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fandomsecrets2013-03-08 07:13 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2013-03-08 07:13 pm
[ SECRET POST #2257 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2257 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Jessica Alba]
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[porn... sort of. illustrated]
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13. [SPOILERS for A Song of Ice and Fire]
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17. [WARNING for suicide, self harm]
[My Mad Fat Diary]
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[Far Cry 3]
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19. [WARNING for self harm and sexual abuse]
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Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #322.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - ships it ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Re: DA
(Anonymous) 2013-03-11 03:26 am (UTC)(link)Furman did do the whole Arcee thing, but they really need to do *something* to remedy it. If they don't want to retcon, then at least bring in other femme characters. I'm sure they can come up with a way to introduce them.
I'm looking at the bigger picture when referencing Chromedome/Rewind. With them I saw a chance for the writers to say 'yes, these two mechs are the human equivalent of romantically involved, no one around them thinks there is anything out of the ordinary and neither should the readers'. Again, I've read the vitriol from fanbois who ranged from 'they are just friends' to 'ugh I hope Chromedome dies now'. But if the writers don't want to make any kind of social stand via their comics, that is their choice.
I find characters deaths, or even the threat of deaths, to be poor writing. It creates either artificial sadness or anxiety in the reader. Writers should be able to keep a storyline for each character going and not kill them off when either they don't know where to go with the character or they want instant drama.
Re: DA
(Anonymous) 2013-03-11 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)Wait. What. So. You want adult themes, but you don't. I had to be that bitch, but go read fanfiction if you want full outted and explored physical relationships between the robots without the risk of death.
I mean. It's a war. Fundamentally, Transformers was set up around the direct concept of two warring factions (of toys). If no one died, it would just be ridiculous. How is it lazy writing to have the threat of actual death exist during combat? Do you even know what you're saying?
Also, you can have your opinion. But are you also seriously getting angry that anyone is saying things about your opinion when you went through the trouble of making it into a graphic and submitting it to a massive fandom site? If you want to scream your opinion without anyone saying anything to you about it, then scream into an empty cave to make yourself feel great. It sounds more like you only want agreement.
Just FYI, adding in more femmes would also be problematic if they were more created in the same way that Arcee was created. It would still be artificial. They could probably just ignore that the femmes were artificially created for this continuity and go with a more natural approach, but these writers seem to be at least attempting to pay attention to what's been set up. So I doubt that they're going to change anything massively. I find Arcee interesting and can also admit that it's a socially problematic concept.
As to relationships, comics are traditionally pretty progressive, but they have their limits. The censors don't work the same, but I doubt writers are going to all out risk their jobs by writing in a robot make out scene. This is their job. Their job is to sell comics. I'm pretty glad that Roberts actually sees them as individual characters and does give them human inspired reasoning rather than the guy we had before who hated the whole thing. Not to mention the movies. Just having them as close in a relationship the way they are now is slapping the bee hive in a great way, all things considered. And sorry, but the fanboys for Transformers would try to explain away the homo even if Roberts managed to somehow publish an entire porno issue.