#Tropes

James K.A. Smith

james_ka_smith

The scandal of the evangelical mind is that it remains perfectly content to traffic in cliché. The same tropes, the same books even, get written over and over again (—“‘cause

Angry Black Femme

AshleighJMills

Okay, this is a thread about raceplay and kink.If you don't know what that is ...you're lucky (and also, I apologise for introducing it).It's where people take racist tropes, lean

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askeptibearical

Somebody complained that the description of orcs in DND is uncomfortably close 2 the racist white narratives spun around other cultures and peoples that are targeted for imperial domination in

i tried to give up sugar and i failed

teateateahoney

ABO is not fucking transphobic. Yall are just ppl WITHOUT specific kinks, getting squicked BY stories w/ those kinks. That's fine. Just stop pretending it's some ethics issue.It really ain't.Incoming:

Wesley Mills

_WesleyMills

Human beings are complex.Your neighbors are complex.They are not caricatures. They are not stereotypes. They are not tropes. They are not simple. They cannot be labeled. They don't fit into

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EvArnTheWriter

Orcs as written traditionally, are racist tropes. D&D as a game, suffers from bio-essentialism and racism. Orcs aren't even the only example. Half-races, the fact that entire peoples are treated

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alphamacys

ANTISEMITIC TROPES IN WILEY’S TWEETS (and why if you’re not jewish it’s not up to you to forgive him): a thread more about the money conspiracy, as well as the

lemon boy.

mcrvirgil

me, the king of cliche tropes ANGST BREAK sibling angst part 1also,, im damn proud of this paragraph so basically it's a soulmate au but with siblings (set in 1890s

Sara Gibbs

Sara_Rose_G

I think the RLB thing is incredibly hard to unpick & you need a shit tonne of context to understand why it was dodgy, which is why most people won’t.

Citrus and Cinnamon 🌺

ballad_of_caius

One of my favorite children's programming tropes is the first season playing it relatively safe and minding the boundaries of what's "acceptable", and as soon as they get a second

Dash #AlwaysBetOnDead

leDASHann

I just got result 'enemies to lovers' on quiz 'which fanfic trope are you'. What will you get?https://uquiz.com/R9ao4q?p=352491 This is one of my fave tropes so I ain't mad

Izzy ✡︎ בהירה

jewish_bisexual

Antisemitic tropes in Barbie movies: a thread — this is important for two reasons: 1. Because I, like thousands of other children, grew up on these movies and thus had

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bacsiloq

idk kung paano napunta dito ang usapan but i'm so glad it did. thanks to that og anon na g na g since last night. hahaha. medyo mahahaba but they

Subhomoy

subhomoyb

On India ban, just remember, data is the new war zone of 21st century. Anybody who thinks it isn't, should read up the fight at WTO and at G20 on

hayls

cabelloshoney

i’m so annoyed at people who get their blood boiling by people shipping barchie ??? it’s a fictional tv show??? it amazes me how defensive and ANGRY people get over

Yair Wallach

YairWallach

There's a narrative that sometimes people get so excited about their Palestine activism and their principled objection to Zionism that they get "carried away" and drift into antisemitism. I think