thicc has become such an awful word and everytime i see one of you schmucks use it to describe a girl who weighs less than 100 pounds i lose a brain cell
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Hey I am currently writing a book that focuses on some heavier topics, how do I make sure I'm not romanticizing them?
Romanticizing can show up with more than just heavy topics, and it’s important to distinguish between romanticizing (which is often about situation) and character/narrator perspective (which is more about tone). It’s possible for perspective/tone to romanticize something– but it’s usually acceptable if done with meaning and purpose and/or if it’s accurate to an individual and how they think! However, it should still very much be kept in check and here are some of the ways it tends to pop up:
Wrong tone: The narrator’s tone doesn’t fit the event, usually propping it up in a “good” light when it’s clearly a wrong act. In general, an improper tone isn’t right to use– however it can also show narrator perspective REALLY well. A murderer is not going to narrate someone getting shot the same way a volunteer at an animal shelter would; someone who doesn’t see an act as “wrong” or “a big deal” won’t narrate it as such. Not all narrators are “ideal people” (they really shouldn’t be to be interesting) and their perspective should affect the tone of the description. So, look at your narrator and decide what kind of tone realistically fits for those heavy topics given who they are.
Ignorant character/narrator: This is related to tone in that a character will narrate based on what they think of life and situations– which can come from romanticized ideas from a community, culture, friends, etc. Romance is often romanticized (until the person enters a romantic situation and then the view is corrected), as is violence (especially the idea that it solves problems easily, when it really doesn’t). Not everyone has a clear view of reality and that can be reflected in writing. Some writers choose to have a more down-to-earth character to help correct this narrator– or at the very least show the reader that the narrator doesn’t have an accurate way of thinking.
No consequences, or unrealistic ones: This is the real issue behind romanticizing. Characters get away with things they shouldn’t have, reality doesn’t kick in when it makes no sense not to, or situations are just unrealistic in general. There are some characters who actively try to avoid consequences or just live in a way that lets them, and that’s okay as long as it’s made clear that it’s not normal nor an ‘easy escape’. You can have a character who thinks romantically about something, but then learns the reality later on because of consequences.
It’s important to realize that consequences can appear in multiple ways: social, economic, physical, emotional– realistic consequences touch on all of those elements (and more, I’m sure I forgot some). It’s easy for writers to focus on punishing a character for bad acts with events that humiliate or cause pain, but it’s often better to focus more on how the character’s life would be affected in more subtle ways (or not so subtle, depending on the reality behind the issue).
It’s often very powerful for a character with a set idea of something (a romanticized idea) to experience reality and change that thought– often more so than just having a character who knows what’s right 24/7.
General stories aren’t moral tales (unless you’re purposefully writing one, but I don’t think you are), and even if they were, sometimes bad people get away with bad things. While romanticizing is definitely bad, a degree of it can be true to certain aspects of life and it’s okay if you want your writing to reflect that in how your characters think. Romanticized situations and consequences are where the real trouble begins. It’s not the writer’s job to beat readers over the head with the idea that something is bad (if you want to, then write a moral tale instead of a story for entertainment) but realistic consequences are often the best way to avoid romanticizing while keeping an interesting story.
You can still have a character who avoids romanticized tone, ignorance, and suffers realistic consequences, but you want to be careful not to make them too ‘perfect’, particularly with thought and perspective. Everyone has something that they romanticize in one way or another, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be that heavy subject you’re writing about. It really depends on the story and subject as to what level of realistic romanticized perspective that you’re willing to work with.
Realistic consequences are the key! Perspective and knowledge can also play a part in avoiding romanticizing things, but you want to be careful to make sure the narrator still has appropriate tone and knowledge for who they are.
“Disappearance Addicition feat. GUMI & Kagamine Rin” by Kairiki Bear
[VERSE 1]
Like - Like - Like - Like - Like - Like - Like - Like -^
Like puppets, I'm in torture* runtatata
The ways are blocked;
Approaches that await link lag, sag, dragging myself on the ground
Forlorn
Enclosed by hand and foot within all these pains
A sensation paling allowed me to feel life fusing, truly strewing
Like - Like - Like - Like - Like - Like - Like - Like -
Lies hide vague in fair rule-tatata
No point escaping;
Ev'ry way in vain
Overflowin', overflowin', rushing out of my body
Enclosed by hand and foot within my solitude
A sensation broken, fixed on nothing but utter stubborn hierarchy
[PRE-CHORUS 1]
"Deary me, oh, look and see all that rests on her desk"
Immobile in walls of steel, this henhouse is called a classroom
Will you break me... will you break me... will you break me... (hey) babe^^?
