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did dr. dre even attend medical school?

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I know I suggested this but I was genuinely unprepared for the intense pseronal anguish of coming face to face with the obvious consequences of my sin
Enjoy the 11th circle of hell, Gaud.
genuinely hurt you think I'm only on Level 11
#this is a speedrun all the way down
Divergent is a bad book, but its accidental brilliance is that it completely mauled the YA dystopian genre by stripping it down to its barest bones for maximum marketability, utterly destroying the chances of YA dystopian literatureâs long-term survivalÂ
please elaborate
Sure. Imagine that you need to make a book, and this book needs to be successful. This book needs to be the perfect Marketable YA Dystopian.
So you build your protagonist. She has no personality traits beyond being decently strong-willed, so that her quirks and interesting traits absolutely canât get in the way of the audienceâs projection onto her. She is dainty, birdlike, beautiful despite her protestations that she is uglyâyet she can still hold her own against significantly taller and stronger combatants. She is the perfect mask for the bashful, insecure tweens you are marketing to to wear while they read.
You think, as you draft your novel, that you need to add something that appeals to the basest nature of teenagers, something this government does that will be perversely appealing to them. The Hunger Gamesâ titular games were the main draw of the books, despite the hatred its characters hold for the event. So the government forces everyone into Harry Potter houses.Â
So the government makes everyone choose their faction, their single personality trait. Teenagers and tweens are basicâthey likely identify by one distinct personality trait or career aspiration, and theyâll thus be enchanted by this system. For years, Tumblr and Twitter bios will include Erudite or Dauntless alongside Aquarius and Ravenclaw and INTJ. Congratulations, you just made having more than one personality trait anathema to your worldbuilding.Â
Your readers and thus your protagonist are naturally drawn to the faction that you have made RIDICULOUSLY cooler and better than the others: Dauntless. The faction where they play dangerous games of Capture the Flag and donât work and act remarkably like teenagers with a budget. You add an attractive, tall man to help and hinder the protagonist. He is brooding and handsome; he doesnât need to be anything else.Â
The villains appear soon afterward. They are your tried and true dystopian government: polished, sleek, intelligent, headed by a woman for some reason. They fight the protagonists, they carry out their evil, Machiavellian, stupid plan. You finish the novel with duct tape and fanservice, action sequences and skin and just enough glue and spit to seal the terrible, hollow world you have made shut just long enough to put it on the shelf.Â
And you have just destroyed YA dystopian literature. Because you have boiled it down to its bare essentials. A sleek, futuristic government borrowing its aesthetic from modern minimalism and wealth forces the population to participate in a perversely cool-to-read-about system like the Hunger Games or the factions, and one brave, slender, pretty, hollow main character is the only one braveâno, special enough to stand against it.Â
And by making this bare-bones world, crafted for maximum marketability, you expose yourself and every other YA dystopian writer as a lazy worldbuilder driven too far by the ârule of coolâ and the formulas of other, better dystopian books before yours. In the following five years, you watch in real time as the dystopian genre crumbles under your feet, as the movies made based on your successful (but later widely-panned and mocked) books slowly regress to video-only releases, as fewer and fewer releases try to do what you did. And maybe you realize what youâve done.
one quibble: hunger games was intense and sincere and the writer had worked for tv and knew exactly what she was talking about when she wrote how media machines create golden idols out of abused kids and then leave the actual people inside their glamorous shells to rot. hunger games had a genuine core of righteous anger that resonated with a lot of people. the hunger games was genuinely angry about shit that is genuinely wrong.Â
but divergent was clumsy make-believe the whole way through. it aped the forms and functions of dystopian lit but the writer didnât actually have any real, passionate, sincere anger to put on the page. she didnât know what it was talking about, so she didnât have anything worth listening to.
