#and they're so ''morally nuanced''

[msnihilist]

One might also say it's counter-productive. Or hypocritical. Incompatible, even.

#proship #I'm so sorry hun but these two values you claim to hold are antithetical to one another #you can't just say you're ''anti purity culture'' and pretend that you don't align with right-wing views on sex and fantasy #to be truly anti purity culture you have to unlearn seeing sex as something harmful #ESPECIALLY when it's just a fantasy #but i do think it's funny when these sorts of people try to act like they're ''above'' all the discourse #and they're so ''morally nuanced'' #haha no you just don't have any idea what you're talking about #anyway i think that the pirate and the angler from terraria should kiss #angler can be pirate's little cabin boy <3

[antianakin]

It's really depressing that the only real Jedi centric and Jedi positive show in existence is written for preschoolers, while many of the more "adult" shows are edgy and about morally ambiguous or straight-up evil characters. As if lessons about being kind and selfless are somehow not important or relevant to adults just as much if not more than they are to children.

It feels like characters who are unambiguously good are seen as only enjoyable by the very young and adult viewers will only actually appreciate characters who are cruel and selfish (and the requisite "tragic backstory" that always goes with it to help excuse their cruel and selfish choices).

It's just really sad and disappointing.

#star wars #listen i love andor #i really do #but i'm seeing a pattern of shows aimed at older audiences always always ALWAYS having moral ambiguity as a central theme #the good ones like andor always keep in mind that these people are doing awful things #they're not necessarily heroes even tho they're on the right side #the bad ones like ahsoka and acolyte find ways to send the message that being selfish is actually the right thing to do sometimes #i'm just so tired of the jedi getting relegated to the side because no one can see nuance in unambiguously good people #like at best they are just not there at all #at worst they are turned into the villains specifically for refusing to stop practicing their culture even in the face of persecution #give me my adult jedi show #GIVE ME THE REVA SPIN-OFF I DESERVE #STOP GIVING ME THIS JEDI CRITICAL BULLSHIT #IT'S ALL HORRIFICALLY BAD #I DON'T CARE HOW GOOD YOUR CGI IS THE STORY IS NO LONGER STAR WARS IF YOU HATE THE JEDI #GO MAKE YOUR OWN SCI FI IF YOU CAN'T RESPECT THE JEDI

[hungerpunch]

fun fact 12 step programs were developed by two white christian men in 1930s america

#clenching my jAW #it's so hard bc it merits a much more nuanced discussion than tumblr writ large will ever go for #12 steps work for a lot of people! #but they also don't work for a lot of people! #they were developed through a very particular lens! and a lot of it is about breaking down one's own ego #guess who doesn't have the ego of white american men in the 1930s? hmm...... #nvm the religious foundation.. you can tell me that 'god' can be anything all you want but it does not erase the moral bent of the program #and then every other variation of 12 steps just copy/pastes the same fucking structure #i think they're good in the sense that it can help you find community right #and i'm not going to devalue the importance of feeling like you're not alone #but that's about theeee only thing i got out of naranon #i thought adult children of might be different but no it feels exactly the same #and it's honestly extremely triggering to read 'you have a victim mindset' when i've spent over a year's work with my therapist to finally #acknowledge myself as a victim for the first time! #fuck offfffff. okay rant over. #driveby post #addiction

[tasmanianstripes]

People need to practice minding their own damn business

Don't come into people's inboxes giving unsolicited advice or criticizing their personal stuff. Don't reblog somebody's posts saying how much you hate it and their opinions.

Don't like somebody's characterisation, AUs or the kind of art they post? It might even annoy you?

Okay, cool. Go make your own post. Block them. Be a little hater about it to your friends. It's good for your soul!

But don't be goddamn rude to people. Don't make it their problem.

"I don't like what this artist likes mah mah mah"

Here's a wild idea;

Artists...don't need to cater to you. You are not entitles to their work. Nobody on the internet should coddle you and post only stuff you like.