What a blend of crime and punishment.
[CHORUS 1]
Feast your eyes, see
All of her voices, and all her faces:
Everything is naught but gone.
What a worry,
Look at the failing, as you can see it's
Naught, naught, naught, naught, naught,
Nothing more now.
I abhor voices, and all her faces
Luckily, all of 'em are gone.
What a worry,
My wish fulfilled here, my wish fulfilled here.
Naught, naught, naught, naught, naught,
Not a thing more.
I've to ensure none knows my urge,
Although, not like anybody would care.
[VERSE 2]
Lie - Lie - Lie - Lie - Lie - Lie - Lie - Lie
Lies cover all of me through** un-ta-ta-ta
Was I daft to promise with you?
I'm sickened, sickened, disbelief holds me
Enclosed entirely by very lacking pain
Disappointment in bizarre fashion
Feel myself fusing, puke-inducing
Lie - Lie - Lie - Lie - Lie - Lie - Lie - Lie
I now despise people*** un-tatata
No matter actions, keep on and vanish
Don't - Don't - Don't - Don't
Don't bother to fight it
Enclosed entirely by lacking loneliness
With this power flowing through me
I've choice to make anything come to be
[PRE-CHORUS 2]
Keeping quiet, peek-a-boo, "I hide, hide, try..."
Ling'ring in the witching hour, after the school bell rings out
Will you love me… will you love me… will you love this me?
With the pain of crime and punishment
[CHORUS 2]
C'mon baby,
All your little voices, and your grody faces
Everything is naught but gone
What a worry
Losing my sane being, soon it will leave me
Naught, naught, naught, naught, naught
Not a thing more
E'en your avidity and the formation of your mental objects are naught but gone
What a worry
Just as you called it, just as you called it's
Naught, naught, naught, naught, naught,
Nothing more now
I'm unstable,
At least my mind's
But no worries - know that no harm is meant
[BRIDGE]
Feast your eyes, see
Fully your fantasies
Fully your fame will see the fate of being nothing but gone
What a worry
Distort unto thee, distort unto the faded fame
Far too late for you**** to notice.
Even your faded past
Even your future was but mirage and is nothing but gone
What a worry,
While you fall away, I wonder if you see how far you have gone?
[CHORUS 3]
C'mon baby,
Seeing your memories,
Seeing your life bleed out until it's fully just gone
Now, I worry
I don't know if I did
I can't e'en recall it
How's it not here?
Somebody planned this
Seeing your ev'rything
Even your all has seen fate of disappearing at once
My error, see
E'en from beginning, e'en from beginning
Not, naught,
Nothing was here to start with
My mind's mashed in,
"Have I been fooled?"
But tricks would mean that somebody would care...
Lyricist's Notes
* pronounced "torturuntatata"
** pronounced "thruntatata"
*** pronounced "peepoluntatata" - a fusing of the L and R sounds so it sounds close to the original as possible.
**** "for" and "you" should be weirdly joined to fit into the syllable, Fuyu? (F'you)
^ I wanted to start with "I - I - I - I..." but the kanji for "ai" changes and there isn't a rhyming word in the English language other than "Like". And if you ask me, "like" is too vague. But for anyone listening to the song for the first time w/o lyrics could interpret it as the same kanji but just being repeated.
^^ Either "hey" or "babe" can work, since it's a bunch of high school thot bullies talking.
As a nursing major this hurts me. It’s already hard enough taking care of someone who cannot take care of themselves but NOW we don’t have the materials needed to administer care. This pisses me off 😒
He’s telling the truth, I currently work at a hospital and there is a nationwide shortage of IV fluid bags. So bad that they’re referring to alternative methods like medications that can be administered orally or like the post above. Smh
Some 40% of drugs and supplies used in the US were manufactured in PR. Drug shortages were predicted after the hurricane and now they are starting to happen. Since PR doesn’t seem to be considered to be part of the US by this administration, help to fix it has been short and late in coming, which means that drug shortages will only get worse.
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