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A Few Thoughts On Author-Audience Relationships
Thehe relationship between author and audience is incredibly volatile at times, with the volatility often stemming from who the story belongs to or is for. It is especially difficult for me to truly settle on this nuanced matter since I am someone who belongs to both groups.
For starters, I can’t fully buy into an author being the sole authority on a work since, put simply, people are fallible.…
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Urban Fantasy 101: Sexual Assault in the Genre - Part One
Urban Fantasy 101: Sexual Assault in the Genre – Part One
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Breaxer: Journey's Birth
Breaxer: Journey’s Birth
Hey all! I recently created another site dedicated to Breaxer, and I just posted posted the first chapter for a revised prologue mini series. I will be deleting all previous entries I made on this site in regards to it, so go ahead and take a look when you have the time.
Breaxer: Journey’s Birth
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Injustice: Miscarriages of Justice
I don’t know why I am only realizing this now, especially since this article on sexual molestation in Japan is something I was aware of, but society is a lotincredibly blasé when innocent black and latin people are shot or unfairly persecuted in comparison to sexual assault allegations. “They had it coming”, they would say. “They should have obeyed the law”. But when it comes to men, especially…
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I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it: Trump signs order undoing Obama climate change policies -
I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it: Trump healthcare vote withdrawn -
I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it: Uber president Jeff Jones steps down -
I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it: 'Casualties' in Syria court suicide blast -
I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it: Donald Trump's 2005 tax return leak reveals $38m bill -
I don’t know if this is confirmed or not, but please be safe!!!
Fight on, you nasty women and men.
The Breakdown: "Forced" Diversity
I commonly hear from people that they are not opposed to diversity, they just don’t like it when it is forced, or that they hate it when a character’s race or gender. And you know what? The surface argument is fair. If, for whatever reason, someone is really against diversity, then why bother with it? If they want to stay with the same crowd and not attract new audiences (something that the comics and gaming industry always claim to want), then that is there lost.
However, what makes me roll my eyes is that people hardly complain when the “standard” (i.e Caucasian, male, straight, able-bodied, and/or cisgendered) is shoved into a work of fiction when it probably wouldn’t make too much sense, like the token white dude in a mostly black sitcom. These people also tend to conveniently forget that publishers and executives often times make sure that the standard is the main focus, even against the wishes of the creator. Not only that, there was an instance (link will be at the end of this post) where the protagonist of the book was a black woman, but she was white on the cover.
I remember how with the video game called, well, Remember Me, the developers had to fight to get the female lead on the cover. Not only that, but I heard that as a sort of self fulfilling prophecy, marketers would put less resources into the product if they believe that it would not pander to the standard. I can already see people dismissing this as just a rumor, but in terms of say black films, it is a fact that they tend to have rather limited releases. A recent example would be the movie “I Am Not Your Negro”. Yet with these hurdles, people will use these as proof that these types of products do not sell.
Another thing that always gets me is the quota thing. People always love to use this to justify a lack of diversity. The reason it gets me is that they are most liky basing it off of their country/region instead of taking into account what the demographics are globally. In terms of race, it would be Asians, not whites, that are the largest. Even the largest single ethnic group is Asian. Even within their sphere of logic, it still falls apart. For instance, the late Dwayne McDuffie said that there was a “rule of three”, where if there were three or more black characters, it is considered a black book, presumably without any added context. I will round it down to and say that the population of black people in America is about 10%. Using that the quota argument (which is to say that the demographics of a fictional story should reflect that of the real world), there should be one black character for every ten, yet it is considered a stretch to have three in a cast of hundreds. There is also the fact that there is actually more women in compared to men, but most media is aimed at men still.
And now finally, the hardest thing to talk about (well, not for me), which is the changing of a character’s race. I say that in the loosest way since a lot of the times, it is a case of a legacy character instead of a literal race change. It is always funny because, in comics at least, legacy characters are rather frequent. While of course there are fans that would dislike any change, I find that there is much more noise made when the mantle is passed onto somebody outside of the standard. I still remember how many people got angry when The Falcon became Captain America. But as soon as it is a non-white person becoming white and people voice their complaints, those same people that were angry at The Falcon say that those unpleased with the Ghost In The Shell movie are being “overreative”.
A lot of the arguments against “forced” diversity makes sense on the surface, but they usually lake further context, and they tend to be used in a self-serving way. I would ask people to be more consistent with what they spew out, but that may be asking for too much.
Demographics http://www.prb.org/wpds/2014/
Interview with Dwyane McDuffie https://youtu.be/u16sKK-1oLQ
Whitewashed Cover http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2009/07/23/aint-that-a-shame/
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Be good anyway. Honesty and frankness will make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway. People favor underdogs, but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People need help, but may attack you if you do help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have, and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.
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Sportscaster Dale Hansen defends student wrestler Mack Beggs and takes a stand against transphobia
Why do these things always happen AFTER the person gets the position? It would be great if we didn't have to wait.
