[ SECRET POST #5103 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5103 ⌋

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


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02. https://i.imgur.com/tY3l0Jf.png
[OP warned for NSFW classical art]


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03.
[venom/venom 2 (movie)]


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04.
[Helluva Boss]


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05. [SPOILERS for Mandalorian]



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06. [SPOILERS for Mandalorian]



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07. [WARNING for mention of incest/underage]



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08. [WARNING for mention of rape/abuse]



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09. [WARNING for mention of abuse]


















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #730.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

As an author, I will no longer write POCs, because I know that, even if my writing is checked by a friend with the same background as that character, I still might offend someone. To be honest, that alone would have been a concern to me. If it were as simple as 'don't write shitty characters' then maybe that would be easy to overcome.

But it's not. Any tiny inconsequential detail can become someone's source of outrage and a reality-unchecked call to arms for social media users. On one side you've got people with a moral high ground ax to grind, who are terrified of going against the mob, all baying for blood and making death and rape threats. And on the other you have someone who wrote a story.

I doubt i'm the only one who's dropped any attempt at including POCs in their fic for fear of this insane dynamic.

So you can talk about how this isn't related to representation but it is. People are imperfect and still willing to try. If you create a culture of fear where any mistake is punishable but people's lives being ruined, why would anyone bother?

DA

[(Anonymous)]

I understand your fear of being attacked for how you write POC, but I'm confused about why you're apparently not scared of being attacked for only writing white people?

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

People don't seem to give that as much flack, not when you're some peon author on the internet not getting paid.

Plus, I write scifi, so I tend to write about white people who exist within a wide sprawling social structure that is most definitely not just white. I'm just hoping that no one gets offended by that too.

[(Anonymous)]

what if you just never mention the characters' races at all?

[(Anonymous)]

Ehhh, I write POCs in my fic (some of my ships are mixed-race couples, and I've written Yuletide non-shippy fic for fandoms centering around Black people.

(I'm white.)

I have literally had no problems or negative comments, ever, and no one has given me a hard time. If you're writing characters in character and not either demonizing or objectifying the POC's, I don't see what the problem is? Like, I've never seen anybody bitch in The Losers or Criminal Minds Morgan/Reid fic comments?

I'm just confident in my ability not to write characters in a shitty, racist way, I guess?

[(Anonymous)]

There is a big difference between including canon POCs in fic, and creating your own characters from a background you don't share. The latter is far more likely to get you in hot water.