Site Needed for Humorous Fic
Maria
mariaalena at purdue.edu
Fri Jul 2 18:44:22 UTC 2004
Not to beat a dead horse, but...
MsTattersall wrote:
> So far, JKR has not introduced any gay characters (that we
> know of)
Regarding not introducing gay characters - Neil Gaiman said it well in
his blog when asked about gay characters in his works (I would link to
the entry, but neilgaiman.com is down, so here's a link to google's
cached version: http://tinyurl.com/392t4 ):
"(One major character in Neverwhere is gay, although you'll not know
it until he develops a romantic liaison.) [...] I tend not to write
characters with sexual orientation as a starting point, unless that's
how they define themselves. Most people don't."
The "straight until proven gay" assumption isn't really... well, a
very good or fair assumption, really. JKR hasn't explicitly stated the
sexual orientation of the vast majority of her characters and
filling in the blanks is one of the points of fanfiction. Another is
exploring areas where JKR probably wouldn't venture.
> MsTattersall,
> who wrote slash when most of this group was
> still in nappies, but prudently kept it in
> her private stash
Ooh! What fandom? Or was it original fiction?
Maria
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