Resident Angry Queer

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

"Clearly I wasn't talking about disabled people-" yeah part of the problem is that the existence of disabled people just isn't considered in your worldview like that's the problem we're criticizing not a get out of jail free card

[heckyeahponyscans]

I watched the live action version of "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" on Youtube and I was not ready for the utter lack of emotions from the CGI animals.

Nala looking concerned about Simba hiding something about his past, a comparison:

Also, in CGI this song called "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" does not take place at night.

[naamahdarling]

[herowyn]

5 0    Y E A R S    A G O

[closetocanada]

Happy Moon Landing Day! ❤️👩‍🚀🌛

[screampotato]

Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

[glitched-out-mess]

[theramblingvoid]

Hit "view post" and lost it

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[mylordshesacactus]

37 for the fic meme?

37. How do you choose where to end a chapter?

Honestly, in a lot of ways the only real answer to this is "when it's over".

Like, that sounds facetious, but--it's true! Sometimes a scene, a chapter, or even a fic, wraps itself up more cleanly than you anticipated in less space than you thought it would, and you HAVE to be able to recognize that closing point when it happens. Two of the most essential skills in writing are knowing how to open, and knowing when to stop.

That being said, I do have SOME guidelines! If I'm writing a multi-chapter fic I generally make the first chapter as long as it needs to be, then model future chapter lengths around that. There are exceptions; the first chapter of Legerdemain is very short, because it was always intended as more of a cold open than anything else, and sometimes I also intentionally make a deliberately long opening chapter in much the same way pilot episodes are often double-length.

But in general that first chapter, which ALWAYS has a very strong natural end point for me, is a good benchmark for what the pacing is going to be like, how long the narrative is going to take to move between scenes, and in general what kind of wordcount is going to be realistic to get me where I need to go.

Honestly, I use number of pages as my mental point of comparison more than hovering over my wordcount--I'll have a general idea that okay, Torch of Vesta chapters are about 12 pages long, Legerdemain chapters are around 8 pages, etc. It's more immediately visible and gives me more mental flexibility. Like, if I'm trying to decide whether there's room in a Nicky chapter for another scene or if I should just allow for a shorter chapter, if I've only got 8 pages I definitely need that next scene but if I've got around 10 or so I'll cut it where it is. A 15-page chapter is just a big chapter but if I'm pushing 20 I can go okay this is almost two full chapters, I need to find a break point, this is getting out of hand. But I don't obsess over little increments.

(The difference between 1500 and 2000 words means nothing to my brain but even MY stupid ass knows the difference between 8, 12, and 20.)

Dialogue-heavy chapters don't really impact this a whole lot, honestly! I'm pretty deliberate with my paragraph construction so it all comes out in the wash. and this works better for my brain.

[mylordshesacactus]

20 for the fic meme?

20. Have you noticed any patterns in your fics? Words/expressions that appear a lot, themes, common settings, etc?

[unstable laughter] What? Me? Recurring themes? In my--what kind of--what kind of themes could POSSIBLY even show up in--what? Noooooo. What would that even--

Loyal lieutenants

Leadership as a distinct and valuable skill independent of other skills

Divinity as mutual faith

The setting IS a character

Duty of care

Getting a little dykey with it

Mentorship/Apprenticeship bonds as a distinct and profound relationship, distinct from the familial

Dereliction of duty as the ultimate failure of both yourself and others

Platonic devotion

Historical ACCURACY is not the be-all end-all. Historical INTEGRITY is essential. Don't be fucking lazy, it makes your stuff boring.

Soft-spoken, thoughtful, laconic competence as the pinnacle of leadership ability

Really stupid puns

Hey who said that. Who put that fucking list there--

[mylordshesacactus]

46 for the ask game!

46. How would you describe your style? (Character/emotion/action-driven, etc)

Scrabook-style slice-of-life character studies.

I do LOVE a good action sequence--some desperate small creature is essentially a long unbroken arena fight to the death in the middle of the jungle--but the action is meaningless noise if it's not also telling you something. All good action sequences are character work!

[mylordshesacactus]

7, 11, and 72, for the fic writer game?

11. Link your three favorite fics right now

My partner's massive and stunning The Power to Manipulate Belief

I don't know that my best friend's incredibly hard-hitting series of Cassandra de Rolo character pieces is like. It feels weird to call them my FAVORITES but they are EXQUISITE and absolutely masterfully executed and it will hurt the whole time you're dying <3

And I am absolutely also religiously following Systlin's masterwork Gods-Blood Crown and loving every minute.

72. What order do you write in? front of book to back? chronological? favorite scenes first? something else?

Ooo a hard one. I do generally write scenes in order, but since I also LOVE me some good non-sequential storytelling, if I have a scene that's being broken up repeatedly I will sometimes bracket in the scenebreaks and write one scene all the way through on the first pass.

