#nicatine

[hellenite]

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I'm so excited for Valentine's Day next week and I couldn't resist making something spooky and cute for WGBITN :D

dw they get back to their date after this, it's just a regular Tuesday for the scion of House Boudreaux

[hellenite]

♡ Happy Valentine's Day! ♡

Last day of the Etsy sale! Don't forget to snag your copy of 'What Goes Bump In The Night' for 20% off!

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[butch-reidentified]

Excuse me, sir, I am trying to do some logic puzzles 😪

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nicatine replied to your post “vodka is a five liter word”

is this a cross-language pun bc i swear to god

actually it’s a result of me writing when tired and writing “a five liter word” instead of “a five letter word”

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nicatine replied to your post:for the record went in the pharmercy tag (filtered...

i especially love the implication that a “bad ship” is a result of “shitty opinions” lmao

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

you never know with these people anymore

i wonder what the “shitty opinion” they mention even is supposed to be

probably something along the lines of “it’s okay when a guy and a girl like each other romantically and/or sexually”

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when you get this, respond w five things that make u happy. then send this to the last ten people in your notifications !!<3

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[nonbinarycharacter]

That maybe a bit of a different question, but I'm writing a story set in a utopian society, where all sorts of prejudice, including that agains nb people have been overcome. What would that look like, in your personal opinion? I've got a scene where two characters meet for the first time and casually ask for pronouns, since they're not sure of each other's gender, but I'm not nb and I wondered what sort of acommodations you think should be made for the society in general to be fully accepting

Anonymous said: I'm writing a fantasy novel set in another world with a fair amount of queer characters including someone who's non-binary. But I'm making it so the kingdom they live in (as well as most of the world) isn't homophobic or transphobic. Would that be considered erasure, or would it be okay because it's an alternative world?

Ok I’m going to answer these two together, since they’re pretty similar.

I think the idea of a perfect world is pretty boring actually. Unless there’s some underlying prejudice, or a faction of nasty bigots, or a contrasting society of extreme hate, or an aspect of the world that isn’t perfect, it sounds like a rather dull setting. Utopias are only really interesting if they have a contrast and some flaws, otherwise your writing just sounds lazy and fake.

I think a perfect world would have the option of a non-gendered space in all situations (bathrooms and locker rooms come to mind). I think gender would still exist in my perfect world, but the only place gender would be considered appropriate would be in reference to people, not clothes or names or pronouns or occupations or hobbies or colors, etc. There would be no such thing as a gender marker. Children would only be gendered once they were old enough to understand such a thing; not like it would be ‘adult’ or something like that, just like something kids only had to be concerned with if they wanted to be. There’s more things than that, but those are the ones I can think of right now.

I think a utopia would be offensive is if you played it off like our world was like this or even close to like this. If it’s a clearly different world and humans are not involved then that’s something.Those characters, though, are going to have their own problems.

The thing is, as I said, a utopia isn’t interesting without some other setting contrasting it. And as soon as the character/s leave perfectland they sure as hell will be discriminated against again.

The other thing is, if you are doing this because you don’t want to have to deal with marginalized characters having struggles, that’s pretty lazy, weird, and bad. If you want to write a story about prejudice free people who are perfect always in every way, write about blob people. If blobs aren’t sexy enough for you, go ahead and write about all abled nt cishet white people like you wanted - you’ll only have to deal with misogyny. When you are urged to write diverse characters, that inherently includes their struggles and complexities.

You CAN write utopias, but don’t do so without contrast.

I don’t know... does anyone have anything to add?