Texture

[pyraxis]

Forest.

(my greens. no more proper than others.)

Forest, from the speritu world.


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Reading American Gods. Makes sense. Fuck of a lot more real than crossing the wall through the careful stylized universe in The Fountainhead, even if they both call honor.

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[yonjuunana.livejournal.com]

There's no way in hell the uninitiated are going to be able to sort the real from the elaborated here.

Hmm, thinking about your comment more, I think this is a pretty important criticism that makes a bit more sense to me than the rest of what you were saying. If somebody not in x minority group writes about x minority group, and fictionalizes/elaborates a lot about them, a lot of people who read it might get the idea "Oh, x group is just like in that book!" because it's one of the few representations of that group available in media, and that could do harm- author benefits by telling a good story, minority group now has to deal with more popular misconceptions about them. THAT could be narcissistic or just plain ignorant. With multiplicity, I think it's somewhat easy for me to let it slide- The information about it seems to be so scattered and varied between people, there's so much controversy and disagreement and iffy information out there with no solid foundation, that I think it would be pretty terribly difficult for anyone to get an accurate picture, much less write about it (heck, let's say I manage to write the comic about my experience and by some wild shot it gets popular- multiples who view themselves as extremely separate people or from the astral plane or don't want anything to do with imagination or whatever might be annoyed at having my views on multiplicity more widely spread. It seems like this stuff could be hard to deal with since it's a minority with so much variation both between how people's systems work and their views, and outsiders probably have a tendency to want to generalize "all multiples are like x" because it's easier). With writing fiction about autism, I think I'd have a lot less sympathy for an inaccurate portrayal- I'd understand to an extent if you have a very different view on cause/cure just because there's so much controversy floating around, but it seems like even though there's a lot of misinformation floating around the self-advocacy movement has gotten loud enough and has enough resources out there, along with a growing body of solid science, that there's not much of an excuse to do a really shitty misinformed or overly fictionalized portrayal. Anyway... gah, sort of rambling here. Time to go back to knitting. :P