thereâs a difference between anti-authoritarianism as a disaffected, cynical pose and anti-authoritarianism as a rallying cry by people who believe in a bitter world. and the former is something corporations and industries and publishing houses are so much more comfortable with. so divergent and the flood of books published and marketed alongide and after it showed how the dystopian genre was no longer truly revolutionary, no longer a sincere condemnation of corporate oligarchies. the mass-market dystopian genre was now nothing more than an insincere playspace for people who were writing dystopia as a safely distant, abstract make-believe stage for their pretty girl heroes, rather than a direct allegory for everything that needs to be torn down in this world today.Â
This is the second branch of this post Iâve reblogged and like the fourth Iâve seen and Iâm just thinking about how the Uglies series, a pre-Hunger Games forerunner of the YA Dystopia boom, had significantly less staying power than it could have specifically becauseâŚwith the toxic beauty standards forced on teenagers being a Big Theme, studios couldnât figure out how to make a profitable movie out of it. The book got optioned multiple times, but a film version made in Hollywood was destined to fall apart at casting & makeup - their marketing methods relied on exactly what the series was criticizing, which isâŚpart of what made it so popular with teenage girls to begin with.
You contrast that with how the marketing for the Hunger Games films directly contradicts the messaging of the text, and how Divergent seems ready-made for the big screen, and it becomes really apparent why the genre folded in on itself. Capitalism tried to recuperate dystopian fiction criticizing capitalism, and in doing so, butchered the genre.
Thereâs also something rattling around my brain about a correlation between how made-for-screen a dystopian book is and how much it Doesnât Understand Dystopia, with the culmination being Ready Player One, a piece set in a dystopia that somehow still actively glorifies capitalism & that was literally optioned for film before the book was published, but I donâtâŚknow how to expand on that point.
in the tags say something that would upset an art historian
#medieval european artwork is ugly as hell and of lower quality than art made literally anywhere else in the world during the same time period
#this gets funnier the more time goes on
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The category for relationships (Gen, F/F, M/F, M/M, a combination, something else)
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A summary that informs the reader of what kind of fic theyâre gonna read.
Authorâs notes for everything else. You can use the summary or author notes to explain certain tags, or add caveats, or thank your betaâs.
Things that are not a fanfic writerâs responsibility:
Kids stumbling across your fic and reading your fic and assuming that whatever is written about in the fic is 100% cool and normal.
The mental health of people who donât like the subject matter of your fic.
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my only advice to all the girls out there is to wear weird shit. just do it
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A plague doctor with a friend group that consist of an old time deep sea diver, a rennaissance bee keeper, a fencer, and an astronaut
I had to draw this as me and some of my friends đĽş
Iâm having way too much fun with this
Astronaut, to Fencer: âYou know youâre the only one whose air isnât filtered? If we run up against contagion, youâll be the first to go.â
Fencer: âYes, but I have a sword. I can stab anyone contagious who gets close.â
Diver: (mumbles like Kenny from South Park)
Drive-through guy: "Um... what?"
Diver: (angry mumbling, hand signals)
Astronaut: *kzcch* "He said he'd like a kid's meal with extra fries, please." *kzcch*

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I donât get how in fantasy fiction, the women who actually enjoy sewing/embroidering are always painted as the weak, boring, and anti-feminist charactersÂ
Sewing and embroidery take skill, patience, and artistic talent and it was also the ultimate way to ignore the annoying men in your life in past centuriesÂ
If you didnât feel like talking to a man, you just âtook up your sewingâ and heâd have to leave you alone, especially if he needed that shirt mended
Women also got together all the time to sew, weave, embroider but also talk, gossip, assist each otherâs work, and enjoy each otherâs company in peaceÂ
The skill the female character has doesnât have to be sword-fighting for her to be strong, because thereâs strength and power in any skill she hasÂ
Destroy the idea that a womanâs strength is derived from how much she subverts gender norms
Destroy the idea that a womanâs strength is derived from how much she subverts gender norms
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The head tilt!
she's trapped
a prison of her own making

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