the word queer, outside of being a slur, is honestly just so … hard for me to look at anymore because i don’t think i can ever /not/ associate it with liberal buzzfeed loving creeps who will tear your throat out if you dare to speak of the word negatively
Cool q*eer kids: uhm q*eer isn’t even a slur anymore it’s been reclaimed!
My step mom, getting read to call me a filthy satan loving q*eer for the ten thousandth time:
have most characters be non-minors, around the same age range. this is mostly to minimize underage nonsense.
while family relationships are important, save them as background elements, explored every now and then. focus mainly on the bonds of non-related characters and how their different backgrounds play off each other.
limit the overly edgy tone, where pain and suffering are near-romanticized. try to emphasize wholesomeness, health, and the various ways characters can have good relationships despite their differences. a lot of nintendo franchises are good examples.
avoid creating significant characters who are utterly irredeemable with harmful ethics. (for me personally, i limit elements such as abuse and discrimination for background conflicts while presenting more interesting, morally gray arguments, where either side is right/flawed) if you’re going to have a villain, either make them team rocket goofy or classic disney fun.
just. try not to have characters + relationships rely on racial tropes. if you overly rely on a tough dark-skinned / dainty light-skinned formula, you’re going to see some racist shipping. mix it up. round ‘em out.
same goes for gendered tropes. if a dude is downright violent and irresponsible and a level-headed girl has to put up with his flaws without him facing consequence, that’s a downright unbalanced relationship. and do keep in mind that if two boys utterly despise each other, people will absolutely take that a certain way. again, with #3, try to play off disdain as comedic or with exception rather than constant seething hatred.
obviously these aren’t hard and fast rules, and what/how you create will vary. but it’s how i generally approach my work
I am legitimately amazed that tumblr’s weird obsession with Never Have Anything Unwholesome writing advice has now reached the point of:
– Don’t have children in your work,
– Don’t have families in your work.
– Don’t have any themes or ideas darker than Nintendo, because that’s romanticising suffering.
– Don’t have villains unless they’re in the relatively simplistic, child-friendly mould of Disney or Pokemon, and don’t try to deal with any difficult themes.
– Don’t have characters dislike each other.
The idea that you should build your work – because these are all fundamental aspects of a story – around preventative measures against ‘gross shipping,’ and that coincidentally all those measures boil down to “Have as little nuance, conflict, or difficult and unpleasant things as possible,” is kind of creepy.
Dude have you even PLAYED a Nintendo/Pokemon game? One of the villains isolated and physically abused a feral boy into becoming his minion and tries to impale the player character with ice picks, and another is basically Ragyo Kiryuin minus the incest.
Pokemon and Nintendo aren’t exactly “pure wholesome happy times” either.
We all write about the angels who fell, but what about the demons who rose?
Devils who are too pure to be burning in dark pits, but not quite divine to be taken through pearly gates. Devils who love the sky and count the stars. Demons who take the sun and the moon as new lovers and the planets as new friends. Demons who laugh and dance in the rain the first time those watery drops touch their skin.
Demons who try to be good. Demons who rebel. Demons who still have a little malice in their hearts. They play practical jokes, lie, cheat, steal…sometimes they apologize. Most of the time, they just make it up with another grand gesture. Forgiveness comes because the sentiment is there, even if the words aren’t.
Demons who make friends with fallen angels. Demons who trace their scars where the wings used to be. Demons who remind them that they’re not evil because they fell to Earth, and angels who reassure them they’re not bad because they came from brimstone and fire.
Demons who read books and hate the movies that are made out of them. Demons who don’t read the books and love the movies. Demons who read poetry. Demons who think science is a lot like magic and just as complicated to master.
Demons who start to appreciate humans, and secretly root for them to be good. Demons who have nightmares about Hell, and call each other at 4 am. They don’t have to say anything, and they stay, phones on their ears, in silence, because they understand. No one wants to go back.
Demons who are thankful for Earth, happy for a middle ground. If they can’t go up to the Heavens, and they don’t want to go back down to Hell, then at least they have this. The one place they can be both good and bad, and no one will hold it against them.
EDIT: due to popular demand we have removed Pennywise and replaced him with Predy.
EDIT 2.0 – Revengeance: due to further popular demand, we concede to male-attraced men.
EDIT 3.0 – Inhuman Rampage: due to even further popular demand and field research, we added a few extra pics.
Hang on, can I just?
Part of these examples are personality based, the other are physique, and the rest are some weird subconscious primal urge
If there was a female version of most of these characters, men’d want to fuck’em as well, and you know it. Instead of attractive finding monster-like female characters, you picked two basic animes that caught your attention and called it a day.
Instead of bridging both the “I’d fuck that monster“ male and female communities, you chose to skew and misrepresent one of the sides to fit your narrative. Congrats
How can you honestly claim to be a feminist if you say derogatory things about female sex workers and trans women???
Four people unfollowed me after I posted this lmao, if you don’t think that trans women and sex workers deserve respect and acceptance please follow suit
Like a lot of sex workers are doing that job because they don’t have a choice in the matter, I don’t know why radfems treat them in such a condescending and patronizing way.
It’s almost like they don’t really want to help them, they just want to look right.
How do you connect not liking body hair to paedophilia? I’m confused, as both a man and a victim of paedophilia, what the hell those two have in common?
OP seems to be very conveniently forgetting that women are also pedophiles and it’s accepted, and victims of sexual abuse from women, whether they be boys or girls are almost always victim blamed and mocked. MALE pedophiles however are very rightfully castigated for their actions and their victims are given sympathy… only if they’re girls. Boys molested by men get next to none.
We do live in a culture where pedophiles are excused… if it’s any situation other than man molesting a girl.
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