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Claire Willett

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Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. Twitter's gay aunt. Aspiring crone. Author of the time travel series THE REWIND FILES. Long threads, all caps, can't lose.

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Joined September 2008

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    1. Claire Willett‏ @clairewillett 20 Nov 2020

      Claire Willett Retweeted Elizabeth Davis

      I have a long list of shows, beginning with Game of Thrones and The 100, whose creators were ultimately not equipped for the seismic cultural transition of the Trump era and subsequent explosion of REAL LIFE random senseless violence we have been consuming in the media.https://twitter.com/E_Davis_Romance/status/1329822325378715649 …

      Claire Willett added,

      Elizabeth Davis @E_Davis_Romance
      It is not the fault of [pick your white cis male writer here] that we're in a global pandemic, but the enduring chaos of the Trump admin should have given them a clue that right now, "life is meaningless and death is random" is not the message that would resonate.
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    2. Claire Willett‏ @clairewillett 20 Nov 2020

      If you ask a white dude creator to explain why the narrative dictates that a particular character had to die, and his answer is essentially “because that’s just REALISM and if you can’t HANDLE IT then the problem is YOU’RE TOO SOFT,” that’s usually a pretty good tell.

      4 replies 117 retweets 1,157 likes
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    3. Claire Willett‏ @clairewillett 20 Nov 2020

      The fact that we could die any time for absolutely no fucking reason is the kind of thing that only rich white men in Hollywood with no real problems think is a point we need explained to us The rest of us are like “yeah we know that’s why we’re watching fiction and not CNN”

      11 replies 335 retweets 1,746 likes
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      Claire Willett‏ @clairewillett 20 Nov 2020

      It’s also an indicator of a writer who thinks the emotional jump scare of a shock death makes a better story than the meaning of a human life, which is why I’m not being hyperbolic when I say that the cynicism of prestige TV and its copycats is actively making the world worse.

      1:15 PM - 20 Nov 2020
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        2. Claire Willett‏ @clairewillett 20 Nov 2020

          But cishet white dudes see cishet white dudes at the center of stories all the time, they’re ubiquitous, so they have never HAD to, like, desperately hoard the tiny precious number of Dark-Skinned Romantic Heroines, or Lesbians Who Don’t Die, or Disabilities Treated Respectfully

          5 replies 108 retweets 1,133 likes
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        3. Claire Willett‏ @clairewillett 20 Nov 2020

          They’ve never had to make meaning out of watching all the people who resemble them suffer and die onscreen - never get to find love or save the day because it’s “not believable” - because another cishet white dude hero protagonist will come along and they’ll see themselves again

          2 replies 65 retweets 867 likes
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        4. Claire Willett‏ @clairewillett 20 Nov 2020

          I’ve yelled on here before about the forced dichotomy of “serious” vs “fluff” and the deeply misogynist implications that a story with emotional resolution is inherently intellectually lesser, but I am just so tired of the automatic assumption that cynicism is for the smart kids

          9 replies 344 retweets 1,734 likes
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        5. Claire Willett‏ @clairewillett 20 Nov 2020

          Like Jesus Christ people, romance readers just raised a quarter of a million dollars to support the Georgia runoffs, what if we stopped assuming that caring about love and happiness and joy means you’re just a dumb girl who needs the world explained to you by smarter men

          10 replies 411 retweets 2,311 likes
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        6. Claire Willett‏ @clairewillett 20 Nov 2020

          I’m just so tired of writers who visibly take such deep pleasure in causing their audiences shock or pain, and then being told it was my fault if I allowed that to hurt me because I was too weak and soft to Understand Their Genius WHO DO YOU SOUND LIKE WHEN YOU SAY THAT?

