“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
where is the option for "I got to the part in Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce, where Alanna gets her period and Eleni Cooper is all 'and you know what happens when a woman lies with a man...' and i was like 'I SURE DONT, BUT SUDDENLY I'M THINKING THIS IS IMPORTANT INFORMATION I SHOULD HAVE' and then I had a really awkward conversation with my mum"
okay but which one is the handmaiden, and which one is the feudal lord
girl help they're doing the "Ed and Stede aren't really queer and the only really queer story belongs to my white guy blorbo and his platonic relationships" discourse again
thinking about how jonathan frakes thought riker should have kissed a man in the no gender alien episode. and andrew robinson playing garak so gay they had to write less scenes with him and dr bashir. and multiple other instances of cast/crew/writers wanting to have gay characters and stories and repeatedly being told no by showrunners and producers. it makes me so sad for everyone who missed out on telling or seeing lgbt stories on a show that was supposed to push boundaries. im just thinking about it.
still amazes me that by season 45 or whatever, Supernatural was being exclusively watched by delusionally hopeful women with flamingo-salinity tolerance for bad writing and the creators still couldn’t pander to them because maybe there was 1 straight guy out there still accidentally watching it
If people are sad about The Wizard Facism game coming from someone you used to look up to and admire, may I suggest an author whose books are filled with nuanced characters and strong, dynamic women?
Tamora Pierce has been writing since the 80’s and has two worlds of magic and fantasy and bonus!!! Isn’t a transphobic POS.
tbf a samurai with a flintlock pistol is actually historically plausible for the Renaissance era
the Dr Pepper slightly less so
Favorite thing about renaissance faires is that they have fuck all to to with the renaissance. This thang is not about historical anything this is about dressing up like a fairy and watching a joust
I love how on Tumblr, "media literacy" has become "Um, just because someone writes about this doesn't mean they're endorsing this. I hate all these media puritans ruining everything."
I'm sad to inform you that knowing when and whether an author is endorsing something, implying something, saying something, is also part of media literacy. Knowing when they are doing this and when they're not is part of media literacy. Assuming that no author has ever endorsed a bad thing is how you fall for proper gander. It's not media literacy to always assume that nobody ever has agreed with the morally reprehensible ideas in their work.
Sometimes, authors are endorsing something, and you need to be aware when that happens, and you also need to be aware when you're doing it as an author. All media isn't horny dubcon fanfic where you and the author know it's problematic IRL but you get off to it in the privacy of your brain. Sometimes very smart people can convince you of something that'll hurt others in the real world. Sometimes very dumb people will romanticize something without realizing they're doing it and you'll be caught up in it without realizing that you are.
Being aware of this is also media literacy. Being aware of the narrative tools used to affect your thinking is media literacy. Deciding on your own whether you agree with an author or not is media literacy. Enjoying characters doing bad things and allowing authors to create flawed or cruel characters for the sake of a story is perfectly fine, but it is not the same as being media literate. Being smug about how you never think an author has bad intentions tells me you're edgy, not that you're media literate. You can't use one rule to apply to all media. That's not how media literacy works. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Aheem heem. Anyway.
Castiel had at least three writers in his corner at various intervals, tbf
the other corner just happened to have people like the Racist Ghost Truck™ writers
The only thing crazier than a character clearly intended to be gay but kept in the plausible deniability subtext zone due to censorship issues is a character in a series where only like one of the writers clearly intended them to be gay. So this character is just gay sometimes and nobody acknowledges it