This is actually less common AND less convenient than it sounds, because a good scene cut is COMPLETELY dependent on the transition between the last line of one scene and the first line of the next being EFFECTIVE. So if the two scenes are deliberately tonally dissonant it may be necessary--rapid-fire switching between two wildly differeny mindsets doesn't lead to my best work--but it will also mean a lot more intensive editing in the next pass.

For me the sweet spot is when the transitions themselves are already VERY clear in my head--often specific phrasings or images for those transitions will be what drove me to write the fic in the first place--so I can write down JUST the immediate transition and then bracket in the rest, and then keep writing the 'main' or current scene without losing my flow.

[mylordshesacactus]

too many questions i want to ask, i cant pick, so whichever of these two you would find the most interesting to answer:

35.What is one essential thing to remember when writing a villain?  OR

76.Did you have any ideas that didn’t make the final cut of eleventh hour?

35. What is one essential thing to remember when writing a villain?

For original works: People don't generally do things that they, personally, believe are unjustified.

Notice I said 'unjustified' and not necessarily 'immoral' because real life and fiction are full of people who do things they 'know' are 'wrong' but justify it to themselves as "making the hard decisions so other people don't have to" (this is basically always wrong, by the way) or as the "lesser of two evils", which is sometimes, though not always, genuinely the best option available to them in a shitty situation.

But people don't generally do things they think don't have a justification. They make justifications up! We're human! We can justify anything! Sometimes the justification is as simple as "I deserve this" or "they're basically asking for it". Often it takes the form of convincing themselves that the other person is the aggressor or at fault in some way--I wouldn't HAVE to keep executing you worthless peasants if you would simply GET IN LINE AND DEDICATE EVERY MOMENT OF YOUR EXISTENCE TO PURSUING MY PERSONAL GOALS. Well if you didn't WANT to be tortured you shouldn't have INTERFERED with my VICTORY. We always have a reason.

For fanfic: THEIR CANON CHARACTERIZATION. JESUS. This isn't even about a character 'going too far'. (Like. Palpatine is 'going too far'? Delilah Briarwood took something 'too far'? Uh, Yeah, I Sure Hope So.) It's about going in the wrong direction.

Like. I fucking despise Genn Greymane, but I've gotten comments on my WoW fics complimenting me on his characterization. Because I don't just go "ugh I hate Genn" and immediately make him universally wrong and unbearable in every scene and give him every social bigotry to ever exist and have him insult and mistreat everyone ever all the time constantly every single line he ever speaks.

Tl;dr if a character is a villain, they are a villain for a reason. If you hate them, you hate them for a reason. Portraying them accurately should be enough. You don't need to make up different unrelated stuff. Make them shitty in the ways they actually are.

76. Did you have any ideas that didn’t make the final cut of eleventh hour?

I did actually! I had a whole mental image for Safia's actual confession--but it didn't actually add anything to the narrative, didn't work for the flow or timing of the fic, and all the emotional beats would have been redundant.

It would have massively fucked the pacing and added nothing of real worth, so I never developed it into a real scene!

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

I know and understand what people mean when they say it but the concept that watching TV is mindless entertaining/switching your brain off...babygirl I'm having analytical visions beyond even my comprehension when watching a good show

[mylordshesacactus]

For the ask game: 7 & 13 please 😊🤓

7. How do you choose which POV to write from?

Honestly, the POV chooses you.

At least I think that SHOULD happen! The POV is gonna be determined by what a scene needs to accomplish--in terms of plot, characterization, themes, conversation with the overall narrative and original material, etc.

So it's sort of....what's the POINT of this scene. Some scenes will work equally well from multiple POVs, but they'll also--or again, they SHOULD--FEEL different depending on whose perspective you're in. You're going to get different insights, different analysis of the situation, different aside commentary, and different assumptions being made. Characters will interpret events differently and focus on different things.

It's often much easier to tell you've picked the WRONG POV than to be certain you've got the right one.

[mylordshesacactus]

40!

40. If someone were to make fanart of your work, what fic or scene would you hope to see?

WINK WINK HINT HINT NUDGE NUDGE IF ANY FANARTISTS ARE READING THIS--

Okay THAT was a joke obviously but. Oh man that's a hard one. There are uuuuuuuuh certainly some vivid images in my vampire porn that I would. Not mind at all seeing translated into art--

ASIDE from the Erotic Vampire Fiction TM, off the top of my head?

Ahsoka's "line of living starlight" deep-trance meditation scene in Vigil

Nick's bargain with Juno, wrestling with her dogs, farewell with Barncat, Nicky-vs-Lupa, and of course any of the scenes with Vesta, from Torch of Vesta

Safia and Gideon having little domestic moments from...any of my fics with them honestly XD But Black Saxaul and Once In A Lifetime probably have the most. And of course Iresine has the first look at the Rabbit's Foot!

Siya's "proposal" at the siege of Morenia Castle, and/or Siya and Ira facing off in a storm-lashed mountain pass, from Shifting Sand (which has a podfic now!)

The 'Transmission Received' protests for ANCoR patients/ardat-yakshi rights mentioned in 257 Years

Literally any interaction in Perspective which is our funniest and honestly one of our absolute best Star Wars works.

