#intentionally bad

[clipdoodo]

bro think he sanji

[necarion]

(Poe)try

Once upon a midnight dreary One poet thought that he could merely Try to write a poem, lacking Any rhyme or rhythm one could be clapping.

He set his best attempt on paper And left, ‘til he could come back later And see if he could do any better later And show up the bullies and the haters.

But this attempt was mostly inept And even when it managed to rhyme Its stanzas had a rhyme scheme unkept And would hit off-beat stress sometime.

He turned it in for peer reviewing So proud of the work that he’d been doing. He read the poem in front of the others And knew that they would his genius discover.

But peers read his poem, cringing, Saying “O-M-G this is in fringing On my poor eyes and sense of rhythm, You should go to poetry prison!”

And when he heard their raucous laughter He knew it was a disaster And ran from the room, nearly crying While his friends with laughter were dying.

The moral of my story’s thus And if you want it to discuss, There’s only do, there is no try If you want to write good poetry.

- 09/27/2024

This one was really painful to write, guys...

[deisbookofdemons]

((Just cute lil Tiky on paint.))

[fuckuplines]

Are you the sun?

Because I can’t stand to look at you.

[lcreation]

[scriptlgbt]

Would it still be offensive to purposely write a badfic and advertise it as such and write in all sorts of horribly done lgbt characters?

If you are a member of all of the groups you would potentially be offending, it should be fine, provided you have all the appropriate trigger warnings and ideally, consult other folks in these demographics aside from just yourself. It could actually be a pretty funny satire.

But if you aren’t part of the community, please don’t do this. It’s probable that there would be a lot of misunderstandings and miscommunications, and you could be portraying someone who similar to a real person who would read this and feel thrown under the bus because their existence is being written as offensive.

If you do something like this, it needs to be done properly. And your satire needs to be clearly poking at authors who don’t get it, and in no way be confused for something serious, even by the most clueless of readers. It would also probably be advisable to explain or heavily imply within the story why it is bad representation.

Like, here’s an example paragraph where I’m writing an intentionally poorly done trans character, using stereotypes and ignorant narration and stuff.

Marcel, who used to be Marcella, had a burly face and angular body, thanks to years of taking testosterone pills. Every time he was misgendered, he punched that person in the face. His girlfriend, who knew him from when he was a woman, could hardly even tell anymore that he once was Marcella.

And here’s the issues I crammed in there:

using naming stereotypes (yes trans people do go to a convenient/nearby name every now and again, but not at the rate cis people write us)

“used to be a [gender]” trope (most trans people feel this is misgendering, because we were still ourselves even if it didn’t look like it to cis people. fluidity happens though so that works for that! and some trans people do feel this narrative explains their personal experience but it is generally overrepresented as a more mainstream experience than it is, and is usually very offensive.)

focus on describing body in fetishy ways and only in reference to hormones - not in any way that would actually help recognize the character if you met them in real life

estrogen usually comes as a pill (and spironolactone and other blockers are usually part of the regimen too until/unless gonads are removed)

reacting with violence to misgendering. (don’t get me wrong, that level of upset happens, but it’s not from one person misgendering unintentionally, and trans people know that violence they perpetrate will be used as a weapon against all trans people if it becomes known.) (tbh I’m not going to get into this here because it’s some dicey political stuff, but most of the violence I have witnessed perpetrated by other trans people is usually towards others in the community because it is known that we can’t come forward about it without it getting us back. I’m not going to go around saying that trans people are immune to being violent because that would dehumanize the lot of us, but it just doesn’t look like this. this is some conservative political cartoon bullshittery.)

the chaser* partner is. a chaser. this is pretty much paraphrased from some bad smut I read on AO3 tbh. and a LGBT+ youth group worker who said something like this about one of her partners after they got top surgery. a bunch of us who were in that group were warning others about it for years after she left actually. basically: don’t define your partners with some kind of ridiculous before and after thing. there’s more to a person than that. the only time I’ve ever thought about noticeable transition-related differences in my friends are when I haven’t seen them in a long time and need to recalibrate how I distinguish them from others when I see them. it’s not really visually any different from if somebody gets a new haircut or is wearing glasses now. it’s cool and stuff, but it’s superficial and in loved ones, we’re much more likely to notice that someone is carrying themselves with more confidence now or something like that. these things matter because they matter to our friend or whoever.

*Chasers are cis people who fetishize and try and date trans people, just because of our transness.

Anyway basically just know what you are doing, and if you are cis and totally straight, don’t do this at all tbh. Cool idea but who writes it makes a big difference in terms of how it is received.

- mod nat

[critiqueofbadartandocs]

I made this because I couldn’t let this pass by...

-Mod Richenburg

[lenundundun]

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