around this: Female is also a gender.

"How do you identify with the female gender? I thought sex (Female) and gender were different?" Answer: I'm going to assume you meant this in good faith and are genuinely confused because I like to give people the benefit of the doubt: Sex and gender are different. Female and male are sexes, but they also have gender counterparts, that's what makes a cis person cis, they identify with the gender that corresponds to their sex, so they match.

"If a woman is someone who identifies with the female gender, then what is female?" Answer: Read the above.

"Never identified as a woman and yet I am one, how do I fix this?" Answer: Do you understand what identifying as a woman means? If you describe yourself, see yourself as, and are comfortable with having a woman's identity, then news flash: You identify as a woman. If this isn't the case, and you're genuinely asking, then I suggest looking into other genders to find one that you may identify with. :3

"how does one define the female gender? how must i perform in order to be female?" Answer: The first letter in a sentence is always capitalized, as well as 'I' when used to denote oneself, that's basic grammar. Also, that's the best part of genders: You don't have to perform in a specific way to identify with a gender. That's why masculine women and non-binary people exist.

On the off-chance any of you do take the time to read my responses, I appreciate that you took the time to hear me out.

#trans women are women #trans men are men #anti terf #tw: transphobia #reblogs allowed

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fatalism-and-villainy · 2 years

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if you're comfortable talking about it, can you elaborate (maybe in a very general sense) on how those posts are messing up their discussion of the nb experience? I'm curious and I also don't want to make the same kind of mistakes.

Sure, I don't mind explaining further. I don't think I can do so in a general sense, though - being on Pillowfort has made me much more inclined towards using specific examples. I think that's not really the done thing on tumblr, both because it's hard to link to things here when URLs can change, and because it's tacitly considered against etiquette (or, least, I know I instinctively flinch away from doing so). But I think a lot of discussions would be less inflammatory here if people were more specific about what they were complaining about, and I think this is a topic that benefits from close reading some examples, because a lot of it is subtle stuff in the wording that betrays a lot of broader and more pernicious assumptions.

So I'm not including these examples to chastise anyone, I'm just using them because they're useful illustrations of a bigger problem.

My post that prompted this, for context:

I have seen two posts in the last few days that conflate how nonbinary people get read by others with nonbinary people’s own personal relationship to gender and the nonbinary label. I’m so so sick of this.

Alright, post #1 (and I did find a thread where some people were pointing out some of the same issues I have with it, but I saw it reblogged with this addition on its own, so it's worth pointing out). OP's post:

if you call a nonbinary person cis bc they don't perform androgyny to a level you approve of i'm omw with a big hammer to shatter your kneecaps

Note the "perform androgyny to a level you approve of" phrasing - this is about others' perception of nonbinary people and of what constitutes androgyny. Now look at this addition:

This is incredibly important to remember. Nonbinary isnt just a middle ground or a third gender. Its not being in the binary. Thats it. That means something different to every nb person. So maybe someone does lean a bit more into their assigned gender at birth, they’re still nonbinary and calling them cis just because they arent preforming for you is transphobic- Yes even if you are trans too.

I agree that nonbinary people can have some kind of identification with their assigned gender, and that this doesn't negate their being nonbinary or trans - but, crucially, that's a different topic from what the OP was about. The OP was about how people look to others, and how they meet others' standards for what a nonbinary person should look like.

And what counts as "performing" androgyny is not only very subjective, individually and subculturally, but also full of double standards. There are people who would consider simply having visible breasts, or not trying to hide my body shape, as "presenting" as a woman, or not being androgynous, even if my clothes or hairstyle would be read as "masculine" on a cis man. (Side note: the way I often wear my hair is something I've mainly seen on men, and some nonbinary people as well, but because it's long on the top a lot of people would think "feminine". The gendering of hair is weird.) Similarly, I like wearing brightly coloured lipstick. This isn't because my identity is at all "feminine" or aligned with womanhood - I just like bright colours on my lips 😂. Additionally, there are nonbinary people who might get read as "androgynous", or whose gender might be harder to visually sort into a binary category, who do, in fact, feel some affiliation with their assigned gender. These are separable categories.

While the addition is alright on its own as an observation, I think adding it here actually undermines the point of the OP. The original post argues that others' perceptions are not the determiner of whether someone else "counts" as trans, and the addition, even while in agreement that nonbinary people who aren't "androgynous enough" count as trans... also falls into using others' perceptions as a determiner of another's identity.

