Speculative fiction writer, translator, and editor

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narrative decisions

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Toph Beifong

on toph embodying disability

toph’s "let me know if they have something you can listen to" is such a great line about library accessibility in what is purportedly a world without electricity it’s especially resonant because the episode opens with her bored on an air bison (where she would have no way of “seeing” anything, as she has no…

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Aang and Katara

on kataang as narrative closure

hear me out, but what if kataang happened narratively not because “dudes don’t know how relationships work” but because of awareness that pairing the colonized with the colonizer does not make for a good ending about indigenous liberation in the face of imperialism “but redemption—!” the whole POINT is that a redemption arc does not…

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on m/m and the female gaze

pinches bridge of nose the male gaze on f/f content is not the same as the female gaze on m/m content, can we stop pretending they’re completely equivalent yes, both can be fetishistic, but that’s… a part of sexual and romantic gaze in general? patriarchy and misogyny really unbalance the scales here the more interesting…

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