Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@rowyn i mean, you did pick a bit of complicated scene to draw!

i dont think ive ever met a cat who would voluntarily mediate an argument—though i suppose if the good nap spot with the cozy sunbeams was on the line that might be sufficient enticement to behave uncharacteristically

@elena well if you do decide to go for it you have to share the deets with the rest of us here on fedi

@elena the gossip cannot possibly be worth it

@Lady i also need to ILL a book but i have to renew my library card first

@imp i guess once you are already out of it enough to miss that someone is talking about their fanfiction you are also out of it enough to miss that bruce wayne’s bizarre neuroses are probably not relevant criticism

@imp oh no 😅

@Lady i feel like my legal studies professors were also of this opinion but i will grant that it can be a bit harder to know what is an obvious and widely accepted claim in a cross disciplinary context

though this one feels obvious enough that theres really no excuse

@Lady i was told in college that obvious and widely recognized claims did not need citations and in fact probably shouldn’t be cited because doing so is misleading

@TheBookewyrme maybe i have just been burned too many times by otherwise reasonable and well researched people having massive blindspots about something because it conforms to their preexisting biases

@TheBookewyrme which would not be an unreasonable thing for an author to do in a vacuum, but given the confusion surrounding the issue in question i do feel like authors have a little bit of a responsibility to signal that they do not, in fact, believe this and are just depicting SY having bad takes

@TheBookewyrme people using “period typical” to refer to their complete assumptions about what the past was like with zero research or factchecking also drives me crazy so i feel u on this

and also i feel like the period messiness of xianxia in general / svsss in particular only makes the use of the term MORE inappropriate. like how can *anything* be period appropriate when we’ve thrown like a thousand years in a blender?????

@gnomon lol enjoy your bear nightmares!