The second post is here:

even spicier take: “non-binary” means a thousand different things to a thousand different people and therefore anyone of any sexuality could theoretically be attracted to a non-binary person in some capacity, so if you’re gay and someone you’re attracted to says, “i’m non-binary,” you don’t actually have to redefine your entire identity, you can just drink a cup of sleepytime tea and go right on being gay and into non-binary people.

So, this starts out with "nonbinary means a thousand different things to a thousand different people", which leads me to think that this is about relationship compatibility - i.e., that there are nonbinary people whose personal version of "nonbinary" doesn't preclude gay relationships or gay-identified partners. But the following statement implies a slightly different angle - "therefore anyone of any sexuality could theoretically be attracted to a nonbinary person in some capacity." The "therefore" doesn't follow for me, because "being attracted to someone" is very different from relationship compatibility, and doesn't have anything to do with how a nonbinary person self-identifies or wants to be socially positioned.

I think this sort of confusion is part of what makes a lot of conversations about "attraction to nonbinary people" so fraught - because there are several different scenarios implied in how this post is written. Are we talking about the possibility of a gay person actually forging a relationship with a nonbinary person? Are we talking about seeing someone in passing that you think is attractive who turns out to be nonbinary? The phrasing "if... someone you're attracted to says, 'i'm nonbinary'" implies this is a scenario in which the attraction started before learning that person's gender. But is this just a passing crush, or someone you happened to notice, or is it meant to be someone you're already in a relationship with? Because those are two different scenarios! If we're talking about the possibility of a gay person having a relationship with a nonbinary person, then what being nonbinary "means" to that person is relevant. But if we're talking about a gay person just being attracted in passing to a person who turns out to be nonbinary, then the attraction itself does not say anything about, or having anything to do with, that nonbinary person's self-conception.

Look, here's the thing. It's pretty inevitable that we all visually misclassify people from time to time, even cis people. Attraction is also internal and does not affect the other person at all. I don't think the possibility that someone you happen to find attractive might not actually be your preferred gender, or might potentially find your attraction distressing, need be a source of scrupulosity - just pay attention to their signals in your actual interactions with them and treat them how they've implied or explicitly stated they'd like to be classed. Similarly, I think sexual orientation is about patterns and general trends, and one person falling outside that pattern doesn't necessitate changing one's identity. But that says fuck-all about the identity or feelings of the nonbinary person in question. The idea that it does has the (probably unintentional) implication that a gay woman finding me attractive means that I must be "woman-aligned" or comfortable being classed that way in relationships, which is not at all the case.

Like, the separate implications the wording here in this post are all points I agree with: some nonbinary people find "gay" as an identity or social position to be compatible with their conception of themselves, and being mistaken about someone's gender or having an exception to your general pattern of attraction doesn't necessitate an identity crisis. But is it clear how treating one of those things as naturally flowing from the other has troubling implications? Nonbinary people vary widely in how we want to be classed, or feel comfortable being classed, in the context of relationships. But other people's involuntary feelings of attraction are absolutely not a comment on that. And treating them as if they are is incredibly harmful.

#anonymous #replies #alpha speaks #nonbinary subjectivity #gender fuckery

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the-dragontamer115 · 2 years

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k so i wanna engage in Smart People Discussions as a Real Adult and this made me realize I need to Know Some Things in life, so if anyone can help me out with any of the following because idk how I'm gonna tackle everything I want to learn before i die :

- The Bosnian Conflict

- how do companies/corporations/whatever ACTUALLY work

- Like I know the media can't be trusted but like... how?? like what is actually wrong with reading a New York Times article and believing every word?

- also explain exactly WHY Amazon is bad, cause I know it is

- look into white supremacy in local police precincts and the FBI's knowledge of this

- Shakespeare's bisexuality??

- Thomas Day on the Declaration of Independence's hypocrisy (condemnation of slavery in slavery's day)

- Olive oil's use as lube for gay sex in Ancient Greece??

- how the Salvation Army works/how they're bad

- are there any benefits of watching a certain movie just because the protagonist is a woman/black person/ etc. Idk, even if it just normalizes those people in those roles in my brain?

- how free healthcare works (in Canada). Is it actually free? Do we just pay for it in our taxes or something?

- when I was little I specifically remember being told the Black Panthers were terrorists, but now I'm reading that they were a civil rights group/ activists??

- origin of the statue of liberty

- how was Christopher Columbus actually viewed in his day

- gay people (pink triangles) were kept in concentration camps after liberation ("Paragraph 175")? did the Allies do this on purpose after they liberated everyone else??

