{"id":8607,"date":"2013-05-28T23:56:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T05:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=8607"},"modified":"2013-05-28T23:56:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T05:56:13","slug":"sorry-no-trope-tuesday-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/sorry-no-trope-tuesday-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, no Trope Tuesday (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, sorry, no Trope Tuesday this week.\u00a0 Third week missed in a row!\u00a0 Not so good.\u00a0 Thing is, I&#8217;m really focused on finishing <strong>Star Wanderers: Reproach (Part VII)<\/strong> right now, with a self-imposed deadline of May 31st. I figure that&#8217;s more important, and I really don&#8217;t want to break my momentum.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been vacillating a lot about this project.\u00a0 Sometimes, I think it&#8217;s halfway decent, perhaps even good.\u00a0 Other times, I wonder how the @#$! I came to be trapped in this story and why I&#8217;m wasting the best years of my life writing this crap.\u00a0 The other\u00a0<strong>Star Wanderers<\/strong> stories are selling decently well, but this one is so shite that it&#8217;s bound to kill the series and why am I writing this why why <em>WHY???\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And then I get the chains back on my inner editor and drag him down to the dungeon, where I keep him on a strict diet of bread crusts and rotten cheese.\u00a0 No wonder he hates me.<\/p>\n<p>I know those trope posts are a popular feature around here, so I&#8217;ll get back on top of them once this project is finished (which WILL be this week!\u00a0 It WILL!!)\u00a0 In the meantime, if you&#8217;re looking for a trope fix, you should check out Anita Sarkeesian&#8217;s latest Feminist Frequency video.\u00a0 She does an awesome job deconstructing feminist video game tropes, in a much more meticulous and thoughtful manner than I have ever achieved here:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/toa_vH6xGqs\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part of me wants her to take my own stories and analyze them for feminist tropes.\u00a0 The other part shudders in abject horror at what she might possibly find.<\/p>\n<p>Whoops, looks like the inner editor just got loose again.\u00a0 Better go hang out on the KBoards until I&#8217;ve got him back in the dungeon.<\/p>\n<p>Later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, sorry, no Trope Tuesday this week.\u00a0 Third week missed in a row!\u00a0 Not so good.\u00a0 Thing is, I&#8217;m really focused on finishing Star Wanderers: Reproach (Part VII) right now, with a self-imposed deadline of May 31st. I figure that&#8217;s more important, and I really don&#8217;t want to break my momentum. I&#8217;ve been vacillating a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/sorry-no-trope-tuesday-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sorry, no Trope Tuesday (again)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Sorry, no Trope Tuesday this week (deadline woes). 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