NightFantom

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on JK Rowling is Anti-Rights · c/comics · 8 pts · 2d

So Amnesty's reputation was damaged by rowling's forcing the retraction, does that work for a revenge libel case?

on Love it · c/NiceMemes · 24 pts · 2d

Barely, most of the fossil fuels is pre-dinosaur algae and stuff like that

on 31 July 1988 · c/foxtrot · 2 pts · 2d

Thanks for putting the date in the title lol, pretty relevant

on Crit Success · c/rpgmemes · 47 pts · 3d

Hmm I'm mixed on this, you could see it as homophobia, but just the hero falling in love with the BBEG in itself could cause the exact same comic, no? In which case making either a woman could have misogynistic implications instead.

Without knowing the author I like to think they're making the "hero seduces BBEG" joke, just more inclusive because it's gay now.

Oh no that part is just a joke, like OP said, it's been a whole joke with celeste being a big hit in the trans community, then the dev coming out as trans, this exact meme format was being used all the time, so I guess HK/SS were also big hits in the trans community and history repeats?

I think taking an author's page for going more in-depth on your metaphors and opinions is a great way!

That said, if the protagonist literally says "I think we should save the dragons from our man-made pollution" or similar, I don't think that's too on the nose, though with flawed characters that's a risk of getting lumped in with the flaws. You'd still need the author's note.

"Donald Trump wants whales to die, don't let him"

The worst part is that's not even true, they just don't care. And Trump is just a symptom, try to avoid blaming just him as if he wasn't elected a second time, and as if getting rid of him would magically solve things. Big structural change is needed I'm afraid.

I think it's easy to forget that we are all biased and when jumping to one conclusion is easy for us, another may be easy for someone else.

My 2.5 year old sometimes watches this kid show "Bing", and it really just spells out the moral of the story at the end, maybe "grown up" media should do that more too? Don't expect your audience to just know what comes naturally to you, tell them.

I know this goes against the core "show, don't tell" principle of writing a good story, but maybe we can do show and tell?

(And I say we collectively while I've never created anything with a message 😅)

on [Not OC] The radical left · c/comics · 61 pts · 14d

When you comment like this, do you actually think you're making a difference? Or are you just meta-virtue signalling?