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Anne with an E’s cancellation is damaging to Indigenous viewers
These reactions from Non-Native fans are proof of the effectiveness of the writing and acting, in teaching through storytelling. But here is the thing: Indigenous fans are watching, too. And in the age of politicians throwing around the words Truth and Reconciliation while continuing to walk the same paths their colonial forefathers did, we do not need another story about Indigenous pain and suffering. We need a story about Indigenous resilience and convalescence.
Hi everyone, even if you have never seen the show Anne with an E, I would really appreciate anyone willing to take a few minutes to read why this is not just a matter of cancelling a beloved period drama, but a matter of white corporations making a profit off of Indigenous suffering, without giving Indigenous healing in a betrayal of responsibility.
#SaveAnnWithAnE #RenewAnneWithAnE
(Sincere apologies for the double-post, but as everyone knows, link post types don’t always show up in Tumblr tag searches, so this version is for that.)
there is this trend I have noticed in Queer Books of late (it's not just Queer Books, but that's the only arena I can definitively speak on; please see this Goodreads review dragging The Hacienda to hell and back for a related example) where authors are so very proud of themselves for reinterpreting, reinventing, etc. a genre, but 1) they don't actually understand the genre at all, and 2) they are scared absolutely shitless at having their protagonists ever do anything remotely morally questionable - or, god fucking forbid, not being good people - that the result is the blandest fucking mush I've ever had the displeasure to read. See: Lavender House, a murder mystery about a family of queer people where the killer is obvious from the jump because there's only one straight person in the house and it's obvious the author isn't willing to let a gay person commit a crime, and Reluctant Immortals, a vampire book where our vampire leading lady not only doesn't kill people but doesn't even drink blood. I'm sick of it! None of these authors have anything remotely insightful to say about anything, but they're getting their books boosted because slapping a "look! it's queer!" label on the cover sells. Obviously the "classics" (by which I mean, the likes of Anne Rice and Poppy Z. Brite) are hashtag problematic, but god, I wish current authors had a fucking ounce of courage when it came to writing characters who just plain old fashioned SUCK.
If Glen Powell didn’t get to kiss Miles Teller after he saved his life at the end of Top Gun Maverick then he doesn’t get to kiss Daisy Edgar-Jones at the end of Twisters. The universe balances things out.
That’s why Glen Powell is for the bisexuals.