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sorry i meant it in a good way!! i'm just shocked because your writing/analyses and the way you articulate yourself made me think you'd be a few years older
OH IM GLAD THEN DFKJJSD
if it helps make it make sense i did not really have many friends my age and mostly had older ones😭😭i dont think of myself as mature or anything i feel my age but i have a large age gap with all of my closest family and friends so i think it really influenced how i grew up. my big sister is 12 years older than me and my middle brother is 7 years older than me.
my oldest cousin was very influential on me and she is like 7 years older than me also. i get along very well with most millennials and also the elderly
#zero answers#people also in person think of my as much older than i am so this isnt super surprising#ive had more life experience (trauma) than more people my age for. various reasons so that contributes a great deal !#im really glad u feel im articulate or thoughtful i take some pride in that!!!!#i feel like ive yet to really grow a proper brain but im getting there.... slowly......#im honored u see some maturity in me bc im mostly a dumbass
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they're always in their late thirties and usually have one kid who's late elementary and like one very berry-toned lipstick often worn and nice shiny hair. it's literally the fourth time it's happened to me .
first semester was a woman working in the cafeteria, second semester was the woman who managed tutoring in one of my buildings, for the last year it was Thee library woman (who i managed to work up the courage to speak to at least)and this semester it was the woman who sat down stairs in the same place everyday.
once a semester a beautiful married woman with smile-lines comes into my life for me to fall madly in love with for 3 months and never see again
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once a semester a beautiful married woman with smile-lines comes into my life for me to fall madly in love with for 3 months and never see again
#z.gen#who will it be next semester i wonder#its so consistent it makes me feel like im in a cartoon
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there's no way you're only 20 . what
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#zero answers#i dont go around posting about it because people treat me weird and stupid and i do not like it#i might have to delete that tag cause broo lol but yeah
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reblog if you prioritize women to the point you mock people for liking m/f or m/m ships. im insane
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my bfs real time response to getting to see me was yipee in all caps. i love him
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i feel like i might genuinely forget my birthday this year because of exams 😭😭
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i try not to talk too much about follower count cause its weird but dude the way my followers shot up after uncle sukuna??? i gained like. 70 in a day the first night and they were def FROM that fic bc most of those people liked it b4 following like hi? hello?
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hey man I found a piece of your soul stuck in the text messages of old friends you don’t speak to anymore. do you want it back
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i really do wish i would've latched onto arthur cause john sucks so bad and he's ugly so i have to curate all of his photos like a girl showing the guy she likes to her friends for the first time. he looks better in viddy game please trust me. how do i even begin to explain how much he sucks.
sorry for only logging onhere to john post its because something is wrong with me deeply
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sorry for only logging onhere to john post its because something is wrong with me deeply
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i am really truly oversimplifying so much of this btw its like a huge issue. im mostly being critical of this one problem because it is the most annoying to me by far and because it appears in stories that are also obviously well-intentioned and it makes no sense.
in general though i dont think romance is a good genre for the subject (at least in the way im mentioning) because of the aforementioned problems. and plenty of authors generally dont care at all and trying to make the oppressive side like sympathetic and dark villian-esque which is a whole nother deeply annoying can of worms. like what the hell are you doing booktokifying a very literal oppressor. are you insane.
#z.gen#its like if you're even going to attempt to do this plotline the bare minimum you could do is giving the enivorment weight.
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you can tell a lot of people who write this colonizer romances are kind of disinterested in engaging with it meaningfully or never have and instead see it as a backdrop for their two characters. when really it'd be better if their characters came second to their respective livelihoods. its not only more sensitive to write that way but also a much more compelling and realistic story
to treat colonization with such weightlessness is resulting of people not actually understanding what it is and how it's effected global society. they just know its bad but they don't know or care how.
