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boysnberriespie · 2 years ago

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Honestly sometimes I really hate how pigeon holed Good Representation has become because sometimes I want to write queer characters that just wouldn’t describe themselves with specific terms because it’s not how the character thinks and operates in the world

#like yeah I can use language that indicates this queer identity without explicitly saying it #but we’ve kind of gotten to a point that queer authors can’t write implicitly queer characters #because in the absence of concrete proof they Must Be Cishet #this brought to you by the fact that I’m struggling with a character from an old work of mine #who I would describe as asexual #but who wouldn’t describe himself as such #and honestly while he does often use quote unquote coded language for that #it doesn’t come up That Often #because this is a work where he’s struggling with the death of his father who was completely absent from his life #so it’s a book mostly about family and understanding people #and like it’s important to me that he also doesn’t really understand himself fully #or at least doesn’t feel the need to internally search about himself #at least maybe not until the end of the work #and so he wouldn’t in the set narrative I have #ever describe himself as Ace #(to be fair though this work is complicated by So Much more than just that 😭#this is also something where I’m trying an experimental thing where the main character doesn’t verbally speak At All #although he is the narrator #so it is something I’m taking so long to write because I have myself many challenges)

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