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Disney, Original Stories, and Skin Tone… (Part 1)
So, here’s the thing. It bothers me that people scream “whitewashing” with Disney when it comes to skin colour. People always point out “Disney makes the good guys pale and the bad guys dark.” This statement has always bothered me because when I think back through them, I don’t see bad guys as dark. If nothing else, I think of them as lighter-skinned/coloured. So, I decided to create a series of posts using screencaps and giving a summary of the originals. Are there other things in the stories that are “whitewashed” in order to appeal to upper and middle class American girls of European descent? Sure. Do the princesses…
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A Call to Arms: Book One of the Chronicles of Arden by Shiriluna Nott****
Let me start this off by saying that I think it’s silly that booksellers feel the need to state whether the romance in a novel is “Gay or Lesbian”. It’s not like we label books “Straight”. That said, if you are homophobic, don’t read this story. If you are not homophobic, but are unsure if you’ll be comfortable reading a story where two boys fall in love, go for it. If you can put your hands in the air ‘cuz you just don’t care, read it. All that said, when I started reading A Call to Arms I was a little wary. I hadn’t read a book in Kindle format…
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On realizing my favourite characters are twenty…
Someone asked a very good question on the NaNoWriMo Facebook page: How old are your favourite original characters? I blinked and then had to do math. Math! And man, did I feel strange afterwards. My favourites are twenty-years old. You read that right. Twenty. My first short stories with them were written when I was eleven. I am now thirty-one.I then did some even more scary math because people then wanted to know how long I’d been writing. The first stories my mom has saved are from kindergarten, though I apparently was writing stories a bit before that first saved one. This means I’ve been writing stories for twenty-five to…