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this is really long and about racial violence peace and love on planet earth. so under the cut.
my hot take is mostly that at face value, i don't think the concept of the oppressed x the oppressor is bad.
i know almost immediately that people are going to interpret that in bad faith, which is why i make this post on here and not main. this is not me saying the trope is particular good either, but is just an extension of my beliefs about censorship. all stories in fiction are allowed to be told yadda yadda.
its a very lukewarm take also, to assert that these kinds of relationships requires an unimaginable amount of care and sensitivity. accurately handling the nuances of the interpersonal relationships while contesting them against oppression and revolution is not something so easy that any author can do. there are a lot of layered complexities to the dynamic that are simply not able to be captured concisely,
(and really not well-handled in a genre like romance to begin with. like if we must write romance okay. but i digress)
that is not really the main issue to me. i don't think this trope is a problem. exploring the human condition this way can be done well.
colonizer romance, in my opinion, primarily suffer from a refusal to acknowledge bleakness.
a lot of authors who write this genre of romance very obviously have not engaged with the concept of colonialism outside of the fact it is bad. there is a focus on the human condition in this type of romances - on how everyone is a person deep down and that loves transcends all.
if we are interpreting the genre in good faith - that seems to be the point of many of them. its intended to be deeply romantic, to find love in these horrible conditions. but it is an incredible disservice to the work itself to refuse the fundamentals in order to tell a more touching story.
colonialism is innately bleak and genocidal practice. you are not writing two characters falling in love who happen to be on two sides of a conflict. you are writing a story about two people in the middle of an oppressive regime. without differentiating this, the trope of oppressor x oppressor is doomed for failure. it is bound to be read as anti-revolution, pro-colonialist and nationalist.
the very basis of settler colonization is the attempt to dehumanize the indigenous peoples living there. to tell a poignant story of romance in this environment, you can't rely on readers to suspend disbelief and believe in love and whimsy. you cannot expect your readers to automatically humanize the oppressor in order to make the romance work, as they are actively working against their love interest to dehumanize them in some capacity. this goes doubly if the oppressor character is taking an active role - whether that be as foot solider or lead.
it is absolutely absurd to me the amount of times this very fundamental idea gets overlooked in this trope. its constant, and i think partially its because of how difficult that is. but even if this story is intended as a hopeful romance, setting the tone for story as innately violent and fundamentally corrupt on one side is literally crucial. and so basic. settler colonialism and all functions within it are bleak.
your characters exist first as a reflection of their environment. asking your audience to see them first for their humanity is insane and insensitive. occupation is occupation. it is embodying, encompassing to a persons life for the time they are occupied and for the rest of it. it makes no sense but it happens all the time in the genre, which is why i think there is such a massive problem within it of reading this way.
it's like these authors are using romance to cover-up the bleakness of the idea as opposed to using bleakness to emphasize the romance. its so mindless and boring and insensitive and the primary failure of it.
i don't think the concept of colonizer romance is completely nonsensical (because i am anti-censorship mostly.) because i think the exploration of the human condition in this way is potentially fascinating. it is good, even, to acknowledge the man-made nature of colonial violence and the mundanity of certain aspects of it. these are not devils or monsters, but people. often people who are ignorant or absent in their own violence towards the oppressed because they have been raised around it their entire lives.
it is not absurd to me in it's entirety to write a love story about this situation. there are too many required nuances to do it easily, but it's possible for sure. what makes it so impossible for so many writers of this trope is the reliance of romance genre to provide context to your characters. a person breaking off from their oppressive environment or the oppressed having conflicting solace about any decency shown to them are both excellent ways of telling that romance. human beings are complicated. to show the conditions of these complications is the only way to make this work and people seemingly don't really want to.
instead they make these vapid and hollow characters with no real conviction and just... insert them into these situations. it is always treated so lightly as if to give room for the romance but it ends up feeling really disgusting lol
it is so so so out of place and disillusioning to your audience and anyone with half a brain to treat it that way. this is a story of colonialism first, and a romance after - even if the entire story is a romance. it must be colored by the oppression it takes place in and it so often is not and thats what makes it suck so so bad to me all the fucking time dfjfhkjsd
i dont think i can even fully recall a story where its done well. its just so sorely lacking and i really hate it because i believe in its potential to be good. but it just. is so often not dfsjk
have a very hot take on the concept of colonizer romance in fiction but alas. i shant say
#z.gen#diss course#idk if this worded that well im very tired just thinking about it#my main point is that i think its like. the reason this specific thing is so bad is because#they are trying to write the colonization OUT of the romance they write and its like. so crucial to not do that#it needs to be written and acknowledged with 100% weight the whole way through to effectively#explore the nuances of the human condition in these environments. i just find it frustrating
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have a very hot take on the concept of colonizer romance in fiction but alas. i shant say
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