Ever write your hopes and dreams into your fiction? Intentionally or unintentionally?

[WorldBreakerNovels]

The bulk of the things I put my characters through is either story progression or because it's the most logical thing that would happen in that particular situation. However, some things amongst my stories would be pretty cool to actually happen. Many of said things are unrealistic, such as demonic enhancement, genetic alteration, becoming a robot, or just learning magic. Other things, such as being successful and rich or just never having to work a normal job again, are totally realistic things that could happen... that I wish would happen... that I would REALLY wish would happen... lol.

More times than not, it's just story progression though.

[KennethLopezJr921]

My world of my comic is pretty diverse, with anthro dogs and cats living alongside humans. And while racism and…I guess speciesism exists, it’s not where it becomes a problem that lead to societal collapse. Everyone sees each other as equal and it’s not really made apparent that you have 3 species living amongst each other. In a way, it kind of mirrors how I grew up. I lived (and still live) in a racial diverse suburb, where you got an equal amount of white, black, Hispanic, Jewish and Asian people living not to far from each other. It’s like one of those tv shows where the main cast is made to be diverse in order to appeal to more groups except it’s actually a thing. No one ever brought up skin color as a point of contention, and no one saw it as a barrier to make friends. We all saw each other as equal, regardless of how we looked. Not to mention, I grew up in a Puerto Rican family, and I’ve noticed that a lot of PR and Latin American families are very diverse.

This is how I think things should be, especially now in America. I don’t understand this countries obsession with something as meaningless as someone’s skin pigmentation. You have people trying to claim their race is superior and trying to use bullshit like facial structure and how light their skin as “proof”, while also sticking to outdated sciences like eugenics and other pseudo racist bullshit from the 1890s. You also have people using skin color as a scale of how “oppressed” you are, which usually targets white people because every white person inherently bad because their ancestors did bad things. Both sides are just bad as the other in my eyes. Not to mention most places require you to check off which race your are when something up for and it’s just all meaningless. Why should a school Im signing up to care if white or black or Pacific Islander or whatever? As long Im a skilled enough artist, why should my skin color be a decider for my acceptance or not. Skin color shouldn’t be a big deal, because we’re all human at the end of the day. That’s why I like my comic’s universe because the diversity is way more literally there, than it is here. Yet it’s never a point of contention, because it’s a person’s character that’s important. Not what they look like

[Leyelle]

That neighborhood sounds like where i want to live. I still deal with this drama in my country, I'm hispanic as well, and I experience the bigotry first hand for being dark-skinned. Add to that that I'm multi-ethnic, so that my father looks almost Arab, while my mother looks more typically 'black' then there is bias between the lightness and percieved whiteness of my sisters versus me, it's terrible. Interestingly, though I hadn't listed it in my comment above, I feel like this ideal of mine, a world where ethnicity exists but is not a barrier has been expressed to different degrees in a lot of UNPUBLISHED (sadly, but just for the moment) series I have, and i also expressed it with my audio drama "Lion Proof" where my MC is a black woman, her husband is Korean, and her bff is white, but, despite the fact that one of her goals is to have more black people in the Afro hair care industry, because for some reason there aren't many, it's not because she dislikes Asians, but just because she thinks we should have more direct influence on the products we use. I think my ideal of an emotionally healthy couple that isn't always bickering and speaks to each other kindly and lovingly also slipped in, more or less intentionally, but became more intentional when I had to details prompts for the actor and make a note when 'Aaron's' actor got a little intense that Aaron would NEVER yell at his wife (exasperating as she is.)

[kyupol]

All the time. Piece by piece. In heroes or villains. Sometimes contradicting things I actually believe in.

[DasIstWunderblyat]

Oh, I want to have a nice cat too

[ArtGremlin]

I mean, A lot of my hopes and dreams are making fictional… so-

[Leyelle]

Dreams other than those lol

[Lilmonstart]

Maybe? I have a character who has as hobby drawing and painting
since doing art is something I wanna grow with someday

[Leyelle]

I guess that's fair, my MC is a professional painter and another one of them owns an art a literary magazine, so both of those fit my own personal dreams as well

[NickRowler]

I guess I want to be a parent but it's something I might not be able to be in real life.

