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Topic: Towards a extra inclusive Sword & Sorcery  (Read 688 occasions)

I do not fall into his “fellow white, cishet, neurotypical, able-bodied fellas” and I discover this cringy af. I simply wish to be handled like a traditional 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 not perceive how anybody can reside in a continuing state of paranoia and concern.

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

It by no means occurred to Mr. Brackenbury that perhaps not numerous girls learn sword & sorcery for a similar cause 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 attraction 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 girls 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 of 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 plain; that ought to please anyone searching for 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 every overused trope it’ll lose its affect.

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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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