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some of you really aren’t gonna like this, but a creator’s wishes should never dictate what fan content is produced for a piece of media.
in the past, authors like anne rice have tried to limit the production of fanfiction. but at least rice was honest - she thought this infringed on her copywrite. back in the day, this was considered a valid argument to not create any fanfiction at all for her works.
do you understand what i’m saying? while you may sound valiant for placing a creator’s “discomfort” above the fan’s natural proclivities in fandom, really you’re just continuing to advocate for censorship in fan spaces.
and for anyone who is a creator, or who wants to become one - get comfortable with the rules of the internet. there will be erotic content made of your characters, there will be weird AUs made with your characters. there will be strange pairings and headcanons, no matter if you interact religiously with the fans or not. you cannot stop people from connecting with and wanting to be creative with your characters.
A fandom mindset that really needs to come back: Don't Break the Fourth Wall
Make whatever you want, but don't show it to the original creator. Writers legally cannot read fic of their work. It is a perfectly reasonable boundary for actors not to want erotic art of their characters thrust upon them. Don't link copyright holders to fan merch of their IP. And for the love of fuck, stop @ tagging the people who make the thing you're a fan of to validate your headcanons or rebuke someone else's.
And creators? That goes both ways. Block, mute, ignore, set and enforce whatever boundaries on what you don't want to see, but don't for a minute think you can stop a fandom from being a fandom.
addendum: if you know a pro writer's ao3 name, NO YOU DON'T
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That otome game situation from the water prison scene
What if Binghe cut off Shen Jiu's hair after the trial? 🤔
In Shen Yuan's case it can be Xiao Gongzhu's doing, while he was kept in Water Prison. Qang Qiong's Peak Lords would be furious afterwards at the sight of their martial sibling in such a state.
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Shen Jiu: That's all that you got, beast? 😤 Shen Yuan: "Yay, short haircut, I missed you!!" 😭
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i cannot possibly overstate the psychological damage of growing up being abused in a way that is considered so disgusting as to be literally unspeakable and treated as such.
every single person on this website and everywhere else needs to take a long fucking look at how they talk about and think about csa and how it might fucking feel to have things that literally happened to you be considered so taboo that frank depictions are declared obscene or so disgusting so as to be talked about only in whispered tones
CAN YOU EVEN BEGIN TO CONCEPTUALIZE THE MULTIPLICATION OF TRAUMA THAT COMES FROM YOUR ABUSE BEING TREATED LIKE RADIOACTIVE WASTE THAT MUST BE BURIED LEST IT CONTAMINATE OTHERS BY ITS VERY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT DESCRIPTION OR EXISTENCE
i had friends on here that used to be very frank and open about their status as CSA survivors. because they insisted on talking about the subject frankly and with depth and nuance they were called pedophile apologists, which was quickly shortened just to pedos, and constantly harassed. one teenager specifically sent someone she knew to be a csa survivor links to triggering materials in an attempt to get them to reconsider being friends with me because i was also considered a pedo.
the way online spaces decided to Protect The Children from pedophilia has done no such thing, just like we warned you it wouldn't. instead it gave bullies and bigots a perfect label to slap onto any victim they wanted, at the direct expense of csa survivors everywhere. it's also been horrible for queer artists of all sorts. we have been saying this over and over for a decade at least.
im so fucking ANGRY
#i saw a really enlightening lecture about this#she asked questions like#are survivors allowed to make autobiographical works?#is it better or worse if survivors fictionalise their experiences?#why are they allowed to use some media but not others?#is it the responsibility of a creator or an audience to identify with the abuser or the abused in media?#does the absence of survivor media further isolate children who never get their own stories told?#who can't articulate what they experience or see survival in their future?
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I just noticed he's doing a fucked up Rin cosplay.
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"#author is chronically ill" "#author is disabled" "#author is trans" "#trans character written by trans author"
I understand the desire to signal to other marginalized people that you're not here to jumpscare them with regressive drivel. I also recognize the appeal to mercy, re: "Hello, random bully! Please don't harass me over this fic for X when I myself am Y."