- US bombing of Laos

- India's culture pre-colonization (tolerance of homosexuality?)

- Elon Musk sending an un-sterilized vehicle into space and that this is dangerous

- That there has never actually been a country that was properly communist so we can't say that we know communism doesn't work

- Us vs Nicaragua??

- Origins of AAVE and its validity as a dialect/vernacular

- Joan Trumpauer Mulholland

- Hobby-Lobby Iraq-US museum scandal...

- criminalization of black people via criminalization of weed... was this deliberate from the start? what was the war on drugs and how does this tie into it

- punk subculture, riot girl (grrl?), radical feminism

- what exactly is Two-Spirit and its history and validity in Indigenous cultures

- history of the recognition of the gender non-binary/ gender freedom through the centuries

- how do i learn enough about how the economy works to form an opinion on the best economic system (cause i know i'm anti-capitalist but like how exactly do i support that)

- is it possibly to save the planet at this point? or even just delay the inevitable? if it were, is it possibly to get people to actually do it?

- use of overcomplicated language to make info less accessible (see my previous post quoting Gloria Steinem

- what complete destigmatization of menstruation would look like. more specifically, why we need it because sometimes i just think it should be on the same level as other bathroom things (like we don't talk about pooping in public because... it's gross) but sometimes i recognize that it's about so much more than that because it's not just another bathroom thing, it ties into traditions of misogyny, oppression, etc.?? am i on the right track here...

- why prison doesn't work

- but first maybe, what exactly is the prison system

- how exactly do gangs work (i read the Freedom Writers Diary okay)

- how do Canada's levels of government and judicial systems work

- Mexico's refusal to accept a fugitive slave treaty with the US

- do universities really need to be that expensive? if not, why are they? are those in charge of them really just making billions from them then?

- Mexican Revolutionary war

- the male vs female gaze

- where do our current beauty standards come from

- use of propaganda in north america in the 21st century

- that photo of 2 covers of the same issue of the wall street journal that are different because of the different demographics of the areas they're sold in/marketed to.

- Toys R Us US corporation vs Swedish union 1995

- Tovegene Khatun

- why do we have different skin colors/where does melanin come from and why? geography?

- the watergate scandal

- are there actually more gay/autistic/depressed/u name it people now adays than in centuries past? or are they just actually diagnosed now?

- brand identity scheme- companies' social media accounts presenting as relatable people in their advertising

- museum collectors stealing Idigenous artefacts, saying their origins are "unknown"

- pol pot and khmer rouge in Cambodia

- what was happing in Cambodia in the '90's (basically why were there refugees? was there a war?)

- origins of witches and witch hunts (before Salem...?)

- fall of rome

- spanish inquisition

- idi amin of uganda

- leopold 2nd of belgium/ the congo

- armenian genocide

- that yale study about women's pain being perceived as less serious than men's

- are there still people today living in southern usa who think that slavery was a good thing and with they were still in the "good old days"?

- did c sections really originate in uganda/tanzania/the congo??

- how does money actually work (why we can't just "print more")

- how does inflation work (couldn't we just... leave prices where they are? is it because as natural resources get scarcer, they get more expensive?)

- is abolishing the police ever actually going to happen and how would we go about doing that. what does it really mean/look like?

- was the irish potato famine actually deliberately caused by the british? why?? also how did it even start. and did Choctaw Native Americans actually send aid?... how?

- seneca village in central park nyc

- russian meddling in the 2016 US election?? Reality Leigh Winner

- How Finland ended homelessness

- the Haiti Revolution 1791

- how hawaii became a state. idk i just heard it was bad

- che guevara

- Tulsa race massacre and Tulsa's black businesses before it

- the only coup d'état in America; The Wilmington insurrection of 1898

- body positivity is the kind of movement that I can totally recognize is a good thing and will get behind, but I have a question... isn't being overweight unhealthy? Or is it only healthy if you're like "dangerously obese"? Or, is body positivity not denying that you're unhealthy but about loving yourself anyway, while you do or don't work on becoming healthier? Or is just about how it's nobody's business to shame your body's appearance, healthy or not?

- complexities of the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas case and verdict.

-SNC Lavalin Affair

Have at 'er my friends, any info I can get. And preferably sources too, cause Pinterest is helpful but I gotta read exact facts myself, can't take anything at face value.

