Character's ages

[Pop Guy]

8 minutes ago, Jessie223 said:

what are gay actions and gay character behaviours?

the only way you'd be able to tell if a character is gay is if it's stated somewhere or if it's immediately obvious (like being in an relationship), otherwise you wouldn't know someone's sexuality at all

again: silly analogy, sexuality and age are presented differently and that's literally just a matter of fact

Why do you keep focusing on gays? He made a stupid example, that's all, I still don't understand why you insist on the question.
However, a capable author should make things spontaneously understood during reading, not by explicit declarations. How was Rowling supposed to do? I don't know, I'm not a millionaire writer, she should be the one to amaze me, not me to justify her mediocrity.

[Jessie_]

Just now, Pop Guy said:

Why do you keep focusing on gays?

because that's the focus of the analogy

it's silly to compare sexuality and age like they're the same thing, i don't get why this is hard to understand

1 minute ago, Pop Guy said:

However, a capable author should make things spontaneously understood during reading, not by explicit declarations. How was Rowling supposed to do? I don't know, I'm not a millionaire writer, she should be the one to amaze me, not me to justify her mediocrity.

to be clear, i'm not defending jk rowling or her work, especially since i think she's a crappy liberal and her franchise is mediocre

 

[Pop Guy]

2 minutes ago, Jessie223 said:

to be clear, i'm not defending jk rowling or her work, especially since i think she's a crappy liberal and her franchise is mediocre

 

Sacred words, I fully agree 

[Zeklo]

2 hours ago, Pop Guy said:

However, a capable author should make things spontaneously understood during reading, not by explicit declarations.

If a detail isn't relevant than its chances of making it in are incredibly low. In this case, a character's sexuality isn't super relevant unless there's a plot point around it. This would most commonly arise in the romance genre, but can still arise as subplots in other genres. Otherwise it's additional details that knowing or not knowing won't affect the story, and may or may not make it into the story as padding.

You can design a character in great detail, but not everything about them is going to be relevant to the story you tell and parts will be left out. That doesn't invalid those parts. It just means the only other way of learning about them is through external means of confirmation.