Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-38091275-20190322183431/@comment-38091275-20190731193744

Charlotte O CATS KOTLC wrote: MagicDaydreamer wrote: THANK YOU

An author should represent real life. If that means doing research, cool. It's not fair that kids should be told that other kids aren't mature enough to read about acceptable love and feel like they aren't valid. LGBTQ+ kids exist, LGBTQ+ kids are okay.

I started reading KotLC when I was eleven, and I wanted to know, "WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY SHIPS?" not just for fanfiction and all that (off topic. Kam and FedEx must be canon, or I will be angry), but for knowing that I could see myself in my favorite book, that it was okay to be me. Two years later, I'm kind of angry that Shannon doesn't really try for diversity in her characters. It's not just with sexuality and gender, and it drives me nuts... YES!!!!! SHANNON NEEDS MORE DIVERSITY!!! also, reasearch. It pretty much lowkey disgusts me that she said that Tam and Linh looked like they'd either stepped out of Anime or were Kpop stars. Those are two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT cultures, but Shannon was just like "ASIAN"!

DEFINITELY needs more research.

Shannon: ASIAN!!!

Shannon: *doesn't think about how she said they looked Korean AND Japanese AND GAVE THE SONG TWINS VIETNAMESE FIRST NAMES AND CHINESE LAST NAMES and also doesn't do the research to see that most anime characters are caucasian anyway*

Shannon: OH YES I TRY FOR AS MUCH DIVERSITY AS POSSIBLE AND ALWAYS DO THE RESEARCH