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anghraine · 5 months

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There's something percolating in my head about how sometimes the scenarios and characters we relate to the most are the ones that don't explicitly identify what they're doing in the terms of how we relate to them. Sometimes there are even specific indications that it's not that thing and yet we can still find it there and find it powerful. Sometimes that can feel more affecting and intense than the better representation out there (and not necessarily just better in a purity culture sense).

And I do think it's important not to give credit where it's not actually due, and not to insist on this kind of stuff as a replacement for actual representation. But I also think it's important to ... idk, allow space for the fuzzier depictions that speak really powerfully to some of us.

(I know this is vague! As I said, it's percolating.)

#just thinking about ... vaguely metaphorical approaches to representation #which is really bad when it's all there is #but sometimes ambiguous or metaphorical representation speaks more powerfully to me than a literal depiction of it #like... if the only autistic representation is ambiguous/coded or robots or whatever that's. not good.#but do i want a media landscape in which it's all literal and clear and devoid of ambiguously autistic-coded robots? no #i was thinking of this because of a d&d metaphorical autism thing but also the perennial darcy question #where 'good autistic representation' never speaks to me quite as much as this character invented in 1796 #whose characterization is complicated and (clearly) easy to interpret in very different ways than i do #and also thinking about my debates with a friend about miranda in mass effect #i know she's straight by game mechanics but to me the wlw energy is so strong #i'm not going to say that's queer representation lol but i still have queer feelings about it #anghraine babbles #general fanwank #a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide #rare breed of attack unicorn #etc

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