That might get more people to cough up the $3 for a copy, just to see if it’s really as fetishy as it sounds. “Come for the diaper-wearing protagonist, stay for the story.”
Alternately, this post could be taken as evidence that I should never do advertising.
Eh, works for me. I guess the question is how weird you want your example to be. If you’re losing audience due to excessive weirdness, then I suppose you’re being less effective than you could be, even if it is a good example of a way someone with relatively little indoctrination might end up. It seems clear to me that while someone in your character’s situation wouldn’t end up with that particular oddity, ey probably would have some feature at least that weird/absurd/repelling. I guess it comes down to 1. the question of accuracy versus transmittability 2. what the next best thing to demonstrate weirdness is 3. how hard it is to make the idea less unpleasant to your readership.
I vote for replace. I find it too heavy-handed as a way of characterization and I actually don’t think that diapers are that comfortable or practical for an older kid who could take care of himself.
Okay, poll: does anyone actually like the diaper thing, or should I just replace it with something else?
Replace. A protagonist that often smells of urine is not compelling.
At the very least, not as the selling point. If this thing is going to get distilled into a single image, “diaper fetishist” probably shouldn’t be it.
That might get more people to cough up the $3 for a copy, just to see if it’s really as fetishy as it sounds. “Come for the diaper-wearing protagonist, stay for the story.”
Alternately, this post could be taken as evidence that I should never do advertising.
Eh, works for me. I guess the question is how weird you want your example to be. If you’re losing audience due to excessive weirdness, then I suppose you’re being less effective than you could be, even if it is a good example of a way someone with relatively little indoctrination might end up. It seems clear to me that while someone in your character’s situation wouldn’t end up with that particular oddity, ey probably would have some feature at least that weird/absurd/repelling. I guess it comes down to 1. the question of accuracy versus transmittability 2. what the next best thing to demonstrate weirdness is 3. how hard it is to make the idea less unpleasant to your readership.
I vote for replace. I find it too heavy-handed as a way of characterization and I actually don’t think that diapers are that comfortable or practical for an older kid who could take care of himself.
My daughter got to hate them all by herself and was enormously pleased to have sufficient bladder control not to need them.
An external catheter I could understand, but wearing soiled diapers sounds really uncomfortable.