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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social |
The idea that in order to matter a woman's story must end in triumph is so deeply reactionary, and I think it underpins so much of this "feminist retelling" cottage industry.
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Wendy Xu
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i've actually been thinking about this so much 💀💀some in relation to the fact that women who triumph & are also sickos in their quest to get there are seen as morally reprehensible & "unlikeable" but also in an arc of a chinese translated tragic novel i got called GOODBYE MY PRINCESS
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lb hunktears
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fiction is a way of saying "this is what i think should happen"
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Alex de Campi
@alexdecampi.bsky.social
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Victims must be perfect and pure; underdogs must always triumph; and the retold heroine shall be crowned one of the good ones, a credit to her gender
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Erin | Sarazah's Guide to All of Time OUT on DMsGuild!
@veilsedgegames.bsky.social
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But the world NEEDS another Hades and Persephone story where Hades turns out to be a misunderstood goth
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Critical Nostalgia
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*sharp inhale* Also: Totally correct.
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Filamena Young seeking Sophia -she/her
@filamena.bsky.social
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It really follows the same energy as 'a woman can't be a real hero until she's been truly tortured on screen'. I don't know how, but it feels like they're on the same trajectory.
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Big Iron
@big-iron.bsky.social
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Same Sex&the City -ass "cruelty of patriarchal disposability but now women get to do it" instinct
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Goose
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I think about this a lot in poor decolonial work too. It comes with good intentions but the fact of the matter is oppression is bad because it’s bad, not because it’s victims are inherently better morally
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