So you start with that bundle of tropes. But because this is GTA, you then add some ill-thought-out ‘edgy’ twists on the common tropes, because Everything Is Shit And Everyone’s An Asshole. Don’t let your changes affect the story structure in any way ( fuck it, don’t even bo...
I appreciate when people do weird shit with sometimes tired tropes. Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer. I really, really loved the way Kritzer captured how friendships formed on the internet work, without treating them like lesser order relationships. I doubly appreciated how she captured ...
So, drinking games are a super bad idea in reality, if done with alcohol, and probably literally no one should ever actually do that, because it can be actually dangerous. THAT SAID… the concept of sussing out the tropes in advance and mentally taking a swig whenever a doozy comes up?
or your decision to like or not like her–just be aware of the sexist, unspoken tropes in our society that inform those decisions. So feel free to not like her or her policies, but if those decisions have anything to do in your mind with her husband’s infidelity twenty years...