          6 replies 180 retweets 1,443 likes
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        7. Claire Willett‏ @clairewillett 20 Nov 2020

          Claire Willett Retweeted  🐻DROHAN IS ON VACATION! 🐻

          no but I don’t think that IS bad, I think that’s the point! media creators for children are really aware of the complicated relationship kids have with their great big emotions and the best kids’ media makes space for that because, crucially, they don’t see emotions as weaknesshttps://twitter.com/Beastly_Drohan/status/1329897421732777986 …

          Claire Willett added,

           🐻DROHAN IS ON VACATION! 🐻 @Beastly_Drohan
          Replying to @clairewillett
          You know things are bad when "entertainment for families and children" have a more realistic view on death or use it in s meaningful way to deliver s message.
          3 replies 56 retweets 845 likes
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        8. Claire Willett‏ @clairewillett 20 Nov 2020

          The reason that genres powered by substantially female creators and audiences - like romance - or those targeted towards younger audiences, like YA or children’s movies - can juggle heavy topics with a lighter touch is that they aren’t crashing into toxic masculinity as often

          2 replies 124 retweets 1,135 likes
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        9. Claire Willett‏ @clairewillett 20 Nov 2020

          If you think of emotional responses as a thing you inflict ON an audience - “if I kill off this main character with no warning they’ll all be so shocked HA HA HA HA HA!” - and not a journey you go on WITH the audience, holding their hand, then shock is sort of all you have.

          5 replies 176 retweets 1,273 likes
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        10. Claire Willett‏ @clairewillett 20 Nov 2020

          My mother died 12 years ago and I’m still in therapy about it. You know what is NOT “realism” to me? Killing off a parent onscreen and then one episode later it’s like they never existed. It’s not just about the one moment of shock. That’s not the interesting part of the story.

          7 replies 56 retweets 1,026 likes
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        11. Claire Willett‏ @clairewillett 20 Nov 2020

          So if you’re a cynical male writer who feels like exploring the ongoing complexity of how humans deal with grief or love or hope or longing is getting a little too squishy, then just turning up the volume with more and more death means you never have to deal with what death MEANS

          7 replies 67 retweets 879 likes
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        12. Claire Willett‏ @clairewillett 20 Nov 2020

          Which is WHY I think we see way more meaningful explorations of those complicated and messy emotional journeys from writers who don’t encounter those masculine cultural hangups within themselves while they’re writing, about power and stoicism and not showing weakness

          9 replies 38 retweets 798 likes
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        13. Claire Willett‏ @clairewillett 21 Nov 2020

          Claire Willett Retweeted Valerie Jung Finnigan  ✝ 🦋 🥄 ♿️

          I think this is a really critical point. A lot of shows trying to copycat Game of Thrones’ success assumed the thing audiences cared about was like, dragons and the Red Wedding, so they doubled down on violence. But most GoT fans cared way more about the CHARACTERS.https://twitter.com/valeriefinnigan/status/1330264162996457481 …

          Claire Willett added,

          Valerie Jung Finnigan  ✝ 🦋 🥄 ♿️ @valeriefinnigan
          Replying to @missviolet666 @clairewillett
          I think when creators do that, it shows that they've stopped caring. Or perhaps that they never cared as much as the audience. That the audience cared and therefore grew by happy accident without the creators ever knowing how and why.
          3 replies 13 retweets 240 likes
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        14. Claire Willett‏ @clairewillett 21 Nov 2020

          If you don’t even understand what the people who like your show actually like about it, or you’re cranky that they like the “wrong” things - you want them swooning over your brilliant world-building and they’re like “I’m just here for my ship” - that’s a recipe for disaster.

          5 replies 21 retweets 273 likes
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        15. Claire Willett‏ @clairewillett 21 Nov 2020

          And a lot of this comes down to men who demand unquestioned power and control in their authorial role (ie “there is one Right Way to consume this narrative”) resenting the idea that anyone could come along and say “actually I choose to interpret that totally differently”

          2 replies 17 retweets 258 likes
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        16. Claire Willett‏ @clairewillett 21 Nov 2020

          As always, the villain is white male power dynamics

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