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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8187500" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>You know, I'm back a few pages and I'm reading all of these aggressive questions about whether or not fantasy can exist as a genre, whether or not DnD needs to be abandoned, can you even have villains in any story. </p><p></p><p>And I can't help but ruefully chuckle in disbelief. It's like watching someone stand up and start screaming </p><p></p><p>"YOU! Random person on the street, do YOU have the answers to some of the most complex and troubling questions of the twentieth century? Don't you have an easy digestible answer for an issue that the most talented writers, artists and philosophers have been grappling with for decades with limited or no success! QUICK, give me your wisdom random person, tell me exactly what we need to do! YOU CAN'T!!! Then it is all FAKE, there is nothing wrong if you can't give me an answer!" </p><p></p><p>Like, I'm a fairly smart guy. College educated. I'm a writer, and I've been grappling with these ideas for a long time. I don't know how to fix it. I can't just, change hundreds or years of human behavior and come up with something that both preserves what I love and stops hurting people who don't deserve the harm inflicted on them. </p><p></p><p>I'm a straight white guy, when I write a female character am I doing it wrong? Am I perpetuating the wrong tropes? I don't know. I try not to. I try to make sure I don't fall too far one way or the other. But, I'm not a cultural genius. I'm not Shakespeare, and I don't think Shakespeare could have figured this out either. </p><p></p><p>I figure as long as I recognize there is a problem, and I put some effort into making sure I don't make things worse... that's about the best I can do. Be kind. Be mindful. Be compassionate. If I'm doing that, I'm doing my best. And if people want more than my best... that's on them. I'm limited. I can't change everything in the world and half the time I can't change myself. </p><p></p><p>Anyways, just my thoughts upon seeing all these questions shot like bullets into the crowd. Like they are somehow supposed to be easily answered with simple steps, instead of being really difficult things we need to grapple with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8187500, member: 6801228"] You know, I'm back a few pages and I'm reading all of these aggressive questions about whether or not fantasy can exist as a genre, whether or not DnD needs to be abandoned, can you even have villains in any story. And I can't help but ruefully chuckle in disbelief. It's like watching someone stand up and start screaming "YOU! Random person on the street, do YOU have the answers to some of the most complex and troubling questions of the twentieth century? Don't you have an easy digestible answer for an issue that the most talented writers, artists and philosophers have been grappling with for decades with limited or no success! QUICK, give me your wisdom random person, tell me exactly what we need to do! YOU CAN'T!!! Then it is all FAKE, there is nothing wrong if you can't give me an answer!" Like, I'm a fairly smart guy. College educated. I'm a writer, and I've been grappling with these ideas for a long time. I don't know how to fix it. I can't just, change hundreds or years of human behavior and come up with something that both preserves what I love and stops hurting people who don't deserve the harm inflicted on them. I'm a straight white guy, when I write a female character am I doing it wrong? Am I perpetuating the wrong tropes? I don't know. I try not to. I try to make sure I don't fall too far one way or the other. But, I'm not a cultural genius. I'm not Shakespeare, and I don't think Shakespeare could have figured this out either. I figure as long as I recognize there is a problem, and I put some effort into making sure I don't make things worse... that's about the best I can do. Be kind. Be mindful. Be compassionate. If I'm doing that, I'm doing my best. And if people want more than my best... that's on them. I'm limited. I can't change everything in the world and half the time I can't change myself. Anyways, just my thoughts upon seeing all these questions shot like bullets into the crowd. Like they are somehow supposed to be easily answered with simple steps, instead of being really difficult things we need to grapple with. [/QUOTE]
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