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Foz Meadows

@fozmeadows

3 years

BEHOLD! 😁😁😁

Tor Books (Check Mark)

@torbooks

3 years

“Many a reader longing for a sense of homecoming in the realm of romantic fantasy will find it in A Strange and Stubborn Endurance.”— @JCareyAuthor We are thrilled to reveal the cover of #AStrangeandStubbornEndurance by @fozmeadows , on sale 7/26 🌹

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Foz Meadows

@fozmeadows

4 years

because you’re used to villains being queercoded

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@MarcSnetiker

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why does everyone look like a new Batman villain

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my 3rd grader came home with this today from school, excited to show me how he’d written his name in Chinese. I had to gently explain to him that this is, uh… extremely Not Correct

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10 months

the idea of disney+ selling "physical media" that does not, in fact, include a physical copy of the media in question makes me so enraged that I'm tasting colours on the shrimp spectrum

MCU - The Direct

@MCU_Direct

10 months

The first official #MCU discless steelbook for a #MarvelStudios Disney+ series has been unveiled for #WandaVision ! More photos:

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Foz Meadows

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and this, kids, is why respectability politics doesn't work. you can make the fluffiest, most sanitized, "unproblematic" PG-13 queer content imaginable, and the right is still going to call it porn and a danger to children, because there is no level of queerness they'll accept

Ashton Pittman

@ashtonpittman

9 months

NEW: The “Heartstopper” books have been restricted to the adult section of the Columbia-Marion County Public Library and now require parental permission. Now, the residents who pushed to ban the gay coming-of-age series are targeting 14 other YA books.

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Foz Meadows

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real talk, the most dangerously emotional people in the world are men so obsessed with being rational that they consistently mistake their own feelings for objective logic, on the basis that believing in rationality makes their feelings guided by rationality and thus infallible

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2 years

just so we're crystal clear: queer rights, trans rights, children's rights and women's rights all hinge on the concept of bodily autonomy, which is why conservatives are trying to violently strip that autonomy from ALL these groups at once. every struggle is interconnected.

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3 years

human gender and sexuality are very much like animal taxonomy, in that both look structured and simple on the surface, but once you start investigating, it turns out there's actually no such thing as a fish despite the fact that we all know what a fish is, and that's okay

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2 years

literally six days ago I was saying how conservatism, emboldened by its attacks on trans women and drag going unchallenged, is going to start attacking butch/gnc women; I should've also mentioned that yeah, it's going to come after how femme women present, too. because Decorum

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2 years

She was given a ticket for indecent exposure. This is what she is wearing. Louisiana btw. Smfh...

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5 years

as a millennial, my current retirement plan is to lie down in a mossy cave and let the mushrooms take me

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2 years

the most hilarious thing about musk having to backpedal every five seconds about his new rules is that you can see he has literally never thought about the practical implications of any of this shit beyond I Am A Big Special Boy For Whom The Bird App Should Work Differently

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inside you are two wolves. one wants twitter to survive as a useable platform; the other wants elon musk to suffer on a hitherto unknown scale.

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in the west, the success of modern medicine is so great that, paradoxically, an alarming number of people simply cannot fathom how readily we used to suffer and die in its absence. the net impact is so positive, the cure is mistaken for the disease never having existed.

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I explained as best I could about how characters/hanzi actually work, and my son was interested; he especially wanted to know about names & how he'd actually write his own in Mandarin, so if anyone knows how you'd transliterate Silas & what the characters would mean, please hmu!

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every so often, I am given cause to reflect on the fact that, if I wrote a novel in which the teenage protagonist behaved exactly as I did between the ages of 12 and 19, a certain section of the internet would be lining up to accuse me of Sexualising the Youth

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having to clean the shower is such a joke. “ooh, look at me, I’m a tiled oblong daily flooded with soap and hot water - you know, the two things you use for cleaning? better scrub me down with DIFFERENT soap or I’ll develop weird orange fungus!” absolute clown shit. unacceptable.

