[ SECRET POST #3961 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3961 ⌋

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

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(fandom: My Brother, My Brother and Me)


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[Neil Gaiman's "Good Omens"]


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(Minami, YoI)


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Comments

Re: It does seem earnest, but not special snowflake to me.

[(Anonymous)]

But it's not what they're saying.

What they said is "when the only NB characters we get are non-human - or in this case, the literal embodiment of some of the worst part of humanity/the world - it kind of says some awful things about NB people".

That's not saying that their problem is specifically with Pollution being a bad guy. That's part of it, but the broader concern of it is that Pollution is non-human. And it seems pretty straightforward why someone might have issues with non-binary characters also being non-human, and why they might feel that general trend says "awful things about NB people".

Moreover, the broader context is not about "why is this such bad representation". I mean, you make this point yourself. The broader frame of the post, and the actual question asked, is "why did you make this creative choice." Which is a totally different question, and a fundamentally valid one in my mind, and it's also one that Gaiman offers a completely valid answer to. So I just don't see who really is hurt in this interaction, or who is being unfair. A person asked a question about a creative choice and the author answered it.

It's, frankly, just you people are reading all these levels of anger and disdain and accusation into the ask which just do not seem to be there to me. You're misquoting the tumblr ask to make it seem worse than it is, despite the fact that the literal text of the Tumblr post is in the post. It is so confusing to me.