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Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”
So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”
Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.
Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.
y’all 💀 this is a quote A.I says is an everlark quote from the books 😭 and some people trust this thing to write their college essays 😂😂😂
This read like: The poison for Kuzco. The poison chosen specially to kill Kuzco. Kuzco’s poison
I’m also dying at the idea that Peeta is just chucking bread at Katniss on the daily.
@thesunpersists
How strange it is to wake up, check the news, see the world burning down… and still have to go to work, answer texts, be a person. Do what you can. That’s enough. It really is.
The world is always burning somewhere. You just happen to be in an era when you have dozens of media companies making big money on broadcasting it to the world at large. Almost none of it matters to you and is just mental dead weight, something that neither affects, nor can be affected by you.
[D]o not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented…It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.
-- C. S. Lewis
not all, but alot of everlark shippers attack fans who have different opinions that go against the common beliefs about characters/ plots in the books, which prevents actual interesting conversations to happen
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the interesting conversations they wish to have that we shut down are literally “I think katniss and peeta were just trauma bonded!” “katniss was forced to have kids!” “katniss would have been better off alone” “katniss hates her kids and being a mother” “she only ended up with peeta because gale killed prim”. all things completely contradicted by canon but they want to self-insert onto katniss.
I am old and my own racial makeup is extremely similar to Katniss', and I have been enraged at the whitewashed casting of the THG movies probably about as long as some of the people harassing fan artists for book accurate art have been alive. And maybe this is a scorching hot take (I think this particular casting is fine esp compared to like, Joseph Zada, I like Whitney Peak) but I think Whitney's casting is doing exactly what the filmmakers intended and getting the audience to fight with each other instead of criticize them for the whitewashing they KNOW people have a huge problem with.
The minute I saw Whitney I said to myself that it was deeply cynical of them to cast her like that and honestly against their own logic for some of the other choices they've made? (People keep defending Lou Lou and Louella casting because they have to "look like Jennifer" when everyone thought they were black before that? You're telling me Vaughan Reilly or even Honor Gillies is Whitney Peak's mom? And listen I don't think those women were supposed to be whitewashed like that either but if it's what we did before that we are soooooooooo bound to when Louella and Katniss have no actual relation!)
The movies have been HORRIBLE about how they've deployed race especially when it comes to Katniss, Haymitch, and Gale and they are continuing it this time, but I think they knew that interpreting Lenore Dove this way would cause conflict that wasn't so directed at them, but would instead be directed at other audience members (and probably Whitney herself based on how other key diverse franchise castings in like SW etc have gone) because of the atrocious way contemporary fans behave where harassment is a normal activity.
ETA this to say it much more cleanly: They're getting the people who defend the movies' racism like they're being paid to do it to attack the people who criticize the movie's racism as "the real racists"
I’m kind of baffled that accounts that I’ve seen promoting and supporting a movie that has completely whitewashed Haymitch + Sid + most of the cast … are bullying a fan artist for drawing Lenore Dove AS A WOC in two ways that very much comply with her vague book canon description
this. and retaliating against someone contributing to fan spaces (for free) inevitably shrinks and fractures the fandom. this is not the gotcha you think it is.
okay because people are making me mad, i have to say, the casting in the films are not, and never will be, book accurate. and the film castings mean nothing in regards to the actual canon characters.
if you need a comprehensive list,
katniss canonically looks nothing like jennifer. she’s meant to be shortish, petite and visibly and unmistakably not white. jennifer on the other hand is very tall, broad and literally one of the whitest people they could have found.
peeta looks nothing like josh. he should have blue eyes, actual curly blonde hair (not that terrible peroxide job) and look like an actual threat. a.k.a not short. like i would never believe jen couldn’t take josh out, easy. how is he supposed to protect her by going back into the arena in the catching fire movie when he’s smaller than everyone but mags?
haymitch is canonically a visible person of color, like katniss. woody’s straight blonde hair and blue eyes looks so incongruent when you know he’s supposed to have come from the same area of twelve as katniss. and yes, that does matter a lot.
lenore dove is meant to a poc. however, she is not supposed to look just like whitney peak. nothing in book canon states she should look like whitney. i don’t dislike the casting at all, especially as opposed to how much i hate movie everlark’s casting, but hating on @little-lynx because her version of lenore dove is a little lighter than whitney and her hair is straight and auburn is ridiculous. the movie castings suck for the most part, just because whitney is one of the better castings doesn’t mean we need to make all fanart look like her. i just read comments of people claiming we need to take movie casting as canon and i will not even pretend that idea doesn’t make my blood boil. that’s disgusting. especially since suzanne pathetically lost all backbone and decided to not put physical descriptions in sotr, which has literally opened us up for horrible interpretations of haymitch being blonde and white. lenore dove is meant to be mixed race, but that easily could look like lynx’s drawings and not whitney.
and furthermore, gale should be a poc too. and so should burdock. the casting in the films is absolutely atrocious and i cannot believe anyone with a brain could ever even slightly defend them. they literally destroyed the movies with those castings so the idea of getting mad that lenore dove is depicted in fanart as a mixed race girl who looks different from the film casting while simultaneously defending the absolute white washing of katniss, haymitch and gale is mind boggling.