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4 years

fandom consuming big-name media made predominantly by famous white dudes: there’s a lot of trash, but I love dumpster-diving! fandom consuming media by marginalised creators: If Every Aspect Of This Story And The Writer’s FB Page Do Not Perfectly Match My Doctrine I Will Riot

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4 years

Since this is blowing up: I know Billie and Ari are straight but their aesthetics here are both ping as queercoding via fashion b/c neither of them - one high femme to appeal to women, the other a direct rebuke of male sexualisation - is catering to a straight male gaze.

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5 years

[taps mic] as you can see from this beautifully constructed graph, I have distilled the enduring appeal of 1999's The Mummy down to its core essence. I will not be taking questions at this time.

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2 years

congratulations, you’ve reinvented the Magdalene laundry. I give it two years, tops, before predatory evangelical adoption services get involved to “incentivise” single mothers giving up their kids and twenty before we find the first child bones in the gardens.

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

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A maternity ranch is born: How evangelical women in Texas are mobilizing for a future without abortion

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6 years

Bigots in 2011: Heimdall can't be BLACK! The REAL Heimdall is WHITE! Bigots in 2017: Loki can't be QUEER! The REAL Loki is STRAIGHT! Norse mythology, sipping a cocktail with shades on: Heimdall has nine mothers and Loki got knocked up by a stallion, my dudes. We roll with change.

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2 years

I have a pet theory that streaming services have done more to de-gender children's TV than anyone yet realises, not because highly gendered shows don't exist on those platforms (they do) but because kids are being allowed to choose what to watch, when to watch without oversight

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4 years

If you’ve never heard the term queercoding before or heard about its historic use with villains, especially in cartoons, don’t credit me for inventing it: it’s a documented phenomenon and really fascinating to read about. And enlightening.

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9 months

michael sheen as aziraphael will always have a place in my heart but I implore the Youths to give due respect to unhinged and bloodied michael sheen absolutely chewing the scenery as hot tormented werewolf leader lucian in the seminal 2003 classic underworld (and sequels)

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"why do we need vaccines or baby formula or epipens or antidepressants or abortion or vitamin K shots or physiotherapy? why can't we just do what we used to do before all this?" because we died, steven. constantly, painfully, every day, like the tide coming in. we DIED.

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6 years

So, Twitter. In light of the ongoing clusterfuck that is #brexit , let me tell you a little about my white, Australian experience of dealing with the UK visa authority, a complete shitshow of a bureaucracy that is in no way prepared to handle what's coming.

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1 year

the redefinition of pedophilia to mean "any kind of relationship I don't personally like" is happening on both sides of the political aisle right now and I fucking hate it. the right does it to demonize anyone queer, and then the left tacitly helps them by saying shit like this

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2 years

the fact that modern leftwing sexual puritanism has effectively reinvented the Madonna/whore complex by insisting that teenage sexuality exists exclusively within a victim/predator binary makes me want to lie down in a swamp and become one with the mushrooms, frankly

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9 months

when you talk about how icky and gross and problematic that *other* queer content is, with the fucking and the swears and the moral ambiguity and the bad choices, not good and clean and Pure, all you're really doing is siding with the same leopards who'll later eat your face

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2 years

any minute now, the conservatives who've been so virulently anti-trans and anti-drag, emboldened by the lack of pushback in certain quarters, are going to extend their violent, bigoted rhetoric to butch/non-femme women, and a whole lot of transphobes are about to be SHOCKED

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it should be crystal fucking clear by now that cops overwhelmingly only shoot at people they think *aren't* armed. they'll claim self defense to shoot unarmed black men at traffic stops, but let children die rather than take on an active shooter. the disparity is STARK.

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4 years

So hey: for any straight dudes in SFF right now who are genuinely wondering why making sexually loaded jokes or comments is counted as a form harassment, I'm gonna do you a 101 explain.

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5 years

Honestly, “story where you can’t tell if the straight white male protagonist is meant to be unlikable or if the creator really doesn’t realise this dude is Trash” is its own goddamn genre.

