[ SECRET POST #6889 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6889 ⌋

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


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[Radiolight]



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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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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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[Radiolight]

Transcript

[(Anonymous)]

The demo for Radiolight had this Silent Hill vibe where people were supernaturally punished for some forgotten sin. The finished game completely changed the plot to some confusing thing about cults and time-traveling radio waves, more like Oxenfree. My secret is that I think the Silent Hill thing would have been more interesting.

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Wonder if they didn't like being compared to SH, since that would make so how well the game goes is based on how much better or worse it is to an already established franchise.

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I bought an optical drive just so I can rip DVDs from the public library and make my own scene packs of my favorite characters. I already watch those compilations on YouTube. Sometimes between bits of fanfiction, to keep the appearances and voices sharp in my mind. Sometimes just to go to sleep to a comforting voice.

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I literally can't sleep at night unless I have an audiobook playing lol. But it has to be a book I've read or heard before, because if it's new, I stay awake listening to the story. And the narrator has to have a voice I like. So I totally get it. It was worth the money for you I am sure. Libraries are great!

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Yay for library use!

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I can't read gender-swapped fics. Most of my favorite characters are male and I want to believe that's because the female characters in those fandoms tend not to be written as well (or to my taste). But then why do I hate the gender-swapped versions so much?

They feel like OCs, not like the characters I know and love. So... is it bad writing? Internalized misogyny? Or something else?

I'm uncomfortable with the idea that gender is so essential to personality that a gender switch makes for an entirely different character... but maybe I need to accept that's just how I really feel.

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Larry Croft, Roy Skywalker, Wonder Man, Bobby the Vampire Slayer, Xeno the Warrior Prince...

If someone told me that if I'm a fan of the original I should be a fan of these AUs because gender 'isn't essential' and 'they're the same character' I'd lol

And if they said that gender is essential when female but not when male, I'd look at them funny

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I'm guessing 'internalized misogyny', at least to some extent.

The 'female characters are poorly written and male characters are well written in every single one of my fandoms' argument is, nine times out of ten, nonsense.

People find male characters more interesting because they're naturally more interested in them in the first place, and thus either A) happily ignore or fill in the gaps of the same poor writing they dismiss in female characters, or B) ignore or fail to notice the same great writing when it applies to female characters because they're more interested in (and thus more focused on) the male characters they're sharing a scene with.

That said, gender-swap fic (in either direction) tends to be poorly characterized at best and utterly dreadful at worst, so that could also have something to do with it.

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well, "they feel like OCs" means bad writing. I have yet to see an attempted rule63 where the author managed to keep the character's background the same while introducing nuance of whatever a gender experience might have added to it, so that the end result is still recognizably the character. flanderizing is rampant, no surprise.

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It's bad writing.

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I've read a couple that were really well done, I do think sometimes it's a difference of opinion between the writer and the reader about what the essential traits of that character actually are, but in general? I agree.

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I like gender-swapping characters but I don't think it's the same character. It's an AU, and people's interest in an AU is going to be highly variable for a number of good reasons. Even if the character is exactly the same internally, external perception of gender does make a difference to how you move through the world. There are very few fictional worlds where gender makes absolutely no difference, and even in those cases we are viewing it through the lens of a heavily gender-inflected world ourselves.

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Honestly, most of the time I get into a fandom because I want to slash two hot guys whose character personalities are something I vibe with. The appearance of the actors is a big deal to me.

I don't mind magical or scientific accident temporary genderswap in a story, but my thirst is, for example, for the character who looks like Alexander Skarsgård and if they look like his sister, my vagina isn't into it, sorry.

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The ire over Jane Austen fans who dare to have preferences for historical accuracy and adaptations that more closely adhere to canon is kind of hilarious

"This is why people hate Jane Austen fans" - no, that's just you, weirdo.

Most of us don't care that much, or figure that yeah, it makes sense for fans to have preferences about stuff in their fandom, because that's kin dof how fandom works? Are you new here or something?

Your level of belligerence is just plain weird, man. Are you a secret Colleen Hoover fan or what? It's okay if you are, nobody is a Jane Austen fan just to spite you or insult your sense of self-worth. Read what you like, and chill.

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The Sydney Sweeney outrage is so ridiculous and OTT I feel like it's at least partly manufactured because I personally never heard of her before this whole kerfuffle and suddenly she's talked about everywhere I look.

(Also, I just don't want to believe that so many people are so damn bored that THIS is the big faux anti-racism hill they want to die on.)

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G1 My Little Ponies are my passion but I do not like the Teeny Tiny Baby Ponies. Their squashed faces make them look like cats.

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