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dhampyresa1. LJ for some reason stopped sening me notifs somewhere between 48 and 36 hours ago. I think I've finally solved the problem and I will try my best to reply to every comment/reply I got in that time, but if I miss one, please let me know. (Like it wasn't enough that Ao3 sends me comment notifs a couple of days late sometimes. Kudo emails might also be late, but then how would I know?)
2.I recently joined a French writing forum for original fiction. I'm not naming names, but wow I had never realised how attached I was to certain things I found in fandom.
Being able to talk to/about people without gendering them (and especially without being gendered myself) is one. It's not really anyone's fault, because French is a gendered language. I have to say that try to not use any gendered terms about myself does make for a good writing exercise though and it's interesting to see how people gender me (it's mostly women->female, men->male).
Anyway, this vent is brought to you by the fact that I (am made to) feel like I'm being super "politically correct" all the time.
I once expressed surprised that one of the authors (let's call her N) had cast her Philadelphia-set story with all white actors. (Philadelphia, for the record, has only about 1/3 white inhabitants.) I was told by another member that I was being too nitpicky and that lol who wants to make that much research and by another user that stories "follow exceptional people not statistics" (I paraphrase), which wow. N was actually quite nice and pointed out that one of the characters was Hispanic (the actror isn't, but I'm not getting into that debate) and that she did have black people, including one that "wasn't so nice" (not getting into that debate either).
That's without mentionning the dude who has worldbuild a world with elves and shit in which racial cleansing has led to alt!Europe being "pure" humans, the top military power/colonial empires and looking down everyone one for being "mongrels", something that according to his worldbuilding, they are, since they all have traces of non-human blood (elves, etc...). I have tried to make him see what's wrong with this picture. I have literally written thousands of words to try and make him understand how fucking racist that is to no avail. I am no longer engaging with this dude. (Which is easy since he never comments anywhere else on the site and is apparently only here to be cheerled and not to cheerlead.)
Yesterday or the day before, someone posted the beginning of their new project. It's an urban fantasy type of thing from the PoV of a male narrator. We make it two paragraphs before a female character is being threatened/about to be raped (the narrator meanwhile just gets punched in the stomach despite being prisoner to the same villains) and then sharp turn into backstory time. Needless to say, this does not fill me with confidence about the guy's ability to treat rape respectfully and not use it as a cheap ploy for drama. I have pointed out that the passage that implied her imminent rape (including the gloating dialog line by one of the villains) made me uncomfortable, only to have the reply be "That's on purpose. My villains have to really awful to be believable. I have a very dark view of fantasy and hate Narnia-esque saccharine stuff". To this I explained (this evening) that if his villains were so awful why wasn't his narrator threatened with rape as well? There's no response from him yet, but someone else has come forward to support my point of view, so at least that's good.
All this to say, goddamn but is fandom a nice place to be sometimes. There's a certain baseline amount of feminism/anti-racism/acceptance of LGBT+ people/etc that is really really awesome and I miss it when it's gone. (This isn't to say that everyone on that site is awful - they're not -, just that sometimes I feel so tired of being the one going "yo that shit is terrible".)
3. I finished a fic! It's about 4k. Would anyone be interested in beta-ing Wanda Maximoff and the Winter Soldier being (sort of) friends?
2.I recently joined a French writing forum for original fiction. I'm not naming names, but wow I had never realised how attached I was to certain things I found in fandom.
Being able to talk to/about people without gendering them (and especially without being gendered myself) is one. It's not really anyone's fault, because French is a gendered language. I have to say that try to not use any gendered terms about myself does make for a good writing exercise though and it's interesting to see how people gender me (it's mostly women->female, men->male).
Anyway, this vent is brought to you by the fact that I (am made to) feel like I'm being super "politically correct" all the time.
I once expressed surprised that one of the authors (let's call her N) had cast her Philadelphia-set story with all white actors. (Philadelphia, for the record, has only about 1/3 white inhabitants.) I was told by another member that I was being too nitpicky and that lol who wants to make that much research and by another user that stories "follow exceptional people not statistics" (I paraphrase), which wow. N was actually quite nice and pointed out that one of the characters was Hispanic (the actror isn't, but I'm not getting into that debate) and that she did have black people, including one that "wasn't so nice" (not getting into that debate either).
That's without mentionning the dude who has worldbuild a world with elves and shit in which racial cleansing has led to alt!Europe being "pure" humans, the top military power/colonial empires and looking down everyone one for being "mongrels", something that according to his worldbuilding, they are, since they all have traces of non-human blood (elves, etc...). I have tried to make him see what's wrong with this picture. I have literally written thousands of words to try and make him understand how fucking racist that is to no avail. I am no longer engaging with this dude. (Which is easy since he never comments anywhere else on the site and is apparently only here to be cheerled and not to cheerlead.)
Yesterday or the day before, someone posted the beginning of their new project. It's an urban fantasy type of thing from the PoV of a male narrator. We make it two paragraphs before a female character is being threatened/about to be raped (the narrator meanwhile just gets punched in the stomach despite being prisoner to the same villains) and then sharp turn into backstory time. Needless to say, this does not fill me with confidence about the guy's ability to treat rape respectfully and not use it as a cheap ploy for drama. I have pointed out that the passage that implied her imminent rape (including the gloating dialog line by one of the villains) made me uncomfortable, only to have the reply be "That's on purpose. My villains have to really awful to be believable. I have a very dark view of fantasy and hate Narnia-esque saccharine stuff". To this I explained (this evening) that if his villains were so awful why wasn't his narrator threatened with rape as well? There's no response from him yet, but someone else has come forward to support my point of view, so at least that's good.
All this to say, goddamn but is fandom a nice place to be sometimes. There's a certain baseline amount of feminism/anti-racism/acceptance of LGBT+ people/etc that is really really awesome and I miss it when it's gone. (This isn't to say that everyone on that site is awful - they're not -, just that sometimes I feel so tired of being the one going "yo that shit is terrible".)
3. I finished a fic! It's about 4k. Would anyone be interested in beta-ing Wanda Maximoff and the Winter Soldier being (sort of) friends?