[ SECRET POST #2866 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2866 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Strictly Come Dancing, linked for nudity]


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08. [ SPOILERS for Bleak Expectations]



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10. [ SPOILERS for Transformers: More than Meets the Eye ]



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11. [ WARNING for child sexual abuse ]



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12. [ WARNING for rape, gore, etc]

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't write about POC characters for the same reason I don't really write female characters: it hits too close to home. I'm in fandom for superheroes and supernatural creatures and romcoms and idealized lives where there might be angst but there are happy endings too--let me just enjoy my escape into fiction, all right?

[(Anonymous)]

I sometimes wonder about this. See, I do write POC characters fairly regularly, depending on which fandoms I'm in at the time, and I've written a couple of characters that are the center of fairly racially loaded plotlines in canon, and it hasn't bothered me, but I think that is at least partially because I'm not a POC and I've never suffered racism and that sort of thing is safe for me in a way it wouldn't be for someone who'd lived through it. It's an imagined pain for me, not a memory, so I wonder if it's easier for me to write about it than maybe someone with a better claim to the experiences?

Because there are some characters who I love and adore, but I could never write or only very rarely because there is something in their story that treads waaaaay too close to home. In particular, characters with certain mental illnesses, and characters who spend a lot of their stories in proximity to alcoholics.

James Rhodes, incidentally, is an odd character for me because of this, because I love and adore him and have written a fair few stories with him, and I actually almost liked him more after IM2 because I knew exactly what he was feeling right then, but I almost never write about his experiences in IM2 because then I get into fights with people about what it's like living in proximity to a self-destructing Stark-equivalent and don't you fucking dare shit on Rhodey for that and it makes me feel naked and raw, because possibly some of these people have lived with a self-destructing Stark-equivalent and still don't like Rhodey because people handle stuff differently, and it's a mess and so I don't go there.

Um. I had a point. Point was, even characters I love and can write well, there are sometimes bits of their experiences that I can't touch in writing because it lands in a mess, and I sometimes wonder when it comes to the bigger issues, issues that are bound into characters on a bigger level, if that fear/reluctance/pain can end up being writ larger for some people, depending on their own experiences and purposes for writing?

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AYRT

You pretty much summed it up, yes. I've experienced racism and sexism both in my life, and I really don't like thinking about it. Then again, I also can't write characters with really angst-infused backstories for the same reasons, whether black/white/other, man/woman/other. The point of it, though, is that people have reasons for writing certain characters over others that doesn't always boil down to hard racism/sexism.

Which you seem to understand perfectly, so that's nice. :) Fandom as a whole, though, not so much.