Book Dragon Library

Ash 25 bi Welcome to my library Current read: Don't Let The Forest In by CG Drews

[bookdroagonslibrary]

Hear me out Stranger Things Don't Let the Forest In au

[reillyikes]

Why does fandom so often expect female characters to be perfectly written in order to be liked or popular? Male characters—and really, most popular characters—also have messy, inconsistent, or flawed in their writing, yet people still embrace them, reinterpret them, and build on what’s there to make them more compelling. But when it comes to women, fandom tends to hold them to an impossible standard, where any writing flaw becomes a reason to dismiss the character entirely. The truth is, there’s nothing wrong with loving a character whose writing has mistakes; fandom does this with male characters all the time. So why can’t we treat female characters the same way, and allow ourselves to love them even when the text doesn’t do them justice?

[aurumacadicus]

"Did you know people are masturbating to your smut fics-- 🤢" I hope they get twice as wet as I did writing it, mind your fucking business.

[captainclickycat]

"Did you know people are getting scared when they read your horror stories?? Did you know that people are laughing when they read your comedy stories?? Isn't that gross? Aren't you scandalised??"

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

THISSSSSSS!!!!!!! curate your own internet experience. block them because they’re allergic to peanut butter, block them because they have what you don’t, block them because they dislike your favorite food, block them because you don’t like their layout, block them because you can.

blocking is NOT a personal attack against someone. it’s you curating your own internet experience and catering for your comfort, and you have every right to do that.

you, yes, you!!! you CANNOT tell other people to censor themselves for your own comfort and personal likings. you CANNOT tell them what they can or can’t post. you CANNOT tell them what they can or can’t write. you CANNOT tell them what they can or can’t draw. BUT you CAN block them for whatever reason.

that block button is offered to you for free. use. it.

[bberry005]

every time you watch anything you will ask yourself "is this an intentional portrayal of misogyny, racism, etc or is it just by accident due to the author's biases" and many many times the answer will be that it's both. and you will want to slam your head against the wall because everyone either wants to say the story actually didn't mean to portray that or because it's portrayed in the story obviously the writers don't have biases. but it is both. it is often if not always both. can it please be both.

[undekaying-deactivated20240629]

A trope that gets to me: 'guard dog' character and their partner who are both fully aware of it and honestly don't care/kind of like it. Someone says "call your guard dog off" and their partner does call them off. That person, their 'guard dog', is someone who is unreservedly, irrefutably loyal to them. Someone undoubtedly dangerous who is willing to kill, to maim, to obey, simply because of their love for one another. There's no manipulation involved— it is loyalty, brutal, dogged loyalty. And it goes both ways.

[rneliflua]

"shipping and blorbofication are not inherently at odds with understanding a story's deep themes" and "some people can't grasp the themes of a story because they never learned how to engage with stories outside of the lens of shipping and blorbofication" are two statements that can coexist

[rneliflua]

blorbofication to me is when you love a character in such a laser focus way that you somewhat detach them from the narrative from which they are inserted and treat them in a way roughly similar to how you'd treat an oc for which you still have no story and just like to put them in situations just for fun. which there's nothing wrong with btw, it's just that it can easily lead to people forgetting the character engine in a narrative and not just a barbie doll

[phantomsofyourformerself]

girl who finally is going back to reading by finishing one book: now i'm going to read all the books in the world.

[bberry005]

it is actually kind of ridiculous to me that so many white queer people won't watch or read something about people of color unless there's some aspect of relatability related to identity (ex: race, gender, sexuality, etc) in there. and it's not bad to actively seek out media you'll relate to, but oftentimes in these instances it comes at the expense of characters of color being flattened or sidelined in their own stories because a white person who wanted to be centered in a story that's not about them decided some other aspect of the narrative is more important. and it is both exhausting and irritating to constantly watch it happen.

[laurapalwer]

[bberry005]

you know i did kind of think we had another couple years at least before the pitt fanfic started getting turned into published novels

[bberry005]

and not just the fact we now have the pitt fanfic getting traditionally published, as an indian-american woman that's a fan of the pitt, the particular fic that got picked up is just insulting. the fandom has a whole lot of issues with portraying samira especially, both in how she's portrayed in fanworks and in the show itself. a white woman coming in and using a superficial portrayal of a brown woman in a romance novel is nothing new, but seeing this happen AFTER said writer sidestepped any real apology and is now going to make money using that very same story is just. there's really no words for it other than insulting and deeply disgusting at this point

[hatosyscurls]

So to sum it up, she's done racist shit and yeah she's weirdly side stepped a real apology and yeah she blocked everyone who tried to approach her about it and yeah she's now monetizing the very same work including keeping the protagonist brown just to maximize the "white woman author profits off brown culture/characters" bit on the heels of being unrepentant about her previous "errors"

Emily Adama devoted to filling up the entire racist white author bingo card

[lacy81]

i’m not cutout for a j*b, i was born to read fanfics and watch edits 😔

[based-and-rinpilled]

Reblog to give Victoire Desgraves a hug

[simonespeaks]

i hope victoire in her continued survival gets to make close black women or at least other woc friends. her only close female friend being letitia (derogatory) was such a fucking travesty.

[litafficionado]

“If you give children a vocabulary that’s large enough and complex enough to express their emotions and their ideas, you give them access to complex feelings and emotions in themselves. So that if you talk to a teenager and all they can say about how they feel is BAD, and they haven’t got, you know, a larger vocabulary for lonely, abused, insecure, frightened…I mean there’s this huge panoply which…I remember when my daughter was just telling me that she just felt bad, I bought her a thesaurus. I said, “Look up, is it sort of over lonely, or is it insecure…and look up under lonely, you’ll find two hundred words for lonely. Which one?” But what that does is that it makes you feel that there’s this huge complexity of emotions and there are words for all of them. If you want children to feel less frustrated and less disenfranchised and less unable to even feel comfortable with their own emotions, you’ll have to give them a vocabulary that’s as complicated as their inner lives. And one of the things we see in children is this incredibly reduced capacity for reporting their inner lives to the exterior world. One of the things is just teaching them poems, just teaching them to memorize poems in school, they don’t have to interpret them, if they just internalize the language of the poem, the complexity of the emotion in the poems…” -Jorie Graham, in a conversation 

[takofukkatsumi]

Reblog this and tell me what was your biggest crying over a piece of fiction. You can be vague if you don't want to spoil.