i really like the advice “write marginalized characters but don’t write about marginalization unless you experience it”
absolutely i think cis people should expand their horizons and write trans characters, but they shouldn’t write stories about being trans. likewise i think allistic / NT authors should write about autistic characters! but not stories about being autistic.
represent us. absolutely. but don’t tell our stories. let us do that.
This. I hold grudges against people who did stuff to my friends or family forever, it doesn’t matter if that friend forgives the person, I will dislike and distrust them forever.
“I just made sure it took” for unedopinion & anonymous.
I could write FOREVER about Nathan Ford and his beliefs and how he never really left the seminary but ultimately became an Avenger of the Lord instead and how biblical narratives of injustice and revenge back his every last fucking move and how that is even more incredible for how he mostly he has absolutely no idea (though everyone else does) until the moment when he looks at his life, looks at his choices, and goes “I should get out before I become a realfacts supervillain†and retires but instead, let’s remember the last scene from The Boiler Room Job:
Latimer: To a one, you rained destruction down upon them, allowing me to profit in the wreckage you left behind.
Nate: You will get out of my business now.
Latimer: But you haven’t even heard my offer.
Nate: I don’t want anything from you.
Latimer: And the ones that got away with it? The companies that covered it up so well, the people they cheated or killed had no idea what happened to them. I know secrets, sins it would take you a thousand years to find.
Nate: What’s the price?
Latimer: 24 hours. But before you descend from heaven with blood-tipped wings and a flaming sword to wreak havoc on these men, you call and give me 24 hours to make my move.
(Nate walks away)
Latimer: Your pride more important than helping people?
(Nate pauses to look back at him, then walks away)
Latimer was never adequately devious to have a chance in hell of winning against Nate Ford, but you have to give him Genre Awareness. He understood the narrative and his place in it.
reasons i disagree with natasha being on team tony:
her speech at the end of catws in which she says “you’re not going to put any of us in a prison. you know why? because you need us” doesn’t sound like she’s all for superhero accountability
she’s aware of hydra’s presence (possibly in the government) and how that could put registered people at risk
she’s shown little or no trust to the people on team iron man (as opposed to the level of trust she has with clint/steve); trust is a common theme in natasha’s characterization and is an important part of her relationships
not a reason i disagree with natasha being on team tony:
What if aliens visited Earth during the Jurassic Period, found it to be occupied with a bunch of mean, giant lizards and thought “Well, fuck this planet” and never came back?
what if when humans went out into the galaxy all the aliens panicked because if the dinosaurs’ tiny fur snacks now had spaceships and laser blasters and interstellar colonies then what the fuck were the dinosaurs up to???
