theresponseblog:

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

Just gonna be a footnote in the case study of how OTW stole a march on WSFS and SFWA

I cannot emphasize enough that the valence of this stuff flipped when the wave crested, it’s not “they are making advances”, it’s “they just created an exposed salient”. WSFS and SFWA are organizations of writers that were calibrated in a pre-Internet era where the role of (business-minded) publishers and agents ballasted them, they were vulnerable to ideological capture; successor organizations founded in a modern era of modern pressures will be armored against

that said, romantic fantasy has been a vulnerable target for a while now (https://prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/149052648292/wrangletangle-lizziegoneastray-prokopetz) and Lackey being a venerable figure doesn’t mean she was an especially powerful one. Sometimes being one of the old guard just means you were the last to pack it in.

David J Prokopetz

What do you think all the “lesbian space atrocity” stuff is? That crowd has ins with the OTW scene, too

natalieironside:

natalieironside:

Xena: Warrior Princess wouldn’t make it on tv today because y'all would be all excited about the gay swordswoman show at first and then y'all would be like “But Xena killed people :( Bad representation”

There’s some confusion in the notes so I want to make it abundantly clear that I love it when women are unhinged and commit atrocities

lycanthrology:

tragedy enjoyers when their favourite characters are brutally killed in a completely avoidable scenario of their own creation