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Something I’ve never seen addressed in fiction criticism: just because you have story element A doesn’t mean you directly planned it, rather than putting it because you needed to fill something in from story element B. Say your minor antagonist needs to be in college in order for your plot to work. Are they a literature major? A biology major? The plot doesn’t care, but you need to fill in something, so you randomly pick biology. Then someone with a bug up their butt says you’re intentionally demonizing biologists, and you had no idea demonizing biologists was even a thing until they started ranting about how bigoted you are. In between “the curtains represent sadness” and “the curtains are freaking blue,” there needs to be room for “the curtains are just a color contrast for the green carpet that represents nature” or whatnot.

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”If I don’t allow these people into my Tolkien fan group, they won’t read Tolkien” is a wild assumption. What happens is you don’t allow them into your Tolkien fan group, so they make a Tolkien fan group. Which they DID. It’s like if “we’re banning furries from our website” was assumed to prevent the existence of furries.

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She-ra Omegaverse, but with Catra rolling her eyes at these crazy dog people and their crazy dog genders.