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@keilah-h

Haha! Good to know.

So then, since you said something, does that mean your aren’t happy? Maybe a little stressed?

and you’re welcome! I’m almost finished with my tenth book. It’s a picture book, so not much in the way of like drafting and writing and stuff.

@keilah-h @ellette-giselle

I think “damsel in distress” can very easily be messed up because it automatically takes away the damsel’s agency in the situation, usually speaking. But I would love to see situations where it isn’t so biased towards the damsel’s savior – like maybe the damsel holds the emotional weight of the story in her hands, to…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle Not likely with me, usually. If I don’t like something, I’m quite vocal about it.

You should see me yelling at the screen while playing Minecraft or something and my creatures aren’t going where I want them.

@keilah-h

Silence could also mean it’s so bad that you can’t even find something to say.

haha!!!

Oh, thank you so much!!!

@keilah-h

I agree.

also congratulations on the book you published!

@ellette-giselle lolllll

I mean, if I don’t have anything to say, that means it must be good, right????

@smiley ohhhh my friends used to read those a lot! I recognize it, though I never read it myself.

@ellette-giselle yeah it’s so much more reasonable when you have context and the proper meaning of the word is used (I’m sure you know all about the newspeak dilemma where people, especially important people, use one word when they really mean something else, in order to control or to convince others to do something they normally wouldn’t). I…[Read more]

@keilah-h
thanks

and in the first on there’s Winter

she’s literally known as the most beautiful girl on the moon

she’s also very bubbly and a little socially awkward

and the guard she mentions is her best friend (who she’s in love with) Jacin

and then in the second fic there’s Carswell Thorne but everyone calls him Thorne

and he’s basi…[Read more]

@keilah-h

btw, yay! I got a reaction out of you!

lol.

@keilah-h

You’ll have to read more to find out. lol

Oh completely. In the actual book they are in a completely different font and are indented. KP wouldn’t let me indent them, so I guessed Italicizing would have to do.

@keilah-h

I agree with you…. but if you look at the old original damsel in distress stories, the girl was often a strong woman, but she was defeated and captured by a man, or held captive by evil in some way. (Totally reasonable.)

I think as women it can be easy to balk when we hear that term because of what society has been telling…[Read more]

@ellette-giselle wowwwww! I don’t know what to say. Will he die? will he live?? I must know!!!

also, a good idea would probably be to separate the writing in his letters out with an indent or with centered text as opposed to the normal look:

After some time, Aaron took up the quill and began to write, unsteadily at first, but growing…

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@smiley that was funny, who are the non-marvel characters again?

all that to say, I really don’t like the damsel in distress trope cause it implies that being “in distress” is all the character’s good for.

@ellette-giselle ok but HOW is a damsel in distress cool??

The whole “in distress” thing, from what I’ve seen, has kinda been turned into “I am a pansy and will faint or something at the very sight of blood or even a grasshopper.”

I really don’t think every female character should be the “rarrrr I’m a warrior and you can’t say no to that” kind…[Read more]

@calyhuge

The damsel in distress?

*smiling and blinking hopefully*

I love him! Such a sad life. But a redeeming end.