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 (DIR) Post #Av4fd7ESAhWMMGWsE4 by ljwrites@writeout.ink
       2025-06-13T02:36:52Z
       
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       #WritersCoffeeClub Jun 12 - How much of your ideals are imbued in your work? Give an example.My ideals are a part of who I am so of course my work will embody them, but I don't write about ideal societies or people so the relationship is a little complex and refracted. Perhaps my foremost practical ideal is to tell the truth of the world, even (especially) in fiction, because dominance wants us to lie about the world to uphold violent power structures. Some examples:- Fat romantic heroines, a family of disabled refugees, nobility and the commons in dynamic political give-and-take and not a paternalistic savior relationship (big WIP)- Lesbian protagonists working toward safety & community (A Very Long Malaise, The Dream of the God's Wife, short WIP)- Amputee protagonist does extreme violence against Nazis (Les marguerites fleuriront ce soir)- Transfem Mulan, critique of militarism (A Maiden's War, unpublished short story)- Non-speaking protagonist, ecoterrorist resistance (unpublished short story)
       
 (DIR) Post #Av4fd8MzwPwxt3XDBQ by ljwrites@writeout.ink
       2025-06-13T02:46:46Z
       
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       Periodic reminder that Disney's adaptations of #Mulan lied to you like many other pro-Han and military propagandistic adaptations. The original Ballad of Mulan is unflinching about the destruction and suffering of military life, and I will go to my grave arguing that it's a transfeminine narrative. Here's my #translation: https://ljwrites.blog/posts/ballad-of-mulan/