Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-98.247.168.42-20181122042639/@comment-39588799-20190529011952

@The Bibliomac

Ok, I disagree with everything you said. First off, what you said -

"It's really unrealistic to expect all modern authors to not have their main characters as white or straight."

I'm sorry, but that sounds racist and homophobic to me. Why is it unrealistic? Why are white and straight people better? It just doesn't make sense. As for what you said after ("You wouldn't say it's unfair if someone from a minority based a character off of themselves."), I am saying that diverse people should be represented in books. This means minorites and white people alike, and definitely not just white, straight people. When you pick up a book, you expect to see yourself in it. And that is definitely not something I could do with kotlc. It wasn't diverse, and the two asian characters were extremely stereotyped. The diversity in kotlc is just so lacking that (in my opinion) the excuse you made just doesn't cut it.

And secondly, when the definition of fantasy says that a fantasy involves things that are impossible or improbable, it means things like magic or dragons or wizards. But it doesn't mean pretending that billions of animals and plants and bacteria species can live in a tiny area in the himalayas and switch to vegetarian diets. SM's ideas are just so impossible that it doesn't really qualify as a fantasy. I see what you are saying, though.

Also, can anybody tell me why sophie wears a dress on every single kotlc book cover yet sophie hates dresses?