How PC are your stories? How PC is this poll?
Characters of Diversity, Fanfic, Mine meme. Stolen from theemdash.
Methods and Materials
All fics in memories and at my sadly neglected website. I still like that layout. Many of my drabbles are not memoried, or are in meme posts that I haven't bothered with, but I'm just doing tihs for fun, so what the hell.
This means there are...fifteen archived at the website (I wrote more DBZ than I'd remembered, and I can't remember where I put the bonobos story), and about 70 at the journal, to make...85. My.
Measurements: Using pov character(s) or main character of focus, count stories with one or multi povs, and classify the race, gender, and other attributes of the pov character.
Considerations/definitions:
Ripping off theemdash's definitions for the most part.
Non-white is Black, Hispanic, Asian, Arab, American Indian, Hawaiian, African, or Space Aliens played by an actor of one of these classifications. Original language was now " and just about anything not European. Does not include Jews, Gypsies, Irish, Catholics, Welsh, Slavs, Texans, Blue-Eyed People or other people Just Not Brown Enough." Considering I write Tatakori Mamoru more than almost anyone, I bristle at the blue-eyed definition. I actually think I should run this twice, once for Western perspective and once with Majority Culture vs. non-Majority Culture. But then I wonder how I would define youkai and my head starts hurting. (I guess they'd be the minority, though, right?) I also wonder what would happen if someone like daegaer ran this meme with the given language, as she often writes historical pieces that demonstrate how much the definition of 'white/non-European' has changed over the years. Anyway. Jews, Gypsies, etc. would be considered non-white for the purposes of this survey if their non-whiteness was a plot point. I don't believe that's a factor in any of my stories, I'm just putting off doing the actual counting at this point.
Some totals may not add up. Heh.
Old is a character who looks, acts, or is treated as though they are past their prime. (Why don't I write any Iroh fic? HMM.) For the record, Nii does not count as old.
Gay or bi is canonically gay or bi; subtext is irrelevant for the purposes of this census. (I'm just rolling with this.)
For the sake of having some distinctions, half-white characters are considered non-white (just like the KKK!), and the Turtles-- with an alien appearance and Japanese father, but white voices-- are also considered non-white. (I didn't realize I'd be doing so much implicit criticism of this meme when I started doing this, I swear!) I will pull things out of my ass and define Crawford and the vast majority of the Trigun cast as white, even though I often define Crawford as part of all Native American and really have no clue on Wolfwood or Meryl. And only Bulma's family in DBZ counts as 'white,' due to poorly-remembered fanon.
Census
Total Stories: 85(ish)
Total Stories of over 500 words:
Significantly fewer-- 39. That's counting linked drabble sets as stories over 500 (when they qualified).
Stories with only 1 POV: 71
Stories with multiple POVs: 14
Stories with only 1 pov, Minor Character: What defines a minor character, I wonder? I'll take 'non leads' for $100, Alex, which would make 2. Maybe 3 if you count Witch Hunter Robin, but that's such an ensemble show it's hard to say.
Stories with only 1 pov, Original Character: 0
Stories with White Male POV only (I love how I can skip entire categories of my fic this way: 27, though I often had to catch myself figuring out whose POV was there in the WK stories.
Stories with White Female POV only: 1. That was easy!
Stories with Non-White Male POV only: 44
Stories with Non-White Female POV only: 2
Stories with Old People POV only: 1
Stories with Canon or OC Gay/Bi Character POV only: 2, bless you FAKE.
Stories with Multiple povs, more than one gender: 5
Stories with Multiple povs, including non-white characters: 13
Stories with Mix-Race Relationships, where relationships are distinctly romantic: Not counting Saiyuki: 9. Saiyuki brings it up to 27. Edit: It's 28 if I add Sanzo/Goku.
Stories with Non-White, Old, or Gay/Bi Characters in speaking roles: I had to total up the nots and subtract. 73, I think.