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kitkatopinions · 3 years

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Can we talk about the rampant bi/panphobia surrounding Yang "looks at guys like they're fresh meat in the first 3 volumes and chibi" Xiao Long? Blake's gets brought up a lot as 90% of her reason for existing is to be the romancable NPC, but it's hardly talked about with Yang. She has shown express interest in guys. Even if Bees goes canon, it's not a Bi/Lesbian ship. It's a Bi/Bi or Bi/Pan ship or what ever other possible identity that doesn't erase Yang's attraction to men. I get the whole wanting rep thing but there's more lesbians in RWBY than any other LGBT identity and they aren't really that good in terms of representation. Do we really need another angry/aggressive/problematic lesbian in RWBY? And whenever it does get brought up, Lesbian!Yang fans always go "oh, it's just comphet". Um, excuse me? Isn't comphet not supposed to be a thing in Remnant?

Okay, so there's a lot to unpack here, and I do get why you're so frustrated because as a bi person, it gets so frustrating dealing with not only a huge lack of representation, but also feeling boxed out of, undervalued by, and invalidated by your own community sometimes. I myself have been really frustrated and even hurt by the way many RWBY fans (and specifically Bumblebee fans) have talked about Blake and Yang's sexuality, like they would be less gay or less rep if they were bi, how shipping them with men is 'wrong' because it's 'straight behavior' and 'validating the straights,' and I got particularly annoyed once by a post that claimed that people only shipped Yang and Weiss so that they could force Blake - who they claimed was a canon lesbian - into a relationship with a man. I think it's clear why people talk about Blake's status as bi more than Yang's - Yang has one moment in eight seasons where she acts clearly attracted to men, whereas Blake has had two canon romantic relationships with men, Adam being her ex and her having gone on a date with and kissed Sun on the cheek. When people dispute Blake's status as a bi, sometimes they (rightly) come at it from the point of view of 'this is just my own personal headcanon for my own benefit.' But too often, Blake's attraction to men is dismissed outright and fans try and find every excuse to invalidate it so that they can insist that Blake is a canon lesbian. That's pretty openly biphobic imo. (Also I don't agree that 90% of Blake's character is a romancable NPC. I think maybe she's become mostly not an active character who only really exists as support and romance, but the idea that it's 90% of her overall show character is weird to me, Blake is done dirty by the show but that doesn't mean she's not a character for the first five seasons.)

But Yang is also worth talking about. Because of the fact that her moment of displaying clear attraction towards men is brief and early in the show, many fans have just... Thrown it out entirely, and decided that not only does it not count, but that anyone who brings it up is living in the past and is stupid for paying attention to the early seasons. That's obviously really dumb. The idea that after the first five seasons, Yang is displaying clear romantic attraction towards a girl for the first time, she is now one hundred percent a lesbian in canon because she's only displayed romantic attraction towards men once... That's also rooted in biphobia. Being attracted to men doesn't just suddenly go away because you're attracted to women and vice versa, no one chooses to be bi, gay, straight, ace, whatever. If Yang was sexually attracted towards men at seventeen, that part of her doesn't stop existing just because she's sexually attracted to women too. The thing is, headcanoning Yang (or even Blake!) as a lesbian is totally fine. I think the RWBY creators did say that sexism, racism, and homophobia doesn't exist in Remnant, but like ??? Idk why they'd decide something like that if they were gonna make jokes about Jaune and Qrow wearing skirts haha laugh at the non-gender-conformity of men, and if they'd write the first five seasons with literally one gay character, while tons of straight relationships that get credence, everyone else expresses no clear romantic inclination towards the same sex for five years of the show running. And we're supposed to think there's no heteronormativity at least? Cardin and Jaune both have clear toxic masculinity problems that Jaune grows out of, but we're supposed to think that toxic masculinity has nothing to do with any sexism or homophobia, however internalized? I think if people want their fans to believe there is not sexism or homophobia or racism in their fake world, they need to make good and sure their own internalized issues don't leak into their work. So I don't think it's wholly invalid when people decide that in their headcanon, they think Yang just acted like she was attracted to men because she thought she should. I especially think it's valid for people to headcanon that Yang had acted like she attracted to men because she thought she was. She was only seventeen, seventeen year olds put on behavior that they think is cool and she is the niece of Qrow 'wink at Winter to piss her off' Branwen, and Yang could've realized maybe during school that putting on behavior was all that was, and that she isn't actually attracted towards men and likes girls - specifically the girl dancing with Sun at the school ball. That's perfectly valid as a headcanon. But that's all it is, a headcanon.

