Arthur Writes

Here's my author's website! I'm still working out the kinks but once my book is available I'll add the links

Also my book is out now!

Clayface: You judge me? What's real about any of you?

Twisted is one of my fav Starkid shows, it was the first Starkid show I got my friend to watch as well as the first role I saw Joe Walker play and it is CRIMINALLY underrated so I made a meme for yall

i constantly think about the ending of "twisted", where the main character says he's always been frustrated by starry-eyed young idealists thinking they're going to change everything and fix the world, because he was that starry-eyed young idealist once, and he really did try and fight to make things better, and all he got for his trouble was being beaten down, constant cynicism and disillusionment with the people in charge, and things staying basically the same.

“Pratchett went back to older throwaway jokes (like dwarves being apparently unisex) and used them as metaphors to discuss social change, racial assimilation, and other complex issues, while reexamining the species he’d thrown in at the margins of his world simply because they existed at the margins of every other fantasy universe. If goblins and orcs and trolls could think, then why were they always just there to be slaughtered by the heroes? And if the heroes slaughtered sentient beings en masse, how heroic exactly were they? It was a long overdue start on redressing issues long swept under the rug by a parade of Tolkien successors who never thought of anyone green and slimy as anything but a notch on the protagonist’s sword, and much of the urgency in Pratchett’s last few books seemed to be related to them. ‘There’s only one true evil in the world,’ he said through his characters. ‘And that’s treating people like they were things.’ And in the last of his ‘grown-up’ Discworld books, that idea is shouted with the ferocity of those who have only a few words left and want to make them count. Goblins are people. Golems are people. Dwarves are people, and they do not become any less people because they decide to go by the gender they know themselves to be instead of the one society forces on them. Even trains might be people, and you’ll never know one way or the other unless you ask them, because treating someone like they’re a person and not a thing should be your default. And the only people who cling to tradition at the expense of real people are sad, angry dwellers in the darkness who don’t even understand how pathetic they are, clutching and grasping at the things they remember without ever understanding that the world was never that simple to begin with. The future is bright, it is shining, and it belongs to everyone.”

anon in my inbox said fanfic writers who wrote about dark and taboo topics were not “real writers” because of what they wrote about.