I'm not sure how useful it is overall, especially for an animanga writer, but it was interesting.
Methods and Materials
All fics in memories and at my sadly neglected website. I still like that layout. Many of my drabbles are not memoried, or are in meme posts that I haven't bothered with, but I'm just doing tihs for fun, so what the hell.
This means there are...fifteen archived at the website (I wrote more DBZ than I'd remembered, and I can't remember where I put the bonobos story), and about 70 at the journal, to make...85. My.
Measurements: Using pov character(s) or main character of focus, count stories with one or multi povs, and classify the race, gender, and other attributes of the pov character.
Considerations/definitions:
Ripping off theemdash's definitions for the most part.
Non-white is Black, Hispanic, Asian, Arab, American Indian, Hawaiian, African, or Space Aliens played by an actor of one of these classifications. Original language was now " and just about anything not European. Does not include Jews, Gypsies, Irish, Catholics, Welsh, Slavs, Texans, Blue-Eyed People or other people Just Not Brown Enough." Considering I write Tatakori Mamoru more than almost anyone, I bristle at the blue-eyed definition. I actually think I should run this twice, once for Western perspective and once with Majority Culture vs. non-Majority Culture. But then I wonder how I would define youkai and my head starts hurting. (I guess they'd be the minority, though, right?) I also wonder what would happen if someone like daegaer ran this meme with the given language, as she often writes historical pieces that demonstrate how much the definition of 'white/non-European' has changed over the years. Anyway. Jews, Gypsies, etc. would be considered non-white for the purposes of this survey if their non-whiteness was a plot point. I don't believe that's a factor in any of my stories, I'm just putting off doing the actual counting at this point.
Some totals may not add up. Heh.
Old is a character who looks, acts, or is treated as though they are past their prime. (Why don't I write any Iroh fic? HMM.) For the record, Nii does not count as old.
Gay or bi is canonically gay or bi; subtext is irrelevant for the purposes of this census. (I'm just rolling with this.)
For the sake of having some distinctions, half-white characters are considered non-white (just like the KKK!), and the Turtles-- with an alien appearance and Japanese father, but white voices-- are also considered non-white. (I didn't realize I'd be doing so much implicit criticism of this meme when I started doing this, I swear!) I will pull things out of my ass and define Crawford and the vast majority of the Trigun cast as white, even though I often define Crawford as part of all Native American and really have no clue on Wolfwood or Meryl. And only Bulma's family in DBZ counts as 'white,' due to poorly-remembered fanon.
Census
Total Stories: 85(ish)
Total Stories of over 500 words:
Significantly fewer-- 39. That's counting linked drabble sets as stories over 500 (when they qualified).
Stories with only 1 POV: 71
Stories with multiple POVs: 14
Stories with only 1 pov, Minor Character: What defines a minor character, I wonder? I'll take 'non leads' for $100, Alex, which would make 2. Maybe 3 if you count Witch Hunter Robin, but that's such an ensemble show it's hard to say.
Stories with only 1 pov, Original Character: 0
Stories with White Male POV only (I love how I can skip entire categories of my fic this way: 27, though I often had to catch myself figuring out whose POV was there in the WK stories.
Stories with White Female POV only: 1. That was easy!
Stories with Non-White Male POV only: 44
Stories with Non-White Female POV only: 2
Stories with Old People POV only: 1
Stories with Canon or OC Gay/Bi Character POV only: 2, bless you FAKE.
Stories with Multiple povs, more than one gender: 5
Stories with Multiple povs, including non-white characters: 13
Stories with Mix-Race Relationships, where relationships are distinctly romantic: Not counting Saiyuki: 9. Saiyuki brings it up to 27. Edit: It's 28 if I add Sanzo/Goku.
Stories with Non-White, Old, or Gay/Bi Characters in speaking roles: I had to total up the nots and subtract. 73, I think.
I'm not sure how useful it is overall, especially for an animanga writer, but it was interesting.