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  • Cromalin [she/her]M
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    7 months ago

    yeah the pacing is at its worst at this point. it suffers a bit with the big cast at some future points, but generally i think madiha has a much stronger handle on it going forward

    • ashinadash [she/her]
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      7 months ago

      Good :3 I still love it fwiw, like there's honestly probably nothing the author could do to make me not read the entire thing at this point. I recommended it to a woman I know in a lib queer discord, it's SUCH a great story to sell people, it has everything ✨

      Also the prince is definitely secretly gay with his twink guy right? Like I'm not misreading the sexual undertones there, am I?

      • Cromalin [she/her]M
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        7 months ago

        oh 100%, if you assume any given character is queer you'll basically always be right

          • Cromalin [she/her]M
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            7 months ago

            unjust depths is borderline heterophobic. like, if you wanted to invert the way standard homophobic storytelling is done it would look very similar to unjust depths. very few straight characters, it's treated very clearly as a personality flaw in all of them

            • ashinadash [she/her]
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              7 months ago

              Is it a personality flaw to uncritically support fictional heterophobia? 'Cause uh =)

              • Cromalin [she/her]M
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                7 months ago

                no, i think heterophobia is good as hell. more stories should engage in heterophobia. it's a shame unjust depths is the only truly heterophobic story i can think of

                the closest thing is a few stories that have lots of gay people and also some straight people and all the straight stuff leads to disaster while the gay stuff has messy drama but isn't as bad, but that's not the same

                • ashinadash [she/her]
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                  7 months ago

                  THANK YOU, I feel deeply satisfied being able to just safely assume that every single named character is queer. Bury your gays, more like bury your straights comfy-cool Unjust Depths is such a treasure, I haven't read anything else since I started.