#it depends

[gonxmorow]

Guys death of the author is not as good of a concept as you think it is. It is utterly nonsensical if the person is still alive and has opinions about their own work that differ from the audience

The audience needs to think about this harder, especially if the media came from somewhere other than america

[mirawakestudios]

It's not a favorite of mine either, when authors make their characters get together if the MC doesn't romance them, but its their game. My personal stance as a writer is that if your game has romance options for the MC then they should be interested in the MC. Otherwise, why would they be a romance option? And whenever I've thought about adding options for the ROs to romance each other (because a small amount of people are interested in this) I am usually stuck because just because these characters know each other and are part of the cast doesn't mean that they'd be interested in each other romantically or physically.

i agree with you! it's always a little disappointing to me when an author makes the romance options to end up together if you don't pursue them. i get that it's their game and their vision, but it often feels like it cheapens the romance routes for me...

my personal stance is pretty much the same as yours! making that trope feel natural and believable is surprisingly hard, and so far i haven’t seen anyone pull it off in a way that clicks for me. that said, people are 100% entitled to write whatever they want, however they want! whether it’s keeping the love interests exclusive to the mc or exploring connections between them, it’s all valid as long as it serves the story they’re trying to tell. i just know for my own projects i’m keeping things focused on the mc’s routes hehe xD

[certified-mothwriter]

My nails must hate me when I'm bored

[intothedarhkness]

How often do you get off?

I need to add this to my pinned faqs lol 😂

[this-is-infantilization]

people using the word manchild to infantilize or mock adult men with disabilities

tbh i think that word is becoming a slur because i always see people mock disabled adult men with it but rarely bigoted conservative men .... yeah a grown man not being able to cook doesnt make him a 'manchild' stop with this shit (actual incident i witnessed)

also im a 15 yo boy with autism and cant do certain household chores so im afraid how people will treat me when i grow up.... they already treat me horribly so

The word manchild is commonly used to talk about men who do weaponized incompetence to avoid household tasks, but generalizing things too much and leaving nuance (which happens a lot) can make it so that it ends up being to infantilize disabled men.

[this-is-infantilization]

is the meme of "He's only 20 years old" of kane parkson/kane pixels infantilization? I'm not sure if he has any disability but I really don't like it.

I'm not very in this fandom, but from what I've looked up, it looks like in some cases it is infantilization —like, "give him grace he's so young", "he's still just 20 omg" things like this—, and in others it's just acknowledging his age.

But when it is infantilization it's based in ageism/adultism as in "he's too young to x".

@this-is-adultism

It's fine! Don't worry anon! But thanks for the correction for people who don't know him!

[deerlaney]

The problem with most online discourse is that everything depends. Everything is on a case to case basis. You cannot say something applies to an entire community because it never does, negative or positive. Can we judge each other based on the content of our individual character and not some fandom or community or whatever else we're in?