[ SECRET POST #4019 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4019 ⌋

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

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[Love Actually]


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[Brooklyn 99]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe I can ask this here: I'm writing a fic about a male character (in a fandom that ritually shaves all their male chests) that has a shaved chest but a massive caveman beard. The problem is up-close on camera during the show you can see the actor's stubble on his chest in a couple of scenes and his arms are also shaved for whatever reason and you can see the stubble on the forearms, too. How do you write this? Do you just pretend he's smooth and hairless the way the rest of the fandom expects, or do you write that he shaves his chest and arms and deals with stubble? I'm seriously at a loss on how to deal with this.

[(Anonymous)]

I would probably just avoid mentioning it. But you could really go any way. Unless it's an actual plot point that he shaves his chest, you can probably just write it off as a weird aesthetic choice and go with whatever you think actually makes sense for the character.

[(Anonymous)]

lol it's sad I didn't consider just avoiding it completely. Thanks, nonnie!

[(Anonymous)]

Unless you think you're meant to believe he shaves his chest/arms/etc, I'd vote strongly for describing him as being smooth and hairless.

I feel like a male character making the consistent effort to shave large ares of his body is a pretty specific bit of characterization, and is likely to seem OOC for a lot of male characters. I would find it really jarring, myself. Unless, that is, I genuinely believed the character was someone who would do that. But IMO there's no way Dean Winchester, Sherlock Holmes, or Steve Rogers are shaving their chests in the shower every two days (or at all). That just seems wildly OOC to me. Whereas the idea that for some reason they just don't grow any chest hair - while realistically unlikely - is not jarring to me.

But I suppose other people may feel opposite to how I do on this matter. YMMV and all that. Just my two cents.