Butterfly Wings Ch5

In the fifth chapter, Sora wakes up in an unfamiliar bed surrounded by strange adults, one of whom beat him up and abducted him. Oh, canon. You really just get weirder the more attention I pay.

Possibly the last of these stacked updates, since I'm running lower on pretyped material to plug into the chapters. Or not, since I think Ch6 will be short.

Internets

There's some bitchery about the racial subtext of hair jokes going on. It's mostly three camps - "Please consider the racial subtext if you're making a joke about how African hair is ugly" "You are offending the oppressed black peoples if you say anything but how awesome African hair/hairstyles are" and "WTF since when?"

What I find interesting is that one of the posters who's in the second camp has an icon from the last cycle of writing "characters of color" about how writers avoid dark-skinned characters as considered too hard to identify with when people write about vampires and other completely non-existent humanoids.

It maybe has something to do with the fact the vampires don't throw fits if you describe them as having pasty complexions.

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Chapter Six is up. Finally, the third district!

Something about falls-into-game self inserts. There's either never the chapter where the character just sits down and explains they know anything, or else the story immediately grinds to a halt after it. From a story perspective, the first impulse is to have the insert show off their awesome knowledge, but afterward, what can you do with it? The rest of the story would be just the self insert going "Oh, and now you have to do x" and the characters doing it. So you get all sorts of absurd situations where the self insert tries not to tell anyone, for no explained reason. (The same covers even situations where there's no plot to spoil - every falls-into-pokeworld sue ever lies her head off and tries to pretend she's native, probably because the authors don't want to actually deal with what just happened.)

Also, Warlorn-chan's reviews seem to be getting misogynistic. But what are his thoughts on yaoi?