[ SECRET POST #227 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #227 ⌋

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

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Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 101 secrets from Secret Submission Post #033.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, [ 1 ] not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
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Comments

[aviy.livejournal.com]

6. In the end I think it's just a mixture of things. I haven't personally seen anyone say they were offended by the idea of their art being resized to 100pixels, as far as I can tell it's usually a matter of control. Which, while I don't quite agree with, I can recognize. It's human nature to want to have power over something, specifically something that's yours and thus the whole 'ask first' sentimentality. There are LOTS OF WAYS ONE CAN JUSTIFY the desire to be in control of that! And I don't really care to hear them all listed at me in argument, but I do think at the heart of it people want to have power over something.

As far as the Japanese, I think they just have an entirely different sentiment over what is 'rude' and what is 'flattering'. It's my understanding that the japanese consider it rude to use official art at ALL, which is why you see japanese fanartists redrawing manga/anime scenes a lot! In my americanized opinion I think redrawing someone else's idea is way ruder than promoting the original art. Which! Isn't to say either one way is better, but I think it's why the japanese are so tetchy over their art being used AT ALL without their express permission: for the most part they really don't do this the way the english fandom so freely does.

Not! That I really care. Because in the end I steal music, download anime and manga, think authors who have issues with fandom are wanky, and don't see much difference between fanartists who have issues over icons. I'm genuinely glad you and other artists find it flattering, if I could draw worth shit I sure as hell would. It's my dream that one day my original stories will have a fandom, with good as well as bad stuff. I want AUs, I want horrible mary sues, I want people RPing them good and bad, I basically support all branches of fandom. But in the end fandom is still theft, still rude to MANY, and will still keep on trooping on it's way.

8. ToA mpreg makes sad aviy sad

17. I like the word heteronormative

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[aviy.livejournal.com]

lol. do you feel better now that you got that off your chest?

[downburst.livejournal.com]

So fanart = SERIOUS BUSINESS in Japan??

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think authors who have issues with fandom are wanky, and don't see much difference between fanartists who have issues over icons

THANK GOD I'm not the only one who thinks this!!

[maiki.livejournal.com]

So fanart = SERIOUS BUSINESS in Japan??

Considering there's such thing as Comic Market, duh? XD

[aviy.livejournal.com]

Haha, I think it's more that Japan's specific opinions of what is courteous = srs bizness in Japan. Not to mention the fact that everything I've ever heard about the country has brought me to believe that they have bizarre love/hate feelings toward gaijin.

And yaaaah, I really think the only difference between the two are proximity. Fanartists are kids just like us, so them hunting you down and telling you to fuck off isn't too surprising. Authors doing it is just that extra level of wtf.