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Yeah, the fantasy of The Exception (exceptionalism) wrapped up in performative girl power or choice feminism has played a heavy role in this rightward shift.0
There's such a thin line between "you're special" and "you're superior, you can treat others badly if you sign up for commodification."
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God, this TikTok from Rebecca Larsen gets me everytime and helped me fully identify and clarify the conservative propganda being sold to young women as Girl Power, Choice Feminism in YA Fantasy and Romance.
😔
No one ever wants to admit they were had.
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Welp.
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Jesus!
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My god...
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The prospect worried you enough to comment though. Both countries presently have their own issues, but I'm glad you're willing to bet on the inactivity of two world powers who could change their minds at any time. The risk is there and it's not zero.
Again.
Iran is not Iraq.
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Iran isn't a repeat of Iraq. They have defense pacts with Russia and China. Attacking them puts us very much at risk of escalating into WWIII.
Which is to say... fuck.
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#WritingQ - Hijinks
Jennifer co-opts Graham into her plan to switcheroo Katie out of alone time with Garrett.
Cole pranks every cabin, fills Jen's bed with spiders, and builds a ghost hunting crew.
Garrett makes friendship bracelets with Katie.
Sofia is kissing all the girls (except Jen.)
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You got this!
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This is what I've been saying. They've also spent the past 40 years destroying the infrastracture which would facilitate the necessary level of control. They don't have the bodies.
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It's my "brain, please put these scenes together" face. 😅
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OMG.
Another Music & Lyrics lover in the wild.
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Very cute! 😍
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I... Wow.
This thing is 100% trained on Reddit, Goodreads reviews, and publishing loglines. It's compliments read like a hyped up fan while offering nothing substantive. It's a Frankenstein of stolen voices.
Icky. Creepy.
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There's a market for tragedy! There's a market for tragic love stories! These are tragedies with romantic subplots.
The problem is authors trying to force their way into a genre that doesn't want it. Romance wants happy endings. Publishers, bring back The Tragedy as a fiction subgenre.
Please?
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The point of Courtly Love is the tragedy. Tristan & Iseult? Tragedy. Arthur, Guinevere, & Lancelot? Tragedy.
Love is the catalyst, but the end point is tragedy.
Tragedy is cathartic. Love, desire, and passion acting as destructive forces are part of the human experience.
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The idea genres require specific endings or expected conventions is a problem with romance only is false. Professional storytelling has always signaled the kind of story it is telling to the audience. The primary question is always how said story ends rather than what the ending is. It's the journey
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Actually, I'm going to go off here. People act like there was only Comedy and Tragedy in Shakespeare's day, but Romance with a capital R existed too. A Winter's Tale is a Shakesperean Romance where Romeo & Juliet is a Tragedy with a love story.
Romances & Comedies both required happy endings.
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Le Morte d'Arthur and Romeo & Juliet are both tragedies and completely different genres from Romance. I genuinely don't get why anyone would include them as a gotcha?
Why do the Arthurian enthusiasts never bring up Knight of the Cart? It's the one story where Guinevere gets a good fuck in text.
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This sounds so good!
Here's hoping for all the agent likes and a swift publishing date! 🤞
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This man, Zhang Linghe.
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I... actually can't. 😂
Thanks!
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Definitely don't leave them alone. We left a wasp colony near our apartment alone one summer and they started coming in through the windows. Boyfriend got stung in bed.
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After South Africa, I had to doubletake that this was the Onion and not the news.
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🧐 Reading comprehension does not seem to be your strong suit.
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My vocabulary is larger than the spellchecker and GenAI's, and the spellchecker has gotten worse since the advent of AI so I'm thinking no on grammar too.
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They've gone much, much, much further than that. The fact you can't see it and don't blame them for it is a testament to how well their propoganda has worked.
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Trump won because mainstream news refused to report on him honestly. They've been covering for him since the beginning. If they treated him like the clown he is, it'd be over.
They didn't.
They wanted him to win.
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We either acknowledge that the hands behind mainstream American newsmedia and social media were all in on Trump and in fabricating his propoganda or we continue to lose.
The fact that people continue to insist the problem is messaging and act like the press isn't biased boggles.