I agree with you and it makes my blood boil, how nasty people can be because it seems to me people are looking through a very black and white lens (literally). A WOC or a mixed-race person's skin tone (as some readers imagine LD to be) can range many shades. MANY. I am a WOC and live in the SEA region. I am lighter than what Lynx portrayed LD to be. I have seen many people whose skin tone range from the darkest shade to the lightest and we are not White. My own family for that matter make up of some of the darkest and lightest shades. I don't understand how people think she is a 'white girl' or a 'tanned white girl.' And yet the book never mentions how she looks. Just vague descriptions. Whitney Peak's casting was the choice of the filmmakers, that doesn't mean Lynx's art is wrong, it's a different interpretation of the characteristics described in the book. By that logic, if we take the filmmakers casting choices as the final authority, then any art on Katniss, Peeta, Haymitch, Gale and the rest of the characters being drawn as how they were in the books are wrong. And we certainly do not agree that is so. So why this pandemonium for LD's art?
And I do see how hypocritical it is. To make an abundant of noise when it comes to LD's portrayal but completely ignore the whitewashing of Katniss, Gale, the Seam and the rest of the other characters from the book. To ignore Haymitch's casting? Lou Lou and Louella? Burdock? Even Maude Ivory back in TBOSAS. I pictured LD as a WOC/mixed-race but not like Whitney and I still don't but Whitney was a good choice. I pictured the Covey as Romani, but Rachel Zegler did a fine job as LGB. I pictured Sejanus as an Indian but we didn't get that, at least it was still a POC, Josh Andres Rivera. I didn't picture Wyatt as the casting directors did, tbh I actually pictured him as a Latino like Josh Andres, but that was a twist. I didn't see anyone shouting when Lynx dropped her LGB art who looks more like Whitney Peak than Rachel Zegler.
The audacity to take someone's art who they have poured their time, passion and dedication into and "fix" it with AI is appalling and frankly, disgusting. Btw, Lynx has stayed away from commenting so the claim that she is nasty is a lie. Those people behind the comments can't create things of their own yet love to bring creators down. I have always loved @little-lynx's art because I see her art as one of the most true to the books. I will stand by that.
kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it
I hope every writer who sees this writes LOADS the next few months. Like freetime opens up, no writers block, the ability to focus, etc etc you're able to write loads & make lots of progress <3
Passing along for all the writers out there!
Reblog if you write fan fiction
Doesn’t matter if you write in a frequent basis, or once in a blue moon, just how many of us are there?
Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that gaslight gatekeep girlboss meme, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you think modern feminism has been co-opted by corporations. But what you don’t know is that that meme is not from Instagram, it's not from Twitter, it's not from Tiktok, it’s actually from Tumblr. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in January 2021, Tumblr user missnumber1111 posted, "today's agenda: gaslight gatekeep and most importantly girlboss." And then I think it was a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e, wasn’t it, who reblogged it with an image of the phrase edited over a piece of "Live, Laugh, Love" wall art? And then gaslight gatekeep girlboss showed up in the feeds of eight different Twitter repost accounts. Then it filtered down through Instagram and then trickled on down into some tragic “alt side of Tiktok” where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that meme represents millions of notes and countless Tumblr users and so it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from Tumblr when, in fact, you’re wearing the meme that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of “stuff.”
Merry Christmas!
Happy Holidays for everyone who celebrate! 🥳
“how do you write again after a long break?” you just start. that’s the horror of it. you just. start. and then the story opens its eyes.
For more practical advice, as a person who is constantly juggling 3 to 5 novels and spends months between working on some of them:
Read your work again to get your voice back in your pen (and to remind yourself what you like about your own writing)
While doing this, resist the urge to critique or edit—
—except that thing that made you stop. Rip that thing off the work like a scab and let the blood flow anew. If that's a chapter you couldn't finish, or a plotline you couldn't figure out, or a character that doesn't fit, it doesn't matter. It's dead now. Erased. Never happened. Do something else with the wound because that scab killed your flow
Be gentle with yourself, but be firm. You have to write. You do not have to write well every time, but you have to write
PSA: new type of bots plaguing AO3’s comments section.
as obvious as it is that these are all bots/scam, I believe there are still people who believe they are legit and fall victims to these trolls. so if you get a comment like these, don’t panic, don’t delete your works. they are all bots. you’re fine.
MORE ABOUT SCAMS ON AO3
“lock your fics”, “turn guest comments off” the solution should be to find a way to get rid off these bots (I fully understand how hard ao3’s volunteers work so this isn’t to throw shades at them at all), not limiting our works to only a limited amount of people.
I love my guest comments (who are real and not bots). I love my readers who find comfort in my works but don’t have registered accounts on ao3. I refuse to keep my works from them just because these bots are cunts. I can delete and shame them until ao3 find a way to properly deal with them without keeping my works from my lovely guest readers and commenters
I also like to add that not all bots are guest comments. most of them are, yes. but I’ve certainly seen a fair amount of them with registered accounts too, unfortunately