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2 years

go read about matthew shepard. go read about winona ryder - yes, WINONA RYDER - getting the absolute shit beaten out at her at school because kids thought she looked gay. go ask anyone over the age of thirty who looked or acted different at school how that went for them.

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2 years

guys. my mother has been trying for months to get the wild ducks to stop swimming in her pool, culminating in the use of a product called - wait for it - No More Ducks. mum asked why it wasn’t called Duck Off. “It used to be,” said the No More Ducks man, “but people complained.”

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3 years

what this goes to show, once again, is that words are mouthsounds human beings looped around a concept at a given point in history, and that what they represent is not inherently meaningful beyond the meaning we give them, which is still valuable, just not absolute

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2 years

if you were born in 2000 or later and came into queerness through the 2010s, unless you've actually spoken to anyone older or done some reading, you really cannot know how different even the early 00s were, let alone the 90s, 80s, 70s. you have no idea what's being fought against

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1 year

[touches ao3] something deeply horny is about to happen here

GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT

@GFRobot

1 year

Andrew Garfield will portray the monster alongside Oscar Isaac's doctor in Guillermo del Toro's version of Frankenstein.

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5 years

The fact that there are people blaming Zoe Quinn for Alex Holowka’s suicide because she (among multiple others) spoke up about his abuse, but who see no problem with her being flooded with death threats either now or historically, is the epitome of misogynistic gamer hypocrisy.

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if you saw the white lady trying to sue a black author for copyright infringement because both their books have characters with sun powers and thought “sounds like something an ex-cop trump supporter would do,” then you are bang on the money

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@DisneyPlus @DisneyStudios you COWARDS. you clowns. you absolute fucking rubes. do you have any idea how much more money you and every other streamer would make if you let people just fucking own real copies of your shit? you'll do this but you won't pay your writers? eat GLASS

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2 years

here's a tip: if literal fascists, far-right evangelists, white supremacists etc are cheering on your supposedly pro-gay, pro-feminist ass for doing anti-trans, anti-drag rhetoric? THAT'S A RED FUCKING FLAG. they're not sliding left to meet you; you've veered right to meet them.

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this poem is over a thousand years old and the more things change -

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1 year

love all these people getting upset about the new little mermaid movie who've seemingly never encountered any version of the story before in their LIVES and are OUTRAGED that ariel gives up her voice for a man, my brother in christ this is a gay pining allegory that got disnified

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there's a fucking blue lives matter flag on the ice at pepsi center after the avs announcer just got through sounding like the voiceover for a B-grade action movie while describing the tragic death of kendrick castillo in "good and evil" terms. why the fuck do I watch hockey.

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it breaks my fucking heart, knowing how many young queer kids have been roped into believing this anti-trans, anti-drag, anti-kink radfem bullshit because it's been fed to them as Protecting Kids, not knowing how their *actual* safety has come from & from protecting those groups

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we live in a hugely ableist society, and as such do not like to confront or admit the extent to which disabilities are a human norm. we tell ourselves lies about how cavemen wouldn't have bothered looking after "useless" members of the group, when anthropology tells us otherwise.

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"what do you MEAN I paid 44 billion dollars for this fucking site and changing the rules every 2 seconds so people can't be mean to me makes me look like a consumptive inbred european spare to the throne circa 1492 getting mad when the court jester mocks him in front of Father?"

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2 years

just absolute clown shit all the way down. one day people are going to talk about this period in history the way we currently talk about caligula making his horse a senator

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reading fucky, morally ambiguous fiction no more makes you a bad person than reading fluffy, happy fiction makes you a good person, because fictional taste does not determine morality. the hateful book-banning evangelists are all reading "good" fiction, and look at them!

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the ultimate goal here is Men Who Look Like Men and Women Who Look Like Women, where both those standards were set in a fantasyland white 1950s. trans women and drag queens are getting attacked first because they're least protected, even though they fight hardest for all of us -

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3 years

BMI is a eugenicist tool created to calculate the weight of *populations,* not individuals. Even its creator said it shouldn’t be used to measure health. It only entered medical practice because American insurance companies wanted an easy tool for screening/denying claims.