Shocker, I know.

#thylacines can talk #Yes this is about PK #When you like an antagonist people expect you to be a negative nancy 24/7 and put a disclaimer everytime you make something with them about #how much they suck as a person #Guess what! Having to shittalk your fave all the time to not risk being 'that kind of fan'...isnt fun. It's miserable even! #Anmoying as fuck too! Yes I know he did this unforgivable thing. I'm not an idiot. That's why I like PK. Fucker's got nuance #Is he a bad person? Absolutely. Will I talk about him being a bad person and the horrible things he did? Also yes. When I want to. It's #very fun to explore that part of the story and how it influenced their victims. Will I give you a fucking essay on why he's a bad person #everytime I want to post something funny or lighthearted about him? No. Piss off. #I cannot only focus on angst and heart-wrenching part of the story. I also like to make stuff of the lighthearted parts of my AUs. #And I don't feel like writing down an entire disclaimer and breakdown of how PK's and WL's redemption arcs went to justify it #Having to constantly put disclaimers to justify you liking a morally grey and bad characters is EXHAUSTING. Only being able to talk about #this character with someone when it proteins to how awful they are is EXHAUSTING. #YES they're bad people. But going into peoples dms or inbox or tags and talking to them about how ugly and bad and evil their fave is #exhausting to deal with and NOT fun. Like I. KNOW. LIKE LET ME LIKE A DEEPLY FLAWED NUANCED FUCKED UP CHARACTER IN PEACE WITHOUT HAVING TO #ALWAYS PUT A DISCLAIMER OUT THERE ABOUT HOW AWFUL THEY ARE. GOOD GOD. #It's especially annoying because I like characterisation of PK that is very morally grey. To me purely evil and not compassionate PK is #fun...in a short run. I much prefer a man whos riddled with guilt over what he did even if he believed it to be necessary evil and who dies #Because of his regret. I love the idea of a father who sacrificed his own children so that no parent had to lose their own. And the tragedy #of him deeply loving PV and still doing what he did. A good person who was faced with an impossible choice and committed unspeakable #cruelty for what he believed to be the greater good. A man who doesnt believe he's deserving of redemption not forgiveness and who doomed #himself. I like a nuanced morally grey PK with LAYERS. Treating him as a purely evil uncaring person who never loved his children sucks ALL #the fun out of him for me. And don't get me wrong I LOVE villains who are evil for evil's sake. I LOVE old school Disney villains who are #scumbags just because they can be and have a little bit a swag to it. But PK just. Isn't that kind of villain to me. #I don't even like calling him a villain. An antagonist? Maybe. A morally grey character that kicked off the entire story with his one act #of unspeakable cruelty? Yup. But I don't see him as the villain of HK. #Wow that was a long rant #Well I got that out of my system at least #I love the Pale King and I could talk for HOURS about why I love him as a character and about his actions. It's just tiring when I have to #do it to justify myself and my lighthearted content of him.

[niishi]

I fucking hate white liberals so much. not a single one of you has any clue what you're talking about. God forbid you read any actual books or do any actual critical thinking. white liberal: "oh these stupid white liberals are going to install a dictator by accident" as if the American government hasn't actively been converting into an authoritarian dictatorship for decades. as if you actually have a choice. y'all don't understand how the MIC works or how America as the country it's known as, is even able to exist under it's own ruling. y'all are fence sitters. be aggressive but not TOO aggressive. don't want anyone to make a call out post for you bc you punched a wall over genocide, and made other privileged white liberals uncomfortable. I genuinely fucking hate you performative goons. the fact that you think you're smarter than conservatives is hilarious. y'all are just picking 2 different important topics to focus on and in doing so, you lose all critical thinking and you lose sight of the overall big picture. y'all are sheep falling in line, and you choose the line based off of your own insecurities and which group will enable your inability to critically think and grow the most.

