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The woes of being a shoujou fan

The woes of being a shoujou fan

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About a week ago, my forthcoming book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR (Lion Forge Comics, May 2019) got a short write-up in the Hollywood Reporter. It’s a very nice article and they included these seven pages as an exclusive preview! The colors were done by my sister, Phoebe Kobabe (phoebekobabe.psd on instagram) <3 I’ve been working on this book non-stop since January, and have at least another month or two of work to go. If you think this project looks good and would like to support me as I work my way towards the finish line, please consider checking out my patreon page. I’ve been posting book updates, cut pages and other blog posts at the $1 and $3 levels all summer. You can also find me on instagram :D 

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hey did anything specific happen in 2001 that'd cause reason for an american flag in the mystery shack

Note: I am not saying they removed the N word.  I am saying they removed her *all together.* I didn’t know Long John Silver had a love interest until I was in my thirties and read an unabridged version of the novel. It revealed so much about the story that I hadn’t noticed before. 1.  That Long John Silver believed in love despite what was considered a cultural norm of the time.  He didn’t care about what others considered proper and he was in love. 2.   It shows that even Robert Louis Stevenson acknowledged the existence of interracial couples and yet no movie version I can think of addressed this until the TV series Black Sails. 3. It helped remind me of the culture of the era in which Treasure Island takes place and when it was written, the stigma against interracial relationships that existed in America right into the twentieth century and in some places is still a thing. Sometimes books tell us more than just a story.   They show us how a world was once viewed.   I felt like this was an important discovery, that Long John Silver had a black lover (or wife).   And I was even a little angry that I had been robbed of this in previous readings of the book.   I think the removal of words like “Fat” and “ugly” from Roald Dahl’s books does us a disservice.   It “cleans up” the past and denies a chance for us to learn some of the less pleasant aspects of the past and how and why language has changed since then.    What should be a teaching point and experience is lost in the name of sensitivity.   I felt cheated and it even felt a little racist that Long John Silver’s love interest isn’t mentioned in many editions of Treasure Island.  And I feel that one day there may be similar feelings if people discover they aren’t reading the original versions of Dahl’s books. Try to remember the original reason Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit  451.  It wasn’t about an evil government taking away people’s blooks. It was about this group and that group getting offended at various titles until they just banned everything to try to make everyone happy.    

this is nonsense. this is like the shit an anti-sjw thinks the woke mob worries about. how and why did they invent fake racism to be mad about in the books that did in fact contain real actual racism and other bigotries. their ‘sensitivity readers’ sound like deeply awful people to be around.

THEY'D DO WELL IN SAW

and then the deaths start and suddenly the nerds are locked the fuck in. The little one with the glasses actually fixed the phone line and is taking stock of all their supplies in case the vehicles go out. The counselor's cousin who seemed like a himbo has set up a perimeter and made makeshift alarms for all the doors and windows, knows all the entry points. The anxious one and his dog are keeping the mood up with the snacks and activities that were supposed to be for the kids, making sure nobody panics and starts making dumb decisions. Somebody tried to grab the redhead and she flipped him over and had him zip-tied before anybody noticed. Weren't they a D&D group or something? What is happening???

Bro's fucked.

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it's barely June. abruptly all the normal councilors understand a) why he has an anxiety dog, and b) why the dog has anxiety too.

Slasher is flat out chasing after this kid, finally gaining on him, when suddenly he speeds up and starts going 30 miles per hour.

this took an embarrassing amount of time to finish

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