In writing that whole thing, it never occured to you that maybe writing fanfic about a real queer woman being disappeared by the neo-gestapo might be a little tonally inappropriate?
I realize how it could land the wrong way, especially in such a serious context. I wasn’t trying to mock or minimize what happened. I was trying to highlight how eerily Orwellian this actually is. The bureaucratic cruelty, and the erasure line up damn near one for one. It’s already shockingly dystopian. I went for satire to underscore that, precisely because gestapo are disappearing people in broad daylight. I could have hit that goal better though, clearly.
1984ifying it. Seemed like appropriate satire to me at the time. Little sad it didn’t land. Wasn’t easy to make that bullshit be MORE bullshit.
In writing that whole thing, it never occured to you that maybe writing fanfic about a real queer woman being disappeared by the neo-gestapo might be a little tonally inappropriate?
I realize how it could land the wrong way, especially in such a serious context. I wasn’t trying to mock or minimize what happened. I was trying to highlight how eerily Orwellian this actually is. The bureaucratic cruelty, and the erasure line up damn near one for one. It’s already shockingly dystopian. I went for satire to underscore that, precisely because gestapo are disappearing people in broad daylight. I could have hit that goal better though, clearly.