Jake Mey, PhD, RD

@CakeNutrition

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The BMI is never leaving. Get over it. Lots of us (professionals that actually impact patients and policies) are working on combating obesity stigma btw... but NONE of us are refuting the BMI.

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like, just to be clear? the reason we should care about the anti-trans, anti-drag stuff isn't because it starts us down the road to misogynistic attacks on short-haired women in pants - we should fucking care anyway! - but this is absolutely going to be a consequence of it

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people want to believe that all aspects of an individual's health are 100% within their own control at all times so that they can feel superior about their own good health - which they must have caused through right living! - instead of just lucky.

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musk buying twitter to get rid of the rules that make it functional is like an idiot king from a fairytale wanting to live in a floating palace and being shocked to find that, when his builders remove the foundations on his orders, the whole thing comes crashing down

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we take modern medical interventions so much for granted that being able-bodied & neurotypical is often now seen as proof of a type of morality (living right, eating right, being right), which then feeds into our cultural disdain for disability and disability rights activists

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"what do you MEAN verification was introduced to stop fraud and predation and thereby allow users to trust that verified figures were who they claimed to be? *I* only ever saw it as a status symbol of Big Boy Importance! what's that crashing sound?"

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all queer people are in the same goddamned boat, but you sanctimonious little assholes are trying to drill holes in one end of it under the mistaken belief that you won't sink when we do. self-righteousness is not a fucking flotation device. PAY ATTENTION.

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I just... I need young people to understand that, however absurd it seems that conservatives could really think of butch women as a moral danger on par with trans people and drag queens (who, I cannot stress this enough, ARE NOT FUCKING DANGEROUS), that is absolutely a real thing

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when you start impugning the IRL morality and trustworthiness of real human beings because they're consuming The Bad Gay Fiction, all you're doing is buying into the conservative idea of Bad Stories As A Moral Contagion - you're just disagreeing very slightly on what "bad" means

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6 years

4chan so bigoted that even their list of pro-diversity “degenerates” is all straight white dudes

John Scalzi

@scalzi

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4chan has declared me a degenerate science fiction writer and I could not be more delighted.

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or, to put it another way: the simple, visual differences that so often inspired our early linguistic distinctions frequently don't hold up to deeper scientific investigation of underlying, less visible but still highly significant factors

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we don't like to admit that, for most of history, disabilities were so commonplace that of COURSE you worked to accommodate them, bc otherwise you'd have had nobody to work with. which isn't to say prejudice never existed - it did. we just coded disability differently.

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the fact that LITERAL VLADIMIR PUTIN - a *violent fascist, homphobic, sexist dictator at war* - endorsed LITERAL JK ROWLING for being anti-trans and a whole bunch of TERFs just laughed about it, like he was doing it out of nowhere when OBVIOUSLY they're on different sides... bro.

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like, he wanted control of twitter in large part because he specifically disliked how he and a select group of his buddies couldn't be total jackasses even though they're Special, but is now learning actual cost of his perfect user experience is potentially All His Money

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also: your periodic reminder that while TERFs like to dismiss intersex conditions as meaningless data outliers, even by the strictest, most conservative definitions, they're present in 1-2% of the global population, which makes them as common as redheads.

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so much of transphobia is just like, "your existence threatens my idea of womanhood, therefore threatening you is justified!" as though challenging the logic underpinning a belief is a worse sin than causing emotional, legal, mental & physical harm to a real human being

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biological sex isn't just genitals, or hormones, or chromosomes, all of which can have variants anyway; it's also how individual people express individual genes, and how all those things work together.

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic

Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

www.scientificamerican.com

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OK. I'm super tired but I'm in a Mood, so let me just lay out a thread explaining, 101-style, why protecting trans people and drag queens/kings is vital to protecting gay rights, women's rights and the rights of kids to be themselves 🧵

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once you let conservatives start drawing restrictive circles around How Women Are Allowed To Look, their next move will always be to tighten the circle. they don't just hate queer/trans/gnc looks, but women showing skin or who aren't sufficiently "modest."

