[ SECRET POST #1644 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1644 ⌋


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 07 pages, 159 secrets from Secret Submission Post #235.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - hit/ship/spiration ], [ 0 - omgiknowthem ], [ 1 - troll/wank elsewhere ], [ 1 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

18. http://i53.tinypic.com/2z6ru50.png

[(Anonymous)]

"albinism"

albanian? albino?
wtf is albinism

2 seconds on google

[(Anonymous)]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albinism

Golly gee!

[oaktree89.livejournal.com]

Someone with albinism is albino. (http://tinyurl.com/3eeyol4)

[(Anonymous)]

people who use LMGT4U do NOT gmh

[oaktree89.livejournal.com]

I'm going to go cry now.

[(Anonymous)]

gmh = Gray matter hyperintensity?

[(Anonymous)]

wat

Someone explain this.

[(Anonymous)]

It's a noun. It's the name of the condition. I think the op meant something like "occasionally I make them have albinism/draw them as if they have albinism" but didn't type it all for the sake of brevity.

[sandvich.livejournal.com]

What made you see them this way, OP? I've always figured John and Jade for some East Asian ethnicity myself.

[magusmanx.livejournal.com]

I actually kind of like this. I didn't like the idea of everyone being just white. It felt.. Weird.

[leafing.livejournal.com]

Fat Feferi is the fucking best though.

You should share your stuff anyway. Haters gonna haaaaaaaate.

[tenebrais.livejournal.com]

Official word is that the only race the kids definitely aren't is black. Hussie didn't explain his reasoning but I assume that's just because it wouldn't gel with them being drawn china-white all the time.

I like to see fanart of the kids having a varied racial makeup. They're homogeneous enough all being American, even the one that spent her whole life isolated on an island. I can't imagine you getting a particularly negative response if you published such fanart, though it might depend on where you go.

[necro-staff.livejournal.com]

I think them being interracial is really awesome.
I like them being white, too, though. Or any other race. I think them being mixed sounds best, though. It just feels more fitting to me. But that's just me.

And I'm not a HUGE fan of fat!Feferi because, well, she lives in the water and swims lots and it just seems like she'd have a bit more of an athletic body.

But to each their own.

I really like a widely-built Terezi, myself. I just sort of see her that way. Short and stocky. I haven't seen any of that, though. Gonna draw it myself. Like a boss.

[alanahikarichan.livejournal.com]

My personal headcanon is that Terezi is the tallest of the trolls, by nature of me being utterly charmed by the idea of her being a good head taller than Dave. GOOD COOLK1D, B3ST H34DR3ST. H4H4H4H4!

(Except the blurry hugs/makeout with kk seems to pin her as shorter than him. WELP.)

[(Anonymous)]

I think...that's really fucking awesome. I never stopped to think about their racial identity.

Also, I'm a fan of squiddibiscuit so the fat!Feferi doesn't bother me.

[saiyako.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of John and Jade, particularly, being mixed (or Asian). It throws me a bit when I think about it for Dave and Rose because their colouring is so pale, but I suppose there's no reason any of them have to be white. Draw them however makes sense to you, OP.

[sno.livejournal.com]

While reading, I always saw John for sure as Easy Asian - and Jade by default, once we found out they're related. But Dave and Rose I always thought were white.

It's interesting that you draw them that way, though. I especially like Rose. c;

[(Anonymous)]

I never ever thought all the characters were white, but when you've got TWO of the characters as albinos in order to have none of them white, well, I'm inclined to think this secret is less honest fandom secrets confession and more you straining to make a SJ point.

[poisontea.livejournal.com]

Actually, IIRC there's a ton of canon support for Rose and Dave being albino. I don't know if Hussie's ever stated it outright, but Dave at least canonically has white hair, and they both have red eyes. The albinism is more supported by canon than the black/Vietnamese part.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, I stand corrected. Not read much posted on the fan communities for this fandom!

[stockingpuppet.livejournal.com]

Well, technically, Rose has violet eyes - all the kids' text colors match their eyes. And I'm pretty sure John referred to both Rose and Mom as blonde when he was talking to Karkat after the ectobiology session. Of course, John could have been generalizing "light hair" as "blonde," and at any rate it's easy to read Rose as amelanistic if not outright albino.

But Dave, yes, definitely. His constantly wearing his shades may be another clue - it's implied to be at least partly that he's self-conscious about his red eyes, but albinos are frequently incredibly photosensitive.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly I was gunning for some East Asian blood in Jade and John, which would be nice because I barely ever see East Asians in popular American culture without some kind of ~exotic~ tag stuck onto them.

Albinisim I guess I can give you for Rose and Dave, if only on account of their eye colours. The only thing is, albinism is often associated with eye problems, so why aren't they the ones with glasses and bad eyesight? I might be thinking too hard, though - because naturally red/violet eyes don't occur without the disorder.

Idk about what ethnicities they would be otherwise, though. I never really thought about it.

[bramble-patch.livejournal.com]

That's actually pretty cool. I know that it's not too uncommon to consider John and Jade to be some variety of east asian, but it's cool to see new interpretations.

The one thing with your version that just doesn't quite click with me personally, though, is Grandpa being Indian - I think it's just that he's so much the "great white hunter" character type, to the point that I have a hard time seeing him as something other than white. But again, just my personal impression, and I think it's awesome that you've given some real thought to this.

[(Anonymous)]

the kids are drawn pale (though not necessarily white) so honestly i'm kind of like 'eeeeeh' about headcanons that cast them as darker-skinned. i don't mind 'racebending' characters into something other than white though. treating it as headcanon sort of reeks of projecting to me and that always makes me uncomfortable.

any of the kids could easily be east asian, latino, jewish, middle eastern or any other potentially-pale minority though. i guess since rose and dave (and by extension their guardians) are potentially albino they could be ANY race, since a sufficient state of albinism will produce pale skin, hair and eyes in any race.