Unexpected Incoherency

and the important part of the dragon imagery with vivienne is the fact that dragons are sought out and hunted even in cases where they are not posing an active threat to anyone else. does this make sense

something to be done here with the chantry being symbolized as the sun (sunburst) and dragons breathing fire. cassandra supporters propagandizing cass defeating a dragon vs vivienne supports propagandizing a dragon eating the sun

and of course cassandra's brother anthony (dragon hunter) being killed by blood mages who wanted dragon blood, which is what drove her to become a seeker in the first place. its all hand in hand

and cassandra being about to light the lyrium in a mage's veins on fire.

vivienne being one of the youngest mages ever harrowed and cassandra being the youngest seeker to ever undergo her vigil since the storm age. which could mean nothing

people are always quick to bring up that she made fun of riot grrrls in her music sometimes but like idk i think if we use our brains for a minute we can acknowledge that Olympia is a mean song but it's. like. thats pretty much it. releasing a song called Professional Widow after a woman's husband just committed suicide and she's being harassed constantly by nirvana fans and the media who are waging a misogynistic campagin against her claiming she murdered him is and lets be honest. a bit more of a dick move

this post was so educational then the youtube anime art slapped my ass and called me gucci

Contrary to popular belief, abandoned WIPs are crucial to the writer ecosystem, as they become the fertile soil from which completed works grow. Without them, the landscape would be sterile and barren

wanna state not for the first time that several of my all time favorite fanfics are unfinished and will probably never be finished and I am so grateful that their authors decided to post what they'd written instead of waiting until they were finished (a time that ultimately didn't come!) I'm so so glad I got to read what they did write! It doesn't have to be finished to have value to a reader!

see when people try and nitpick me because i call my dog "my dog" when it's technically "the family dog".......well first of all i still call my brother "my brother" and not "the family boy". although maybe that should change. second of all sorry i'm still thinking about the family boy. btw i fell asleep while making this post last night and i think you can tell

and my take today is that framing misogynistic writing as an "inability to write female characters" subconsciously takes away most of the blame, implying that women are an alien creature compared to men and that it is no fault of the writer because it's out of their skill set. it's not an inability, not a lack of expertise, it's the simple refusal to consider women as individual people and give them the same depth and grace that comes easily to the writer when they write male characters. it's not that christopher nolan, stephen king, james cameron (and frankly anyone using the argument, both professional and hobbyist; yes, that includes fanfic writers) etc can't write women, it's that they just won't. at that point in time it is a conscious decision driven by the laziness to unpack their misogynistic biases, and should be addressed as such

i think most people accept the idea of "you don't control who you're attracted to" in terms of being gay but imo it can go further. like if you're not attracted to men, but you happen to find a transmasc person attractive, i dont think thats inherently transphobic if you acknoweldge that your attraction is incongruent with their identity. you dont need to run yourself in circles creating qualifiers for your sexuality when we live in a world of infinite gender identites. it's not like you have an inbuilt radar that tells you whether that hot stranger at the bar is a woman or not. man who kissed a twink that turned out to be a butch lesbian that thought he was a butch lesbian. etc.

Obviously, this is different to being trans but it's an example of the fluidity of racial identity. Even ethnicity is something malleable, bendable and can change depending on where, when and who you are. Gender being a kind of 'social skin' just means unlike race and ethnicity, it's reflective of the internal and psychological rubbing up against the external social world.

You’ve heard of “i didn’t say it was good, i said i liked it,” get ready for “i said it had some technical problems & didn’t fully deliver on its themes, not that i didn’t like it”