just in case you haven't been keeping score with the latest White Male Mediocrity, transphobic author john boyne published a historical novel in which he describes a recipe for red dye

the recipe in the book is the fucking recipe from zelda breath of the wild
I repeat

he googled 'red dye recipe'

and the first result was the one from the video game zelda breath of the wild

and he fucking put it in his historical novel

and it made it to print

I never want your impostor syndrome to stop you from doing anything ever again
if you ever feel like 'oh God I'm so terrible I never do anything right'

ask yourself if you're a transphobic piece of shit who would put a video game crafting recipe in your historical novel

of course you're not. you're better than that.
see how powerful white supremacy is that it empowers dickfaces like john boyne to become international bestsellers while the most hardworking and talented artists you know struggle every goddamn day
the liberal white woman who tweeted about this btw is being all buddy buddy with a known transphobic piece of shit and that is why I a) did not link her tweet to begin with b) blocked her
romance novelists, btw, will read hundreds of pages of primary documents to find the price of a pound of sugar in 1873, a detail which is mentioned once and never used again.
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