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In conclusion: the marriage of xenophobia and bureaucratic incompetence is one of the ugliest in the modern world, and that's saying something. The UK isn't alone in perpetuating this particular evil, so let it be a lesson to everyone on a similar path to FIX THAT SHIT NOW. FIN

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"what do you MEAN it was a mistake to fire all the software engineers who wrote the least code? they contributed the least work! that's -" [touches earpiece] [touches earpiece again] "oh. oh FUCK ME SOMEONE GET ON THE PHONE"

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By contrast, genre spats have the decency to come in 5 exciting flavours: - Who Owns The Fuckwolf Universe; - The Alt-Right Is Angry Again; - Bad Things Happened At A Convention; - Does YA Suck Or Are You Just Old; and - Twitter Found An Apple Labelled “To The Least Problematic”

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2 years

prattfall, noun: the drop in mood experienced whenever chris pratt is announced as the voice of a new beloved character

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"what do you MEAN a huge chunk of our revenue comes from the advertisers I just singlehandedly alienated? can't I just make celebrities the product that plebs will pay to access? what do you MEAN the celebrities don't have to be on here??"

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I am so goddamn tired of the idea that sex scenes are any more gratuitous than any other aspect of fiction that's there to provide enjoyment. "oh but that's BONER enjoyment, that makes it MORALLY BAD, you don't NEED to feel horny to enjoy a book" no but I still like to, shut UP

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Sex scenes in fiction. How descriptive do you get? At what point do they become too gratuitous? Do you avoid them altogether? Perhaps you simply use suggestion, or maybe you go all out and show everything. #writingcommunity #authorsoftwitter #authors #novels #shortstories

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@netflix do you know how much of my hard-earned money I would willingly pour into your vulturous talons if you gave me an easy way to buy physical copies of the international dramas I stream on your platform? and instead you're withholding residuals?

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Millennials: *eat avocado* Boomers: NO. GET A HOUSE FIRST! Millennials: *stop eating avocado* Boomers: YOU'RE KILLING THE AVOCADO INDUSTRY!

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the anti/TERF community is to the online radicalization of young women what racist, misognist youtubers and podcasters is to the online radicalization of young men

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I just rewatched Mad Max: Fury Road for the first time in about a year and now I'm all in my feels about female characters, so: a thread.

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Listen, literary fiction snobs can sneer at genre writers all they want, but at least we don’t get into weird embittered toxic personal contretemps about writing up a fictitious account of a colleague’s kidney donation.

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I swear to god every streaming and studio exec has dragon sickness and at this point we'd be better off stranding them all on an island and making them hunt each other for sport, battle royale style

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as for the adults involved who ought to know better: you fucking LIARS. don't tell me any of this bigotry is radical or meant to protect women and children; all you're doing is ogling the same means of oppression that once oppressed you but which, so very barely, now admits you

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you periodically see radfems scholars bemoaning the fact that matt walsh or ben shapiro or whoever is citing TERF scholarship without giving those women credit and I'm like. ma'am. ma'am please. he thinks we all belong pregnant & barefoot in the kitchen. WHAT DID YOU EXPECT.

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- but do not think for a SECOND that's where the battle ends, because it's not and never has been. it's just that, culturally, we're on the brink of refighting wars that were ostensible won twenty years ago, but which have always been simmering away, just not always obviously

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3 years

I am going to walk into the ocean

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4 years

the AUDACITY of putting out a blue lives matter flag to “honour” a young, brown civilian dying because gun laws don’t exist, while his crying parents are flanked by the cops who didn’t protect him and who could’ve easily shot him at a traffic stop under different circumstances 🤬

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@Kovy274Hart They honoured cops because a kid was killed? Cops had nothing to do with it. They didn’t save Kendrick, who died doing their job for them, and the team uses a flag that’s become a dogwhistle for white supremacy in policing for a brown kid’s death.

