[ SECRET POST #2936 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2936 ⌋

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Comments

Don't hold your breath

[nyxelestia]

One of those extremely pervasive yet unspoken rules of fandom is to not write or do anything in relation to real life tragedies.

Writing about rape, torture, noncon, abuse, and all sorts of other terrible things that tons of people around the world experience is okay. But writing something like a shooting or terrorist attack that only a few people in the world actually experience? No, no, bad fandom. Even if you are being respectful and/or doing it for the sake of comforting someone who could use a little reassurance in the aftermath of something horrible, if it's not something terrible a lot of people experience, then it's exploitation/appropriation and you are a terrible person for even thinking about it.

/still bitter

Re: Don't hold your breath

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think they meant just the reaction from fandom (since they say "cultural reaction"). When things like this happen, there's generally a lot of political cartoons, murals, etc drawn to comment or pay tribute to it. Things like 9/11 also had numerous songs written ("Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning" comes to mind)

Re: Don't hold your breath

[(Anonymous)]

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*cultural aftermath

Re: Don't hold your breath

[nyxelestia]

I suppose so. Still, even when general pop culture starts catching up, I don't think there will be much fandom reaction. People are too scared of being exploitative (or being called exploitative) to do anything in relation to terrorist attacks, shootings, and other acts of violence that end up on TV a lot.

Re: Don't hold your breath

[(Anonymous)]

rape, torture, noncon and abuse are all general acts that can happen to anyone and people in fandom generally don't write about the rape, torture, etc that was really experienced by an actual person. this is a real life, specific terrorist attack that affected specific people rather than a generalized sort of thing so it's not really the same. I don't think people would be terrible for doing it, but it does seem more tacky although I guess it depends on what you mean by "writing about it". Like, if you mean a fanfic about the actual people or their families then that's creepy. If it's a fic about...idk, a character in some fandom's reaction to the event then that's still kind of weird but not awful I guess

Re: Don't hold your breath

[nyxelestia]

The latter is what I mean. I get not writing about a specific tragedy that happened to a specific person - that's a rule fandom tends to apply everywhere. What bothers me is that in fandom, it's considered exploitative to write about shootings or terrorist attacks at all, no matter if you make them up for the sake of a fic, or even about characters reacting to a tragedy.

I'm incredibly bitter about this because I wasn't reacting too well after the Sandy Hook shootings, but when I tried asking for comfort fic (thank god I did it in anon), everyone acted like I'd requested the shooter have sex with the children or something. A few months later when my own school was shot up by a lunatic with a gun, I wanted to ask for fic, because really, is it too much to ask that I want to read about, IDK, my favorite characters saving the day or at least commiserating in this tragedy or something? But of course, that would be ~exploitative~ and ~inappropriate~ and insensitive to the victims of actual tragedies (which I don't get because we put warnings on everything so that real life victims of rape and abuse and such can avoid fanfics that might be insensitive or triggering or whatever, so why can't that extend to things like shootings or terrorist attacks?)

Re: Don't hold your breath

[(Anonymous)]

I once came across a Mary Sue Backstreet Boys (or was it NSync? I don't remember) fic where the OMC dies tragically in 9/11 and the bandmember she was dating is heartbroken.

It was fucking hilarious. (And this was, like, December 2011.)