Paranormal Steampunk and Dystopian Erasure - the Unpleasant Implications

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What is wonderful about Dystopian and Paranormal Steampunk is that the author has the opportunity to either create a brave new world, or an alternate past. Obviously in all fiction this opportunity exists but dystopian and paranoramal steampunk lend themselves remarkably well to this idea. Unfortunately instead of taking the opportunity to do

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[sparkindarkness]

I say all straight folks need to get themselves some close GBLT friends to act as canaries. Because the zombies/aliens/plague WILL kill us first. It is known. So if we start being snack food or start dying in droves, you know an apocalypse is coming and to stock up on canned goods. All of these silly "survivalist" shows completely forget that essential step - get ye a gay canary!

Lord Akeldama - in the first book is stereotyped and offensive. By the last book in the series? Dear gods he gets so much worse it's unreal. I loved the story but the homophobia broke me,- the stereotypes, the torture, the fact this ancient vampire rearranges his life for straight Lady Maccon AND the splitting up the gay relationships not once, but TWICE on the say-so of Lady Maccon. There's no way Alexia would have stood for that in her relationships: http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2012/03/review-timeless-by-gail-carriger-book-5.html It starts bad but it gets a LOT worse

It's laziness and, with these, it has to have implications. When so much of humanity has been wiped out and a segment is missing - it follows that they're dead

[sparkindarkness]

Yes yes he does, we've done a summation of it as well on just how bad it gets which we've posted and I'll be linking to today

And yes, worse. Much much worse

It depresses me that a lot of books can do that - The Parasol Protectorate does an awesome job of analysing sexism while being homophobic, the Constantine Affliction is an AMAZING take down of gender roles while being deeply problematic about trans people, Rivers of London is great with race and class but really needs to work on its female characters, the Jane Yellowrock series is great with race but awful on its limited display of gay folks. Books which seem to show an author gets it on at least one issue and then they create a great big stinking hot mess elsewhere.