all the stories can't be lies

advancing gender equality by making my female characters bad listeners and self-serving and focused on their own shit and politically incorrect and disinterested in the inner worlds of the men in their lives and hostile to other women and emotionally immature and ruthless and cunning and apolitical to their own detriment and complicit and

cradling the em dash in my hands what the fuck have they done to you

i wanna be so offline but unfortunately i love my mutuals and fanfiction

tonights gonna feel like a pre-raphaelite idealized reimagining of the medieval world

I always feel so cheated in stories when characters are walking around with this Big Guilt and then...you find out that the thing wasn't their fault at all. And not in a "they thought they did it but it turns out they were set up" way, or even a "accepting that just because they did A which caused B which caused C it doesn't mean C was their fault", way but where they finally lay out the sequence of events and it's clear that any thinking person would not connect them. Like, fucking commit!!! The character isn't LESS compelling if they actually did the thing! You can't have the haunted brooding meow meow who is...also completely blameless