Recent content by Hainted

But you're also limiting the discussion of sensitive topics and taking away a resource to learn about them. The new policy just insures continued stereotypes, bad writing, and willful ignorance. We don't grow and learn from avoiding things. Looking through rose tinted glasses at only the things...

My take is this: 1 Everything is a trigger to somebody, I'm not going to limit myself creatively because it upsets someone. I'm not going to be flippant or disrespectful about it, but I'm not going to avoid it. 2. Depending on who makes the complaint, I may just completely ignore your outrage...

First Draft. Opening paragraphs. Trying to establish setting. “Move!” That was all the warning Kalli Wurtz and Dana Ball got before Hunter Fogerty plowed into them. Kalli, short and round,wobbled but kept her balance. All she lost was the contents of her backpack. Dana, taller and bigger...

I'm just curious because I've reached a point in my novel that this has come up. I'm dealing with superhumans, but it makes me wonder what a proper balance in the world for those who aren't the norm? I tend to figure 1 in 100 have the potential and 1 in 1000 actually develop it. (Of course...

Everybody assumes light is the fastest thing in the universe. What they forget is wherever the light goes, the dark is already there...waiting.

To me it would be no different than the Church of the Seven on GoT. It's one god, but 7 aspects. I don't see why it wouldn't work.

Not really a world. It's a system that's built around the pulp era science fiction/fantasy. So one planet is very tropical, one is colder with tundra and mountains and the other two are binary orbiting each other. Still working out some things but have some short stories based there.

Gravamen is an old word for heart or essence. You could use that or mess around with the spelling. The Gravamon or the Stone of Gravamin or Gravamun's Start. Just some thoughts

I think it has to include the larger publishers because for the foreseeable future they have dominance in pop culture. Now the surge in independents and smaller publishers, especially those that cater to what the conglomerates would consider "niche" markets may shift that balance in the future...

@buyjupiter You know why those are the usual stereotypes? Because they're the safest. Trying to move outside those checklists(especially if you're not the "right" author to do so) generates complaints, and threats. You want to get radical and put stuff on it's head? Imagine if I started telling...

I'm not saying they're innocent, I'm saying the response should have been a critique and discussion of what was wrong versus virulent hatred and threats. One gets big companies to make better characters and one makes them avoid ever using those characters again.

Legally it can be an issue. Virginia, where I live, still has a law on the books that says if you're as little as 1/32nd another race you can't be considered "White". Technically I'm full blooded Cherokee under VA law even though it was my Great-Great Grandmother who was the Native American.

But to get to that level you need these representations. You can't expect Black Alcoholic Lesbians to be Cosby-ised and Mary Sued until they reach some magical saturation point that artists are allowed to make them interesting and flawed characters. To me you're destroying any chance of...

To me it's not serving a socio-political agenda. Since the birth of my daughter 4 years ago I've started taking more care in constructing female characters and making them more prominent. Through social networks and con appearances I've broadened my pool of friends and acquaintances and been...