itâs actually really easy to satisfy audiences with Good Representation. you canât depict someone struggling with their Otherness because that portrays it in a bad light but you have to depict them struggling with their Otherness because if you donât, then youâre romanticizing how hard it is to be Othered. be super careful not to depict anything that might be adjacent to a common stereotype but if you go too far to avoid all stereotypes, then youâre still building the characters around stereotypes, which is a stereotype in its own way. if your storyline uses tropes, then itâs cliche, but if it avoids tropes, then itâs inauthentic. if you lampshade any of this, then youâre speaking down to your audience but if you donât acknowledge this, youâre also speaking down to your audience. this is all really easy stuff i donât know why people donât get it.
forgot The Most Important thing. you absolutely CANNOT make them perfect because that dehumanizes them, but if you give them flaws? hoooo boyâŚletâs just say, you do *not* want to give them flawsâŚ
