Wow, thank you. That was very entertaining, in a slightly tragic way. And no, that was not too long at all!
I had missed all that because I had stopped reading ladybusiness by then. Not because of what they said about my book, but because of that same sort of really misleading reporting to make stuff they like look politically good (a man and a woman kissing is non-heteronormative because you are headcanoning them as just friends. Uh-huh.) or accusing things they dislike of being politically bad on highly sketchy or misleading evidence. PEOPLE. It's okay to just say you enjoyed or didn't enjoy something! You don't have to pretend all you love is politically correct ad all you dislike is politically bad!
(It was actually Paco, Yuki's boyfriend. And yes, it is true that Paco got shot in the knee at some point after a scene in which he makes out with Yuki. But the injury had nothing to do with the making out or being gay (direct cause accidental friendly fire, indirect cause attack by giant rattlesnakes), there's more making out post-injury, and every single major character suffers some sort of physical injury, loss of a loved one, or psychological trauma by the end, so it would be weird if only the straight characters got causes for angst. Also, it would mean the straight characters had more dramatic plotlines. "Where are the trans characters?" is (for instance) a legit critique. "A gay character had the exact same sort of bad things happen to him that happen to all the straight characters" is not. In my obviously biased opinion.)
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Date: 2016-07-20 10:33 pm (UTC)I had missed all that because I had stopped reading ladybusiness by then. Not because of what they said about my book, but because of that same sort of really misleading reporting to make stuff they like look politically good (a man and a woman kissing is non-heteronormative because you are headcanoning them as just friends. Uh-huh.) or accusing things they dislike of being politically bad on highly sketchy or misleading evidence. PEOPLE. It's okay to just say you enjoyed or didn't enjoy something! You don't have to pretend all you love is politically correct ad all you dislike is politically bad!
(It was actually Paco, Yuki's boyfriend. And yes, it is true that Paco got shot in the knee at some point after a scene in which he makes out with Yuki. But the injury had nothing to do with the making out or being gay (direct cause accidental friendly fire, indirect cause attack by giant rattlesnakes), there's more making out post-injury, and every single major character suffers some sort of physical injury, loss of a loved one, or psychological trauma by the end, so it would be weird if only the straight characters got causes for angst. Also, it would mean the straight characters had more dramatic plotlines. "Where are the trans characters?" is (for instance) a legit critique. "A gay character had the exact same sort of bad things happen to him that happen to all the straight characters" is not. In my obviously biased opinion.)