#the way white liberals talk with their chests out #nose high #full of confidence and condescension #all while being completely fucking stupid and wrong #and all theyre doing is supporting white supremacy #and the worst part is #they have no clue theyre supporting white supremacy #bc they refuse to educate themselves outside of tiktok and Instagram informationals #bc they refuse to listen to non white anarchists #and theyre so delusionally emboldened in their opinions based on social pressure #that if u try to get them to see nuance #theyll get defensive and immediately jump on the liberal defense mechanism of attacking your morality #its their only defense bc theyre just trying to assert dominance by any means necessary even if they're completely wrong

[sureuncertainty]

at least now i've gone through an important tumblr rite of passage, watching a longtime mutual become a radfem :/

#the thing that really got me was that they were talking about their morality ocd triggering them about it #bc of the way tumblr and the internet in general has this black and white approach to things #and one of those i guess was 'transphobes = bad' which like. is not what i'm ever talking about when i say that things have more nuance #that said i DO think that the way this website prioritizing hating terfs over supporting trans people is kinda gross #but anyway this person was so anxious about it and it just was depressing bc i related to that #they were SO afraid of losing friends or being cancelled over it and i was just like damn i wonder if all terfs are that miserable #but they acted like they just had no choice but to believe this 'thing' that they constantly alluded to but never talked outright about #which i am pretty sure now is just that they're a radfem or at least believe in a lot of radfem ideologies #and honestly? i go back and forth between genuinely feeling so bad for them and being like well that's what you fucking get #i wish i'd had the courage to talk to them about it but whenever i thought about it i got immeasurable anxiety #sorry for the very long tag ramble i just haven't been able to talk about this and it's been eating ME up too for a long time #i just feel horrible. i know in the past they've mentioned too how they want people to tell them why if they unfollow/block them #but i can't. i cannot. and then i'm afraid of just feeding into their victim complex by doing this #i just can't win. and it's like. i'm trans i am literally affected by their bigotry that they're acting like is just not even a choice #ALSO I REMEMBER HOW THEY MADE A POST ONCE ABOUT HOW PEOPLE IRL DON'T TALK ABOUT TRANS STUFF #LIEK IDK WHAT PLANET YOU ARE LIVING ON MY DUDE BUT I HAVE LIKE 5 TRANS COWORKERS AND EVERYONE IS VERY NORMAL ABOUT THEM #like maybe YOU live in a bad area #but you're just a really loud minority #anyway. yeah. just. oof. #still feeling some kind of anxiety about it #win rambles

[dylawas-reblogs]

So I only occasionally look at my tumblr activity, yknow, see if anyone thought anything I reblogged was cool enough to comment on, and I get to one post I reblogged where OP took a screenshot of all my "proship/antiship" tags and said "The equivalent of watching the neighborhood kid chuck rocks at a beehive."

First of all, it just felt... kind of rude? I could be reading WAY too deep into it though. That is absolutely not impossible on my part. I dunno, unless someone is being especially stupid, cruel, or ignorant (or it's a funny addition deserving of praise), I've never understood the culture of screenshots and callouts on tumblr posts. This was like, the emotional opposite of "how dare you hide this in the tags."

Second, if someone were to search for those tags I use in Tumblr's search, my reblog of that post wouldn't even come up; those were tags on a reblog, not an original post. AFAIK, tumblr tag searches only bring up original posts. My usage (or overuse) of tags on a reblog would have minimal bearing on people finding me, unless they're the kind of person to look into a post's notes commonly (which, I don't, unless I'm using a post for a blocklist-- usually for TERFs. Is that a normal thing? Do people commonly look in the notes of any post?).

Third, I use all those tags specifically so I cover all my bases for things people want to blacklist, and maybe I'll tag something someone already has blacklisted so they don't have to add another one in the first place. It's like how some people will tag every variation of "blood" or "trigger warning: blood" that they can think of, hoping to be able to spare any new blog viewers from something they've already decided they don't want to see.

