I didn't say you weren't worth staying for anyway

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waiting for Caleb to finish a book

Caleb: five more minutes...

Caleb: *is reading the glossary*

now that you're glorious death, now that you're faithless flesh.

one is the agency i have through the characters. the most m/f i've ever written is for the dragon age fandom. i didn't mention the female characters involved are my Player Characters. i think they are different from women in non-interactive mediums because of the agency i have over them. they aren't subjected to severe misogyny because the majority of the interactions they have in the games were designed for a default male PC, and often-times when someone is sexist towards them, they can just light that person on fire. i also have created some m/f stuff for marinette from miraculous ladybug because that show is basically a power fantasy for girls with soft hearts. miss fisher from miss fisher's murder mysteries is also like this; she can do whatever she wants and no man can stop her. this is the kind of fantasy that speaks to me. i can't help that so many female characters are limited by their reality - a reality which i share - and i can't just project miss fisher's competence and confidence onto them - that would be out of character.

the second thing: the thing about male characters being misogynistic towards women (meaning misogyny is still present in the story) is that this misogyny is aimed outwards, at people who are not them. i find the misogyny that female characters experience too relatable, because it's aimed inward, at them. it's easy to just be like, "well actually dean winchester isn't misogynistic in this fic because i'm in his head and i say he sees women as people." but i can't be like "well actually jo harvelle isn't experiencing misogyny because the world just wouldn't do that to her" because it would. getting around that requires writing nothing but well-worldbuilt AUs and that's a lot of work.

i'm not saying i don't have any work to do to unlearn the feeling that writing female characters is more taxing, because maybe i do. i'm not trying to have an argument with you, but to engage in a discussion. i hope i'm not coming off as too defensive because that's not my intent.

we all have shit to unlearn. i am by no means a moral arbiter on fandom misogyny or fandom bigotry in general. i'm just some rando who got frustrated one day and made a silly tumblr tournament about it. you don't have to justify yourself or defend yourself to me.

romping around with my new RAKE BRUSH by referencing screenshots of projekt funball. i can't really call it speed painting because I very quickly slowed down lol but my intent here is impression rather than perfection

YOU🫵'RE 🫵 NE->XT.!! moTHERFUCKER!!!!

Not every white supremacist is a gun toting maniac! They might be the easiest one to spot, the most extreme example, for sure! Everyone's not that bad. However! It is literally in every act that believes, maintains, and perpetuates the idea that Whiteness is supreme, is superior. The idea that Whiteness is the default, the goal, the expectation. It often buries itself in and aligns with other bigotries!

Hell, even saying "I think that straight hair just looks better on all my Black characters", 👀 WHY do you think that? Do you think that's just something you've always believed? Or has it been reinforced?