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Everyone knows mountains aren't real.

Interesting, though, 'cuz last I remember certain movements of literati painting didn't always do modeled landscapes. Yes and no, Mikkel. Yes and no.

"They didn't have any big forests, islands, and mountains to hide in like we do."

Oh, Sigrun. Somebody should get her to look at that globe. The world would blow her mind. ;p If she believed it.

Re: authorial stuff, I'm not thrilled with how this was handled. But it's shaking out in pretty much the way that I expected.

"Re: authorial stuff, I'm not thrilled with how this was handled. But it's shaking out in pretty much the way that I expected."

I didn't want to bring up the wank again but......yeah. I loved today's page but her comments soured the update as much as the slur did yesterday's. All it was were people pointing out a slur and the majority of those requests that we saw was for the word to be changed. If she received anything worse, that's terrible. but what I saw were civil requests to have the word changed out. Instead of an apology, saying that she's not ever going to touch on the topic again feels like she's just killed off and buried all of the POCs in her world and kept them dead forever. It's a bit much and doesn't favor me towards the author at the moment.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I don't want to talk about it, exactly, but not talking about it also makes me uncomfortable. So. Here we are.

She mentions being contacted privately (probably tumblr? possibly through email?) and that's probably where the most of it was, I think - because like you say, the majority of the requests for changing it etc in the comments section were not so bad. I can easily believe that these private contacts happened. And I'm not surprised, and based on yesterday's author commentary, I'm not surprised that this is the result either. But I am disappointed in how things are going.

From an author relations angle, I feel that this whole thing was not dealt with very well.

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It feels like she just went, "Welp, white people only from now on, since all the other ones are too easily offended by my perfectly innocent use of a racist insult as a joke."

I thought the original unknown infected refugees were kind of highlighting a certain kind of xenophobia, which I thought was supported by Iceland's attitude toward refugees. And, uh...now I'm wondering if I assumed layers of depth there where I possibly shouldn't have.

It's unfortunate. I really like this comic, and I love the premise and all the thought behind it, but this kind of author response makes me reconsider a lot of things in it in a rather more suspicious and skeptical light. She is not getting it, and seems offended at the very idea that she has been asked to get it.

Hmm. I've been out of the loop, and I was just trying to figure ouf if I should say anything at all and where; now the page was revised again but it doesn't change how this turned out in the first place and I also feel weird not saying anything.

An important part of the fascination of the comic for me has been how it represents the culture I come from, but it makes me uncomfortable if at the same time there seems to be a blind spot for why the perspective is important on a cultural matter. I'm disappointed at how it was handled in the a/n, and at how some people were apparently trying to explain it away. Right now this does affect how I feel about the comic and that's really sad.

(Argh, now I just want to go back to looking at the page with Lalli and the round map. That was a good page.)

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