submissive in the way a livestock guardian dog is submissive to the sheep it kills wolves for

i think poseidon would have kids a lot with women who work in marine fields and it's like highkey funny to me that if percy works in that field then he's got a bunch of little siblings who spot him working with their mom and then wrongly conclude that he's their dad

i think every publisher should have to institute a ban on books that fail what i’m calling the “little life” and “what else?” tests

I don't like this as general advice because it's basically uninterpretable outside of its context. What on earth is actually wrong with writing about your dead sister or your life? We don't know. Morrison's and Glück's students had more than we get here. Glück's student knows her own piece, has an easier time figuring out what weaknesses Glück saw in it, and probably got to talk more about it; Morrison's students had a lot more background statements to read her comments against. So the specific audiences of these remarks could make something useful out of it. But anyone reading this in Post Form is just going to project whatever they think Glück or Morrison meant (in the best case scenario they've read the authors' works but many won't have). So people aren't even really going to take away any good writing guidance except what they already thought, mutated by these memeified remarks.

Well I think there is a recognizable tendency of young writers, the kind you would find in a creative writing class to write sad stories about their lives and to present them in as "raw" a fashion as possible. And they're all really, really boring and they really suck to grade. And I think "no one cares" is just a useful tool for producing better writing from your students and the people trying to submit to your shitty literary journal. It's fine. The memefied form is fine.

why have we not yet decided to refer to the self-scrutinizing witch-hunt nature of current fandom culture as fanopticon

"wholesome" and "pure" are not antonyms of "sexual" btw

some of the most unwholesome twisted shit you can imagine happens in fully platonic situations

it's almost like we shouldn't assign morality to sexual activity or lack thereof

The ability to have nice conversations with strangers and especially store employees will save your everyday life from greyness

me (crazy eyes, covered in blood): I NEED to finish writing my fanfic. so I can start writing a different fanfic.

I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up

This was the mainstream feminist belief like. A decade ago. Thats how hard we’ve regressed within mainstream feminism and it’s mainly because of right wingers/radfems/TERFs deciding trans women need to die.