#subtext — Public Fediverse posts

I've got a class starting next week about Dialogue, Gesture, and Staging.

4 weeks, Thursdays, 9/18/25 - 10/9/25, 6pm-9pm (North American Central time), Zoom, $222/$200 (Loft member)

It covers a variety of tools to make dialogue come alive in your scenes—with specific techniques to make it realistic (if that's your thing), dynamic, compelling, resonant, and/or vibrant.

https://loft.org/classes/writing-fiction-4-weeks-dialogue-gesture-and-staging

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The #author of #OG #Wicked #novel #confirms #lesbian #subtext between #Glinda and #Elphaba is #intentional

#Author #GregoryMaguire said in a recent #interview with #Them that he “wanted to give that level of #complexity to #Oz” for it to be “#believable” – this “included #sexualorientation and #sexual #diversity”.

#Women #Lesbians #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Movies #Inclusion #Representation #Culture

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/12/10/glinda-elphaba-lesbian-wicked-book/

And there's no subtlety in #DunePartTwo in depicting the #Fremen as being based on #Arab and #Muslim peoples and #culrures, #Spice as #oil, and all of the "great houses" as primarily the #European-based and derived parasites of the "West".

I'm typically clueless on #subtext and didn't get any of that until I read what people posted after #DunePartOne.

(Don't tell me about the books, thanks)

I'm thinking about all the ways characters put up a sort of armor to hide their true self & how that armor only makes us feel more intensely that there is vulnerability behind it. It can be so compelling.

Their armor can be toughness or defensiveness or cruelty or politeness or cheerfulness or naïveté or busy-ness or obsession with something that seems unrelated or just a general refusal to hear what is said. What else?

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