[ SECRET POST #3146 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3146 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 065 secrets from Secret Submission Post #450.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, maybe I'm missing something, but perhaps the fact that you know exactly how many of the characters featured in your friend's fic are POCs and have evaluated them negatively as racial stereotypes is part of the pressure your friend is experiencing? Like, I'm not saying you should tiptoe around other people's discomfort about tackling race issues or POC characters, but I do think they are responding to something very real and that they are right about there being pressure there.

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Readers being aware of an author's characters and use of racial stereotypes isn't pressure, though? That's just how reading works for many people, especially with issues that matter to them. Surely authors realize that when they publish something (even if it's fanfiction online) that hello, people might notice details in their work and might have opinions about them. If they didn't want that sort of "pressure", then why publish?

[(Anonymous)]

Readers being aware of an author's characters and use of racial stereotypes isn't pressure, though?
Ehm, I guess, if the reader never posts those thoughts aloud? But I know people who DO post those kinds of thoughts and who at the same time DO seem to be experiencing the kind of pressure the friend talks about. For example, my friend will write or reblog posts talking about how people need to care more about female characters and femslash, and then go on to say how guilty she feels that her OTP (that she writes by far the most fic for) is a white cock pairing. Those two things, exerting pressure and guilt (which go together), both stem for a widespread culture within a fandom that fic has to be progressive, and people need to prove themselves, "walk the walk". To deny that there is some kind of pressure seems weird to me, because I see it all the time (for example, the drama alluded to in Secret 10 of Post #3147). I don't know if OP posts their ranty thoughts about fanfiction, but the fact that they hold them indicates to me this might be the widespread culture within their fandom, which totally WOULD exert pressure.

If they didn't want that sort of "pressure", then why publish?
That's kind of beside my point? Like, I'm not saying pressure is bad or people should expect NO pressure -- pressure is probably good, and makes people better authors. My point is that you don't really get to apply pressure on someone and then invalidate their feelings of experiencing pressure as being all in their head. Like, no. When people say they feel X, I generally believe they feel X.