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⌈ Secret Post #6224 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What are things people do in fanfic that just throw you out of the fic?

[(Anonymous)]

One of my het OTPs is two short people; the actor is ~5'6" with a listed height of 5'8", which discrepancy is easy to spot because of multiple movies and shows where he's had mug shots taken/been part of a police lineup. The actress has a listed height of 5'2" which is probably accurate.

Most of the fic for them gets their heights right, or doesn't mention it beyond him being taller than she is. The few where he's described as tall (and young, usually, which he's not) throw me right off.

My most recent OTP is m/m, and if the actors aren't the same height, they're pretty close. Same build, too, with one having maybe a few pounds on the other only because one slimmed down and worked out for months because he did almost a whole episode as a naked prisoner in a glass cage and was meant to look otherworldly and also scrawny and vulnerable. And one has brownish-black hair and the other blueish-black.

The amount of fanart and number of fics where the one with so dark it might as well be black brown hair has light brown hair, linebacker shoulders, and a full head of height on the other character so he can be the designated top (and so much fanart gets his nose wrong) or whatever annoys the shit out of me.

Re: What are things people do in fanfic that just throw you out of the fic?

[ariakas]

The hair thing miiiiiight be cultural: I had my hair described as "blonde" when I lived in Japan, when by North American standards it's medium brown (maybe light brown, at a stretch, in the summer) and heard people whose hair I would describe as black referred to as brown-haired - "black" was for pure, jet black only.

There's no excuse for the height thing though, I've seen that happen to identical twins in fanart when someone decides one's the top and one's the bottom - I'd guess that's what's going on with female character shortening, too.