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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2025-03-24 06:32 pm

[ SECRET POST #6653 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6653 ⌋

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


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(Anonymous) 2025-03-25 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
True: Painting a character's skin darker and simply leaving it at that isn't doing anything woke. People that act like doing that and only that, and then patting themselves on the back for it as though that kind of superficial paint job is woke or necessary or inherently good somehow are kind of cringe.

Also true: not everything has to be done with the aim of being woke. If imagining a character as a difference race is fun to you, idt anyone will care as long as you're not patting yourself on the back about it and acting like it's some kind of statement. There's a reason the middle step of back patting is included in the secret, and there's also a reason people don't react the same way about genderbends, unless the person is trying to make some kind of awkward feminist statement by it... which I have seen, but it's much rarer compared to people doing it about race.

(Anonymous) 2025-03-25 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
The woke genderbends are usually the trans ones.

(Anonymous) 2025-03-25 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
really?

from my perspective, the trans genderbends tend to be WAY higher proportion "I'm 13 and I've got confused gender feelings that I'm going to project onto my blorbo en masse as a safe way to explore them" which tend to be really sloppy narrative implications wise AND messy and cringy in terms of Bad Representation, because the kid in question doesn't KNOW that much about being trans, but doing a good meta thought exercise OR a Successful Woke Signal are both not really the point

(or I'm 20s and have gender feelings with a limited outlet irl and I'm horny about it and want porn that caters to my specific dys/eu phoria, with a similar effect that it's way more Woobie than Woke, and not really about the character beats of THIS character 98% of the time)

none of which is to say this is a bad thing, fandom's openness to that kind of personal expression is one of its great gifts, but yeah for someone who actually wants CHARACTER and social exploration it's frustration

(Anonymous) 2025-03-25 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
you mean the fetish ones where it's always an uwu bottom boy with a cunt getting fucked? cause those are the only ones i see. not exactly "woke"

(Anonymous) 2025-03-25 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
They aren't woke in execution but you can bet your ass that if you asked the authors, they think they very much are being woke by writing them.

(Anonymous) 2025-03-25 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah, the excuse i always hear is "the authors are all trans men therefore you can't say anything about it otherwise you're being transphobic" and i just think they're all liars. sure. every single trans man who writes fanfic thinks uwu bottom cuntboys are hot and it's not a fetish. right. uh huh. sure.

(Anonymous) 2025-03-25 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
It's especially eyeroll-worthy because the trans man I know IRL who writes fanfic writes the super masc characters as the ones who are trans. It's almost like real trans people like variety in their porn.