Pride is here so yearly reminder that stealth trans people owe cis people absolutely nothing. what they do with their lives and their bodies is none of your business, and if they choose not to (or never to!) come out to you, then that’s that. cis ppl have no right to their gender, including during dating or on the job or with friends. Stealth trans people don’t need to be ‘exposed’ or ‘fixed’, they aren’t liars or manipulators. They’re just people
they hate me for my slut waist and recurring self harming behavior
i was put on this godforsaken earth to be silly, gay, kind, and really fucking weird
Bothering the beast
put those awesome boobs away dude now isn't the time
idk if im actually bi or nit but i have an 8 am class tomorrow cant worry about that
collect my pages
but my. Bio lab tomorrow mr. slender sir. I cant do this
acshually roman sexuality wasn’t [reductive statement] it was [different reductive statement]
a collection
i got spanish anon hate for this one btw
"I cant draw" then do it bad who gives a fuck.....
Partake in the joy of creation just for the fun of it. Just for a laff.
Me @everyone in the notes
Writing about a child rapist did not make Vladimir Nabokov a child rapist.
Writing about an authoritarian theocracy did not make Margaret Atwood an authoritarian theocrat.
Writing about adultery did not make Leo Tolstoy an adulterer.
Writing about a ghost did not make Toni Morrison a ghost.
Writing about a murderer did not make Fyodor Dostoevsky a murderer.
Writing about a teenage addict did not make Isabel Allende a teenage addict.
Writing about dragons and ice zombies did not make George R.R. Martin either of those things.
Writing about rich heiresses, socially awkward bachelors, and cougar widows did not make Jane Austen any of those things.
Writing about people who can control earthquakes did not make N.K. Jemisin able to control earthquakes.
Writing about your favorite characters and/or ships in situations that you choose does not make you a bad person.
It’s a shame that in this day and age these things need to be said.
Or, in short: the narrator =/ the author.
You know what else is a shame? This nowadays tendency of putting on the author the responsibility of teaching their readers morality.
Authors are allowed to write morally ambiguous characters.
Authors are allowed to write downright despicable characters - and guess what they are even allowed to make despicable characters charismatic and likeble and the protagonists of their stories if they wish - because absolute monsters exist only under the bed.
It is not up to the author to spoonfeed the readers about morality and Yes I know this character did a bad thing and I am going going to show it in the story and make other characters call them out of it and– Bullshit.
The authors should be able to write what they want without having thousands of people jumping and their throats claiming to know them, their ideas and their morality based on what they write.
It’s not up to the author to teach you about what is right and what is wrong.
It’s neither the responsibility, nor the duty, not the right of the author to teach you morality. That’s specific to allegory, but even allegory does not deny the reader the freedom to critique the moral. It’s up to the reader to interpret the text and decipher the meaning, to critically engage with the text, the characters, and their moral stances.
he's tired
the need to talk about the characters vs the fear that all of my analysis is just empty prose and surface level understanding
