[ SECRET POST #6084 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6084 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I hate it when people recontextualize from a modern perspective willy nilly. It’s obvious her line “I’m not bad” was meant as, a bad girl, or a woman of ill repute. Meaning, she is an upright married woman despite her slinky dress and curves.

[(Anonymous)]

.... that's how fandom works, my dude. We recontextualize to see the representation we wish to have. We do this with everything. But somehow it's bad when aces do it?

DA

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like this depends on the fandom. Most of the fandoms I've been have not engaged in recontextualizing things for representation. The revontextualization that's done tends to be more plot/theme related.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I'm a fandom old, almost exclusively slash. The main focus of just about every fangroup was dissecting the media in question to find anything that we could use as a jumping off point for making the characters gay, because we knew it would never actually happen in canon. That is recontextualization, and it's what fandom does.

If you want to stick to fandoms where you only ever ship the canon characters, or only ever follow exact plot points, have fun. But don't for one second think that it's the norm.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

"If you want to stick to fandoms where you only ever ship the canon characters, or only ever follow exact plot points, have fun. But don't for one second think that it's the norm."

While some of that happened in my fandoms, that was far from the only thing happening. There were plenty of OCs and non-canon ships. Still, even in those cases the focus was more on exploring alternate storylines rather than shifting characterization.

Re: DA

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AYRT

It isn't shifting characterization, it's recontextualising how the canon character would be if certain actions they canonically took or certain things they canonically said were evidence of representation we want to see. How can they be the thing we want while remaining in character. No OCs, no change in storyline. Just an exploration of canon and how all the things that have been shown so far can mean something completely different than what the showrunners think. It's literally a recontextualization. It's what fanfic was founded on. It's literally the basis of The Premise.