Fourth, and finally, all those tags are the equivalent of the bright colors on a poisonous creature. "Don't eat me, it won't be pleasant for either of us." People who use their brains will at worst be mildly annoyed by it; people who think that murdering a character equates to irl murderous predispositions will likely run screaming-- if the post content itself wasn't enough.

#maybe I have an extreme misunderstanding of the tags system after all this time #i don't know #but that was just a really unfortunate thing to see when I use all those tags in an attempt to benefit others #it felt unnecessarily snarky and jeering #like 'look at this bozo using all these tags they're so stupid' #if it had been my own original post I would have understood more because to me that seems more like throwing rocks at a metaphorical beehiv #THAT would show up in search results #and I get it the proship/antiship argument is so far blown out of proportion and dumb #but that's the language people are using to discuss most 'moral nuance' in stories these days #('moral nuance' is in quotes for a reason) #so that's how i tag those kinds of posts so people can find or ignore them #it's a shame because it was a really wonderful post but I would rather not have that as a reminder that OP apparently thinks I'm stupid #If I'm actually being stupid about this please politely educate me #I'm doing my best when it feels like internet culture changes every two hours now #dylawa rambles #dylawa rants #dylawa vents

[godslittlesadge]

another thing i hatehatehate about inquisition is how the dialogue options dont let you be fun or interesting at all

#there's the occasional joke #but like if i wanna agree with sera on something i have like 4 options all 3 of them are nuances of you fucking suck and you're stupid #and the fourth one is a i guess if i squint so hard i almost grind my eyes into paste i can see your point #like ????? #also during her friendship scene where she invites you to prank people if you want to do it the inqs like ONLY FOR THE MORALE OF THE PEOPLE #what if its not for morale. what if its because my inq is a little SHIT #or if i want to roleplay a calculating inq who who's all for gaining political advantage to protect himself #cause he's dalish and knows the BOMB used to blow up a HUMAN CHURCH is elven and needs to protect himself after the assured fallout #you can't :) sorry you cannot be too smart you need to be a blank foil that every player can relate to #ITS SO BORING THE INQ IS SO BORING #i hope they dont appear in the next game least of all as a protagonist because they're so. nothing #dai liveblogging #dragon age critical

[crazykuroneko]

listening to this podcast done by TV show enthusiasts, whose knowledge of IWTV comes from the movie and the book they watched/read probably a century ago, so they already know OG Louis is a plantation owner and Claudia will die, then the hosts said something like, "Watching the last three episodes of IWTV was hard, but the last scene gave me hope. I could handle another season of this, I could handle Lestat coming back, because I have seen Louis is in a better place now, he's happy with someone who is (healthily, heavily implied) loves him, and understands him"

And i'm just sitting here just thinking, "well, it's obvious they forget why Claudia died then"

#moi.txt #i wish a LOT of good luck for people who are expecting s2 about a clear cut bad vs good #people who are rooting for daniel because they believe he's the morally right one #and the audience stand-in #people who expect season 2 will be a happy ending comeback story of a survivor #like i'm SO sorry but #wellllll #but fr we as fandom do notice every details in the show #but a lot of these casual viewers are too focus on lestat being the antagonist #a lot of nuances that they'll lead to more disaster in the future #just flow over their heads #*will #they're completely seduced by the narrative #iwtv #comparing thoughts inside and outside the fandom is interesting

[snekdood]

the sooner ppl recognize “persecution delusions” aren’t just some “narcissist” thing and are also a schizophrenic thing, the better off we’ll all be

