Another big damn motivator for me. "Why does no one ever put PoC in their sci-fi? ... Anyone? FINE, I'LL DO IT MYSELF."
In a related note, I always wondered why places that are very clearly not Earth always seem to be populated by people who look like Caucasians. After all, you've got a fucking world with three moons and unicorns and dragons and shit, but you don't think maybe the people might have a slightly different phenotype? Genetic drift, people! That annoyed me enough that I paid special attention to it, so that if the humans from the world my Obligatory Giant Young Adult Fantasy Epic showed up in our world, they'd be hard to place in any of our ethnic categories, because they've got their own distinct genetic populations.
Did I ever tell you about the critiquer who took issue with the name of the only human character in one of my stories? Apparently, "Faruq" is not a human name. I will notify the Arabic peoples of the world forthwith.
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Date: 2008-08-21 05:02 am (UTC)In a related note, I always wondered why places that are very clearly not Earth always seem to be populated by people who look like Caucasians. After all, you've got a fucking world with three moons and unicorns and dragons and shit, but you don't think maybe the people might have a slightly different phenotype? Genetic drift, people! That annoyed me enough that I paid special attention to it, so that if the humans from the world my Obligatory Giant Young Adult Fantasy Epic showed up in our world, they'd be hard to place in any of our ethnic categories, because they've got their own distinct genetic populations.
Did I ever tell you about the critiquer who took issue with the name of the only human character in one of my stories? Apparently, "Faruq" is not a human name. I will notify the Arabic peoples of the world forthwith.