[ SECRET POST #3364 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3364 ⌋

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

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02.
[The Glass Scientists]


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03.
[Ghostbusters remake]


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04.
[All for One Webseries]


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05.
[Castle]


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06.
[DC Comics]


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07.
[Reign of Fire]


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08.
[Steven Universe]


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09.
[K. Tempest Bradford]


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10.
[Against the Wall]


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11.
[Queer Literature, "In the Company of Shadows"]


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12.
(Star Wars Rebels)


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13.
[Jeeves and Wooster, P.G. Wodehouse]


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14.
[Giles Coren]


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15.
[James Marsters/Rick Grimes of The Walking Dead]









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 086 secrets from Secret Submission Post #481.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

DA
The problem I have with this: Minority status of any kind does not a better writer make by proxy. Especially when a lot of minority writers are either self publishing or with such small publishers that there is little to no proper editing involved and really, I can't be bothered to dig through piles of badly edited crap just because of diversity.
And to be quite honest, I don't think "no cis authors" is a bit of gamble considering that a lot of people currently claim all kinds of different flavours of ~non-cis~ just to be different.

(Also... who actually chooses their authors based on sex and race anyway? Personally, I barely register the names of authors when I read a book, and I definitely can't be bothered to do any extensive background search about their race and sexuality first.)

[(Anonymous)]

yeah i get that. its just that i don't think we live in a meritocracy where the best writers just HAPPEN to be white men (magically, on accident). I think historically in the west those were the ones that were supported and nurtured and had mentors and people taking risks on them. And it carries on to this day, in publishing people, even really nice people who don't try to have ANY bias, will have this unconscious slant towards a specific group that "feels" right.

it's sort of a cycle, we always say, well if they were good i'd already be reading them, i don't want to read a lot of boring garbage just for the sake of diversity (and i don't either) but I do think sometimes it's WORTH the concious effort of trying to see what else is there.

thats just my opinion though i wouldn't make anyone read anything they don't want.
I do know i did this for COMICS and found so many good comics i'm glad i did it.

[(Anonymous)]

Literally NO ONE is saying that minority writers are better. There are absolutely more than enough great/published non-straight-cis-white-male authors to last you a year (probably years).

Mostly no one chooses their authors solely on race or sex, it's just that sometimes if you don't make a tiny bit of effort you'll end up with straight white males authors by default. Have you ever gone to a site like reddit and read their genre recommendations? Almost exclusively white men because that's what has been recc'd to them. They're genuinely flabbergasted when they wander into a female-authors recommendation post because of all the great authors they've never even heard of that if they had bothered to step even a foot outside their comfort zones they would already have read a loved.

[(Anonymous)]

+1000

I honestly sometimes think that people have been brainwashed by Hollywood so that they assume 70% of the world is straight, white, cis men. To address only a single one of those axes, you could read nothing but female authors for the rest of your life and never run out of great (and traditionally published, if that really matters to you) books to read. By the time you add queer and/or POC and/or trans male authors to that list, as well, you're completely spoiled for choice.

And I've seen those reddit recommendation threads. I'll sometimes count 50+ recs for (white, occasionally queer) male authors before someone mentions a POC author or Ursula K. Le Guin a female author.