Trivia / Malê Rising

• Creator Backlash: invoked A minor example. While Jonathan Edelstein still loves the story, he believes that, looking back on the history of the 2010s, he thinks he "may have Mary Sued this universe a bit" when he started writing it in 2012, particularly with regards to how its social, cultural, and political changes often went unchallenged in-story. He said that, had he written it today, it wouldn't have been outright dystopian and would've ended in much the same optimistic place that the finished timeline did, but it would've taken a far more difficult and strife-filled path to get there, with more emphasis on the conservative and reactionary opposition to the changes brought. Stylistically, he also would've written more narrative vignettes and fewer history book-style excerpts, on the grounds of Show, Don't Tell.

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