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i feel like everyone has a teacher from high school that they’d 100% fight
When someone makes you think they’re about to tell you some juicy gossip
so what you're saying is, no poc/lgbt characters can be killed off ever again?
yeah, y’all hit your quota for the rest of the century
MEGA SHOUT OUT TO PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING THROUGH REALLY SHITTY SITUATIONS AND ARE TRYING TO GET THEIR SHIT TOGETHER
“chuffed doesnt mean what you think it means”
it means exactly what i think it means its just some stupid word that literally has two definitions that mean the opposite thing
what the hell
This makes me really chuffed
This post is quite egregious
Well I’m nonplussed by this whole post.
goddamnit.
all of you go to hell
And you wonder why i am boggled at times
I’m literally ambivalent about this post.
wow someone finally wrote a book on clock fetishes
it’s about fucking time
i have wip sakura with long haired maybe later upload ^q^99
CODE LYOKO IS PUTTING UP ALL THE ORIGINAL EPISODES UP LEGALLY AND FOR FREE
REBLOG TO SAVE A LIFE
SO THE GIRLS ARE ALL DEAD. SO THE GIRLS ARE ALL MONSTERS. OK. FINE. IF THE GIRL WHO LIKES KISSING GIRLS MUST DIE, THEN FINE. I’LL SHOW YOU A DEAD GIRL: SHE WILL BE DEAD AND MERCILESS. GO AHEAD. BURY HER. THIS TIME SHE WILL RISE. SHE WILL CLAW HER WAY UP. GRAVE-DIRT UNDER HER FINGERNAILS. DRIPPING AND DARK-HAIRED FROM THE WATER. YOU WANTED A DEAD GIRL AND YOU’RE GOING TO GET A DEAD GIRL. YOU WANTED A MONSTER AND YOU’RE GOING TO GET A MONSTER. IF THERE MUST BE BLOOD THEN THERE WILL BE BLOODSHED, DO YOU HEAR ME? IF SHE IS A MONSTER FOR LOVING GIRLS THEN SHE IS A MONSTER, THIS TIME. SHE WILL HAUNT THIS HOUSE YOU BUILT. SHE WILL SHAKE THOSE BONES. DON’T YOU KNOW YOU LEFT HER HUNGRY? LISTEN TO ME. IF YOU WANT A HORROR SHOW THEN I WILL GIVE YOU A HORROR SHOW. DON’T KILL ANYTHING YOU AREN’T PREPARED TO MAKE A GHOST OF.
s.s., “bury your gays” (via rabbittmouth)
Honestly, I think the whole “don’t pay the writers” thing boils down to the notion that everybody thinks they can write. It’s the old saw about the novelist at a cocktail party having to hear someone say, for the millionth time, “I’d love to write a book someday.”
Someone–Stephen King? Pretty sure I saw this in a Stephen King foreword–once said they’d like to say to a brain surgeon, “Boy, I’d love to do brain surgery someday.”
We treat “the ability to put words into a sentence” like it’s just the same as “the ability to form a coherent narrative that engenders a variety of emotions within the reader and puts them in a scene and shows them what they didn’t see before”.
And that’s like me drawing a stick figure and saying I’m an artist.
Writers are constantly devalued because everyone thinks they have a book in them and don’t realize the level of skill and commitment it takes to finish even a short story, much less a whole book.
This goes well beyond fandom, but man, I would’ve hoped fandom would know better.
The Signs as the Night
The Moon: Cancer, Virgo, Capricorn
The Stars: Leo, Libra, Pisces
The Darkness: Taurus, Scorpio, Aquarius
The Sounds: Aries, Gemini, Sagittarius
token diversity: the monster of YA
In a simple world, I could read books that are about me, about my aspirations, has my culture, and I wouldn’t even have to bat an eyelash because it’s well researched and correct and wonderfully done.
Sadly, that is not the case.
I recently asked myself (and a group of friends who share my frustrations), “idk what’s worst: token diversity or no rep at all”. Verbatim. And I thought about this question because, no really, which is worse?
Is there even a competition because frankly both kind of fucking suck?
I bring this up because in the span of however many months, over and over, there has been these slight microaggressions, racism, and an absolute disregard of the feelings and understanding of a character of color.
Adding characters of color to fill a quota is not representation. It does not equate to the seemingly flawless well-rounded white characters and apparently, adding random characters to be flat and one dimensional is how we are using our platform to promote more ~diversity~. I use the term diversity lightly, because it is much more than just adding a person of color to a story and being done with it.
In understanding what exactly I mean by these recent YA novels, I’ll list out common tropes that seem to never leave.
1. Asian being a the common descriptor for any “Asian” character. I’ve seen it, you’ve seen it, in all your favorite books. Not many are exempt and it’s irritating how authors don’t see the issue on lumping all of Asia together. Saying, “This Asian girl came up to me” gives me nothing. First, it’s lazy and second, still it perpetrates that every single Asian person is the same. We are not, fyi.
2. We are all exotic! Isn’t that great? Othering is so in right now. No matter what, someone has to say “you are so exotic” thinking it’s a synonym to “sexy” when really, it’s further alienating us and reinforcing that all people of color are these ~strange creatures of the night~. We are not. lmfao.
3. Stereotypes, stereotypes, stereotypes! There is always going to be stereotypes that many authors will play on because they obviously don’t know how to write their character. Relying on stereotypes to construct your character isn’t “development”, we are supposed to be deconstructing them, actually. We are supposed to take these stereotypes and say, “fuck this, you are so much more than this”.
4. Poorly done research on a culture outside of your own. I am no expert, but when someone is writing a culture that they are not part of, you immediately start researching extensively. You talk to various people from that culture , you treat the material you are using in an appropriate matter. When you write a story and it’s published, it’s forever. Do not consider writing a story outside your own experiences if you cannot do it appropriately. (this is not a discouragement on doing it, but please remember you are respectfully writing not appropriating.) But, please, remember that the best way is to read books who are OF that culture: i.e Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed is an example, it’s far more accurate and they need/deserve the support more.
5. Mocha, caramel, but never white chocolate. It seems that the trend of equating skin color with random foods is only reserved for brown characters. Alternatives: brown, dark skinned, olive. Wow, yeah, it’s that easy. Making it so that our skin color is like a food further implies that we are ~exotic~ and alienates us into “otherism”. Being called a food isn’t quirky or cute.
YA can be wonderful, but when there are constant little things: that is not progression, that’s carelessness. If you truly wanted to dispel all these negative connotations, these microaggressions, you would realize in your writing. You would ask beta readers who are not white or part of that culture you are writing of. You would use your tools, because you care, not because you are filling the token diversity quota.
Maybe no representation means there is no disappointment of having “diversity” issues but I want to say we could all do better, way better than what we have been doing.
Resources:
#Whitewashedout: a place to read about first hand experiences that many people have dealt with in their entire life (this is for people from Asia! sorry for the mistake).
Writing With Color: Offers help and resources to help research and understand writing characters of color.
Intentionally vague because my experiences come from as a South Asian and I cannot speak for other cultures at all, as it is not my place!<3
A sudden addition that I had wanted to add, but hadn’t had the time to until now:
6. White pain is painful…FOR ME. You see, the definite way white pain plays out in many series is this: white beautiful MC with the dutiful nice POC, who in turn gets killed for uncertain reasons, other than to make the poor white MC suffer. Now, that’s a thematic performance, isn’t it? Having a POC as a “sidekick bestie” is not representation especially since you literally killed them off just to prop your white character up. We don’t want your tears, we just want our people alive.
Thanks for bearing with me guys! Hopefully this post has given insight and full purpose in Token Diversity 101. xo
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