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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 3h

a lot of like, beautiful, terrible men work on a narrative level because the author is critiquing cultural ideals, but a lot of all-lestat yaoi is straightforward power fantasy, & im like, sure, whatever! abt that, but i think a lot of is desperate to be taken seriously without doing/saying anything

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 3h

people who want everyone to be lestat say "we need more emotional complexity in fiction", but if everyone is lestat-- beautiful and powerful and hedonistic-- then there is LESS moral complexity, because then it comes off as "being this type of guy is awesome" without anything to contrast it to

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 3h

i put my finger on why i hate "everyone is lestat" yaoi, and it's because lestat is not written like a person, he represents a subverted ideal louis has to come to terms with, and he's only interesting in opposition to louis. if everyone is lestat, everyone is just an ideal

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 5h

when people complain about "therapyspeak", something i have never encountered in anything, i'm like, what are you even watching/reading? steven universe? fanfiction?

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based department @devonhinged.bsky.social · 3d

eyes rolled to the back of my head and i suddenly made all this in the past few days

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 7h

lucky my dad is a mechanic so he can change my oil and rotate my tires for free bc god knows cars are so expensive

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 8h

kind of in love with the fashion label rurumu right now, and im like, i could make stuff like this through crochet and upcycling

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 8h

gonna get really into making dresses out of like 4 stitched together tshirts from goodwill bc i realized this is cheaper and more efficient than buying garment fabric, and looks sort of relaxing

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 1d

get new material

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 1d

i dont even dislike interview with the vampire but i feel an almost comical hatred of how lestat is seen as the ultimate goal for "dark mlm writing" on social media

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 2d

this is what makes me into like. karkat

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 2d

people who only play corporate fantasy games: wow, why is nobody writing anything dark these days

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 2d

im sorry but you do actually have to seek out and read intellectually challenging material of your own accord if that's really what you want, you will not find it in stuff that was Never Going To Be That

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 2d

there is like a ton of varied and experimental queer horror coming out right now, so when ppl are like "books these days are scared of being real" im like what the fuck are you talking about lmao. put down the franchise IP media

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 2d

are also out there writing highly emotional and abstract work that isn't just jerking off an already recursive version of medieval europe. open your minds

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 2d

if you wanna critique why modern genre fiction is stagnant, look at like, idk, the deeply colonialist roots of most modern fantasy/sci-fi and how they cause palpalble friction with progressive aims. aping d&d is writing in colonialist tradition. but lots of straight ppl do this, and lots of gay ppl-

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 2d

not using the word "nonbinary" in a fantasy story won't save that story if the real problem is that it's aimlessly aping dungeons and dragons, and i think making these specific, smug, nitpicky critiques instead of seeing the forest of mid genre just puts people off of experimental gay work

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 2d

there is good anachronistic genre fiction where the characters talk about their feelings and it is a fully conscious stylistic choice. "therapyspeak" and "modern sexuality" criticisms just sound like a particular way to critique mid but specifically gay genre fiction w/out reading good examples lol

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 2d

i think a lot of people read a lot of very mid genre fiction & come away with very granular ideas about why it's not good, like "the characters state their feelings"/ "it's too modern" when those are absolutely fine stylistic choices in themselves, and the problem is theyre reading mid genre fiction

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 2d

Happy book birthday to THE INFINITE AND THE DIVINE, which released in hardback five years ago today!

Thanks so much to everyone who’s taken the ride with these two on their ten-millennia tropical vacation disaster.

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 2d

and to be expected to be poor and have my shit fully together is like. well why do i have to be a superhuman saint when that guy over there just straight up has twice as much money to make things convenient and half the worries i have

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 2d

some of my coworkers for whom this is only a college job talk about graduating into like 200k salaries and im like. i am almost 30 and have never made more than 24k a year, at the most i was ever making. and other ppl just. get jobs that pay 200k a year. i don't even know how to deal w the disparity

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 2d

i think if like, 70% of my thoughts at any given time didn't revolve around how i don't make enough money to get through an emergency, i would have way more time and energy to work on my other personal deficits

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 2d

having a real night where im like. wow other people's brains just work correctly and they don't worry about money huh

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bwee @voredsent.bsky.social · 3d

sure, it sucks if a repost gets more notes than the original, but tbh i just assume that the original was never going to get those notes in the first place, so it's merely an annoyance that might get people searching for my work rather than something i spend time thinking about