#uwu female character empowering company good

[drackpa]

I hate those "why is nobody talking about X" posts but now I have to be that person who does it.

Why is nobody on this hellsite talking about the abuse, rape and corruption going on at Ubisoft? They content-bombed us with trailers and videos and releases so this would get burried and it works. It just works. Everybody is just so happy that they can ignore these cases by talking about how empowering it will be to play a female viking in the next AC game uwu. My dashboard is full of ubisoft shit and while all of you cancel random people left and right I see no post about companies that pull horrible shit like this

#i hate gamers #uwu female character empowering company good #f you #ubisoft #ubiforward #ubisoft abuse #assassins creed valhalla #ac valhalla #watchdogs legion

[deliciousscaloppine]

Writing advice no one asked, but I see things on twitter I have to react.

If you want to term and market a story in any shape or form as lgbtq, it better be the focus of the story, especially if you are using searchable tags. Why?

Because when I go to the grocery store in search of a prepackaged cheesy risotto, and open it to find five flakes of parmesan, and nothing else...I am going to be angry. No matter how good the risotto is. If it says cheesy risotto on the package, and I have gone looking for it precisely for that reason, I expect it to drip with cheese!

What does that mean. It means that when someone searches for a story relevant to their experience they have high expectations that that story is going to encompass most of the themes relevant to that experience. From family, to community, to working, to romantic or partnership interactions, to relation with the self and the events occuring in the plot of the story. 

Example, I saw recently this bisexual author complain in company that their story was poorly received and their identity challenged, because a book they wrote with a female lead in a romantic relationship with a male character was perceived as het. 

Obviously bi people can be in a relationship with any gender, but that’s real life, we live it. If a book is termed bi, I expect to see the full spectrum, or at least 30% of the bi experience. I expect it to be discussed in depth, to be demonstrated in scenes, and to be fully integrated in the plot of the story in an empathic manner. 

AND also I would advise everyone and anyone to avoid attaching their real actual identity to searchable results on some platform, save for special visibility days, and other activist actions, or only with confirmed publishers who are pro lgbtq. If you are not sure, ask them, what other lgbtq authors they have published, or what percentage of their publishing this demographic constitutes. 

Why?

Because it makes people act like animals** - i am talking mostly about cis straight people. In the beginnings of my career I was like “uwu I need to be honest”. Fuck me, and fuck that way of thinking. People thought they could treat me like trash, because they thought I needed their support to exist and be happy or something. If someone had advised me to preserve myself, a little earlier, I would have never lost time and energy trying to get in and then get out of destructive professional relationships, which can set you back years in your career*

Your identity will be conflated with your narrative voice, especially if you are a minority author, and a lot of readers will approach your work with voyeuristic intent ANYWAY. Let them come to their own conclusions reading a story after they pay you, and don’t invite that energy into your personal life. 

Plus, do not expect it to bring you support outside of the context of activism, as other lgbtq members might rip you a new one if they feel the attention on you threatens them in any way, shape or form. 

I understand that this might feel like a shove back in the closet, and it is, since people should be able to have the option of sharing this detail about themselves without being threatened by their environments, and only visibility empowers our position in society, but all that are much safer to apply in the context of communal activism. If you can’t engage with activist communities and participate, it’s unsafe to go wagging your flag in the middle of an unknown professional environment - WHICH IS WHAT I DID!

And saying this may I remind you that fandom spaces not only are not lgbtq-friendly, they are also not activist-friendly, they tout themselves as apolitical very often, which to my ears is not “no nazis allowed”, but “you are on your own, buddy.”

*the only positive outcome from this whole experience was my intimate brush with evil, so I can incorporate it in my work.

**no offence to animals.

[itbe-jess]

My unpopular opinions

Disclaimer: I am not asking for your discourse.

Family Guy is an absolutely shit show. It literally makes comedy out of abuse, has a rapist in the cast, and depicts a gay man as a pedophile. Not to mention all the female characters endure more violence than the male characters. Seth MacFarlane is a misogynist, racist, antisemitic creep who deserves to get his grave pissed on. If you support any of his content, unfollow me rn. 

That 70s' Show is also shit. Red Foreman is an emotionally abusive father, as well as being a plain ass to everyone. I hate it when characters like these are portrayed as empowering. He is not a good character, just another mediocre white man. All relationships in that show, from platonic, to romantic, to family, are extremely unhealthy, and none of the characters are loveable in my opinion. Plus, it's inherently homophobic. (Disco burnings! HELLO!) And why is the cast so blindly white? (Not counting the whimsical foreign stereotype). It should've had a black cast! Black people dominated the 1970s!

Almost every sitcom with obnoxious straight marriage stereotypes, including the ones where the husband hates his own wife, are all shit. You hate your wife, bruh. Why you still married? 

Nostalgia Critic is not funny. All this little whitey does is yell a lot and spread cringe-culture propaganda. 

Brooklyn 99 is the only good cop show.

I don't really care about any of the other Marvel Superheroes, DC superheroes, or even that almost-entirely-perfect richass Batman. Just Spider-Man. Any Spidey. Any Spoodar. Spidey was who I grew up with. I connect with him so much. In fact, he was my first real love. 

Steven from Steven Universe is one of my least favorite characters. I love characters who are passionately kind, but Steven is just... ...too kind. Kind enough to be forgiving towards; his mother who put his life in danger, his racist uncle, and a couple of diamond dictators who literally committed genocide. 

I like She-Ra (from Netflix) better than SU. Not because of its lgbtq+ representation, and the fact that it treats women like real people, but because it also delays such accurate depictions of victims who have endured emotional abuse, which I can heavily relate to. Plus they have this awesome autistic coded (or is maybe actually autistic) character, way better than Peridot, Entrapta!

Voltron (from Netflix) is overrated. And the reason why it's still popular cuz of fujoshis and their "pwecious Kwance!! UwU"

I'm one of those rare people who likes Steve Urkel from Family Matters. (I've already made a rant why)

I like the original Electric Company better than the reboot. The show makes me laugh, the humor and content is so wholesome, the adult characters are very relatable, I'm a big fan of 70s aesthetics, and I fell in love with that Easy Reader. He is the main reason why I watch the show. Also, Easy is SO autistic coded! I don't make the rules! 

The anime and brony community are equally toxic.

Logic in Five Nights At Freddy's games make no sense. Why would you return to your dangerous shift? Why is hiding temporary?! Shit, if I were in those games, I'd huddled up in a place where the robotic furries couldn't see me, and never come out till the sun rises.

As a Spider-Man fan, Spectacular Spider-Man was kind of boring as shit to me. The male characters were bland (even Spidey himself), the female ones are worse written than in the Raimi franchise, and that Sally character really makes the show unbearable for me. Of course, if you're an annoying incel dudebro, you would rate this "the best Spider-Man cartoon ever!" 

Oreos are a bit "meh" to me. I prefer fudge stripes.

I actually enjoyed the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon, because it's so awful it's hilarious!

 "SJW" is a term bigots invented to sound like heroes. 

#The Spider-Fuck speaks #Do not reblog