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“Queer coding” exists because for a long time it was unacceptable or outright banned to depict characters who were states to be, or implicitly queer. Therefore authors had to sneak depictions of queer characters in through coding with plausible deniability.
“Child coding” and “sibling coding” simple DO NOT EXIST because it is not and has never been unacceptable or banned to depict characters who are stated to be or implicitly siblings or children.
Child coding and sibling coding are not real and cannot hurt you.
Just cause something is underhanded (queer coding or race coding) doesn’t mean it isn’t there. It’s still very much a part of the story and the narrative: take NBC Hannibal. Or even Harris’s Silence of the lambs for example or IWTV book (1976) by Anne Rice. Or especially Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Child coding isn’t a thing, hard stop. Ask any media critic or literary academic of seriousness.
— a credentialed media critic in college academia whose also bi and genderqueer
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