Terry Pratchett: hereâs this funny incompetent cowardly wizard who keeps getting into trouble, not much depth to his character bâ
me: my son and also me, heâs acespec, heâs arospec, heâs bi, heâs trans, probably autistic, also those traits you meant to be funny? symptoms of mental illness, I have an intricate web of headcanons for his backstory and his future, my city now
âOne of the traditions of the fantasy and science fiction genre is communicationâŚAuthors who write popular series find that readers are not passive receivers: they take the view that the author writes the script but the movie is played out in the readerâs own head, and therefore the enterprise is in some ways a collaboration or interactive one in which the reader has rights, if only the right to an opinion. This sort of thing has gone on for years in a private kind of way (âDear Miss Austen, I think it would be really cool if one of your heroines were to fall in love with NapoleonâŚâ). Itâs probably healthy.â
~Terry Pratchett, âWyrd Ideasâ
