Rawle Nyanzi
@Parvenu62
Author of The Perils of Sasha Reed and The Venus Spectacular. Safetyism in art is evil and must never be tolerated. https://bit.ly/spectacularvenus
Here’s why the Shakespeare thing (and attacks on older literature more generally) get to me: I see myself as part of the long and illustrious tradition of English-language literature. Though my works will never reach the heights of a Shakespeare or a Fleming or a Tolkien, I…
Has anyone noticed a concerted push to remove male/female romances from *all* popular media? They downplay Sonic and Amy’s relationship, now they friendzone Mario, and so on? One More Day was Patient Zero, in my opinion. (cc @JoshuaLisec @Mirrorswordsman)
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share a piece of lore that connects you to history.
Want to feel old? Today the @TheSimpsons movie is 18 years old. The movie advertised as "18 years in the making" celebrates being just as old. The gap of season 1 to the movie is now the same gap as the movie to now.
It's a tacit form of safetyism, the "asexual Tumblr nu male as the masculine ideal" variety. An overcorrection of patronizing vices they perceive from "damsel in distress" tropes and 20th century romance conventions.
Ark Press gonna be colonizing a lot of your bookshelves--with great genre fiction!
In essence, "decolonizing your bookshelf" is about actively resisting and casting aside the colonialist ideas of narrative, storytelling, and literature that have pervaded the American psyche for so long, says @itsjuanlove. trib.al/VKxyuRp
You can no longer make games tackling subjects like depression, self harm, alcoholism or extreme ideologies, which includes any horror games featuring cults. Atleast not if you want to get any money from your work.
A complete list of content Visa/Mastercard considers problematic. They may target any game containing this content.
How many years have people been warning about censorship no matter how small just to get back "Oh no, can't goon to cartoon boobs anymore" "Oh no they made the characters look more respectable" like it was going to stop with clothing, suggestive themes and fanservice. They don't…
It’s weird that everyone expects artists to be ascetics with no regard for money whatsoever. The only other cohort that receives this kind of moral outrage are Zoomers—a demographic famously screwed over. Wonder if there’s a connection.
It’s truly an honor to get artwork of KAMEN VICTORY and KAMEN RAMEN from the legendary manga artist @kia_asamiya , whose work we have been following since high school! Thank you @MetalYoshi for the opportunity!
What do the books say about the sellers, publishers and readers? What would bookstores in English-speaking countries look like in comparison?
Imagine living in a country where publishers and bookstores want to sell books to everyone. Men and women. What would it look like?
Do men read? Weigh in! ljagilamplighterwright.substack.com/p/do-men-read
I’m using a translation tool for everything below, so I apologize if there’s anything that doesn’t make sense. In recent years, I’ve felt a visible decline in the quality of creative works circulating in the world. This isn’t necessarily due to a lack of talent or effort on the…
Payment processors now control our entertainment. If you support this censorship, you’re evil. Plain and simple.
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"Collective Shout are Australian! What's wrong with Australia?" My brother in Christ, we were ignoring their demands. It was American payment processors who decided to use their unilateral authority on their behalf.
Common sentiment among conservatives in the Pop Cult has it that Hollywood can right the ship if they just hire writers with more creativity. Does that theory hold water? Find out at the link in the replies👇
"That’s why modern protagonists don’t overcome. They just process. These days, conflict resolution doesn’t mean victory, it means therapy." Yup. AKA: Gunnman 2025.
Common sentiment among conservatives in the Pop Cult has it that Hollywood can right the ship if they just hire writers with more creativity. Does that theory hold water? Find out at the link in the replies👇
The importance of stylized dialogue. It’s like art style; it gives a distinct tone to the work.
God, I miss when cartoons were allowed to have near, if not straight-up, poetic dialog from the dreams of Shakespeare himself. Trying to educate the people rather than make TikTok shorts. Doom will never be greatly adapted as this.
God, I miss when cartoons were allowed to have near, if not straight-up, poetic dialog from the dreams of Shakespeare himself. Trying to educate the people rather than make TikTok shorts. Doom will never be greatly adapted as this.