Unsorted Nonsense

last thing i'll say on this tonight but the reason it bothers me is because like. troy's book starts with him being publicly retaliated against for calling out dallas kent for being a rapist. troy does the right thing in calling out this actual irredeemable bastard and he's the one punished for it while dallas is protected. and this kickstarts him actively working to stop hiding behind that homophobic douchebag mask and be a better person. he makes the choice to do it and keep at it whether people forgive him or accept it or not. and it's before he's got any reliable support system- he's not close to his new team or anyone else yet, but he still wants to be better. and he doesn't expect anything from anyone for it. aside from his relationship with harris, troy's entire book is about him working to be a better person. and so many people's first reaction to a character genuinely wanting to grow and change from his past mistakes is "no actually youre worse and irredeemable for reasons i just made up"? that just doesn't sit right with me.

can i make an incredibly bitchy post. okay i’m going to just follow my heart here. when you guys don’t know anything about the romance genre but insist that you’re even more qualified to critique the heated rivalverse than someone in the romance space because you read litfic/read hockey rpf/whatever it is, you sound so, so fucking stupid, and in a way i want to be mean about because you are being deliberately ignorant in order to be awful about that lady and her books and think that it makes you sound smart and enlightened. the game changers universe consists of genre romances, and genre romance is first and foremost a marketing category. it has a fairly strict word count. her main characters are romance protagonists who exist within the constraints of their genre, and therefore fit into certain archetypes/have certain priorities as a result. she cannot write some endless treatise on various social issues and she especially cannot write anything where the characters remain closeted/have positive thoughts about remaining closeted BECAUSE THESE BOOKS WOULD NOT FUCKING SELL. AN EDITOR WOULD NOT ALLOW THEM TO GO OUT ON THE MARKET BECAUSE THEY WOULD NOT MAKE HER PUBLISHER ANY MONEY. not knowing ball when it comes to the publishing industry doesn’t make you special!!!!!!

I dont think they have had sex I think garak is responsible for leaking his nudes 50 times/exposing his affairs/blackmailing him whenever he gets bored. Dukat isnt interesting enough for garak to hatefuck

Every day of my life I am fighting the war against people who don't know how athletic diets work or perhaps even how food works

Do people know that food can taste good and be healthy. Do people know that spices don't actually impact macros.

Canadian bilingual packaging is fun because you get to see how various slightly odd idioms end up being translated by people who don't give a shit. I just saw a tub of double chocolate chip ice cream where the English label says "death by chocolate", but the French translates literally as "chocolate until death", which has a somewhat different vibe.

also to be clear this is laughably small potatoes compared to what authors of color go through— getting whacked for ‘bad’ representation, struggling to get stories about characters of color published at all, earning lower advances than their white counterparts, etc etc— but i do find RR getting her ass chewed up for not going more in-depth about shane’s identity kind of funny/bizarre, considering that the zeitgeist at the time the GCU was getting cranked out was that if a white author was writing a protag of color at all, they absolutely shouldn’t be writing about being a person of color or about racism/marginalization. i don’t doubt this is probably what her editor told her! again not expecting anyone’s heart to bleed (she has had a lot more privilege and opportunity in her career than some) but to a certain extent i do think it’s impossible to write anything that is going to make everybody on twitter on happy or be considered good representation by every member of a marginalized group either

my writing gland is purple and swollen

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Do you block people in the same fandom as you just because you don't like their takes?

this is going to sound like such a little sibling ass take but i genuinely believe that being a little bit annoying is actually a greater sign of maturity and self awareness than being universally likeable and on good terms with everyone

if some people find me annoying and can't stand me because of how i think and act then that means i'm a fully realized human being with my own personality and opinions and free will and not just a reflective surface for other people's desires, which is in fact a good thing despite what people who want you to just be a reflection of their own opinions and desires will tell you, and why being considered "cringe" or whatever doesn't bother me at all

also it's really funny when you're confident enough in yourself to know that people not liking you isn't always a sign that you're the problem. like there's something undeniably hilarious about being aware your mere existence has the power to piss someone off and ruin their day and i recommend embracing it.

Oh fucking thissss

bro last night was magical. last night was enchanted. last night was bewitched. last night was cursed and hexed. last night was posessed. bro can you remember what we did last night? bro?