It's either that or it's because men have their own "coming-of-age rituals" stuff where the boys become men, so why not have works where the girls become women, too? Except I guess girls are boring compared to boys and don't do the same cool shit boys do. Best we get is just start bleeding once a month and then our boobs grow and suddenly we actually do like boys. Can't really make anything compelling about that in stories without over-exaggeration.
Make it one boob at time for suspence?
I am going to butcher it but I heard it once explained that since babies start so close and bonded to their mother, that when a boy starts reaching a certain age, he has to "venture away" from her into the world of manhood towards his father.
I remember a famous YA author (I want to say Diane Wynn Jones but I'm not positive) saying that YA fiction allowed more creative freedom than 'adult' fiction. This was many years ago, though, and it looks like things have changed.
LMAO that cope. "No, this comic isn't about romance between two boys, it's about romance between two boys! Those are two completely different things!"
One of Joseph Campbell's students sketched out the heroine's journey, and it's largely this. It could be seen as navel-gazing if you're uncharitable, but feminine stories really do tend to be about incorporating your inner fears into something manageable. It's healing as opposed to conquering. Both male and female coming-of-age narratives allow you to leave what you know, confront what you don't, and return wiser, but male stories just tend to be more active. But feminine fairy tales are all about being locked in castles and navigating unwanted marriage proposals until you heal the beast and make him human as you become a woman. It's just acknowledging that the sexes have different sources of power and using that to make their world better.
This is true in a way because YA is not constrained by genre. You can write a Western Cinderella retelling with aliens and long sections of romance without feeling obligated to follow the conventions of any of those genres. There isn't the same openmindedness in ~literary adult fiction~, which is the closest equivalent. There's just more of an expectation in adult fiction that you have to justify your worldbuilding, but YA can just throw things in for the fun of it because it's closer to the imagination of a child. It can be whimsical.Well, this is depressing.
So what all is it going to tell us? Who's on what political position? Who's who in the administration? Who's selling and who's not?
From what File 770 says nothing dramatic, only what members decide to show other members: email address, phone numbers. Clearly it would be middling members, anyone high profile would not have such public information, or Literary Agent Contacts.
Jesus H Christ, wokies really love to talk over the people they supposedly totally care for and advocate for so long as they can scrounge up some extra woke points. Fuck you old man for trying to be the voice of reason and de-escalating this minute issue, my internet twitter points are more important than you!
Mercedes Lackey had a massive fucking sperg out back in the early 00's on the Baens Bar calling her publisher a fucking fascist and all her readers to, and most of her fellow writers, it was a bold strategy and she's I think still banned, didn't hurt her working relationship with Jim Baen though.
There's no protection these days from purity politics. She was fully supportive of the gays and they smoked her anyway. The sFWA announcement is locked on Twitter, and all the "good work SFWA" comes from dangerhaired rainbow flag smol beans fae/faer who fucking owe a goddamn chunk of their accepted existence to Lackey and her championing LGBT characters and people though her career.
Meh Baen's Bar you can take it or leave it(I mostly leave it) but it's still pretty darn funny she called her readers publisher and fellow authors a bunch or goosestepping fascists because she had her preconceptions challenged. Its an amusing anecdote nothing more
And today she's canceled from her clubhouse while Baen continues to sell books. Life comes at you fast.
Someone posted the Nebula Awards announcement from the SFWA Twitter. There's this sentence:
"Comfort elves are available in the forest biosphere this year, should you need one, no quest required."
They leap on "colored people" but are oblivious to the play on the term "comfort women".
The problem with Comfort Women is that, the Japanese are successful in erasing their crimes of Comfort Women to the point people rarely brought that up again, even in countries they occupied like in Southeast Asia. Of course exceptions applies with China and the two Koreas, but their nation-myth involves Japanese War Crimes, so they won't forget it. This is why most of the time, people who brought up that issue in the West are people descended from those countriesSomeone posted the Nebula Awards announcement from the SFWA Twitter. There's this sentence:
"Comfort elves are available in the forest biosphere this year, should you need one, no quest required."
They leap on "colored people" but are oblivious to the play on the term "comfort women".
