miners and crafters of the jury...

a week into artfight i would like to give out the following reminders: it is okay if you thought you were going to participate but ended up not having time. it is fine if you started out enthused and then lost steam. you do not owe anyone revenges. you are not 'behind' and you are not letting anybody down. it is a silly little game for fun. do not forget this.

i feel like we've really lost the ball on what classifies "indie" in writing circles. like if you got it published by a publisher attached to a company and it's in book stores and shit that's... that's not indie. that's just normal. on account of having a publisher owned by a company. indie doesn't mean "made by a person who posts on social media" like it actually has to be independent to some degree

it is not actually hard to see that a trans girl is going to be a girl in a story if you dont hate or actively avoid thinking about women. you too can develop this skill by caring about them in real life and not just when they are characters. and talking to them even

'how did you know this' every single girl ive been friends with for the last four years has looked at both of those characters and went god shes so me and i was like interesting. tell me more. instead of telling them they were seeing faces in tree bark. because i remember what it was like to be transgender and have no one listen to or care about me so why the fuck would i do that to them

"lock in" is probably one of the most important phrases to enter the public lexicon in the 2020s

really i think the most insidious part of white supremacy is the way it will convince white people everything is actually About Them. being called out isn’t about you. poc expressing frustration at your behaviour isn’t about you. it’s about how you are affecting others. step one is literally just de-centre yourself from the conversation. anyone who’s not white has already had to learn this lesson the hard way and it gets tiring waiting for the rest of you to catch up

for real tho it feels exhausting that ive seen this whole "woman should be allowed to abstain from X beauty standard" -> "i perform X beauty standard, am i evil? do you think im evil? please forgive me i came up with a dozen excuses 🥺" since like 2015 (and i know its been going on longer than that) like girl thats not the poiiiiint

look me in the eyes. repeat after me. "i face societal pressure to perform this beauty standard. i should not face that pressure. i conform to this standard. i am rewarded for performing to this standard. i need to respect women who do not perform this standard. this is not about whether or not i am a sinner for wearing makeup."

a woman in a popular piece of media could rightfully call someone a friendless loser for being a friendless loser or be vaguely upset about her romantic feelings not being reciprocated and people would find a way inevitably to paint her as a homophobic arophobic transphobic ableist for saying this but a tumblr popularboy could turn to the screen and go i hate women and minorities and people would go well he didnt mean it it was just due to his smol bean nature

Show daddy that nice picture again

anyway normalize women not wanting children as a happy ending