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Topic: Towards a extra inclusive Sword & Sorcery  (Read 684 instances)

I do not fall into his “fellow white, cishet, neurotypical, able-bodied fellas” and I discover this cringy af. I simply need to be handled like a standard individual, not coddled, worshipped, or pitied.

  Well, neither does he, which is why he’s saying one thing so cringy.

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I learn a part of the interview, and I simply can’t perceive how anybody can stay in a relentless state of paranoia and worry.

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“For instance, don’t scratch your head questioning why extra girls don’t learn and write within the style while you’re reluctant to name out sexism within the scene….”

It by no means occurred to Mr. Brackenbury that possibly not a number of girls learn sword & sorcery for a similar motive not many males learn romance novels, or not many ladies learn technothrillers?  I.e., the style’s primary fashion and typical content material merely would not enchantment to the typical reader of that group?

Sword and sorcery is essentially plot-based melodrama, and really seldom goes into deep exploration of characters, feelings and relationships, which is (in my expertise and remark) what most ladies need of their fiction. You might write a narrative which did do that, however even when it used all of the basic S&S tropes I doubt it could a lot really feel like S&S, any greater than Mercedes Lackey seems like Fritz Leiber.

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Better to maintain silent and be thought a idiot, than to talk and take away all doubt. — Mark Twain

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I even have actual doubts about whether or not Brackenbury will be capable to pull off his proposed definition, provided that “inclusivity” by definition precludes you from contemplating something to be “splendidly bizarre”. The Weird is the Other, the Exotic, the Strange, and anyone specializing in “inclusivity” is explicitly focused at deconstructing that lens of study.

Which is to not say you could not do one thing like this on a case-to-case foundation. The fifth Fafhrd & Gray Mouser e book, The Swords of Lankhmar, options our heroes explicitly falling for offputtingly bizarre nonhuman lovers (the invisible-fleshed ghoul Kreeshkra for Fafhrd, the wererat princess Hisvet for the Mouser) and discovering that they aren’t so totally different when you get previous the apparent; that ought to please anyone in search of a message of inclusivity. But if that trope is overused, as for instance by making it a definitional requirement of 1’s new style, then like several overused trope it may lose its influence.

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Better to maintain silent and be thought a idiot, than to talk and take away all doubt. — Mark Twain

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