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I don't have a lot of prescriptive writing thoughts but after seeing my own depressed teens interact with All the Bright Things like it was so real in its portrayal I have nothing but rage and contempt for an irresponsible author writing bullshit that romanticizes mental illness /4
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there are ways to confront the difficulty of suicidal thoughts, feelings, and actions in realistic and nuanced ways. I don't mean you should be toxically positive about depression
but I do not believe you should make a twee John Green-coded story about it, even if it's "based on a real story" 3/
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teens commit suicide. suicide is a complicated and nuanced topic that real kids deal with.
but fiction is not real! on purpose! if you are writing a book for teens about suicide, your audience is depressed teens! what you say about suicide can make them feel hopeful or hopeless 2/
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#PrideBookFair I am also trying to meet an August writing deadline for a 16k hi-lo about a game jam and polyamory and the crushing pain of your hero turning out to be a huge asshole (something I have too much personal experience with)
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people really took the wrong message from "straight writers killing off every queer couple is a bad trend"
they can pry my queer tragedies from my cold dead queer hands
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also finally finished Trinyvale and I think if someone had told me it's just cartoon fantasy Always Sunny I'd have done it sooner
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Don’t give AI users a reason to keep generating slop in order to refine their slop into something shaped like a meal. It’s a trap. Faerie food made to placate you without filling you.
AI is shit. It’s killing the planet and aiming to replace the innate drive in humanity to create. AI can fuck off.
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lol I just did every comp I had yesterday, including the books 😅
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Ask not for whom the duck milkshakes, it shakes for thee
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- Final Fantasy X is probably my most shameless, which is clear if you read my snippet yesterday lol giant monster who is also your dad cruising around destroying the world is a concept that really stuck with me, as did the scene of Kilika being destroyed
/4 #LGBTQWriteAThon
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- Chrono Trigger because of the way I’m having Finn hop through time for short stints, and also I have a bit referencing and poking fun at Ayla when Finn meets The First Hero and how in video games cave people are kinda hot. in real life… not so much
3/ #LGBTQWriteAThon
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- Spider-Verse films in the way Finn interacts with his other incarnations
- Legend of Zelda because of the incarnation plot point but also one of my original ideas for this book was “what if Ganon retires and the next Link seeks him out for help”
2/ #LGBTQWriteAThon