you know what drives me crazy, not because it's bad advice but because it's hard advice? when people say "add more than one [represented group] and your representation will be fine"
but like characters fucking add up and there's only so many [represented group]s I can dip into more than once without absolutely drowning in characters
Like it's harder to have multiples of one thing when you're trying to represent a WIDE RANGE of things
people don't seem to understand how hard it is to handle a larger cast and when you want to try to represent as many people as possible it adds more and more characters but then it also might start to feel like you're just tokenizing all the things
And I know that's not what I'm doing because I genuinely just want a diverse cast so I can explore all kinds of people, my goal isn't just "I want to represent x group", it's "I am interested in x group and I think they would make interesting characters that can add a lot of color to the cast"
I have so many characters that haven't seen the light of day yet though so it doesn't look like I have more characters in the groups I've shown so far. For example I have more black characters that just haven't shown up yet, I have some nonbinary characters of different types with the same issue. There's a lot I still need to get to but there's still so much to show
I don't think anyone is really out there thinking I'm not diverse enough in my storytelling but it still nags at me because there was a time in my teens when pretty much all my characters were white and cis
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