I guess the kid characters in my stories are sort of like my children. I know that might sound sweet to some and creepy to others.

[Leyelle]

I don't find it creepy, and don't give up hope on yourself either. I think I might subconsciously be the same way some times, I love writing adorable baby characters into my stories lol, maybe because I'd love to have kids of my own. On the flip side, I think I sometimes write mother character's based on unrecognized ideals as well.

[Smitaa]

Alright, away from whether the things we talk about and narrate are intentional or not, I believe they concern us deeply. There are things we wish would happen, and there are things we hope never do. As an example, let me share with you about the novel that resonates with me significantly, "Let Me Adore You, Lilac"
The protagonist, Lisan, far from her appearance, I attempted to showcase her intellectual side more, believing that with each iteration, I'm updating myself. "Lisan," or should I say, "I," try or have tried to surpass a certain stage in my life, as if I'm updating myself, attempting to embody my fear of moving beyond the past. Even if I've moved past it, I fear that others wouldn't, that they won't love me. Therefore, I paint all my fears, despite being confident that I do not care if someone loves me first. But I genuinely want that. Hence, I embodied the character "Bibars," the ideal person for me.
so, whether we want to or not our pen draws our beliefs on the paper intentionally or unintentionally.

[NickRowler]

I remember seeing something about the history behind the very sweet and wholesome book Love You Forever. Which is about a mom who loves her son while he grows up.

Apparently the author of the book didn't have any kids at the time. He want to but unfortunately they ended in stillbirths. I guess the book was sort of what he wish he had for him and his wife.

Tho on a positive note, I heard later him and his wife adopted some kids.

[Leyelle]

That's so beautiful and sad at the same time. Honestly I wonder if some of the emotions of my characters get to me, or if I'm sort of soaking into them, especially when the tragedy of the story has to do with loneliness. I've had a few times where the stories actually make me emotional, but then, I'm making the story, so I suppose I'M making IT emotional

[Chronomel]

I've never heard anyone say "white people are bad because their ancestors are bad" I mean, it's not like racism happened ages ago, those "ancestors" are still alive, and still raising children with racist views in racist communities. The consequences of their actions still affect us today, and white people are benefitting from it, intentional or not. And having benefited from it, they're not likely to be able to understand what the problem is. If you wanna stop racism, you can't invalidate it by acting like the ppl who were systematically subjugated for years are exactly the same by acknowledging that white ppl predominantly cause and benefit from racism

[Leyelle]

Another thing I feel like I write into my stories, rather unintentionally, is that most of my characters and they're loved ones manage to find success at their creative endeavors at some point or another, and often have support from their families. Me and several of my siblings are artists, one of my parents is definitely more supportive than the other.

Alicia is obviously very successful as an artist and her little brother is one of her biggest fans, and she also has a lot of support from Mrs. Moon who sort of played a mother role for her in the place of her own mother.

I do have an auntie who sort of played this role for me, though sadly, because she lives in another country than me, it could never be to the extent Mrs. Moon filled the mother gap for Alicia.

They also are often able to work through really serious trauma even when they really hurt each other and still love each other afterwards, which HAS been my reality with some people I know, but I definitely wish was more common.

[Cass]

Me and Harper are basically the same person except for the fact that she's better at standing up for herself. When I was younger I used to get bullied a lot (people used to call me a boy or transgender because I was stronger then even some of the guys in my class and was really good at sports. My nickname was literally Manidy which is a play on my real name) and I never stood up for myself. I'm better at it now, but I just created Harper to say the things that I wanted to say at the time with her quick comebacks.

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[Leyelle]

Ahh, I think for a lot of people characters are a way to vent or make decisions we wish we could have. I'm sorry you went through that tho. sending lots of love:cherry_blossom:

[Cass]

Yeah that's what Harper is for me. It's fine, I'm a lot meaner toward rude people now. Thank you!

[Leyelle]

Aye, I get that. A lot of my characters are therapeutic for me too in a way