So why should that mean that people like me don't get to exist in fiction? Why is a happy bisexual more "edgy" than a fucking unicorn?
@ShanBarnsley @seananmcguire or, more precisely, is understood to fit in that box even if it doesn't remotely do so on a close reading
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@ShanBarnsley@seananmcguire in some ways that's good because it can facilitate slipping all kinds of things past the censors -
@ShanBarnsley like i bet@seananmcguire could write a book about a happy bi *unicorn* that would be regarded as "just about unicorns" -
@ShanBarnsley@seananmcguire Lewis used it to get me to read Christian spiritual warfare propaganda because talking animals
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@chaosprime@seananmcguire into something safer and made the scary Others into something tame. -
@ShanBarnsley@seananmcguire right. unicorns are a tame symbol. happy bisexuals aren't. -
@chaosprime@seananmcguire Unicorns have a headstart. Give it time.
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@chaosprime@seananmcguire sexual deviancy, foreigners, other religions, etc. we made them into the bogeyman. Then we turned the stories...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@chaosprime@seananmcguire Werewolves, vampires, Tuatha de Danaan, Adlet, Shee. We took the thing we were afraid of, be it mental illness...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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