[ SECRET POST #1572 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1572 ⌋


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


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

So including queer characters from the start ("...and that's Thomas Miles and his partner, Edward Bell. Oh, are you hungry, Laurence? We could go an eat something if you want to.") is less of an organic incorporation than pushing the whole issue to the forefront later ("and in this book Laurence will meet queer characters! I'm going to show how normal they are and also spell it out so you, dear reader, can't possibly miss it!")?

Maybe it's just me, but the latter sounds more like "There, you see? I've met my queer character quota!" than the former.

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[(Anonymous)]

Not just you.

But apparently including queer characters ~compromises~ a story.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sure other fanficcers-turned-published-authors are weeping over their breakfast when they think about that. "Oh noes, I compromised my in retrospect quite popular books by writing queer characters in them!"

I mean, say what you want about Cassandra Clare (and you could say a lot), but at least she had the courage to include gay characters. As did, for a less of a characters-as-very-specific-fanbaits example, Sarah Rees Brennan.