I think a lot of the direct references to movie shots from my barrissoka fox and the hound AU would be cool

[mylordshesacactus]

What’s your favorite part about the fanfiction writing process?

54. What’s your favorite part about the fanfiction writing process?

I know how I want to answer this but I'm not sure how to put it into words!

So there's a 'spitballing' phase of fanfic for me, where I'm talking shop with other friends who are writers and have excellent characterization/narrative instincts--we toss ideas back and forth, reshape them, develop them, and honestly 75% of the time this doesn't turn into fic at all--it starts as just talking about a piece of media, you know? I didn't sit down and go "how would I write Safia's backstory", I started by talking about the sheer depth of implication in what we know about her backstory from the game and me and my smartest friends turned that over together, and then I ended up using the compelling picture it created to shape future fic series.

But there's also a point where we've very much spitballing a what-if scenario, a how-do-you-think-THAT-went-down discussion, etc, and it spins off into generating imagery and dialogue snippets. And then, when I sit down to write real prose, I almost always have a tab in my document where I copy over the vibes-generation and the lines that really stuck with me, not even necessarily in an order just a collection.

Translating that spitballing into a cohesive image is one of my favorite brass-tacks bits of the writing process!

[shortysus4]

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[mary-philbin]

okay, i am deeply sorry, i know a lot of you on this website are not a big fan of kids and children in general but PRETTY PLEASE can we just NOT normalize the “i don’t like/i hate children but i don’t wanna hurt them”? because, that’s not fucking possible, okay? that’s two views you can NOT simultaneously hold.

because, let’s talk for real, the problem isn’t just direct violence — it’s the dehumanization of children, which feeds prejudice against childhood, childism, and adultism. this logic IS NOT neutral, and it’s one of the most sophisticated ways prejudice gets perpetuated.

“not liking/hating children” reinforces the idea that they’re annoying, dramatic, inconvenient... less human — and therefore easier to discard, silence, or sacrifice for adult comfort.

elisabeth young-bruehl defines childism as prejudice against children as a social group, comparable to racism, sexism, and homophobia. it functions like any other -ism: an ideology that legitimizes treating a group as property, as inferior, or as available for exploitation. she also shows that childism isn’t limited to extreme cases of violence — it shows up in a whole range of practices that aren’t in children’s best interest: neglect, underfunding of schools, the abusive use of medication on children…

saying “i don’t like/i hate children” isn’t an innocent preference or just a phrase — it’s literally the biased expression of a worldview that dehumanizes and diminishes this group. that’s exactly what childism is.

young-bruehl emphasizes that adults who practice childism “all rely upon a societal prejudice against children to justify themselves and legitimate their behavior.” [p.1] a lot of people may not consciously “hate” children or raise a hand to hit them — but the prejudice allows them to tolerate structures that harm children on a massive scale (child poverty, incarceration, violence, abuse, exploitation, neglect, etc.).

rebecca adami uses the concept of childism to analyze adult resistance to actually implementing children’s rights: prejudice against children gets translated into laws, policies, and practices that deny basic freedoms and normalize their subordination. just like a racist can say “i don’t want to see black people getting hurt” while supporting policies that harm them — an adult who “hates children” is, in practice, feeding the cultural climate that makes violence against children thinkable, justifiable, or dismissed.

adami also shows that childism helps us understand how children are exposed to “prejudices, negative attitudes and discriminatory structures in society” — and how this connects to the weak implementation of the un convention on the rights of the child.

the old idea that “children are just mini adults” has been challenged by childhood sociology, and children are now recognized as rights-bearing subjects who deserve to be heard and respected in their choices.

claiming it’s “fine to dislike and/or hate children” means refusing them that status — putting them back in the position of nuisance, of “noisy things,” of objects. which is exactly what critical theory identifies as the core of adultism and childism.

madeline lane-mckinley argues we live in a world that is “deeply against children,” where they’re treated as extensions of the family, the state, or capital — not as autonomous people. she also talks about “adult supremacy” and proposes a politics of solidarity with children, understanding them as comrades in the fight for a better future.

lane-mckinley also points out that the figure of the child has historically been weaponized in service of white supremacy, empire, and political projects that decide which children deserve protection — and which ones can be abandoned to poverty, war, forced migration.

in other words, discourses of hatred and contempt for children participate in the symbolic economy that makes some children’s lives more exposed to violence.

and finally — in ethical and political terms, there is no way to separate “hating” (or “disliking”) children from passive participation in structures that authorize harm against them.

the only position that’s coherent with children’s rights and with critiques of childism is to let go of that hatred and commit to recognition, listening, and active solidarity.

so yeah. there’s no neutral ground here.

[faemorrigan]

im realizing very fast that people do not in fact know that sometimes things in stories suck on purpose and it sucking is the point

[faemorrigan]

"this story is misogynistic!!"

>looks inside

>about the pressures of societal misogyny and how its bad