If someone from 2017 traveled back to 1997 and wrote a novel about 2017 without people knowing he was a time traveler, it would be categorized as dystopian fiction.
Not only that, but hamfisted, overwrought YA dystopian fiction
Right, so the cold war is back on but this time it’s between the US and North Korea and the american president is a serial rapist billionaire with ties to the Russian government who shits in a gold toilet, fucks off to play golf every weekend, and legislates to prevent religious minorities from entering the country while simultaneously pushing to allow ivory into the country so his henchman sons can kill elephants to their hearts’ content. most cities in the US don’t have clean drinking water especially in minority areas, the wealth disparity and corruption is among the worst in the world, infrastructure hasn’t been updated in about 40 years, innocent people – men, women, children, and other – are murdered en masse by the state, Native American tribes are drowning in the oil they knew was going to spill all over their sovereign land, and overall everything’s basically exactly the same as it was in the 1950s except now there’s the internet and the country is run by a literal fucking toddler.
meanwhile the rest of the world is pretty much as bad as it’s ever been, but seems to be slowly getting better over time. or it would be, if the US weren’t still a global hegemon intent on starting racial wars at every given opportunity and melting the ice caps practically by design. and then turning away people forced to seek refuge from those same wars and the effects of those melting ice caps
….yeah if I read a book like that in the ‘90s even as a literal fucking child I would’ve said it lacked subtlety.
Because [cishet]men don’t have or really understand indepth friendship. They depend on ALL of their emotional support from their parents (read: mothers) or their spouses (read: wives). So when they are expected to care about the well being and feelings of a woman they aren’t fucking they think the world is ending.
I GUARANTEE somebody got their feelings hurt after reading this LMAO
^Facts
For those who didn’t understand
10/10 post
“Women aren’t vending machines you put compliments into until sex comes out.”
Isn’t it weird with sports teams how we just like,,, choose a group of athletes and we’re like “yep this one. they’re mine. i’d die for them.” like we wear their colours and talk about how great they are when all they’ve done is played a game? sports culture is weird i love it.
Let’s face it, straight white dudes are so confused and disoriented when canon isn’t about them that they think it’s a mistake that needs to be addressed by tptb.
Go write your “everyone with force powers is descended from one or two key people (who are all white) and Luke is a deadbeat father” fic and shut up now.
1) beautifully constructed, thoughtfully named, you’ve had this character for five years, and it is only now that you have a medium to express them through. twenty pages of backstory and lore, you probably lovingly crafted a costume or a token to fully bring them to life.
2) it’s you, but you’re now a warlock or a paladin or some shit.
3) Its Joke (ex. Boo Boo the Chaotic Good Barbarian, Dio Brando but as a dryad, etc.)
4) Real Ass People (ex. Hatsune Miku, Barack Obama, Hulk Hogan, etc.)
Children playing with Barbies in media:“This is Sally. She’s the mommy. She loves fashion, swimming, and she drives a convertible! She has a baby with Ken and sometimes they kiss.” OR “Look, I ripped Barbie’s head off! Ha ha ha! I’m a boy.”
Children playing with Barbies in real life: “This is Aurora, the fallen goddess of the sky. She has been banished from her kingdom and bound to a mortal body by her sister, who rose to power by human sacrifices. She now leads an army of cannibal water spirits who eat men. Sometimes they have orgies. They dismembered a traitor and keep her head on a Popsicle stick as a warning to others. Aurora can turn into a wolf and uses battle magic to paralyze her enemies. The king of the stuffed animals developed rabies and she had to slay him to save his people, but they do not understand that it was an act of mercy and kindness and are sending assassins after her for regicide. This is Aurora’s soulmate, Crystal, but her soul is trapped in a gemstone while an evil spirit pilots her body and attempts to murder her friends.”
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