Nobody has to like any particular genre of porn, or say nice things about it. But using a marginalized group as ammo against people who make porn you don’t like is kinda shitty. I think there’s a lot of the same “do not write about people who aren’t like you” that we’ve seen as a discourse topic for fiction in general. As always, goodbye representation if a straight cis white man is no longer allowed to write stories with characters who aren’t all those things too. Or if people are required to provide their personal information before getting the okay for, say, a queer character. I think it’s extremely othering if people treat you as an enigma that can only be understood by people of the same kind. I don’t want every single story about people like me, say, bi women, to be told exclusively by and for people who aren’t bi women, but if an author can’t manage to write a convincing bi woman perspective for something like a PWP, that seems like a question of writing skill and experience, not any inherent, irreconcilable difference in the human experience for humans of my type. (I was constantly annoyed at comments about 13 on House. “She behaves too much like a straight guy about women.” Look, most of us did not get to attend any secret wlw workshop for interacting with our attraction to women in a different way than what straight men absorb from our shared culture. I suspect a lot of bi women, such as myself, spend a great deal of formative time in situations where straight guys are primarily the people in your cohort you talk to about attraction to women. How is it that someone like me is supposed to sound fundamentally unlike the people around me who share my interest? How am I magically different? I really am not. I can promise you that. When I talked about my crush on a woman with guys who didn’t know I wasn’t also a man, thank you internet, they had no problem understanding my situation. Even the ace-influenced stuff. Because “I feel happy when I’m near her but a relationship isn’t what I want here” isn’t an experience unknown to other humans.)
I think a good comment I read about writing that kind of rep, is of course, you can write a story involving any type of character about any type of person, but if you're going to write a story where the main theme of the story is about 'the [ ] experience' that's where it's best you actually have that experience. Line may sometimes get blurry, but I think that gives a good overall sense.
("Gripe" may not be the right word for this, because I'm laughing hysterically, but hey.) So someone made an extremely emphatic post in the fandom and pairing tags about why shipping Neku and Joshua from The World Ends With You makes you a bad person. Most of it is the standard "this isn't a healthy relationship!!!" anti stuff I expected (I know, OP, that's the appeal), but then this happened and I'm still cracking up. Holy reading comprehension, Batman. (For those not familiar with TWEWY—nearly every time Neku starts on his edgy teen loner philosophy in Week 2, Joshua immediately, enthusiastically agrees with a more extreme extension of whatever opinion Neku just expressed, which usually results in Neku internally going "wait, that's kind of an asshole attitude". ... Apparently OP read this as Joshua sincerely trying to convince Neku to keep thinking that way, and not, you know, the exact opposite.)
Josh literally says “Give up on yourself and you give up on the world” and drops the title in a lil speech about connecting w others and expanding your horizons.
There's this podcast character who is really cool, Martin Blackwood, who's quite a kind caring anxious guy, pretty gentle from canon text and just Idk, fandom seems to infantilize him a lot, like through art or through fandom discussions (though I suppose those can be portrayed as jokes or memes) making him seem childish, though he hasn't really displayed that sort of behavior in text? He comes off as "idealistic" in the desperation of the canon situation, but tbh it just sounds like him trying to keep a broken ship from sinking. He seems like a very capable adult, who is emotionally mature, and compassionate and protective over the people he cares about It just bothers me that I don't really see that portrayed by the fans
This is probably a joke but like,,,, I ain't friends with this person we've never talked like fuckoff omg,,, I didn't post my whole rant on Twitter cause honestly opinions on special social media is stressful just Got strong urges to block XD Eta a word
Ugggh how obnoxious!! (Also I just got into TMA and haven't delved into the fandom yet, and now I'm sad about how people are infantilizing my fave) (well one of my many faves bc i'm indecisive af but you feel me)
Have fun with tma! It's a delight Like if this reply was from a friend or if my brand of humor was more uwu heavy then maybe I'd get it but i don't really post text tweets just art There is like this social media thing of perceived closeness which is hard to distinguish i think, freaks me out over what's ok and what's not ok
while looking for Venom fic, i saw a post on one author's tumblr where they said they weren't comfortable posting everything on ao3 because just the presence of warnings for incest or underage or noncon or something, made it seem like ao3 was "endorsing" those kinds of content puts face in hands yes thats the point The content is harmless if adequately labelled thats like saying because the grocery store advertises that it sells peanut butter, that its endorsing peanut butter. thats only a problem if the existance of safely contained peanut butter is going to cause you problems Edit: that said, i respect their preference to not post some things on ao3 it just makes me a little sad
listen undertale/deltarune fandom, i get it, really, i do. you don't INTEND to be weird and transphobic, but enbies are just Too Weird for you and therefore kris/chara/frisk have to be girls/boys so you can have your Pure Lesbian Fluff or good innocent mlems or whatever you're going for but uh go fuck yourselves
It really bothers me how some people seem to have this transparent dislike of Kris/Susie because it ruins their 'good lesbian' when... Kris... is nonbinary and it's not a straight ship and... everything I don't think Kris/anyone will be a thing, but it's not like nonbinary characters being lovingly shipped is. common. Let people be
holy shit THANK YOU MY DUDE that's uh exactly what triggered this complaint i came out of deltarune wanting awkward outcast kid shenanigans and vague shippiness, not fucking terf-esque bullshit
> fandom does Disgusting / Pathetic Oppressor Unperson headcanons > it's characters you resemble or project on I know there's no reason to take others' possibly joking / badly thought out / personal interpretations of fiction to heart but some can be easily traced back to real beliefs about real humans and basically thanks for reminding me I'm like the bastard child of the community and you'd rather have me stay invisible forever
Mild vexation but why the fuck does BNHA have so many zines happening concurrently and consecutively??? Are bnha fans just loaded with cash to make and buy these zines??? I'm tired of seeing bnha zines in the zine blogs cause there's like... a Tonne of them with random other fandom zines scattered within
I'd guess it's because its massively popular so there's enough fans to maintain such a huge output and to cater to niches
