Sarcastic observer of pop culture, WWE, and life's absurdities. Heart of gold for friends. Rascal by nature. Delightfully irreverent but tastefully refined.
Things I've googled while writing an urban fantasy novel: how hot phoenix fire would burn, whether lightning hits the Gateway Arch, and how fast a ballroom dancer can run in dress shoes.
@heartsabustin Oh we’re not burying him. He’s getting cremated. He doesn’t need one for that. We can bring over some dress clothes, but he’s narcissistic enough to think someone is going to pay for him to have a full casket and burial plot and funeral and such.
My uncle has been in the hospital for about a week now.
As I’ve been open about my feelings on this uncle, I keep waiting for him to stop being an anchor dragging my family down.
Well today he said “I need a black suit.”
It might finally be happening.
I see, so you are incapable of communicating your point.
I will ask you something simple then to find out if you are worthy of engaging with so that if you aren't there are receipts so women don't feel threatened by you when you run your mouth:
What is your profession?
lol.
Started vibing with a Blue Hair who has a serious thing for Jason Todd.
Several minutes later her cardigan with a diamond-pattern guy shows up.
And I’m just over here chuckling.
The people saying everything is fine in the current status quo of Trad Publishing are the very same people that constantly demand “more representation” in media of all types.
More representation = A zero-sum game that involves replacing men with women, queer, and minority representation.
The entire premise on representation in media is that a woman/girl cannot be expected to relate to a man. They need to see themselves centered. Same with queer and minority centering.
They’ve named this for years: intersectionality.
Intersectionality has a victimhood matrix that is not ever allowed to change based on modern realities and current political powers.
So when you see these people saying it’s okay that boys aren’t being represented in media and they need to try romantasy, just remember that these same voices claim a person cannot feel represented unless they see themselves.
And they’re okay with boys not seeing themselves represented because boys, especially white heterosexual boys, stand atop the victimhood matrix as the evil oppressors and will do so for all time.
They’ll point to historical lit (which they attempt to erase and police; see the classics and more recently Harry Potter). They’ll say this is just the market normalizing while ignoring their gatekeeping strategies. They’ll perform mental gymnastics to say why their greater representation is Good and why male representation is Bad and they should be seeing themselves in Werewolf Rape litrotica.
So do what you need to: pat them on their head like the children they are, laugh, and go about your business because their opinions don’t matter.
Carve out your new empires.