[ SECRET POST #5356 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5356 ⌋

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


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This salty gay remembers how it was used to hide bisexuality, so no fucking thanks.

[(Anonymous)]

A line such as "...the men and women I've loved..." requires no labels and makes a character's bisexuality clear. The secret isn't saying keep a character's sexuality hidden, it's saying keep the words you use to show it in line with the setting.

[(Anonymous)]

And then there are those of us who are amused every time modern writers go out of their way to slap modern labels where they don't make sense, especially in fiction about cultures that didn't even have those concepts as things

If not labeling and hiding it was appropriate or accurate to the times, or if the concepts and social groups simply did not exist, then it'd be more in-character for labels not to be used

[(Anonymous)]

I'm making a bet right now that a movement will start that criticizes the very idea of setting anything in a culture that doesn't have modern LGBT+ words or concepts, on the grounds that choosing that culture for your setting is a sneaky way to justify not having "real" representation. Like how there are people who think choosing to put your story in racially homogeneous setting is just an excuse not to have racially diverse representation.

[(Anonymous)]

This salty old-as-dirt bi ace who reads fantasy a lot happens to think it's better writing when books manage to make it clear that a character is queer (whether a specific flavour of queer or more generically queer) without necessarily stopping the narration cold to use a term that doesn't fit in-universe. So yes fucking please.