[ SECRET POST #6228 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6228 ⌋

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


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's suspicious how often it's the exact issue of "niche sexual orientations and genders" and "trending" ones (ah yes, just a fad, that identity. There's your real issue right there) that gets complaints in this type of secret about how characters would not behave because it's OOC, yet I have never seen a fanfic situation as egregious as the perpetual claim about characters pausing in life-threatening situations to soapbox about them.

[(Anonymous)]

Trends like that do wax and wane among fan writers and fan artists, though. For a while I couldn't turn around without tripping over a "character X is autistic" fic, but I don't see that nearly as much anymore. For a while I was seeing a lot of "character X is nonbinary" fics too, but that seems to be subsiding again. It's like how it was a whole thing for a while to draw characters having vitiligo, and now no one does that because they've all moved on to drawing characters covered with freckles, as that's the new trend. Fandom often likes to treat issues or identities as if they were fashions to try on their faves, until something newer and quirkier catches their eye.

[(Anonymous)]

they've all moved on to drawing characters covered with freckles

As someone who actually does have freckles, I wish this trend would fucking die. It drives me crazy because it has a complete lack of understanding of what causes freckles in the first place (it's a genetic thing! There are certain groups of people who have it and others who don't) and they just slap them on any character that has red hair even when it makes zero sense for those characters to have freckles because they aren't from Earth, they wouldn't have the genes that cause freckles!

It's like people just go "character has red hair = THEY MUST HAVE FRECKLES" without putting a single ounce of thought into it.

[(Anonymous)]

For that matter, there are ginger folks with no freckles to speak of (hellooooo Danny Elfman).

[philstar22]

My sister is one of them. Weirdly she does have very white skin. But no freckles.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly! I'm a redhead who does have freckles, but my friend who is also a redhead doesn't have any. It really just depends.

[(Anonymous)]

PREACH. I have never seen fanart of a character who canonically doesn't have freckles drawn with with freckles that looks good. I reckon it's all people who don't have freckles making those.

[(Anonymous)]

Also sometimes people who are not red-haired have freckles. But noooo
*mumble mumble

[(Anonymous)]

Not to mention the trend where every other character just HAD to have vitiligo.

[(Anonymous)]

Hun, you can deny it all you want, it very much is a trend.