Yeah - which tips it over into a kind of "tragic queer story" version of problematic, rather than a simple queerphobic one.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Though tbf, the series has sad, or at least bittersweet, conclusions for most characters.
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I'm still another at the ending of the story in question- Barbie writing Wanda's name on her tombstone is framed as a great act of defiance, but the first time it rains the lipstick will wash away and Wanda isn't the name she'll be interred under
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Replying to @quietandobscure @mssilverstein and
And yeah, that's more real, I guess- not whitewashing the reality of existing as marginalized people in a hateful society- but it still kind of burns that given the ability to write anything that's what he'd choose, I guess.
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I would honestly have felt so patronized and condescended to if Gaiman had characterized the Moon as being like "I LOVE trans women actually! come into my embrace, sister!!", like I would slam the book shut and be so pissed
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Replying to @autogynamelia @quietandobscure and
because it's a fucking dishonest lie
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @autogynamelia and
it's sugarcoated uwu glurge that erases the reality of a whole fucking universe that hates me
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @autogynamelia and
Yeah it's like The one supernatural being in this story who's on Wanda's side is Death, and Death, as always, can't or won't do a damn thing to intervene until after she's dead It's that kind of bittersweetness Gaiman has always traded in
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
It's like my thing I talked about with Lucien's Library, that the whole idea of what Dream is and why he and his realm are appealing to people is that he represents everything people imagine that *isn't real* (And when a book is actually written it vanishes from the Library)
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And the solace Death can bring to people is precisely that which they never got in life -- if you had your happiness and community in life then Death has nothing to give you, Death becomes an enemy and not a friend Like what Jesus said about laying up your treasure in Heaven
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