I mean, I do watch things about cishet men (and occassionally women) in genres I like. I've recently watched several Clint Eastwood movies, True Grit (2010), I'm on a bit of a Western kick There's basically no queer Westerns. Brokeback does not count.
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That's just one example. I watch so much stuff about grimy angdstmen who fck ladies, and if I want representation, I have to give up plot, drama, darkness, being targeted at me in any way BESIDES being LGBT
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I just hate this fcking status quo in entertainment
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Replying to @DrivenByTatiana @BootlegGirl
Iiii hate how much the “there’s nothing meaningful that can be accomplished in genre that doesn’t fit in YA anyway, and saying otherwise is elitism
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i have on occasion read and enjoyed ya fiction but by the numbers we must admit the genre has its limitations
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I mean, to take a very simplistic example, and leave aside even the terrible author issues and the TV/movie adaptations: the novel The Magicians is OBJECTIVELY FAR BETTER than the seven book series it is meant largely as a response to
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I like the ambiguity over whether you mean Harry Potter or The Chronicles of Narnia
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I didn't realize Narnia was also seven books I think Magicians is better than both fwiw
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
I feel like the way you can tell which I mean is that I would say the name of the series for which I am certain the author and/or allied nobility will not appear to threaten legal action
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And yet it's CS Lewis whom Grossman turned into an evil pedophile
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I feel like if he rewrote today that might change :P
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
I mean, if he felt like getting sued
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