[ SECRET POST #3935 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3935 ⌋

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

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[Stitchers]


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[The Dectectorists]


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[iZombie]


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[Bob Saget]













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Comments

Re: Dark skin headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Why are those things mutually exclusive

Re: Dark skin headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Because if you're spending time on a series that's about three canon white characters, you're not spending that time producing fanworks for series that aren't?

Re: Dark skin headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

You can like series with diverse casts, and also like Harry Potter

that's allowed

Re: Dark skin headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, but there's only so much time and effort one fan can spend on making fanworks for stuff. If you spend three hours drawing Indian!Harry then that's three hours you're not drawing Depa Billaba or Doctor Kutner or any other canon POC you could be enriching the fandom for. You literally can't go back in time and spend those same three hours over again, they're gone.

Re: Dark skin headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

But the activity of being a fan is not exclusively about promoting social justice messages, in any of these cases. It's also about, you know, being a fan. And I'm really not big on the idea of policing peoples' fandom activity to determine the authenticity of their fannishness, which is what you seem to be endorsing.

Re: Dark skin headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

It's not really policing. It's just pointing out that drawing Harry as Indian is like writing Kirk as boning Spock in terms of Social Justice Brownie Points, but a lot of people seem to feel it's a good example of real activism.

Re: Dark skin headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

I definitely agree that it's not real activism!

But at the same time, we all sort of accept that writing Kirk boning Spock is a legitimate and cool part of fandom - really something that's sort of central to fandom - and that people do it because they like it and that's cool. Whereas on the other hand, people don't seem to be able to accept that people like drawing Harry as Indian or whatever else. So I completely agree with the parallel you're drawing here, and I think that's really the central point I'm making: why do people ITT accept one and not the other?

Re: Dark skin headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

because the former's because of horniness and the latter's usually for brownie points

Re: Dark skin headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Well, you think that, and I'll just keep thinking that you all hate it solely because you hate anything that people weren't doing 15 years ago on Livejournal, and we'll all go on with our lives just like before.

Re: Dark skin headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

never had an lj and i didn't even have a neopets account 15 years ago

Re: Dark skin headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Geese, overreacting much? Anon seemed at most annoyed. Not to mention, like another anon ITT mentioned, slashers doing the same for brownie points get the same derision (as do het shippers claiming their ship is feminist).

Re: Dark skin headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

+1

I think a lot fewer people would care if the people doing the latter didn't act like their fanart was So Important. People who are similarly self-righteous about their fanfic about Kirk boning Spock are often treated with similar derision.

Re: Dark skin headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Having been around since before LJ, I can confirm this. I'd also add het fans, because oh boy do some love to drum the "my ship is so feminist" drum!

Re: Dark skin headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Two very different things here.

Race bending characters is faux activism that achieves nothing.

Kirk boning Spock is a sexual fantasy. To me, people having sexual fantasies is not a bad thing and perfectly valid.

Re: Dark skin headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Sure, but why racebend white characters for your fanworks when you can make fanworks of existing non-white characters of series you're supposedly a fan of?

Re: Dark skin headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know. For the same reasons that people make any other fanwork, I would assume.

Also, I would point out that like... there is an extremely obvious reason that you're more likely to see fanworks from massive fandom. the reason being, they are massive fandoms that everyone already likes.

Re: Dark skin headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Because you wouldn't get the same reactions as you do from a big fandom.
Like people who write AUs that are so OOC and removed from the canon they could just as well be writing original fiction but if you call the characters, say, Dean and Castiel and dump it in the Supernatural category, it will get much more feedback.

Re: Dark skin headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah but nobody claims that OOC fic is serving a higher purpose.

Re: Dark skin headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

The tons of OOC trans and/or autistic headcanon fic beg to differ.

Re: Dark skin headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Aren't they the same as race bending though? Just... ableness bending I guess.