MAG 160.1 - Season 4 Q+A Part 1
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How to Avoid Tropes Like Queerbaiting and Bury Your Gaze as a Thing When Writing
I don't particularly like violence against animals or animal death in this sort of thing, but it is very much a practical rule. A better way to say it be, if there was a cat present that Gertrude was spending loads of time with having a chill, you don't kill the cat. We're not going to kill that punishment for another character. But at the same time, I don't feel like saying that there might theoretically have been a cat who died 50 years ago. Actually breaches that rule? Also, it might not have existed, it might have been a joke. It's nice to have some others. It opens story options up as well. You just do
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