However, I implore you to consider the precedent this sets for fanwork (and art overall). By normalizing these disclaimers, we are legitimizing a police presence at the gate of every fic. No one should ever feel the need to show an ID to an armed guard just to be "allowed" access to a certain kind of character or subject matter. There is no "you must be this disabled/queer/traumatized to ride" sign, and anyone who tries to card you for the art you create and consume should be treated like a fucking weirdo. Please do not let these trolls goad you into answering their riddles three or fulfilling their identity fetch quests. You don't owe them any personal information, least of all the bits that could be used against you in the future (like your triggers, your marginalized status, etc).
A couple nights back I read a fic where a disabled character did something that made me go, "A disabled person would never write that." The actions of the character were so nails-on-a-chalkboard incompatible with my own experience of disability and chronic pain that it seemed unfathomable to me that the author could share my background. But my experiences are not universal!
If I may beat a dead horse, what art and representation uplifts one marginalized person will surely offend another. If I use the #author is disabled tag on my Ao3 fic to signal safe harbor to other disabled people, I've set myself up for failure, because the kinky sex scene that reads like empowerment to me will read like fetishization to someone else; the heroic rescue that reads like validation will read like infantilization; the tragic ending that reads like catharsis will read like punishment. You being from X group does not guarantee the comfort of the fellow X who reads your work.
And fuck, even if you disagree with me and believe there IS an objectively "correct" way to portray X marginalized character or Y subject matter...where does this ticket system leave people in the closet?? Where does it leave survivors who don't feel comfortable broadcasting their trauma to complete strangers?? Even if you believe certain types of fiction should only be created and consumed by certain types of people, you have to admit that a lot of X people writing about themselves and their experiences will be caught in the ID crossfire.
Normalizing these kinds of disclaimers just empowers bullies to gatekeep more and more art. Plus, I can tell you from experience that once you're in a troll's crosshairs, the gateposts shift. Your clearance level is never high enough to justify your work.
"You're a gay author with gay characters? I bet you're not really a man. No gay man would write something this blatantly fetishistic."
"You're a survivor writing about abuse? That's actually worse because you should know better than to harm other survivors with such a romanticized depiction of abuse."
The conclusion is always the same regardless of your credentials: you're the wrong kind of X. You're a danger to other X people. If you want to be the right kind of X and help other X people, you need to delete Y.
Would you let a Moms for Liberty protestor card you on your way to the library? When she stomps your feet and tells you the stories you read make you a bad and dangerous person, would you assume she wants the best for you and your community? Would you nod and promise to wear an "I'm gay" pin and burn your books? Or would you tell her to go fuck a cactus??
Honestly I'm glad to see others sharing this opinion. It's one I've had for a while now.
"As an [x]" feels very... defensive. It's a pre-emptive defense from a perceived attack, and that has its place. But how we make imagined barbie dolls behave and act isn't one of those places?
The way I write trans characters is extremely empowering to me, but is probably extremely dysphoria inducing for others and definitely fetishistic. And that sucks for the folks it makes dysphoric, but I'm not going to stop writing what makes me feel good. And I understand why someone would want to basically check my trans card for it, but it's. Not their business. Magical sex changes make ME feel empowered and I write for Me, for example.
For me, a setting where everyone is just inherently fine with queer stuff is. Idyllic and sweet, but usually unbelievable without worldbuilding behind it! I don't usually like those stories on their own! I prefer writing and reading stories where queer characters being queer means something and affects their place in society, unless I am specifically looking for the warm fuzzy sweetness of the former category. But if I'm looking for Empowerment? I want the struggle because I want to see them overcome something.
For a lot of people? Bayonetta is a feminist masterpiece and a power fantasy! For me it makes me very uncomfortable! And that's okay! That doesn't mean that Bayonetta wasn't made to be a feminist work it just means that it didn't resonate with me in particular and that's okay.
#of course you can talk about your identity and how it affects your writing and themed if you feel like it!#and i get the need of wanting to connect#with our trans authors etc#but this type of 'disclaimer'#is only the flipside of purity police types demanding to know#whether authors/actors etc REALLY are queer#and forcefully outing them#don’t support that culture
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