[ SECRET POST #6155 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6155 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I get it. I’m not interested in reading about that sort of thing, either. And in my experience, if a cover looks the way you described, it’s always going to be about racism. There are similar tells with other groups and none of those are enjoyable reads for me, either.

I read a lot of indie authors so I think the argument about publishers pushing that agenda is overstating things. I’ve always figured the authors are writing as an outlet; creating a happy ending they don’t believe they’ll get to see, and showing ways they believe could make it happen. Daydreams on paper, that sort of thing. And I love that for them! I write fanfic the exact same way! But I don’t get what I want out of reading real world issue daydreams in original fiction.

[(Anonymous)]

This is exactly it. I feature a lot of queer suffering in my writing.

Because that's my life.

I also feature happy and hopeful endings, because it's what I want. And it's frustrating being told to stick to that only in fanfic and write something more palatable to the people on the top run of the social ladder.

When we write our own stories about the suffering tied up in this world, it tends to feel different. I feel like it's angrier. Not just lamenting some immutable fact or some wishy washy "alas, it is like this" but like. Real, genuine anger.