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*** It's a shame too. With a more ambiguous, [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]] ending, it could be a fascinating storyline.

* ''[[The Draka]]'' novels by [[S.M. Stirling]] has this. [[The Evil Empire|An empire spanning Africa and the Middle East]] [[Villain Sue|conquers all of Eurasia]] [[Did Not Do the Research|with technology far too advanced to be there]]; the rest of the world acts like retards and does nothing when they could and should have. [[Idiot Plot|That's the plot in a nutshell.]] Do the math.

* [[Tamora Pierce]]'s ninth [[Circle of Magic]] book, ''The Will of the Empress''. [[Trailers Always Spoil|The book summary on Amazon.com]] says that {{spoiler|Daja is gay. Daja}} comes out in this book, but it gets precisely one slightly awkward conversation and is never mentioned as even a ''possible'' negative by ''anyone'' ever again. Regardless of your views on homosexuality, it's jarring that in this series, which has tackled gender relations, race, the role of nobility, gang violence, ''selling female children as slaves'', drug addiction, and a few other controversial issues, where even minor characters tend to have a wide diversity of opinions, one of the leads being a lesbian seems [[Suddenly Sexuality|pastede on yey]].

** {{spoiler|Thom and Roger, another couple in the Tortall books, and Rosethorn and Lark in the Circle books,}} are all [[Word of Gay|gay couples]]; excluding scenes with {{spoiler|Daja}}, there's exactly one scene that mentions homosexuality at all. In that scene, one person insults another by implying that he engages in homosexual behavior; Kel is wtf because "some men prefer other men and some women prefer other women," and it is not an issue where Kel grew up. Pierce's treatment of the issue is a pleasant change except for the 'pastede on yey' bit you speak of. In the [[Word of Gay]] thread on Pierce's forum, she mentions that she wanted one of the Circle four to be gay, but had trouble deciding which: her choices were [[Butch Lesbian]] (Daja), [[Lipstick Lesbian]] (Sandry), [[Does Not Like Men]] (Tris, though she also hit that with Lalasa), and [[The Casanova]] with a string of [[The Beard|beards]] (Briar, who was already established as a flirt, and [[Have I Mentioned That I Am Heterosexual Today|there's a better trope name, isn't there?]]).