[ SECRET POST #2233 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2233 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think you understand what SJ-oriented people actually care about

Personally, I'd love to see some fucked up story about a female serial killer murdering men who got away with horrific crimes and telling herself she's a hero when really she's basically just a sociopathic vigilante murderer.

Or some fantasy story about a black girl who has to reclaim her kingdom from an evil uncle.

Or some sci-fi about a trans man who witnesses the death of someone close to him and invents a time machine to save them.

The problem isn't that stories have conflict or are about morally grey characters, it's that far too few stories allow flawed main characters to be anything other than straight, white, cis and male.

[(Anonymous)]

Those first two I could see, but not that last one. Not because a trans character doing cool shit isn't valid, but because--unless we're talking internet publishing--it would require too much in-story explanation if you're aiming at a general audience. Most people have no idea that there is even a disagreement over transgender vs transsexual, much less how to work that into a general story that wasn't entirely about being trans. It would require a lot of work, and that's really the thing: writing about people with an identity you aren't familiar with is hard.

[charming_stranger]

It wouldn't have to be that hard, or that explain-y. And who says a cis person or a woman should write it?

But really, why should it be harder to write about a trans man than about, say, a cis man living in the 1950's? If you want to be a good writer, you need to learn about things. Authors research stuff all the time; I don't see why this should be so much more difficult.

[scrubber]

Personally, I'd love to see some fucked up story about a female serial killer murdering men who got away with horrific crimes and telling herself she's a hero when really she's basically just a sociopathic vigilante murderer.

That actually exists, it's a movie called Hard Candy. Saaadly, no SJW would object to it I think? Because there isn't much of a feminist spin on it. Maybe it's cause the MC is young, idk.

But check it out! It's a gorgeously shot, tense movie.

[(Anonymous)]

Currently writing a fantasy story involving characters of colour and one with autism. Their skin colour and differently-abled-ness(?) causes some problems for them but it's not the main focus of the story; the main focus of the story is that they're trying not to die in a hideously horrible manner. As all good fantasy stories should be :)