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ysabetwordsmithFive Things I Wish More Books Talked About
1. The Messy Side of Friendships
2. Adult Characters Starting Over
3. Grief That Sticks Around
4. Queer Joy Without Tragedy
5. Found Family and Chosen Community
All of these are things I have written about. Some of them are things I write about all the time. The vast majority of my work touches on found-family and community somehow. Where characters have lost someone, it tends to stick, like with Cas.
1. The Messy Side of Friendships
2. Adult Characters Starting Over
3. Grief That Sticks Around
4. Queer Joy Without Tragedy
5. Found Family and Chosen Community
All of these are things I have written about. Some of them are things I write about all the time. The vast majority of my work touches on found-family and community somehow. Where characters have lost someone, it tends to stick, like with Cas.
Agreed.
Date: 2025-04-24 08:57 am (UTC)Especially, for some reason, the Chiara and Cuoio stuff?
Charles de Lint does a good job with his Newford stories, too. Found family -and- chosen community are main themes throughout all the various storylines within the Newford setting. From the various art collectives to the diverse families.
Tamora Pierce dives deep into both found family and chosen community a lot in her books as well, especially the Magic Circle stuff and with the Daine stories.
If we get into anime territory, that broadens horizons a bit. Satoru Nii, who writes WINDBREAKER is doing 'chosen community' beautifully with a school full of fighting-inclined juvenile delinquents who protect an entire town and the citizens from outside gangs.
And look at Eiichiro Oda's various crews in One Piece. Whitebeard's whole thing is found family. Everyone on his crew is a son or daughter to him. Luffy (the series' protagonist), and his friends Nami and Sanji, also had their own found family situations before starting their pirate adventure, which brought them into another found family.
Those are the four examples I could think of off the of my head. I wish I could pop off a dozen or so, at least.
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Date: 2025-04-24 10:52 pm (UTC)Yes ...
Date: 2025-04-25 08:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-04-25 03:50 am (UTC)Well ...
Date: 2025-04-25 04:21 am (UTC)Cross-generational cooperation
Date: 2025-04-25 06:48 pm (UTC)It's possible to befriend other generations. It's possible to work with them. And it's definitely possible to communicate with them.
(I really like your Monster House stories)
- Flavia (bv97045)
Re: Cross-generational cooperation
Date: 2025-04-26 10:02 am (UTC)