[ SECRET POST #3542 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #3542 ⌋

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

01.



__________________________________________________



02.


__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.


__________________________________________________



06.


__________________________________________________



07.


__________________________________________________



08.


__________________________________________________



09.














Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 19 secrets from Secret Submission Post #506.
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

[feotakahari]

I can't find it now, but I once read an essay called "We're Not the Dragons You're Looking For." The author was asexual, and she talked about the first book she'd ever read with an asexual main character. She was so happy to be represented, right up until the main character turned out to be a dragon and flew off to live with the other dragons. She felt like she was being called inhuman, like a person who was asexual couldn't still be a person.

[(Anonymous)]

I think that's sad and unfortunate. And I think its vitally important that we have lots and lots of representation.

However, having said that, I'm really not sure how the argument follows on from there, especially as regards SF&F as a genre. I don't think it's that book's fault that media is completely lacking in asexual representation. And, I mean, i dont think it would be a good solution to say that we're only allowed to have cisgender aliens and heterosexual vampires. So I'm just kind of not sure where that goes.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the best "solution" would be to have more variety in the inevitable human characters from SF&F fiction, rather than less in the nonhumans.

SF&F doesn't mean all the non-cis, non-het stuff has to involve nonhumans.

There's no reason you can't have an alien race who are all guaranteed cis and het, in comparison to humans being shown as explicitly not identical that way, for example. (Preferably without any sort of "but the aliens were the real humans all along~" kind of crap.)

[(Anonymous)]

I agree, which is what I was getting at with the point that representation is important in general.