[ SECRET POST #5019 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5019 ⌋

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


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04. [SPOILERS for Mulan (2020)]



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05. [WARNING for discussion of transphobia]



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07. [WARNING for discussion of child abuse]














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Comments

[fscom]

07. [WARNING for discussion of child abuse]
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[feotakahari]

I can’t find it now, but I once read an essay by a Muslim fan of the famously anti-Islam Orson Scott Card. He said sometimes even the author doesn’t understand his own book’s message.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm still trying to work this out myself. The Darkover series had a big impact and me and my writing and yet it's difficult to accept that now I know.

[11thmirror]

Yep. I grew up reading a lot of MZB, though I don't think I connected to it as closely as you, and Moira Greyland's revelations were a real kick in the chest.
I'm glad I can put my feelings about MZB and my feelings about Darkover in separate spaces in my head, but if you can't, that's okay too.

[(Anonymous)]

The biggest kick in the chest for me was how many people KNEW. I read Moira's book, and so many adults knew about the abuse and shrugged about it.

[(Anonymous)]

I think with her books, as perhaps with JKR's, sometimes it helps to invoke Death of the Author, if you can. Separate the work from the creator.

(And I say that as someone who finds that nearly impossible.)

[(Anonymous)]

In this case it might be a bit easier since the author is literally dead... I've been trying to do it for years. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't and I'm still glad that I bought most of her books I've read used.

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

That might be part of it, but then again I couldn't stomach Wagner after I found out what a colossal anti-Semite he was.

Re: AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

DA - Happily I never liked Wagner, but I was very upset to learn that Degas was an anti-Semite. I always loved his paintings :(

[(Anonymous)]

I just got back from reading her and her husband's wiki pages, and now I feel like throwing up.

[numb3r_5ev3n]

Anyone whose introduction to Paganism (or re-introduction, in my mom's case) was The Mists Of Avalon can relate.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. This. The Shattered Chain and Thendara House were really important books for me, growing up. Darkover was, I think, the first place I encountered a genderfluid character, it was... it was one of those settings that informed the way I thought about the world.

And... yeah. That.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, same here - the Darkover series was hugely important to me as an isolated lesbian teenager who didn't even know you could be a lesbian. And it's not just that she was a horrible person in real life, but if you look through her books there's lots of semi-forced incest and older person/younger person relationships which are portrayed as overall good things. It's really upsetting and horrible. I'd love to practice death of the author but I can't emotionally manage it with her yet.