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3 years

add in layers of individual and cultural interpretation about gender, and it's very much a case of 'here is a thing that turns out to be less simple than we thought before we knew more. the thing itself still matters, but we also need to acknowledge that we made it up.'

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3 years

This is going to be incredibly bad, and I'll tell you why: the most interesting thing about the Arthurian legends is the women and every single adaptation bar Sam Neill's 1998 Merlin TV miniseries gets this wrong. ALLOW ME TO EXPLAIN:

Zack Snyder Developing 'Faithful' Retelling of King Arthur's Legend

Director Zack Snyder confirmed he's working on a "faithful" retelling of the King Arthur legend and hopes to make it at some point in the future.

www.cbr.com

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Foz Meadows

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2 years

I cannot say this strongly enough: ANY TYPE OF GENDER NONCONFORMITY IS THREATENING TO CONSERVATISM. a married, cis, straight woman who's childless by choice is as dangerous to conservatism as a little trans girl with pink hair, because BOTH defy heteropatriarchal norms.

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2 years

and do not even get me STARTED on how this ties in to fatphobia, both culturally and medically.

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@fozmeadows

4 years

If one more person writes about something wildly successful a white dude did while quarantined when he either didn’t have kids at home or had zero obligation to look after them if he did, I’m gonna arm a raccoon with a screaming rubber chicken and set it lose in their house

PearlRiverFlow

@PearlRiverFlow

4 years

If you're worried about what to do while you're quarantined, remember that while he was in isolation, Mathematician Theodore Kaczynski completed more than 16 successful technical projects and wrote a 35 thousand word essay that was published in the New York Times.

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pedophilia is horrific and it has a LITERAL FUCKING MEANING THAT ACTUALLY FUCKING MATTERS WHEN YOU'RE DEPLOYING THE GODDAMNED TERM, OH MY ACTUAL FUCKING GOD. the more you normalise using it OUTSIDE that meaning, the more you help conservative groomer rhetoric seem normal

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2 years

why don't conservatives like abortion, trans men or childless cis women? because they think wombs exist to breed. you cannot cut trans men out of this struggle without denying them the same bodily autonomy that conservatives want to take from you.

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2 years

TERFs will insist that having a uterus, menstruating and giving birth are *the* defining qualities of womanhood, but if you talk about “people with uteruses” or “people who menstruate” or “people who give birth” they’ll claim you’re either erasing women or reducing them to parts

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4 years

"women are people who menstruate" oh fuck OFF, even IF you're only looking at cis ladies that's dumb as hell. You gonna say a little cis girl isn't female until she bleeds? That menopause kills femininity? That medical conditions preventing menstruation take away womanhood?

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1 year

Ever since this video went vital on writer twitter, I've been looking into the original creator. Originally I was just curious, but the more I learned, the more concerned I was. I've been making tiktoks about my findings, but I think this merits🧵too, so: here we go!

ℂ𝕙𝕣𝕪𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕖

@bookdragoner

1 year

Todays booktok drama since someone decided to make the video private TLDR: This author wants reviewers to sign contracts and if they don’t provide a full adequate review, you will get sued for the price of the book and damages 😂😂😂

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Foz Meadows

@fozmeadows

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The entire 5 years we lived in the UK - as well-off, white, English-speaking, Commonwealth citizens - the UK visa authority was a hostile, incomprehensible, unpleasant, stressful entity to deal with. That's it's baseline mode: it is profoundly more vile to anyone less privileged.

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Foz Meadows

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2 years

dye your hair an unnatural colour? you're a target. skirt above your knees? a target. heels that are too high? target. piercings, tattoos, ripped jeans, midriff tops, long nails? target. too much makeup or the wrong kind is as bad as not enough.

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just. for most of my life, the received wisdom was that of COURSE boys won't watch or read anything with a GIRL protagonist or, god forbid, a majority girl cast. but they will, if they're never socialised to disdain those options. it's not innate. it never was.

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