[ SECRET POST #4067 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4067 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Has fandom changed your political views?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Hell yeah. I did all the typical YA SFF in high school: Tolkien, Lewis, Le Guin, Piers Anthony was unavoidable and not a well-known creep yet, Yolen, Bradbury, all the Oz books including the ghostwritten ones, John Christopher. That along with Star Trek and Star Wars kinda primed me for utopian fiction.

Then in college, the sexuality stuff crashed around me. There wasn't any real books on bisexuality that were not SFF until '92 I think. So I ended up reading all of the Journal Entries series off usenet which started off as furry Ringworld with enough serial numbers filed off to avoid being sued. It's the first fiction I encountered that wasn't either deeply coded in subtext or yet another AIDS tragedy. (I'm not alone in fanfic as one of the few places to find LGBT rep at the time.)

Then I found post-New Wave feminist science fiction, Le Guin (again), Slonczewski, Bujold, and Tepper although I wouldn't necessarily endorse her. Same-sex romance mods for BG2. A bit of D&D (I still approach game fic like D&D setting fic, it's a crying shame that MMORPG and CRPG player-character fic got buried by the min-maxers). Vonnegut and Heller solidified my religious pacifism. Now Queer SFF is definitely a thing via Mandelo, finally discovering Chip (it doesn't help that his most recommended is his least accessible), Yang as my new love, and Meadows. The Puppy snafu pretty much cemented my view that those forms of SFF are needed, and if you don't like it, there's plenty of other books.