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This blog will likely never be updated consistently. In all of my years of being on the internet, I have never really been much of a "blogger." Even as a child, I could never actually keep anything like a diary or a journal. It just was never a kind of writing that I was impassioned to do. The art of the random shitpost tweet always came to me more naturally than typing up a paragraphs long blog post.
I say that, despite having a literal bachelor's degree in Professional Writing, but I digress.
Anyway, hi -- hello. My name's Marjorie. I graduated college back in May 2025 and am a writer and a voice actress -- I know, two fields known for utmost financial security.
This blog will be somewhere for me to just dump whatever may be on my mind. Most likely discussions on media and the ways I and others engage with it. Nothing too fancy.
Nice to meet you.
The other day, I saw someone post what they claimed to be a "proper critique" of the popular indie game Deltarune. I discovered this via my timeline showing me a quote retweet from another party (a fan of the game in question) express interest in seeing real critique of the game, but that any and all valid points the author raised got buried by the author's inherent dislike of the game itself. Other replies and quotes joined in saying similar -- critiquing how the author dressed their opinion on aspects such as the game's sense of humor as objective flaws rather than subjective view.
In a way, it reminded me of a certain professor I dealt with while I was in college. She was one of the main writing professors on the staff. A good friend and I had a fiction writing class that she taught and one of our assigned readings was the 1911 novella Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton -- a writer our professor admired with all her heart.
While our discussions in class tackled many aspects of the book, such as its significance as a naturalist novel in an era romantic for the "good ol' days", there was one particular topic that ended up going by the wayside. My good friend and I are both disabled (we both are neurodivergent and my friend is physically disabled), and we wanted to discuss the ableism present within Ethan Frome's writing. The professor completely shut us both down, she seemed determined that our desire to address this topic was in bad faith. She said things like, "That was just how this was viewed in the era," instead of listening to what we were trying to say. To what we were trying to contribute to the discussion.
Now, I am not a fan of Ethan Frome. I wouldn't have liked the book regardless of if I read it for a class or for pleasure. Do I think the book is objectively terrible? No, it simply isn't for me and I acknowledge that my perspective as a woman living in 2026 as opposed to 1911 has a major effect on how I view events and themes within the novella. Ableism is one of those things. Zeena, who is disabled due to chronic illness, is portrayed as the villain to Ethan's life. Ethan mistreats her because she is sick and cheats on her with Mattie, her younger cousin who only enters their home to care for Zeena because Ethan won't do so. The novella ends with Mattie and Ethan both becoming disabled as well -- Mattie is paralyzed from the neck down while Ethan has a permanent limp -- and forcing the already disabled Zeena to become a caretaker once more. Disability in Ethan Frome is not respected as a real aspect of life that can happen to a person, it is used as a punishment.
In stopping my friend and I from critiquing the ableism, our professor had opened the door for the other students to uphold ableist views of the characters and continuing to treat disability as a "sad but due punishment". I do not know how many of the other students in the class may have also been disabled, but as a disabled person, it was one of the most uncomfortable experiences I had and we weren't allowed to do much about it, if at all.
No matter if you are the world's biggest hater or fan of a given work and or its creator, it's important to be able to take a step back and sober oneself if they want to have a fair critique of it. Be mindful to not let personal distaste mask itself as objective truth, nor let your devoted love shut out a wider discussion about what flaws there will always be.