#infact theres a couple delusions that schizophrenic ppl have that 'narcissists' have but the reasons and they way they go about it is #usually different. its not that i think im special and im the only person i focus on and bc im so special ppl want to attack me or whatever #im literally just terrified every day someones going to hurt me (probably bc of trauma and other factors growing up) #theres ppl in my past who totally were the types to stalk ppl on social media and try to ruin their rep #idk if they're still doing it or found a new target or what but sometimes yeah i might over assume about what those ppl are up to #because im tired and theyre abusive and it stresses me out to feel like im constantly being watched #and since i have paranoia and schizophrenic tendencies my minds constantly going 'well what if they're still watching you? what if they're #still trying to fuck with you?' #im not doing this bc i think im special im doing this bc im scared of my abuser and have had abusive stalker ppl before in my past #so much of my delusions about being stalked and watched growing up has come from a specific individual threatening to do that w my family #and not even threaten he has actually done it before and we got a restraining order #but after that he would still continue to threaten doing that #so tyhat trauma mixed w paranoia and schizphrenic tendencies was uh... not a great mix to say the least #thats literally the only reason im constantly combative on here. bc i feel like im still being watched. #and like. ill never know when they stop watching me either #which isnt great bc i cant just be like 'finally i can relax and not feel like theres someone inspecting my asshole every 5 seconds' #which to be fair is 100% intentional on their end. they know what theyre doing to me. theyve convinced ppl its moral somehow #ig constantly trying to trigger me enough to go offline is The Move but yall still dont even wanna consider for second if they're lying #hell. you probably come up with excuses for why any of their bad behavior is good actually and anything i do thats good is bad or whatever #theyre 100% pure and good witrh good intentions no nuance no grey areas and im 100% horrible and bad with bad intentions always and also #'my vibes ar eoff' so thats how you know im prolly the abuser here

[asbestos-11]

the more i read abt the whole sparkle debacle the more i wish to put my head thru the wall.

i mean this is not to say that using slurs is ok by any means and that hyv does have a history of racist depictions and whatnot.

but like atp there's bigger problems in the world than a fictional character saying bad words in a game and you don't need to make it into a mountain out of a mole hill. pač it's shitty to have included it and hyv should be scrutinized for it, but it's not a moral failing to like a character that is purposefully made to be evil.

but like i'm not rroma so who am i to speak on what is offensive to them and what isn't.

#fei's talking corner #maybe it's just this whole snowflake culture wherein everything has to be black and white and any nuance is lost 6ft underground #one can like a character that is evil/ morally bankrupt without it being a sign of someone being devoid of morals #like yeah be critical about the character but also at the end of the day they're a fictional character who does not influence our world #as much as a real person would #also i'm just genuinely against policing language too much because at the end of the day censorship is a real thing #that is not to say i endorse people using slurs and hateful language #uhhhh anyways i think i have spiraled away from what i was trying to say originally but yeahhhh #ampak ja. i'm just genuinely so done with this fandom esp on the clock app bcs my god you lot are worse than tumblrinas in 2015/2016

[menheraboypussy]

Immigration is really a deal breaker topic for me when it comes to a lot of things. I may not end friendships, but I'll stop taking you seriously and think you're actively being a P-zombie.

You'd be surprised by how many people are anti-immigration or have the most culturally spooked views in regards to it. Sure a lot of isn't just black or white and I'm not trying to demonise anyone with slightly conservative views on it, but it's funny what you find out when you discuss shit further.

I'm willing to engage with people who discuss the logistics of migration, hell I'm even fine with people who want controlled migration. People who are okay with just legal migration are okay with me (even though I think "illegal migration" should be decriminalises). The real issue I have with is anyone trying to be anti migration in the most topsy turvy way possible. You'd find even the most progressive people go full homeland security mode when it comes to that shit. Absolutely mindboggling.

Here are some examples so it doesn't seem I'm farting in to the wind:

I have met with brown people who left their home country due to bad conditions. They say that they can be conservative and oppressive which I don't debate. The real heinous shit comes from when they argue that migration from those countries gets banned or controlled so that "radical conservatives don't come here and bring their backwards ideology to us". That shit is vile lmao and it's so surprising when it comes from otherwise progressive people. Absolute "fuck you, got mine" mentality

This one's a lighter example. My parents are pretty accepting but once it came to the topic of migration they said that they don't mind as long as the countries culture was maintained. This wasn't anti-migrant but it still felt funky. Who gives a shit about culture?!?!?

