My nephew has COVID because his shithole dad doesn't believe in masks. Do you know what it sounds like to hear a toddler be so sick and have to hear your best friend whisper how scared she is and doesn't want her husband to find out? Fuck all 70M of you who wanted more of this.
The anger I feel is next level. It feels deeper than me, it's from my soul like my fucking ancestors are furious. There is a line of women behind me who left blood and teeth on the floor to make sure their daughters weren't caught in this web of domestic abuse and gaslighting.
This is conservativism at its end game. Crying while holding your sick toddler, hoping your husband doesn't hear you over the echoes of Fox News and Newsmax propaganda because he's already mad you voted for a guy with a D next to their name. Anyone who says otherwise can eat shit
Republicans and Democrats are not the fucking same.
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Illustrative art is highly catered for social media, so a lot of folks in fandom get exposed to How Art Works through people sharing refs and guides. That isn't the same when it comes to writing.
Things like Story Structure and other technical fundaments go right over folks' heads, and when people share good refs it's usually wordy articles or blogs. Not as sexy. This is why I think so many folks argue over characters being flawed or antagonists. They're missing the WHY.
Even a casual understanding of a dynamic between a protagonist and an antagonist - and WHY that's different than a protagonist and a VILLIAN - shifts the conversation away from blanket statements like "NAME is problematic because they did XYZ and nobody should like them ever!"
In honor of Joaquim Dos Santos’ ridiculous BLM tweets and even worse non-apology, I’d like to explain to the internet how Allura did not just die at the end of Voltron Legendary Defender, but was fridged.
Come along with me!
Let’s start by explaining the term “fridged” and the trope. For those not engaged with America superhero comics, it’s whereby female characters are injured, raped, killed, or depowered to move a male character’s story arc forward.
It’s colloquially known as “fridging.”
TW: Violence against women
It refers to an incident in Green Lantern where he comes home to find that his girlfriend, Alexandra DeWitt, had been killed and stuffed into a refrigerator.