[ SECRET POST #2202 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2202 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Sorry, early today!

Also: I'm not going to officially warn for tongue-in-cheek "triggers" just to provide anyone with a fandom-specific in-joke when there are none in the secret.

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 140 secrets from Secret Submission Post #315.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I've thought a lot about this, actually. My initial reaction to Callie's desire to present as a troll was that it seemed to come from a place of really painful internalized self-loathing/racism/(speciesism?). Cherubs are a weird thing and no one understands, but they're 'supposed' to be super violent and she hates that, and wants to be something she's elevated in her mind as so much 'better'. It makes me think of all the make-yourself-whiter skin creams I saw advertised everywhere in India, or people in Hong Kong getting surgery to have wider, less-Chinese looking eyes. It's because they've been warped by these terrible hand-me-down beauty expectations from colonialism, not because of actual dysphoria. And in that sense, I'd really love to see her feel less unhappy and ashamed about her body.

OTOH, (eventually at least) she seems to honestly believe Roxy when Roxy promises that she wouldn't be scared or grossed out, and that she does want to look that way for herself. So she has the right to do that, and people should be as chill with that as a great friend like Roxy is.

Anyway, I'm glad you've found someone you identify with; and I wish you the best of luck being whoever and whatever you want to make yourself, and I hope maybe thinking of Callie's presentation from different perspectives will make the fandom's messages of 'she should love her real self' (as if they know, right?) feel less personal/accusatory to you.

[(Anonymous)]

Do you also believe that Geishas painted their faces white because they wanted to look like white people?

[(Anonymous)]

This. Colonialism certainly reinforces it, but colorism existed way before contact with whitey.