I’m not asking for a discussion of the process. I’m really just asking a yes or no question: did you know this trope existed and was it a concern for you while writing?

commander-lexa:

okbjgm:

i absolutely did, it absolutely was, we discussed it, and yet, in spite of all of our best intentions and conversations, we were naive enough – or arrogant enough – to believe that the lgb representation in our show, and out ability as witers would superate/redeem our use of the trope. we were wrong.

holy fuck they genuinely thought they were so fantastic at their jobs that we wouldn’t mind the lesbian death trope in the show…. bye

I just…I keep thinking I’m going to step away from this because they’re not worth it, but. How…? Which part of it was going to save them?

But anyway, I want to know how they write this upcoming narrative where they’ve been copying Pocahontas/Avatar/FernGully/etc (extra marks again for having a white girl play the leader of the native population) except instead of having the sympathetic colonizer understand the native viewpoint they kill off the native and have the colonizer take over. Their ability as writers should blow that out of the water.

I’m not asking for a discussion of the process. I’m really just asking a yes or no question: did you know this trope existed and was it a concern for you while writing?

commander-lexa:

okbjgm:

i absolutely did, it absolutely was, we discussed it, and yet, in spite of all of our best intentions and conversations, we were naive enough – or arrogant enough – to believe that the lgb representation in our show, and out ability as witers would superate/redeem our use of the trope. we were wrong.

holy fuck they genuinely thought they were so fantastic at their jobs that we wouldn’t mind the lesbian death trope in the show…. bye

I just…I keep thinking I’m going to step away from this because they’re not worth it, but. How…? Which part of it was going to save them?

But anyway, I want to know how they write this upcoming narrative where they’ve been copying Pocahontas/Avatar/FernGully/etc (extra marks again for having a white girl play the leader of the native population) except instead of having the sympathetic colonizer understand the native viewpoint they kill off the native and have the colonizer take over. Their ability as writers should blow that out of the water.