Yang is not a canon lesbian and it's perfectly valid and supported by Yang's canon interactions for people to consider her bi or pan, and people can even headcanon her as ace if they want. Trying to demand that other people see fictional characters as the sexuality you prefer them in is just going to drive wedges, especially when so much venom seems to be directed towards bi characters, with others acting like they're literally less rep if they also have romantic interactions with people of the opposite sex. Like, people literally have the idea of "I love that Blake is bi, but I hate that people are shipping her with men or talking about Blake's romances with men and idk why the show put any focus on her romantically interacting with men." Like, sure, okay, so you support bi characters so long as they don't be bi too obviously. But... I'm getting off topic.

Here's the thing... I would caution not to get too deep in this "there's too many lesbians," concept. We're supposed to all be one community, supporting and fighting for each other. The problem isn't that there's too much representation for lesbians, the problem is that there is not enough representation for bi people, or pan, or ace, or trans men, or trans women, or non-binary people, etc. We don't have to wish less for other gay people to wish for more for ourselves. I agree that disregarding Yang's moment of attraction to men maybe isn't the way to go, but it's not that there are already enough lesbians in RWBY. There are only three side characters (by the way, two of them aren't confirmed lesbians, just because they're in a relationship with each other,) two of whom made a very minor appearance in all of two or three episodes and will likely never return to the story. As you say, the rep that lesbians have gotten in RWBY isn't very good. Them desiring more representation is perfectly valid, and I even get them wanting that representation from Yang, despite her single moment of lusting after boys in season one. That's a perfectly understandable desire. I myself want gay Neptune despite him expressing interest in women. It's not wrong. The only thing that's wrong is villainizing and mocking people for their own very valid ships like BlackSun or Yang x Jaune or Yang x Mercury or Blake x Ren or whatever ships people like. I'm sorry that I can't agree with you here, but if there was a scene in RWBY where Yang discusses her feelings for Blake and says that she realized she's a lesbian... I might not be particularly happy with the writing staff, because I already heard there's an element of disregarding Blake's former relationship with Sun in things like the comics, which is frustrating as a bi person. But I would be happy for the people who would find in this something that speaks to them and makes them feel like their own experiences are represented. Sometimes I can feel excluded from the LGBTQ+ community due to my attraction towards men, and that's hard, but I'm not going to start devaluing the victories of other gay people because of it, I'm not going to start getting upset when they get representation, or when a character they love claims an identity that reflects their own.

I do get where your frustration is coming from though, and it's perfectly valid to feel upset and exasperated both with the way MKEK write their queer relationships and in how people in the fandom tend to disregard the bi identity of characters.

#rwde #anti rwby #rwby criticism #rwby critical #representation in rwby

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magichcuse · 5 years

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&. BASICS

Full Name: Teagan Christopher Dovenbury

Nicknames: They don't really feel comfortable with anyone enough to allow people to call him nicknames. Their parents surely used some (that they can't remember very well) and their "business partners" call them pet names, but that's about it.

As an adult, Teagan goes by "T" or "T.C." and use this alias for their filmmaking.

Age: 11 (Child); 21 (Young Adult)

Sexuality: They haven't really thought about romance or sexuality, it doesn’t really cross their mind.

When Teagan hits adulthood, they don't have a strong desire for a relationship. They aren't opposed to a relationship of any kind, but they're just not the hopeless romantic type. Being on their own for much of their childhood also doesn't help them with forming relationships with others.

Date of Birth: October 17th

Place of Birth: -

Gender & Species: They are a non-binary Eurasian Collared Dove.

Current Location: -

&. MORE BASIC INFO

Languages: English

Religion: N/A

Education: Teagan doesn't attend school, they're a truant.

Occupation: Teagan is unemployed. They make a living by charming people into giving them money, food, etc.

Drinks, Smokes, & Drugs: N/A

&. PERSONALITY

Likes: attention

Dislikes: getting in trouble, being ignored

Bad Habits: Teagan has the tendency to curse, which they need to fight against when putting on their "cute" act.

Secret Talent:

Hobbies: film making, playing video games

Fears: Storms are the absolute worst to them. A particularly bad one is enough to send them into a panic attack, especially if they aren't in a suitable environment. Everything needs to be checked top to bottom multiple times in order to ease them, though a loud noise or weather-related accident might cause them to panic.

Five Positive Traits:

Usually, Teagan doesn't negatively impact the people he charms. They might bring drama and tension into their lives, but they at least try to create relationships between the people he makes arrangements with that benefit them both. "Symbiotic" is a word they vaguely remember from their school days and they use it a lot when describing his relationships. The adult gets to have their parental instincts catered to and have someone who appreciates them (even if it is for somewhat selfish reasons), while Teagan gets attention and a provider that they sorely need. They're good at compromise and making deals, making sure both sides get something out of the arrangement. They don't cause destruction...unless they find it absolutely necessary.

