Clean all the links? No, that's not right.

jimhines provides several links relevant to OSC and Hamlet's Father, including Card's response. I appreciate Card's clarification, since the conflation of homosexuality and pedophilia induces eye-twitching rage in me faster than about anything else, and I'm very glad to learn that was not his intention. If he really wonders why people might jump to the wrong conclusion about his opinions, though...well that only induces eye rolling.

If you prefer to read the work of an author who can articulate the difference clearly, may I suggest Andrew Vachss*. (Watch out, website makes noise.)

Not unrelatedly, many people have already linked to an agent's attempt to straighten YA. I would just like to take a moment to express my appreciation for my agent and my editor, who are completely wonderful in this regard. Also, I really really really want to write (the book that will probably not be called) Monster Garden.

But first I have to clean all the things, and eventually rescue Dorothy Medusa from the horrors of the groomer.


*I didn't mention Vachss during #buyabiggaynovelforscottcardday, but his straightforward and compassionate treatment of trans characters was, if not the first example I found in fiction, definitely the most memorable.