[ SECRET POST #3987 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3987 ⌋

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

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[Yuri on Ice]


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[Book Series: The Temeraire Novels by Naomi Novik]


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[Orphan Black]


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[South Park]


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[Stranger Things]


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[Smallville]


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[Iron Fist, Joy/Danny]














Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: fandom confessions

[(Anonymous)]

The only thing I heard about that was that they intended to make Pollution gender neutral/androgynous, not that they plan on really bringing it up on the plot. Did I miss something?

Re: fandom confessions

[(Anonymous)]

The point about that is: how would that even come up if it's not explicitly mentioned in some way. And why only Pollution? The other horsepersons are just as much personifications of certain aspects for whom gender is irrelevant - why single out one of the characters for that?

Re: fandom confessions

[(Anonymous)]

I assumed only Pollution because the book goes to great lengths to point out that Pollution isn't memorable or noticeable at all, that peoples gazes skim over them and then forget they were even there, so it's easier to 'choose' to show Pollution as a gender irrelevant personification than say... War, who has a whole scene that specifically shows she's an attractive woman, or at least presenting as such.

Re: fandom confessions

[(Anonymous)]

He's also described in detail when people do notice him, so I still think it's an unnecessary change to make.

Re: fandom confessions

[(Anonymous)]

The point about that is: how would that even come up if it's not explicitly mentioned in some way.

By using they/their when referring to Pollution in the 3rd person.

Re: fandom confessions

[(Anonymous)]

And that's already too much of an unnecessary change to the character, imo. But maybe I'm just too much of a purist who doesn't like it when characters get changed too much in adaptations.

Re: fandom confessions

[(Anonymous)]

You sound really pissed about something so minor as gender identity being they/them not he/him.

Re: fandom confessions

[(Anonymous)]

It's both the casting and the changed gender identity and no, I'm not pissed. I dislike it, the same way I disliked the casting for my favourite character in American Gods.
The consequence from that would be not to watch it (as I did with American Gods as well), which I probably wouldn't have done anyway because I have little faith in adaptations and GO is a particularly tricky one where a lot can go wrong. But I won't lose sleep over it.