Would you ever make a hatsune miku binder? For thomas jefferson cosplayers?
 Anonymous said to shapeshiftersinc:                                   Hey IS there a Hatsune Miku print binder? Or could there possibly be?
Hey there, anons. Sit down with me for a sec. Pull up a chair.
When I first saw that fanart of TJeff in the binder last year, I was absolutely delighted. Thrilled. I was grinning all day.
Taking a modern AU of a historical racebent-AU RPF? And putting this character in a custom-print binder? I felt honored, included, like Iâd contributed a tiny thread of imagination to this rich tapestry of fandom that we all weave.
(A bit on my fandom background: Iâm old enough to remember when 50 Shades was a Twilight AU. I remember when the only way to find a gay character was to make one. My favorite Harry Potter fanfic is still the one that shipped Snape with Jesus.)
So I wanted to reach out to that artist, and thank him. That art made me genuinely happy every single time I thought about it.
Buuuut, heâd turned off his inbox. Okay, thatâs legit. I wondered if he had a twitter or an instagram, maybe. Something where I could thank him publicly, and maybe heâd see it, instead of trying to slide into DMs.
I found a few posts, responding to waves and waves of hate - and then locked accounts, everywhere. Heâs been getting shit for this since 2017. He finally deleted everything last month. Yâall probably saw this because itâs going around again, after three god damn years of people harassing this artist over this work. The transphobes on Reddit (which is, letâs face it, 90% of Reddit) have gotten ahold of this one and will not let go.
So at this point, I donât know whether youâre asking in earnest. I donât know whether you actually want this binder print, or whether you just want to say âlolol Thomas Jeffersonâs Hatsune Miku binder!â and see if Iâm in on the joke, if I will say âlol never in a million yearsâ or âlol sureâ or any variation. Thatâs the disadvantage you get by asking on anon: I canât assume good faith, in this internet, on a topic like this where the creator (this amazing creator! who brought us something really wild and delightful and
that nobody else ever thought of!) has been abused so thoroughly by the people he trusted to receive his work.
Hereâs what I want to do. If you want this binder, you can get it. It will be $200; Iâll design the print based on the fanart, make it available in Spoonflower, and have it printed to make into a binder. If you want to do the design work, the binder will be $100.
Every dollar you pay for this garment will be set aside in a separate account, to be claimed by the artist, when we can get in touch with him. We will put out a periodic call for him to contact us.
Itâs the very least we owe this guy.
Email us if youâre serious about this, and weâll get it started.
A note on discourse. If youâd like to argue about whether this fanart is ârightâ or âmoralâ or not, I encourage you to reflect on the racism practiced by people who harassed this black artist off of the internet. I also encourage you to go to Reddit, a medium explicitly set up for that kind of tail-eating endless cagefight, and throw your voice into that void instead of this one. Any argument made here will not reach the artist or his friends.
Hamilton!ModernAU!Thomas Jefferson in a Hatsune Miku binder is a postmodern masterpiece that the internet did not appreciate in its time. If I ever do reach the artist, Iâm paying him for a framed print.
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