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what if we all made minecraft videos like its 2012
"oh i really love xyz character-" really? outside the context of shipping?
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I agree with all of this. But! I think it is also important to recognize that there are subgenres where it is significantly harder to find certain things, and it's actively unhelpful to readers to pretend that you can just find whatever type of book you want to read if you just know how to look for it, especially if you are sticking to trad publishing.
It is possible to find both sapphic SFF and M/M fantasy. It is significantly harder to find, say, aro urban fantasy. Or trans romantic suspense. Or intersex mystery.
A lot of the advice above only really works for trad published or popular books and for identities/subgenres/content that aren't too niche.
So here's some advice if the advice above isn't working for you (either because you can't find books with what you want or because the books you are finding don't end up being the vibe you want), from someone who reads a few hundred books a year:
Find websites or lists dedicated to the specific thing you are looking for. They will generally have more variety and will post you to examples that don't show up in regular rec lists. (ex: aro book recs, ace book recs, intersex #ownvoices database, sapphic books). Goodreads lists can (sometimes) also be your friend.
Get comfortable reading self-published and small press books. Trad publishing has its blind spots.
Check Reddit for recommendations
Start figuring out what it is specifically that you like and then start making your searches more specific. This can be subgenre (if you want urban fantasy, you're rarely going to find it just searching "fantasy"), tropes, plot devices, vibes, etc.
Look at the "readers also bought" on Goodreads/Amazon, similar books on Storygraph, etc. if you read a book you like. Even if you don't end up reading the one you click on, it can show you similar authors (similar to looking at the blurb on a cover), especially because far fewer books have blurbs now.
Check out the Literature Map for similar authors.
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roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that
the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people
I just saw an acquaintance use "👖🛝" in place of the word genocide and. like. at what point are we going to decide that this kind of self-censorship is too degrading to abide anymore.
"grape" "sewer-slide" "the panini" I feel like I'm surrounded by Rugrats who overheard the grown ups talking about the news.
I'm tired of seeing people excuse algospeak because "corporations are making us do it." Why are we all letting them do that. The Internet is real life. Get mad about it.
i haaaate being avoidant. it makes you feel like the world's biggest jackass whenever someone tries to talk to you or whatever and you just Freeze Up
Oh sorry i took a long ass time to reply and didnt say anything. I got arbitrarily scared and tired myself out so now i cant say much. Oopsie teehee. it makes you feel like a huge dickhead
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I think modern day Duke Nukem would be a total chaser because he’d come out of whatever coma Randy ‘Greaseball’ Pitchford has him in and he’d hear about trans women and be like “Damn… they’re making new chicks… I gotta get a piece of that action.” And he’d pull his notepad (labeled ‘SHIT I GOTTA TRY’) and crayon out and write ‘TGIRL PUSSY’ directly under ‘NEW MCRIB’ and ‘CONCUSSION’
love transfems or die thats really it
and do not misconstrue me. when i say "love" i appeal to the sense of the word which means: to care for, to accept, to want to learn about, to be devoted to. we have seen enough fetishization and sexualization of transfems for a goddamn lifetime. when you care about transfems you had better care about them with your whole heart. you had better throw your weight behind her and support her for gracing this earth with her presence, you had better tell it that you appreciate its presence and honesty, you had better tell them that you care for them no matter what. we have no time for stupid petty arguments truly. you had better listen to her when she talks, you had better examine and change how you behave when she raises a point about her comfort and safety. you need to care about transfems or just die