ext_50177 ([identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] inverarity 2011-03-04 08:05 am (UTC)

Re: The Trace and Max and Authorial Rambling

I have no issue at all with [personal profile] inverarity's presentation of the Martin+Max affair, except that I don't like the "dead gay boy" trope in general, and I think it's a way to dodge the demands of writing stories for an adult gay person. Same as once upon a time (and still today, largely) heroes did not marry or have children - and if they did, like Spider-Man, they had some creepy later writer retcon the whole thing - or as, in earlier days, heroes did not have children but nephews or wards.

On the other hand, I insist that JKR's treatment of Dumbledore's sexuality, whatever it is, is downright bad.

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