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gentleviking:
Can you imagine sitting down to create a fantasy world all your own where there are no limits and you can craft it however you desire and you’re like “well obviously there’s still homophobia”
I think what people are missing from this post is the use of the word ‘obviously’. See, if the post was just ‘there’s still homophobia’ it would be different. People might want to have homophobia because it’s part of the plot, or is central to the worldbuilding/story. There’s nothing wrong with tackling hard issues in your stories (although please do your research and know what you’re doing).
The use of the word ‘obviously’ means that this should be self-evident and thus not likely to be important to the main story, meaning that queer readers would be visiting a world where they are hated and it’s no big deal.
gentleviking:
Can you imagine sitting down to create a fantasy world all your own where there are no limits and you can craft it however you desire and you’re like “well obviously there’s still homophobia”
I think what people are missing from this post is the use of the word ‘obviously’. See, if the post was just ‘there’s still homophobia’ it would be different. People might want to have homophobia because it’s part of the plot, or is central to the worldbuilding/story. There’s nothing wrong with tackling hard issues in your stories (although please do your research and know what you’re doing).
The use of the word ‘obviously’ means that this should be self-evident and thus not likely to be important to the main story, meaning that queer readers would be visiting a world where they are hated and it’s no big deal.