#cuz i can say twst was my first fandom experience and now i know that sometimes things get a bit chaotic

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

Hey miss raven! I respect you so much for the fact that you keep the reader gn in order to include everyone! I truly wish everyone who writes for twst (and really any other fandom) would do the same. Just wanted to let you kniw i appreciate you ❤️

Its my first time writing to a blog off anon (cuz im shy 🤭) but its worth it if i get to say this to you :)

Hello, and thank you for coming off anon to offer your valuable feedback! ^^

I believe that one’s (general) sense of identity is of extreme importance. It is how you define yourself for others, to the world, and even to yourself. Gender, of course, is not one’s entire identity but one of many factors that make up one’s identity.

The gender continuum is admittedly something that I’ve had to personally educate myself on over the years, whether via my own academic studies or via personal experiences and those of friends or family. I will probably never personally know what it is like to question my gender (as I am comfortable with what I am now), and I will probably never understand what those struggling with their gender are going through (the same applies for other traits, such as race and sexuality)... but I can empathize with the feeling of “not being included” or “not belonging”.

I know it feels really bad to be left out, forgotten, or treated like an afterthought. It’s like being picked last for a group project or for a sports team. Everyone else in that group or team seems to already know each other, and the “last person picked” has a hard time integrating because they’re just... different. They don’t “fit in” with the rest. Now magnify it by a large factor; that’s how it feels when the team or the group you’re lumped in with is society itself placing its “norms” on you. When I think about that, well 💦 that’s kind of what prompted me to make the switch to writing entirely gender neutral reader inserts a long time ago! I don’t want anyone to feel excluded, you know?

I want to be clear to any content creator reading this: It is not my intent to shame anyone who chooses to write gendered works; I am just explaining my own reasons for choosing to write exclusively gender neutral for writing requests. Writing gendered works is fine, it’s just not something I personally choose to do. At the end of the day, it’s up to every individual content creator what they wish to do for their work and how they wish to do it.

To those who do write gendered readers, please consider tagging your works with the correct genders so it is easier for people who identify with those genders to read them (or, conversely, so it is easier for people who don’t identify with those genders to avoid them). At best, reading a piece with improper pronouns takes a reader out of the story. At worst, it can cause genuine discomfort and even trigger distress (such as in cases of gender dysphoria).

#tw // gender dysphoria #twisted wonderland x reader #twst x reader #twst #twisted wonderland #advice #disney twisted wonderland #notes from the writing raven #feedback for the writing raven

[maythearo]

I play genshin now but i'm scared to get into another fandom 🧐

#cuz i can say twst was my first fandom experience and now i know that sometimes things get a bit chaotic? hm #i had interests in other games/show/anime/whatever but i never interacted with people in the community #just sitting there on the corner #drawing fanart yea #i fear.