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<blockquote data-quote="Zak S" data-source="post: 7722782" data-attributes="member: 90370"><p>I think when the conversation gets to a thing like "we all occasionally create spectacular things" and all struggles are equal and all mistakes are equal you're no longer talking about human beings, just trying to use language to stop a conversation about specific dynamics going on here and now.</p><p></p><p>Kiel is a queer creator who wrote a queer adventure and overcame a lot of prejudice about being queer and harassment directed at him because of that and won a mainstream gaming popularity contest. That is a specific struggle with a specific outcome that speaks to the perseverance of a specific talent in the face of specific people who would prefer he specifically fail. And the reasons they want him to fail are <em>worse</em> than many other reasons they might have.</p><p></p><p>That isn't the story of everyone.</p><p></p><p>Nor is Shoshana Kessock's story: she overcame tremendous physical disabiity to get where she was and produce the good work she's produced, like "Keeping the Candles Lit". That is also not the story of everyone. To pretend it is would be to do her a disservice.</p><p></p><p>etc etc</p><p></p><p>There are real things that really happened in the Ennies in 2017 and real obstacles genuinely overcome by real people. They are all to be commended but not all of their struggles or talents or gambles are equal. </p><p></p><p>Some creators (like Raggi) have integrity in the face of more powerful people trying to mess with them, some don't. Some creators are wildly original (like Patrick Stuart), some are not. Some are overcoming structural obstacles (like Shoshana), some are not. Some are making work wayyyyy outside what's usually acceptable in the RPG space (like Scrap Princess), some are not.</p><p></p><p>If we lose track of these things, we lose track of the ability to articulate what is going on at all. We can only speak in platitudes and literally buy nothing or everything.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zak S, post: 7722782, member: 90370"] I think when the conversation gets to a thing like "we all occasionally create spectacular things" and all struggles are equal and all mistakes are equal you're no longer talking about human beings, just trying to use language to stop a conversation about specific dynamics going on here and now. Kiel is a queer creator who wrote a queer adventure and overcame a lot of prejudice about being queer and harassment directed at him because of that and won a mainstream gaming popularity contest. That is a specific struggle with a specific outcome that speaks to the perseverance of a specific talent in the face of specific people who would prefer he specifically fail. And the reasons they want him to fail are [I]worse[/I] than many other reasons they might have. That isn't the story of everyone. Nor is Shoshana Kessock's story: she overcame tremendous physical disabiity to get where she was and produce the good work she's produced, like "Keeping the Candles Lit". That is also not the story of everyone. To pretend it is would be to do her a disservice. etc etc There are real things that really happened in the Ennies in 2017 and real obstacles genuinely overcome by real people. They are all to be commended but not all of their struggles or talents or gambles are equal. Some creators (like Raggi) have integrity in the face of more powerful people trying to mess with them, some don't. Some creators are wildly original (like Patrick Stuart), some are not. Some are overcoming structural obstacles (like Shoshana), some are not. Some are making work wayyyyy outside what's usually acceptable in the RPG space (like Scrap Princess), some are not. If we lose track of these things, we lose track of the ability to articulate what is going on at all. We can only speak in platitudes and literally buy nothing or everything. [/QUOTE]
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