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This has been in my queue for months.

I missed it last year and I vowed that would NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.

YES

omg i didnt reblog this last year!

its fucking freezing where i am

ive waited all year to be able to reblog this

@siriusdraws !!!!!!

Can’t you just hit them with a tennis racket?

We’re friendly with our corvids on our property. I got swooped ONCE (like a warning swoop) the first spring 3 months after moving in. I didn’t react or retaliate and it’s never happened since. We now have two friendly juvenile magpies hanging out most days.

Swoopy-type “magpies” aren’t corvids! I HAVE AN INFOGRAPHIC ABOUT THIS 

The thing about the rich of this country is that billionaires have more money than is humanly possible to spend. So like, I really do not give any amount of a shit if increasing their taxes is “faaair” because I care more about no one starving to death or going without medical care in fucking 2015 than I do about the great grandson of the guy who invented some crappy toy being able to buy his 17th yacht. We can fucking print out organs and we have people dying of the flu because they are too poor to go to the er. Like??? Tax the shit outta the rich. Take half their money. Idgaf.

And like conservatives are so quick to say its not fair to tax the fuck out of the rich, but then they say to people struggling that “life isn’t fair” like??? If anyone is getting screwed here I want it to be the guy who owns four mc mansions not the family of four living out of their car.

The fact that some people don’t understand this boggles my mind.

Except it’s your responsibility as the author to show that you don’t approve of your character’s actions. If you keep rewarding your character in the story, if ppl love your character despite their shittiness, if that character gets to keep all their nice things, if there are no consequences for your character at all, and you don’t show it in a way that makes the reader understand that those lack of consequences are ironic or whatever, then what’s the difference? How do we know you’re not condoning their behavior?

Because sometimes shitty people get away with doing shitty things and never end up facing the consequences. If people can’t tell that what the person is doing is shitty or can’t determine if the author is celebrating the character’s actions that’s on the person.

If the reader can’t tell if the author is condoning shitty behavior it is absolutely on the author. Yes, ppl do shitty things without consequences all the time, but if the story is set up in such a way that the reader can’t tell if this behavior isn’t punished because the author condones it (see Family Guy “satire”) or because the story is based on a system that condones it and the author is demonstrating the shittiness of the system.

You’re making a big assumption that writers are always and completely “good.” No one is. Everyone can be awful, everyone can be great. Writing is always about taking pieces of yourself, your complete self, and making other full characters out of those pieces. In order to write good characters you have to understand the characters, so the reader can understand them. But readers can mix understanding with sympathy, which is why it’s important to tell the reader, “these actions are bad,” “this character is abusive,” because humans can be convinced if anything of the narrative is common enough.

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