So you never know when someone will hit you with the ravishing hordes line or my personal favourite "we gotta preserve our culture" line when it comes to migration

#I see you fuckers lol. Trying so desperately to push the Overton window into anti-migration #You guys aren't slick. At least the guys who are openly rigid borders are direct about that shit. The rest of y'all are sneaky lol #Stop trying to be right wing in sneaky ways lmao. At best it's a “at least they won't fuck with me” situation when you know they're gonna #Btw if you're some random reading some post‚ don't feel bad. This isn't me shitting on nuanced views it's just me venting #Don't feel morally punished by it but just be aware of you can

[candyskiez]

you ever see a character and go "wow, this character is so nuanced and morally gray! their actions and morals don't always align! they're complicated and make bad decisions and behave painfully realistically! I hate them and love them at the same time and that's on purpose! they're so cool! .... fan content is going to misinterpret them completely, isn't it."

#this post is about #miguel o'hara #catra #glimmer #entrapta #pearl steven universe #rose quartz #basil omori #sunny omori #aubrey omori #lapis lazuli su

[jytan2018]

I read the comic in one sitting less than an hour after finishing the movie, and wow I have many Thoughts™.

- It's very obvious the two versions were meant to cater to different audiences AND tell different messages. I don't get why people are going "But the comic was better! It had more nuance!" just because Nimona was easier to root for in the movie.

- The comic was written back when ND Stevenson was still trying to process a lot of stuff, so all the characters are morally grey/straight up evil and the climactic battle is between a Ballister who regrets turning against Nimona, even if it was to save others vs. a Nimona who's too hurt to care if her lashing out was going to hurt innocent people.

- By the time Nimona got a movie adaptation, ND was a lot more secure in his sexuality, so the climactic battle was Nimona vs. the Director, the symbol of religious oppression and bigotry. It's not just about your friends turning on you because you're "too much" for them anymore, it's also about a society that would rather bring itself to the brink of ruin than coexist with you.

- (I totally get why people were upset about Ballister's surname change, though. Like come on, the media dubbing him Blackheart just to be mean was RIGHT THERE).

- Nimona's metaphor for not shifting is such a neurodivergent thing. Even in the comic, Nimona's parents insisting she's a monster who replaced their daughter is reminiscent of the changeling myth, which is what many parents thought their neurodivergent kids were—changelings who replaced their "real" children.

- Ambrosius being trained to cut off HIS BOYFRIEND'S WHOLE FUCKING ARM instead of merely disarming him is a very cop thing to do. As much as cops claim they're trained to de-escalate situations, their training still teaches them to treat everyone as a potential threat, and that level of constant vigilance can turn anyone into a trigger-happy/arm-choppy bastard. Even the Director, who can use a sword but probably hasn't actually fought someone in ages, STILL can't see Ballister reaching for the squire's phone without assuming he has a weapon.

- And on that note, the Queen getting killed simply because she was trying to reform the Institution and allow commoners to become knights? That's the best "no such thing as a good cop" metaphor I've seen. Because even if there ARE good cops and they ARE in leadership positions, the system will crush them before they make any meaningful change. It's not a good institution that turned rotten, it's an institution that only exists to spread its rot and refuses to be good.

- That's why Ballister's characterisation is so different in the movie vs. the comic. Comic Ballister had 15 years to come to terms with his trauma and the Institution's evildoing, while Movie Ballister is still freshly traumatised and hasn't found a way to define himself beyond the role he was assigned by the Institution.

- Not to mention Comic Ambrosius was not very noble to begin with and genuinely believed Ballister was better suited to villainy than heroism, while Movie Ambrosius never wanted the glory that came with his lineage in the first place and only antagonised Ballister because of indoctrination he needed to unlearn (which he did, all by himself, after witnessing the lengths the Director will go to just to kill Nimona).

