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[limp-wristed-pagan]

Hi.

If you are here because of Age of Scorpius and you come to my blog and see a bunch of TERF tags etc. I just want to say this is an anti TERF discourse blog that I am using so I don't spam glup shitto fandom nonsense on main.

Trans rights and all that. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Other transgender identities are valid.

This blog is run by a nonbinary TMA lesbian with any/all pronouns.

Also if you are looking at the AoS tag from latest and you see me and servitum-amoris posting at the same time, that's because I have both of those blogs.

[limp-wristed-pagan]

Unfortunately the pussy eating post has gained traction once more and:

[limp-wristed-pagan]

>"idk why people are calling this person a terf."

>looks inside

> "The trans leftists are silencing me for my feminism!"

[bunny-interrupted]

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

YOU JUST GOT TRANS DINOSAUR'D!!!

[squidpenis]

[limp-wristed-pagan]

Beside the obvious "Influencer first writing second" approach, Milo's biggest flaw imo is he thinks more exposition = more good.

Which leads to him having entire binders of books on family trees and how the government works when the story is about *squints really hard at notes* Deconstructing from mainstream Christianity?

[limp-wristed-pagan]

Essentially:

[limp-wristed-pagan]

If your parents were different signs than their kids, how do they buy clothes for them?

Conviently Reika's mom is also a Scorpio, but for me, I'm a Libra, my dad's a Capricorn, and my mom's a Cancer. So if we were in this world, not only would I and they go to different tribes, I and my mom would be more powerful than my dad, and I would be more powerful than my mom.

I just inferred that kids were raised by the Union/ state a la Uglies, but Reika has a nuclear family.

I know Milo didn't think of this but I mean why would they have a nuclear family.

[limp-wristed-pagan]

Beside the obvious "Influencer first writing second" approach, Milo's biggest flaw imo is he thinks more exposition = more good.

Which leads to him having entire binders of books on family trees and how the government works when the story is about *squints really hard at notes* Deconstructing from mainstream Christianity?

[limp-wristed-pagan]

Imagine if half of the Preacher's Daughter albums were a TTS poorly explaining the Crusades and the Reformation

[limp-wristed-pagan]

Beside the obvious "Influencer first writing second" approach, Milo's biggest flaw imo is he thinks more exposition = more good.

Which leads to him having entire binders of books on family trees and how the government works when the story is about *squints really hard at notes* Deconstructing from mainstream Christianity?

[limp-wristed-pagan]

Wait, we find out Scorpios are zodiac turners in the preface?

The big reveal at the climax wasn't a reveal?

[limp-wristed-pagan]

My spitefic has people who shapeshift as their Chinese Zodiac year a la Fruits baskets and I got an OC who turns into a giant rat king.

Like the biological phenomenon, not in a nutcracker way.

[limp-wristed-pagan]

I keep getting hit with this question: Why should I care?

I brought up Nero's Promises MV and someone else brought Equillibrium, given those are also sci fi stories about a society that banned emotions. But with both of them, we see the main character gain and fight for their humanity in a super oppressive surveilence state. There's a lot of paranoia. We see both characters make mistakes. Both are found out. Equillibrium they get killed, God knows what happens off screen in Promises when she gets caught. With Reika, it's almost as if she forgets she's not supposed to have emotions, and nothing stops her. Despite it being the top three most important laws in her community. There's no stakes. The Woods That Kill You don't kill anyone. The assassin stalking her is her on again off again girlfriend. Any weakness she has from her powers can be avoided because she can change her powers.

What am I supposed to get from this?

[limp-wristed-pagan]

You could be a writing master. You could be Shakespeare. If you don't give me a reason to care, I'm not reading it.

[limp-wristed-pagan]

It makes more sense to base your dystopia on the Chinese Zodiac, given it's more difficult to abstain from PIV for a full year than a month or two.

But that one isn't as trendy to chronically online white queer people, so.