Teagan passes this knowledge onto others, often pointing out when a caregiver or "business partner" is about to enter an unbeneficial partnership with another person. Of course, they lie and manipulate so much that it might be hard to tell if they're actually trying to help or if they just want to destroy a relationship.

Improv; goes with the flow

Five Negative Traits:

Unfortunately, Teagan's needs often outweigh the needs of others. The moment he stops benefiting from a given relationship or the pros no longer cancel out the cons, they're out- even if it winds up hurting the other person.

They also don't feel guilty about being destructive- Teagan feels justified causing marital problems or driving a wedge between family members because they're still providing something to their caregivers. They won't hesitate to lie and manipulate to get what they want or cause misery to those that get in their way.

Teagan can find someone else's weak spots fairly quickly, using them to their full advantage. Sometimes this means upping the cute charm to 100 and acting extra loving to their caregiver just to make them feel attached to them. Other times, this means playing on others' insecurities and fears, planting thoughts in their heads in order to make their caregivers more dependent on them.

Respect has to be earned and is conditional. Teagan doesn't care how old someone is or how important they might be. They'll eat snacks they KNOW are for someone else, curl up in their spot, mess with their belongings, cuss at them, insult them...just acting like a huge brat. They often get away with this, crying wolf to their caretakers and placing the blame on the "big bad adult" to try to weasel out of consequences and appear more sympathetic to gain more benefit.

Though Teagan is spectacular at faking emotions, expressing their actual feelings is a difficult story. They don't let themself get attached to people out of fear of losing them and their flaws usually drive away people they grow to genuinely like. If you want to go to Teagan for love and comfort, you're seeking the wrong bird.

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In Teagan's childhood scammer days, they allowed people to refer to them with male pronouns. They didn't find their identity until their late teens/early adulthood.

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Tattoos: N/A

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&. FAMILY INFORMATION

Parent Names: Their birth parents are Lawrence and Eleanor Dovenbury.

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Their memory of their birth parents grows hazy day by day, but they remember them fondly. Losing them was very traumatic for Teagan. Even if they eventually lose the ability to remember specific things about them, they'll never forget how gut-wrenchingly awful it was to lose them.

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They've never met their Aunt Bertha and probably never will. Despite not knowing anything about her, they despise her. As soon as it looked like she abandoned them, they bailed on her. Whether she actually never showed up or they ran away before she could ever take them in will never be known.

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When not lackadaisically browsing for a task, ideally at an arts-related not-for-profit, Daphne wafts around in boho wear, looking beautifully pensive and smoking like a fiend. She has briefly give up drinking: Obviously, as flashbacks suggest, her previously profligate lifestyle was something less than enjoyable. Not to stress, however, since all of her self-imposed sabbaticals will end as quickly as her gold lam frock catches the eye of Frank (Sebastian Stan) at a party.

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The writing may be a tangle of limp clichs, but the actors specifically Woodley and the excellent Wendie Malick as Daphne's mother sweat to sell every line.Similar to Doremus's 2011 romance," Like Crazy, "" Endings, Starts" noodles around with characters whose personalities and motivations remain frustratingly indistinct. By the end, Daphne's journey of self-discovery may have pulled you in, but, if you're anything like me, you'll still dislike her.

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There's nothing tidy about Daphne's love life and if there were, she probably would not make an extremely compelling character. Daphne, who is played by Shailene Woodley in what is all at once her most realistic and least accessible performance yet, just recently broke up with her partner, moving back into her sibling's pool home.

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Here, there's no institution to blame, unless you count the patriarchy. Daphne finds it easy to utilize her imperfect mother (Wendie Malick) as a reason for the method she ended up, however that does not explain her sibling Billie (Lindsay Sloane). Billie's the one with the pool house, and the husband, and the baby on the way.

Apart from the reality that both might use an excellent shave, the two men seem so dissimilar, it's difficult to picture them as good friends (which might discuss why the possibility does not take place to Daphne). It's much simpler to accept that each would interest her in separate ways. Jack listens, professorial and clearly uninterested in becoming a daddy.

Frank, on the other hand, is a bad boy of sorts. He appears defiant and self-deprecating, sends her thirsty text messages showed in huge markerboard letters on screen and has sex the way characters in Adrian Lyne motion pictures do (which is to state, it's good for her, it benefits him and it's excellent for the audience).

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