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⌈ Secret Post #2732 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Oh god. So true. It's like no matter the genre or the source material, you are ALWAYS reading about American teenagers.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree.

On the other hand, with published fiction, 80% of the time you're always reading about old white men, no matter the ostensible characters.

Swings and roundabouts.

[(Anonymous)]

tbqh, I can't remember the last time I read about an "old white man".

I mean, perhaps Tolstoy? But Russian culture is wildly different from American culture, and I find his portrayal of pre-revolution Russian society amazing (or are you one of those "all Caucasians are a monolith with no culture" people?). Other than that, I read about a Chinese young woman, and American professor who dealt with schizophrenia her whole life, a young ambiguously-brown boy in a fantasy world... seriously, there is SO MUCH VARIETY out there.
The "old white men" thing is a fallacy.

[grausam]

it's not always old white men, there's also white boy's coming of age stories (jk)

but you're right, there's a lot variety if you're putting some effort into it. Being able to buy books online doesn't hurt either- there are book publishers who look exclusively for interesting presentation.

[(Anonymous)]

The "old white men" thing is a fallacy.

This. The English novel was practically invented by women -- Austen, the Brontes, Eliot, Gaskell...

+1 to both

[grausam]

even if the fanfic authors aren't American teenagers, most of the "normal life AUs" get written as American (or maybe British)

yeah, it's hard to find books not about old white men for me, but at least the author's name and heritage is a clue :/ (doesn't make them automatically enjoyable, though)

Re: +1 to both

[(Anonymous)]

It bugs me, tbh. I wish I would write an AU set in my country, but I'm afraid it'll just sound political/preachy, because it doesn't fit the American 'default'.

Re: +1 to both

[grausam]

yeah... just the effort it would take to write to an "university AU in my country" (which I would like to write) instead of a "college AU" even though that's at least a broadly similiar socio economic population, would include a lot of exposition. Those would exoticize it again, although one actually wanted to write a normal, authentic POV or world?

What kind of AU in your country would you like to write, anon?

Re: +1 to both

[ketita]

lol I'll just out myself, it's not a big deal, I just hadn't signed in yet.

I'm in the SNK fandom and reincarnation AUs are a huge thing. I've had one or two plots I've considered, but I feel like my only option is to reincarnate them into an American-ish setting. I'm Israeli, and ah-ha-ha try writing a fic set in modern Israel /fatalistic shrug
A fic about soldiers in modern Israel. (don't know if you know the setting, but the main characters are all soldiers in that anime).

I hate that everything about my country is politicized so heavily by everyone, but that's reality.

Re: +1 to both

[grausam]

damn, according to the stuff I know about snk it would be really interesting
to read about an AU with normal day-to-day military service and its culture with the characters (the majority of Israelis serve sometime during their lifes, right?).

And it would show an interesting contrast between anime military against gruesome monster enemies and a complicated andor just mundane soldier reality.

but yeah, there's no way that wouldn't create wank, just because you broached "Israel" at all.

[sarillia]

I'm repeating myself, but I don't understand this stereotype at all. It comes up every time this discussion happens and I don't get it.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Easy solution. Don't read that, especially now that we're in an age when reviewers who do only feminist, queer, or multicultural literature within single genres lament that more is being published than they have time to read.