[ SECRET POST #5403 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5403 ⌋

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Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

(If you think something in this thread is a troll, please ignore it! Conversation is fine, but OT wank makes stuff harder to keep track of in this thread. Thanks.)

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NS, NF, etc.

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Official advertise your fandom-related event thread.

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Games thread!

Transcript by OP

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While having tons of fanworks is definitely better than none at all...
I find that I prefer it when there's not too many fics for my favorite characters/ships, because for some reason I feel "obliged" to check them all out.
It can quickly get overwhelming and burns me out on the given character/ship.

lolwut self, nobody's actually forcing you to do it.
also, way to sound like a hipster.

Transcript by OP

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There’s a WIP fanfic I started reading in December 2019. I was enthralled. I couldn’t wait for more. I would whip out my phone wherever and whenever it updated. It’s now October 2021, and hoo boy… The shine has worn off. The updates have been pretty regular. The chapters are longer than ever, and instead of exciting me, I’m just gritting my teeth to get through them. Was the prose always this purple? Were the characters always this wangst-y? Did it actually get bad, or did I just stop enjoying it? Help!

[(Anonymous)]

Tbf if you make a skintone seem even slightly too light by accident they will chase you off the internet so it's better to play it safe.

[(Anonymous)]

I can only speak for myself, but going through some of my old bookmarks does make me cringe. Is that really what I thought was worth re-reading?

I think that as I read more, I became more discerning.

[(Anonymous)]

More likely it's because people tend to get feral if they perceive a piece of art as having a skin tone even one iota too light.

I've seen people harrassed out of a particular video game fandom for drawing certain (canonically white) characters as "too light-skinned" because carefully-selected screencaps with shitty lighting have them convinced they're actually a POC.

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People seem to differ a lot in how they “translate” features from live-action to drawing (and the reverse). Wasn’t there lots of argument over the live-casting of Aladdin and Avatar? I feel like no one could agree on how drawn skin colors correspond to actual people.

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is this the same people who accused overwatch of white-washing jesse mccree, their own character

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there is something about the hyperfixation on the exact shade of brown skin color of characters that fandoms sometimes display that makes me extremely uncomfortable, but i can't put a finger on why

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Oh man, yes. I recently went looking for an "old favorite" of mine via the wayback machine, the author's page had vanished from the web. Mostly I just remembered one scene.

...I'll just say that although I still like that one scene, I think it was because there is so little material out there in general for that particular ship that I clung to anything that mentioned it. (Which sorta intersects with that other secret...)

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I kinda get this. I have a weird FOMO thing where I worry about missing out on some hidden great fic.

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Reminds me of what's happening in the Genshin Impact fandom. A few characters actually have slightly tanned/darker skin but a certain group of fandom slacktivists have decided they are black and hunt down anyone who draws them even slightly too light for their tastes.

Like, they could criticise the game all they want for not actually not having ANY black characters (because quite honestly, it doesn't really. Xinyan is a tanned faux-Chinese person likely based on an actual Chinese minority and Kaeya might be ambiguously brown but "he's black" seems like a bit of a stretch) but no. Instead they try to police anyone drawing fanart and usually with exactly zero clue about things like lighting or colour theory etc.

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The other commenters mentioning the flak people get for drawing characters too light are probably right, but artists tend to draw white people too dark, too.

I guess that pale skin looks too ehhhhh against a white background, or something.

Not the case with animated white characters like Elsa, though.