[limp-wristed-pagan]

And then you don't have the "half sisters with the same mom who are 6 months apart"

[limp-wristed-pagan]

It makes more sense to base your dystopia on the Chinese Zodiac, given it's more difficult to abstain from PIV for a full year than a month or two.

But that one isn't as trendy to chronically online white queer people, so.

[limp-wristed-pagan]

Alis from ACOTAR is a literal Aunt and Feyre's personal servant and she's written better than this.

[limp-wristed-pagan]

Hi I Am The Sole Black Character I Have No Real Characterization Other Than I

I can't even finish this joke I am so sorry I'm too angry.

[criticalrolo]

SOME LONG THOUGHTS ABOUT AVIA AGE OF SCORPIUS. At some point I actually want to do a full essay because I have LOADS of thoughts but I HAVE to start with this.

I've finished reading The Age of Scorpius because I needed to know the Exact Ways that this book failed (skimming it wasn't giving me the depth I needed) and LMFAO. #JusticeForAvia. Instead of rewriting this book to sell on TikTok a second time Milo should have to write this exact story again only from Avia's POV, to give HER thoughts on this entire situation that aren't COMPLETELY centered on Rieka. Absolutely BAFFLING to me that this character was seemingly created just to Disagree with Rieka and then have everyone yell at her and tell Rieka that she has never done anything wrong in her life ever. Like genuinely, every other scene in this book is Avia saying something that doesn't 100% center Rieka's feelings, and then EVERY OTHER CHARACTER circling around her to tell her to shut up because Rieka has suffered more than anyone else, and then obviously Avia never says a single word in her own defense. It's so crazy?? This is obviously a power fantasy that the author has, where everyone rushes to defend him and tells his bullies that he is more powerful and more sensitive and more important than them. At one point Rieka has lied to Chase and not even ONE line into a confrontation about this the author has Kaia say "WAIT I CAN SEE EMOTIONS AND I KNOW THAT RIEKA HAS NOTHING TO BE GUILTY ABOUT AND WAS TRYING TO PROTECT YOU AND DID NOTHING WRONG." Cannot overstate how much this is a direct quote. But it seems like Avia's ONLY purpose in this book is to say something snarky and then get yelled at? I literally cannot figure out what MILO told himself Avia's purpose in this story was, because SURELY it wasn't "this character exists just so my MC has a reason to be comforted by EVERY OTHER CHARACTER constantly."

Avia even lampshades this in her own dialogue?? The three other main characters all have super mega awesome Arch Powers and Avia is the ONLY "regular" one, and she says she's starting to feel left out? Obviously all three of them immediately tell her to shut up and that it MUST BE NICE not being PERSECUTED constantly. Avia of course says NOTHING to her own defense, even to point out that she is on the run from the Scorpio Stellarium and fighting to destroy the Code in the EXACT same capacity as them. It is actually comedic how often this happens. In the last twenty pages of the book they take time away from the climax specifically to scream at Avia collectively for not being nice enough to Rieka in the past!! Accusing her of her protection being "conditional" and her being an unsafe person for Rieka to confide in based on NOTHING. It's the height of the story!! She says NOTHING to her own defense, just takes it from them and walks off!! Apparently she and Chase are supposed to be in a relationship by the end, or at least flirting with one?? This is absolutely INSANE to me, because Chase and Kaia seem to LOATHE Avia, for no apparent reason other than her having thoughts that are not literally ONE HUNDRED PERCENT centered on Rieka to the COMPLETE exclusion of herself.

ANYWAY. It's so clear that the author has not thought about Avia's interiority for even a second, because again, I cannot overstate it: Avia NEVER says a single thing to her own defense. Because she doesn't have any! Milo needs her to be a scapegoat specifically so everyone can constantly comfort Rieka and reassure her that Avia is the bad one and she's the Good One and she's never done anything wrong in her life ever. I am absolutely fascinated by this level of self indulgent power fantasy writing. Genuinely what the hell. I want the Avia cut of this book