I think people just generally forget that a character having an identity is that character living that identity.

"Can we get more examples of this character being X?" Like, no, they *are* X. Everything a trans character does is done transly. That's how being trans works.

Sometimes it feels like marginalized authors are expected to make characters "tit boobily" in relation to their identity or get told we didn't make it clear enough.

Your identity informs everything you do. It's not an intentional performance for outsiders' view.

This isn't the same thing as a someone feeling an outsiders' portrayal of an in-group felt inauthentic or flat.

Also, this is not a subtweet. Just a thought about the way people talk about portrayals of identity in fiction.

Are we allowed to coin "tit boobily" to mean "writing a character's identity in a way that's an exaggerated mockery of what identity actually looks like" bc it has a nice ring to it