- It really shows how important it is to surround yourself with loved ones who are open to change. Comic Ambrosius can love Ballister all he wants, but he'll still blast his arm off because he thinks Ballister deserved it anyway. Movie Ambrosius will stop to question what "the right thing" even means, even if he didn't love Ballister enough to defend him unconditionally.

I have so many more thoughts bubbling beneath the surface, but I'll probably address them some other day. In conclusion:

[ID: A pink-haired Nimona grinning evilly while holding up a knife.]

Watch Nimona. This is not a request.

Edit: Added more thoughts!

#nimona #nimona meta #nimona comic #ballister blackheart #ballister boldheart #ambrosius goldenloin

[bejeweledmp3]

oh. oh ok

#i think i figured out what bothers me about the attitude some people have in here about things they don't like #it's this sort of bitterness and moral superiority. like you want something to be something it's not #so you grow bitter and begin claiming everything about it is bad #and everything LIKE it is bad and slowly grow a cluster of things you don't personally enjoy #that make everyone who sees that feel like it is a moral failing to like the thing #like ppl who like it do so out of a lack of intelligence or capacity for nuance #and it's so weird when there's like queer characters involved and they're like ''this is stupid and it's stupider to make it gay'' girl??? #literally like. sometimes it's best to admit some things are not for us and move on #anyway no one look at me i just unfollowed some ppl and i'm feeling very :////// about it like #i know these are ppl i would stay away from irl. lmao #sometimes it's good to remember none of this is real and we're all showing a particular side of us here #talking tag;

[hadesoftheladies]

im genuinely fatigued by male heroism in literature. no i do not want a "girl-coded" villain with floppy dark hair, i want an interesting FEMALE CHARACTER GOODDDAAMMNITTTT.

I want to see an eldest daughter fighting for her family's honor. I want to see a girl facing a moral dilemma prematurely, abandoned and decieved by everyone she trusted. I want to see her revolt at the betrayal of her superiors. I want a mother to see what a monster her child has become. becoming a fugitive from her own spawn. I want to see an old woman watch those she loves die because they did not heed her warnings. I want to see old prophetesses outsmart authorities and fight to stop the inevitable. i want a bunch of sisters braving the wild because they are the only hope of a small town. a pathetic heroine who only survives because of luck and charm. young girls with strong limbs because they're used to working in factories and farms, who can run far and leap over fallen trees. who can bat a ball and scale a wall. i want girl gangs, where teenage girls get up to no good until the consequences catch up to them, or not. i want socially awkward queens who lean on the advice of aunty-like advisors, be they witches or muggle. i want to see an older sister be betrayed by the brother she raised and it climaxes in a duel. i want to see the reverse, where the brother she raised becomes her second-in-command, strong and wise because of her and wouldn't betray her for the world. i want genius little girls that are kept in secret towers because of their prophetic dreams. who terrify kings because of their intellect. i want female spies and soldiers who are stupid and devoted. i want an arrogant heroine who gets caught up in a plot bigger than she can handle. a kind girl who inevitably breaks the world and destroys everything. i want her to be destined for doom and glory. I WANT HER TO SELF-DESTRUCT IN THE FACE OF HER OWN POWER. I WANT HER DREAMS AND HOPES FOR THE FUTURE TO INSPIRE A NATION TO CHANGE, ONLY FOR HER TO LEARN THE HARD TRUTH OF THE COST OF TRANSFORMATION. I WANT HER TO WRESTLE WITH THE ISOLATION THAT COMES FROM GREATNESS. TO DESIRE LOVE AND BE TOO SHREWD TO FALL FOR IT.

I AM SO FUCKING TIRED OF BOY ANGST YOU WILL NEVER BE AS DEEP, COMPLEX OR NUANCED AS A GIRL YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE HORRORS YOU'RE JUST A PARODY OF WOMEN'S LIVES GET OUT

#mine #rant #fiction #writeblr #feminism #writing female characters #i keep adding shit because there's so much