2ndlevelbard.bsky.social
Editor/instructional designer by day, funny dice enthusiast after hours. Sometime DMs Guild author, forever DM. Horror fan. Gourmand. Salty descriptivist. GenX, bi, enby, polyam. He/him, more or less. Here for elfgames, horror, & occasional leftism.
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watched the devils and i need to make more art
Show PostI should say before I drag a wonderful writer who has nothing to do with my unhinged rants into this: Hailey *inspired* this by discussing the weird interplay of horror and romance. The extrapolation is all mine.
Show PostSo essentialism and assertion are just another way of dealing with the competition. Even as it tears us apart. Even as it undoes years of being curious about how other people experience things and wanting to know. "Stay in your lane" superseded "please understand me."
Show PostBecause in the 2010s, we learned that we could just make this a brand. It wasn't about understanding anyone or learning from anyone, it was establishing a voice and a storefront by stripmining every single aspect of who someone is as a series of AO3 tags meant to signal them to an audience.
Show PostSo you get "I'M GONNA GET MY GIRL COOTIES ALL OVER HORROR" and "MOVE OVER GIRLS I'LL WRITE YOU A REAL ROMANCE" and "SILLY BOYS YOUR HORROR IS INEXTRICABLY INTERTWINED WITH ROMANCE" and all that because the real issue is gender essentialism.
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