[ SECRET POST #2976 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2976 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Homestuck]


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[NCIS: Los Angeles/Hawaii Five-0]


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[Left Shark (Katy Perry? Super Bowl?) and Bad-Dragon .com]


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Comments

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I don't get the identification thing. But representation is important for me in terms of worldbuilding. New Who is a welcoming universe because we have Shakespeare, Skye Silvestre, and the married car-spotters. Elementary is a welcoming universe because we've had multiple LGBT characters who were treated just like every other character on the show. I don't identify with any of those characters, but having them in there is a sign that the writers have actually thought about the issue of sexual and gender diversity within those worlds.

As opposed to J.R.R. Tolkien, where most of the sexual relationships are variations on the theme of an idealized Catholic sexuality. At the other end of the spectrum, I find myself weirdly ambivalent about the everyone-is-bisexual politics of Ian Banks' Culture, although that might be a limitation of the two books I've read.

[kallanda_lee]

The only thing I read b Ian Banks was the Wasp factory (which I won't spoil here for people who haven't read it), but now I'm actually sort of curious.

I get what you mean with identification and I DO understand the welcoming part...I guess I might also be lucky in the genres I like, which is a lot of fantasy a sci-fi, where I guess it's so removed from the real world to me, I just care less.

In shows that are more "realistic", I can see it being a bigger problem. The who married-with-children-fest in Bones for example, ultimately turned me of the show because one relationship type was heavily over-represented and took a lot of screen time.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I'm doing The Culture in order and supposedly have not gotten to the good ones yet. But the ones I've read were fairly good.

I think another argument to be made for feminist and multicultural SF&F is that it's one of the easiest ways to avoid getting caught into the same old derivative variations on a theme. It's been a while since I've plugged Terra Nova but it's a brilliant anthology that includes new perspectives on some tired genres like the zombie horror. I don't find it surprising that Blomkamp is the one to pitch an Alien revival. Apparently, the Chinese science fiction community is huge, and there's a lot of interest in getting those stories translated into English.

[kallanda_lee]

Interesting, I had no idea!

+1

[grausam]

yeah, I like your points. Especially that diverse canons are more "welcoming".