This might sound weird but one of the things I am really enjoying about the Hugos this year is that it's a place where people can wildly disagree but still be friends who are talking to each other? I was laughing in delight last night every time Jed posted another one of his ballots completely inverting my ranking of something (contemplating telling Jed this, would appreciate any insight on whether he'd take it the wrong way) because it's such a contrast to the real world where the big disagreement is, like, pro- and con- child traumatization and one of those sides is actually actively evil, or even the online fandom world where if we disagree about Check Please or Knights/Caps we probably try to avoid each other in the *best* case. So this comment actually makes me really happy, because, like, here we are, I loved this thing, you totally did not, and here we are and it's awesome! ::hugs you::

All that said I'm mostly failing to have an interesting substantive response to your comments - I'm sure I was more willing to give Yang a pass on who got to be characters genderwise because a) I first became of fan of them as a then-woman-identified author and b) they came out as nonbinary, so, like, I assume they have actually *thought* about gender and aren't just doing it by default? I had not really thought about the representation of secondary characters... I *think* almost everyone in Red Threads who isn't introduced in Black Tides are women or nonbinary, and I wonder if there was a sort of deliberate gender echoing around the protagonists. I don't think you would have found the worldbuilding any more compelling in Red Threads though so I won't feel bad about not having told you to read that one first. :) And I'm amused about the Korrasami thing... I'm definitely familiar with the difference of "oh, I haven't seen any of this in awhile, yay" vs "I've had plenty of this lately" - if I just happened to read these right at the right time for me, it's not always easy to realize that from the inside. :)