#Tropes

Arjun Viswanath

arjunvish7

THREAD ALERT! For all the Quarantined movie buffs, aspiring screenwriters, filmmakers, students. Basically, Everyone who's into films. I'm putting out a thread on my favourite YouTube video essay channels which

avani

yellowteapup

hello, this is going to be a little bit of a long explanation about the question, apologies for that. I think I'll answer in correlation to the text itself, since

Selena Adera

Selena_Adera

I saw the comments & found them disturbing, for they embody White Feminism acting as frontline peons for misogynist White Supremacy.When you repeat every misogynist trope, falsely painting qualified women

Trash Can Dan

TrashCanDanpt3

Horror season has begun so I'm going to try and watch at least one horror film a day throughout October.... Watched Bloody Homecoming (2013) low budget and with some questionable

yao cat

yaomeomeo

ok here we go a list of common tropes in wuxia to get started if you're unfamiliar:1. Fighting on the rooftop under the the moonlight/full moon, could be bc of

Grant Howitt

gshowitt

Sin (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gshowitt/sin-a-spire-rpg-sourcebook/description) is in the last two days on Kickstarter, and we've run out of stretch goals. Unlike previous campaigns we're not going to add any more at this

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Lariska_Prgitay

The fact that twincests don’t understand that if Jaime & Cersei got together, THAT would be the standard fantasy romance trope that GRRM wants to subvert and make realistic while

Glenn Greenwald

ggreenwald

CNN's New "Reporter," Natasha Bertrand, is a Deranged Conspiracy Theorist and Scandal-Plagued CIA Propagandisthttps://greenwald.substack.com/p/cnns-new-reporter-natasha-bertrand In the U.S. corporate media, the surest way to a

UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge

UnisNotBorders

Shameful that @openDemocracy allowed for the deeply Sinophobic, racist & xenophobic article to be published written by @BillSpence1 former vice-provost @QMUL who claims in Trumpian logic that UK academic freedom

summer nights - a vhope fest (CLAIMING)

vhopesummer

we’ll be posting a thread of unclaimed prompts from our collection, and this will be updated daily!! do take a look through them and see if you all find any

Jewish Community Action

JCA_MN

THREAD: Over the last week there has been a lot of confusion around antisemitic statements from athletes and entertainers that are being referred to by some as “Black Antisemitism.” In

Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)

debreese

When asked abt a writer/their book(s), my questions are:Is the writer Native? If no, I'm skeptical. My experiences are that non-Native writers recycle stereotypes, tropes that feed an ongoing cycle.

Cal Kenny

CallumMichaelK

This falls into my fave category of queer books: very beautiful and very sad. A brilliant exploration of the intersection between identity, sexuality and politics, set against the turbulent backdrop

Charlie McGeehan

CMcGeeIII

Closing out my time at @ncte in a session on “Reading as an Act of Resistance” with @SonjaCherryPaul, @juliaerin80, @sam_aye_ahm, @ibizoboi, & @zettaelliott. #NCTE19 @sam_aye_ahm says that we often ask

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KlNDOFABIGDEAL

I’m on a roll so tHINGS TO REMEMBER WHEN WRITING AN AUTISTIC CHARACTER LETS GO! BIGGEST POINT IM GOING TO MAKE: write a character before writing a minority status! This

Bashir Mohamed

BashirMohamed

I understand the love for Dr. Deena Hinshaw but I feel very weird at her "mistakes happen" approach to the unnecessary meatpacking deaths in Southern Alberta.The Cargill and JBS plants