Oct 6, 2014
which Emma do you think best portrays your characterization of her? My personal favorite has always been "any time you hear the words parsley, intractable, or longitude..."
grant morrisons emma from new x-men
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which Emma do you think best portrays your characterization of her? My personal favorite has always been "any time you hear the words parsley, intractable, or longitude..."
grant morrisons emma from new x-men
thinking about comics, specifically, how do you write characters who have significantly un-charmed lives because of some social or racial bias without having experienced these things yourself? From pictures you are obviously not a biracial teenage girl from london, or a kree skrull hybrid who is gay. however, when you write these "other-ed" characters, they seem to come off as authentic and not pandering. how does that work?
This is very kind. There's people who'd say the opposite.
You try. You also know you'll fail, which doesn't mean it's not a reason to try.
Listen a lot, online and off. Research. Empathy. Expanding your social group - which is one reason why writers can get better with age, just due to a breadth of experience. Finding what's the same to emotionally ground you to the different elements (e.g. Idie in Generation Hope's life is as far as way as mine that's possible, but I recognise her relationship with self-hate and Catholicism). Probably most importantly, not just writing them so that any part of their identity is all there is, but still making it inform it.
Not wanting to fuck it up is the biggest thing. Go in not taking it with the proper seriousness and you increase the chance of doing that.
Put it like this - the part of Teddy that required much serious thought to write wasn't the "Kree Skrull Hybrid" but the "Gay NYC kid." No Kree Skrull hybrid is going to feel bad at what I've written, y'know?
Generally speaking, when thinking about characters of background of my own, I keep on coming back to this Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie quote...
The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.
i'm always like. .... "how does she get her comics before me??" and then. "Australia."
we actually get them in the stores on thursday
i stay up till midnight just to catch the downloads as soon as they appear
i pick up my hard copies from my LCS eventually tho because hey hey hey keep the industry alive
xavierjones replied to your post: Finishing a draft of something I’ve be...
did you paint one dot of this finger painting every day for a year?
Ha! No, the fingerpainting is from a rather fine day in May...the draft is unrelated, a screenplay I was hired to write. But I've decided to fingerpaint in celebration!
xavierjones said:
i need to find all my marvel divas issues.
hnnnnggg i haven't managed to hunt down that one anywhere, yet. not that i'd been looking for it especially hard....yet seriously tho if any1 knows where i can find it !!!! hmu!!! i need more patsy walker and comic book ladies in my life
x men has been bugging me tonight, too. not sure why it is so hard in this MULTITUDE of characters for one or more of them to be gay and dating other humans. (or aliens or whatever you want). after reading all the issues of everything since 2013, i still think it sucks, but we do have Roxy, who gets to lez out a ton, and new shapeshifty dude. Anole still does not have a boyfriend. idk. also, why is Quentin Quire still a straight character. maybe a queer phoenix will come.
roxy's problem right now is that she got slotted into the WORST fucking start of a gay romance i've seen in ages that involves her getting DECKED by the girl she wants to date, apparently roxy was being 'creepy', and now they're just... fucking dating? what the fuck was that?
anole not only not has a boyfriend, but by inexplicably becoming a teen head of worthington industries because Aaron Likes Being Wacky, is now functionally gone from x-men stories
quentin quire is getting set up as basically The New Wolverine and that is not good, at all. he's also a toothless character that serves to illustrate mostly that the x-men are not very radical at all on almost any political front
blaggggggh comics are badddddddddd
love your seamen scouts! please make Mercury blatino/still a nerd. also, it would b a funny dynamic if Uranus/Neptune were bros [opposite of lesbians?]
It is a total yes on Neptune and Uranus, though I am a bit torn on how to make Neptune super butch whilst remaining a super beauty. And Mercury was going to be the only one still japanese, but now I don't know....