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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-11-18 06:45 pm

[ SECRET POST #2512 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2512 ⌋

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

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Re: Will this make people angry (TW: mentions of assault and stalking)

[personal profile] scrubber 2013-11-19 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
This all sounds pretty great to me. But of course some people will be offended. Look, the fact of the matter is that if your story in any way deviates from this formula:

A is the undeniable hero and stands for everything that you like and hits a million PC check-boxes, and everything they do is looked at sympathetically (even violence). A is opposed by a unsympathetic villain who is the opposite of A in every way. A fights their way through obstacles with the power of special and after the story clearly articulates the no-shit moral (Racism/Abuse/Sexism/etc. is BAD and anyone who is like that is BAD) then Villain gets a heavy-handed punishment and A triumphs. The end.

People will be offended. Make the villain even a little three-dimensional? You're excusing their deeds! Make the hero white? Why do we need another white hero huh?! Have the villain get away because sometimes in life villains don't get cartoony punishments? You're saying what they did was totally okay! The list goes on.

Do you want to write this piece of shit Saturday Morning Cartoon Special Episode story over and over again? You don't? Good, it means you are not a simpleton. You accept that real life is messy and has unfortunate implications in and of itself. To portray that in fiction, you need to own it and stand by your decisions.

Re: Will this make people angry (TW: mentions of assault and stalking)

(Anonymous) 2013-11-19 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
*nods*...thank you