after reading Sphereland and finding out the creator of the 2007 Flatland film is a raging conservative so racist even the republicans had to dissavow his political ad, I'm no longer excited to read the Planiverse.
someone who's already read the Planiverse tell me. is it racist? because
[ID: A two panel image. Panel 1 is labeled, "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, 1884:, and shows a purple Square with a single eye, saying,
"I've had a lot of time to think during my seven years of imprisonment, and I no longer believe that the Circles are the perfect beings they claim to be. I think the Sphere was right when he said I should have more respect for women and lower class people. I was wrong about there only being two dimensions, and it's clear to me know that I was wrong about a lot of things, including the way my society treats minorities.
Bigotry of any kind is wrong. All people are born equals, it is only arbitrary categories created and violently enforced by people in power that try to trick us into believing otherwise.
But Nature and her truth will always win in the end. Bigotry and oppression are not an inevitable phenomomon, and they will be killed someday."
The second panel is labeled, "Flatland adaptations and fan-sequels", and reads, in all caps:
"Racism and misogyny are awesome and cool and phrenology and eugenics are epic and just a natural part of white suprema -- I mean civilization!!! Wooohooooooo I love real world racist stereotypes isn't racism great don't you just love eugenics?!?!?!? Look how many racist stereotypes I can fit into this thing!!! Ahahahhahah!!!!"
End ID.]
Edit: September 10th 2024. Well I've read it now. It's not actively racist, but it did get really boring and cowardly really fast right at the end. There's no real plot, it's all worldbuilding. The worldbuilding is good, and I would mind the lack of plot less if the author hadn't kept teasing that an actual plot would develop at some point. Also the boring cowardly boringness at the end was annoying.
but if you want ideas for 2D worldbuilding, I recommend it.
