fuck the canon, old man: just a friendly reminder

mswyrr:

that when the vast majority of mass media narratives fail to represent marginalized people, they’re sending a clear message that this society is a place where, in our fantasies and dreams of better, more beautiful and interesting worlds, these people should not exist

they only exist in reality as a flaw that needs to be erased to make better, more beautiful, more interesting worlds

and misrepresentation sends the clear message that, in better, more beautiful more interesting worlds, these people are kept in their place (as our playthings, our jokes, the sacrifices that help us grow as people, the representations of our inner evil, etc)

media matters

#THIS THIS THIS #writing fallacies 101 #mass media #misrepresentation #literary criticism #fandom #signal boost #representation in the media

stopcallingmebitch:

wow it would be nice to enjoy an episode of my favourite show without fucking queer baiting

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#Ben Edlund is not my king #writing fallacies 101 #fuck you 5ever #oh wow a guy was hitting on another guy #LOL JK THAT NEVER HAPPENS TO ANYONE EVER #AND THEY CERTAINLY WOULDN'T BE FLATTERED OR SAY YES IF SUCH A THING DID HAPPEN #this episode brought to you by the letters F and U #all my unexpressed rage #Supernatural for ts #queerbaiting #Ben Edlund for ts #SPN spoilers

pennyshipswincest:

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obstinatrix:

supermishamiga:

Oh, okay, so that’s what they tell the new writers? hahaha :D

^ This is the fucking problem with SPN and hiring new writers at this stage. No wonder the continuity is bollocksed to hell if they just decide stuff from earlier seasons is ‘before their time’. DUDE, KNOW YOUR SHIT.

I don’t want to shit on the writers but this is really upsetting. It’s like walking into a new job where you have a specific position you are filling. And you need to know how the company runs, what you need to do and sitting there going “LOL I don’t know I’m just gonna make up my own shit”

it’s increasingly obvious none of the writers/directors/actors/props people give a shit about this show anymore.  #characterization what characterization

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#money dear boy #SPN for ts #Robbie Thompson #writing fallacies 101 #this explains so much #my poor continuity

confusedtree:  The way J.K. Rowling punishes Cho Chang as a character for possessing the qualities that she does always made me really uncomfortable, especially since I could tell that the story really really really wants me to dislike her. It’s creepy and pathological and if not for the fact that I’m talking about a totally fictional character, not very nice

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#thinky thoughts #Harry Potter #Cho Chang #i'd always sympathized with her #she'd lost someone she loved and what a betrayal it must have felt like #kissing another boy less than a year later #but yeah i mean her best friend gets her face all disfigured and #i don't know Hermione was never really called out for that #such ruthlessness but oh the cruelty #meta #writing fallacies 101 #women in art #representation in the media #hashtag

…a writer is never listening to what is being said, he is never listening to what he is being told. He is listening to what is NOT being said, he is listening to what he is NOT being told, which means that he is trying to discover the purpose of the communication.

— James Baldwin, The Evidence of Things Not Seen (via sonofbaldwin)

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#quotes #James Baldwin #The Evidence of Things Not Seen #yes perfect #writing fallacies 101 #communication #language #a writer must have such obsessions with words

the role and perception of violence in story telling via a discussion of “supernatural” and “teen wolf”

crowleyshouseparty:  i received an ask earlier today regarding my generic outrage for the teen wolf spoilers and i answered it privately in the context of teen wolf, but it got me thinking about how horror/supernatural genres shape their stories and get away with some really not okay things because violence is the expectation of the genre

for example, many of the reasons that i’ve heard from both supernatural and teen wolf fandoms regarding the high number of deaths for poc, women, queer people, etc. is because it’s “violent” and thus to be expected

but i think that’s a really clumsy use of an adjective because yes the show is violent, but at the same time such a brush-off automatically assumes either a) it simply is violent as opposed to focused violence or c) that the target is unimportant, when in fact just the opposite is true

so it’s not that teen wolf and supernatural are violent, it’s that they are violent towards specific targets. 

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#THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING FOREVER #writing #meta #Teen Wolf #Supernatural #problematic fiction #violence in fiction #writing fallacies 101 #victimization #people of color #women #female characters #characters of color #queer characters #representation in the media #signal boost #privilege #it's about who is allowed to be violent and sympathetic #and who is the 'monster' #horror tropes #literary tropes #race #ALL THE TAGS!

STFU Moffat: badcgijosh: I’m actually starting to feel the pressure about getting...

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#THIS THIS THIS #meta #Doctor Who #Steven Moffat #everyone loves a bigot #JUST PUTTING THAT OUT THERE #signal boost #writing fallacies 101 #representation in the media #educate yourself #television criticism #this is an Intense Distaste for How Steven Moffat Conducts Himself Professionally and as a Writer blog #has been since Forests of the Dead aired (so since before i even had this blog) #but people have been finding fault with his sexist racist classist queer-baiting shit for years #he refuses to be a better person #and we're the ones who get shat on while he flounces and leaves the hate to the rest of us #hashtag #haters to the trash can on your left