Wolf Witch changes and evolutions
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soc_puppet[Content Note: Transphobia, self-harm]
Here are some things I've been planning to change and/or address since my last post on Wolf Witch. Cut for spoilers.
* I'd originally been planning to make Ruby's teacher in her late twenties. In light of a lot of the discussion going around, mostly because of Leelah Alcorn's recent suicide and how she thought that seventeen was "too late" for her to start HRT and see any effects, I'm going to make the teacher older. Possibly in her early forties, maybe older. Her career will now be more blatantly inspired by Karen Adell Scot's, who sounds awesome, in that she'll have had a longer career at the school before transitioning than I'd originally planned/thought about.
*prettymonster has also given me a whole lot to think about in regards to Ruby's magical transformation and how it might interact with any medications or hormone therapies she may be on, and will totally be getting credited for her help wherever possible. Definitely in any acknowledgments page(s), at the very least. And of course in this post ;)
* Ruby will state that she is trans at some point in her introduction/early in the first chapter. I know my original plan was for more of a show-don't-tell approach, but reading Bisexual Books in general and a specific post at Writing With Color (that I can't find a link to at the moment, but was regarding a black magical girl main character in a written format and when to reveal her race; the answer was, "Right away,") have convinced me to state it clearly and early.
* Believe it or not, I'd already been thinking about making Ruby Jewish in my early posts; I just wasn't sure I was up for the research. And then I started reading stuff by Shira Glassman - not just her books, but her blog posts, too - and remembered where I put the links to some online Jewish resources a culturally Jewish friend and former roommate of mine pointed me towards, and it's seeming both more necessary and more easily researched. Still contemplating any changes in her appearance I may make in relation to this, including skin tone.
* I've been planning on including a genderfluid character for a while now, to add another trans person to the cast, and after seeing some posts on Tumblr I'm going to make them fat. Because those posts are right, and androgynous should not be synonymous with thin. (I had tentative names picked out for both them and their girlfriend, but I'm rethinking it because those names are based on puns and I'm not doing that with anyone else in the seriesyet, no matter how much I love the idea of calling them Nutella Shipping. Maybe I can make room in Snow White and Rose Red and the Seven Dwarfs. I've already named the (currently cishet) male love interest and the country he's from punnishly, so they certainly wouldn't be the only ones. Or maybe I can make a threesome in one or both stories? Hmm.)
Here are some things I've been planning to change and/or address since my last post on Wolf Witch. Cut for spoilers.
* I'd originally been planning to make Ruby's teacher in her late twenties. In light of a lot of the discussion going around, mostly because of Leelah Alcorn's recent suicide and how she thought that seventeen was "too late" for her to start HRT and see any effects, I'm going to make the teacher older. Possibly in her early forties, maybe older. Her career will now be more blatantly inspired by Karen Adell Scot's, who sounds awesome, in that she'll have had a longer career at the school before transitioning than I'd originally planned/thought about.
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prettymonster has also given me a whole lot to think about in regards to Ruby's magical transformation and how it might interact with any medications or hormone therapies she may be on, and will totally be getting credited for her help wherever possible. Definitely in any acknowledgments page(s), at the very least. And of course in this post ;)* Ruby will state that she is trans at some point in her introduction/early in the first chapter. I know my original plan was for more of a show-don't-tell approach, but reading Bisexual Books in general and a specific post at Writing With Color (that I can't find a link to at the moment, but was regarding a black magical girl main character in a written format and when to reveal her race; the answer was, "Right away,") have convinced me to state it clearly and early.
* Believe it or not, I'd already been thinking about making Ruby Jewish in my early posts; I just wasn't sure I was up for the research. And then I started reading stuff by Shira Glassman - not just her books, but her blog posts, too - and remembered where I put the links to some online Jewish resources a culturally Jewish friend and former roommate of mine pointed me towards, and it's seeming both more necessary and more easily researched. Still contemplating any changes in her appearance I may make in relation to this, including skin tone.
* I've been planning on including a genderfluid character for a while now, to add another trans person to the cast, and after seeing some posts on Tumblr I'm going to make them fat. Because those posts are right, and androgynous should not be synonymous with thin. (I had tentative names picked out for both them and their girlfriend, but I'm rethinking it because those names are based on puns and I'm not doing that with anyone else in the series
