6 weeks*
Get it right
"If you've been paying attention to X for the past week, a ton of men have gone absolutely apeshit for the "Malfoid" trend of Harry Potter fan fiction. I've even joined in, and I'm not even the target audience."
Yep - I started posting stories 2 weeks ago and they are taking off like mad.
Also made a shit ton of cool mutuals.
Also tells me I can write male romance pretty easily simply by taking snippets out of my own life.
Publishers are missing out on massive amounts of money by ignoring male yearning because for some reason, society has deemed males toxic.
Same story with video games and trying to appeal to a non-existant "greater audience"
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How about instead of arguing about the reasons, people simply post a list of 5 fiction IPs from the last 20 years that men and boys would be interested in reading.
Young boys are being discouraged from getting into reading—and it’s because more books are missing one key element, @sophiah_n reports: theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
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Adam Motherby retweeted
So there’s a whole discussion going on about boys not being readers and why that is and how people like/don’t like gendered books.
“Why do we need new authors for boys when these classic books exist?”
“Why do we need male protagonists when boys should read books with female protagonists so they can understand what it’s like to see through someone else’s POV?”
Let me handle it this way:
1. Boys have always been behind girls in literacy for various reasons.
Biological and mental development, testosterone burn-off/lack of sitting still long enough to read, undiagnosed learning issues - all of these are legitimate reasons.
2. Being a classic doesn’t mean it resonates immediately with a younger audience.
Yes, LOTR is timeless. And wordy. And has funky names that put people off reading it.
3. Boys should be exposed to female protagonists and characters. And they are, daily. From tv shows to video games and even in their real lives, boys have been placed in a secondary role. “Girl power” and “girls in STEM” are preached while boys get nothing special. They get a lot of other people’s POV.
Their gay teacher hands a rainbow flag while their older sister’s friend’s sister is really her brother. They see it. What they don’t see is themselves.
4. “Well what about Harry Potter?” Yeah, the books are 29 years old and the movies are 25 years old.
“What about these other authors and series?” Percy Jackson started 21 years ago.
The books and series you’re referencing belong more to adults than to the kids at this point.
The bottom line is boys want new books, new stories to read and grow with. Cutting men out of the literary world (except for a few well established authors who tell the same stories over and again) is basically telling the boys they don’t belong and shouldn’t be reading.
If you want them to enjoy lead female characters, you have to get them to enjoy reading first. And that starts with stories for them.
#Malfoid yearners, important question.
Which Malfoid song is playing in your head/Playlist right now?
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Adam Motherby retweeted
malfoid and anakin: two sides of the same generation, united by one desire
one meme turns hostility into love
the other shows how love can turn into destruction
one is an anime girl yearning for harry potter
the other is a fallen jedi who has become a symbol of a generation losing faith in the establishment
two different stories, yet both revolve around the same desire
to love, to belong, and to build a future worth living for
malfoid transforms draco malfoy’s rivalry with harry potter into something innocent: affection
the blushing, the teasing, the constant yearning
she represents something simple, the desire to love and be loved
anakin’s story takes that same desire somewhere much darker
viral anakin memes portray the jedi council as an aging establishment demanding loyalty from a generation it no longer understands
for some young white men in the west, anakin has become a symbol of political and economic alienation
housing feels unattainable, financial security increasingly distant, and the dream of building a family uncertain
debates over immigration, demographic change, and cultural identity have become intertwined with fears that institutions no longer represent their interests
beneath these frustrations lies the fear of losing the future they hoped to build
anakin feared losing padmé, but the jedi struggled to understand his desperation
palpatine recognized that fear, promised him the power to protect what he loved, and exploited it
in trying to save padmé, anakin destroyed the very future he wanted to preserve
and that’s where these two memes connect
anakin never wanted to rule the galaxy
he wanted padmé, love, a family, and a future without fear
the very life that malfoid memes romanticize
where malfoid transforms hostility into affection, anakin transforms affection into destruction
not every fan shares the same politics, but these memes reveal two very different sides of the same desire
and perhaps the greatest warning in anakin’s story is that when institutions fail to understand people’s frustrations, someone like palpatine may recognize them instead
not to save them
but to use them
one romanticizes the love we yearn for
the other warns what happens when the fear of losing it consumes us
ALL GLORY TO THE GREAT EMPEROR SKYWALKER!
FIRST OF HIS NAME!
FIRST OF HIS BLOOD!
CONQUERER OF LIGHT AND SHADOW!BANE TO THE SLAVER, BARBARIAN, IDLE KING, AND PULLER OF STRINGS!
THE IMMACULATE SON!
THE ONE WHO BINDS US!
UNITES US!
ALL HAIL THE EMPEROR!
#StarWars #AnakinWasRight
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#StarWars discourse:
Zoomer: "Anakin kinda went down a dark path, huh?"
Boomer: "yes, he did. Very villainous."
Z: "But like, what if he didn't, though?"
B: "OmG dO yOu EvEn WaTcH mOvIeS!? He'S a BiTcH aNd So ArE yOu!"
Z: "But like, Emperor Ani"
B: "PaLp'S EmPiRe WuZ eViL!"
All of this weekends topics can be summed up in 2 images
<what we have<
>what we yearn>
<what Anakin lived<
>what Luke created>
<reparations plz<
>we owe nothing>
<boomer morality<
>zoomer morality>
#HarryPotter #malfoid #StarWars #Anakin #slavery #reparations
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Given the #StarWars debate going around at the moment, I thought I might piss off a few boomers, and explain their own favourit IP to them.
There is no dark side. There certainly isn't a light side. There is only The Force.
The Jedi PRESUME to know better
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A wise Force User would recognise the greater potential of the "dark side" and use it in moderation.
It is the Jedi's insistence that you cannot use both without turning to the dark that creates the likes of the Sith.
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Adam Motherby retweeted
Restore Britain no doubt does have some vile supporters (few in number). The difference is, Reform have vile leaders, who lie and appease. People who don't just use nasty words, but try to destroy peoples reputations with lies. That is despicable and unforgivable.