Post #2644357
2026-05-05 12:07 UTC
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@ljwrites@writeout.ink 2026-05-05 16:52
From comments I feel like the mention of elderly protagonists sucked all the air out of the room even though I was talking about a pretty specific technical aspect of older protagonists in worldbuilding, rather than fictional representation of older people in general? :blobcat_think: Maybe it's understandable given that elderly protagonists are something of a rarity especially in genre lit spaces; I did in fact mention that aspect in an earlier draft of the op but cut that part out because it was already too long. In the earlier draft I mentioned "The Day Before the Revolution" by Ursula K. Le Guin https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-the-day-before-the-revolution and "Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200" by R.S.A Garcia https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/tantie-merle-and-the-farmhand-4200/ as the few other examples I know of, both of them superb science fiction short stories with older female protagonists where the viewpoint characters' knowledge of how the world used to be serves to ease readers into aspects of the world. * Sorry for the double edit, inserted the wrong link the first time xD h/t @otfrom@functional.cafe !