⋅•⋅⊰∙∘☽ Nyx ☾∘∙⊱⋅•⋅

Let me start this off by saying that I'm not putting this out there to be hateful or anything, it's just a personal pet peeve, my opinion if you will. If you disagree with me, good for you for having free will, I'm proud of you. I don't hate anyone who does this, and I don't mean to sound hostile, but English is my second language, I already have no sense of tone in my native language, and also I'm overly passionate about shit that just doesn't matter. Take it with a grain of salt please.

Disclaimer out of the way, can I just say how much I hate when in fic Jouno's blindness just gets erased?? Specifically when there's just like an authors note saying "yeah I didn't make them blind" with no plot event to justify it? Specifically in a fic taking place in "present day" BSD where Jouno very much is blind, because I know they canonically became disabled later in life rather than being born like that. Fics exploring how they became blind? Muah, chefs kiss, intriguing. But I'm not talking about those.

It very much feels like it's just a cheap way to make Jouno impressed with how attractive their assigned love interest is (usually x reader but I've seen suegiku guilty of this too). As if that's the only thing that could possibly draw them to that person. Like screw personality, behaviour, idk- sound of voice or something, let's go the easy route! They see a hot person and immediately fall for them because that's easy! That's the only thing that could ever matter when being attracted to someone! /s

It's also erasing a pretty integral part of their character. Because as much as I don't like it, Jouno is a side/background character. They don't have many defining traits, and you're just throwing one of the few ones they do have out of the window for convenience. At that point it's not Jouno anymore, you just stripped off their name and appearance and pasted it onto generic anime boy template 3.

And if you're going to go through the trouble of writing an entire fic about them, am I wrong to assume you'd at least like them a little bit? Please? Why would you want to change them?? Even AUs and stuff keep the character intact in the context of how they happen. This isn't even usually an AU, it's just canon universe except idk the magical eye fairy "cured" them. ("Cure" in quotations, disabilities shouldn't be seen as something to be cured)

Personally it just doesn't really sit right with me. I've briefly attempted fanfics before (and write alot as a hobby) and yeah, it's definitely more difficult to write a blind character but it's not impossible by any means and if someone doesn't want to write a blind character they can pick a. different. character.

And (oh no, Nyx is saying the thing) is that not literally ableism? I'm not a professional or someone who knows alot about it but it feels like blatant ableism with the excuse of "yeah just didn't feel like it" or "it's too hard" which is not okay whatsoever. Like, there's literally so many writing tools, reddit and Tumblr posts, there's examples, it's not that difficult guys. And by the way saying "I just didn't want to include it" about someone's DISABILITY is actually insane, like, I'm sorry what?

And hey, maybe they want to write a fic with Jouno and just don't think they can write him well with the disability. That's fine but for the love of god at least make a reason he got his eye sight back, hell it could even be a sideplot but just making him able to see with no explanation is annoying and frustrating as a reader because (I feel like) that's a very important part of his character. Again, it is a disability and erasing any character's disability in ANY form of media feels icky and ableist. ESPECIALLY when it's 'cured' for no apparent reason because disabilities shouldn't be treated like something that's wrong with someone and has to be cured. If anything it makes the character more interesting! Like yes, he has other things going for him but the at that point why not just write a different character? Or if it's a "oh, no, I wouldn't be able to write it well" okay, WHY NOT TRY?? You don't become good at it by not writing stuff like that and maybe it'll be fun to experiment!

Adding into the third paragraph, to be blunt, I gotta say Jouno not being able to see how hot his love interest is isn't that much of an issue. One of my favorite Suegiku fics has a part where Jouno maps out his face with his hands to try and /feel/ what he looks like and that was such a good scene and an amazing way to showcase what I mean. Another example could be voice, maybe he likes certain aspects of their personality or mannerisms, maybe he likes the way they smell or the feel of their hair, maybe how their hands feel in his etc. There's SO many good ways to make a romance between a blind and seeing character without having it feel cheap or bland! Like, even x reader oneshots or shitty smut fics, it's not difficult.

Yeah exactly!! And dw you're not a rewriter, I'm glad to have other people agree.

I didn't wanna use the ableism word but I definitely was thinking it- I just get paranoid about using big words in my silly annoyances.

yeah me too lol, originally wasn't going to say it but then person in replies sort of reassured my thoughts on it so I just went ahead

Let me start this off by saying that I'm not putting this out there to be hateful or anything, it's just a personal pet peeve, my opinion if you will. If you disagree with me, good for you for having free will, I'm proud of you. I don't hate anyone who does this, and I don't mean to sound hostile, but English is my second language, I already have no sense of tone in my native language, and also I'm overly passionate about shit that just doesn't matter. Take it with a grain of salt please.

Disclaimer out of the way, can I just say how much I hate when in fic Jouno's blindness just gets erased?? Specifically when there's just like an authors note saying "yeah I didn't make them blind" with no plot event to justify it? Specifically in a fic taking place in "present day" BSD where Jouno very much is blind, because I know they canonically became disabled later in life rather than being born like that. Fics exploring how they became blind? Muah, chefs kiss, intriguing. But I'm not talking about those.

It very much feels like it's just a cheap way to make Jouno impressed with how attractive their assigned love interest is (usually x reader but I've seen suegiku guilty of this too). As if that's the only thing that could possibly draw them to that person. Like screw personality, behaviour, idk- sound of voice or something, let's go the easy route! They see a hot person and immediately fall for them because that's easy! That's the only thing that could ever matter when being attracted to someone! /s

It's also erasing a pretty integral part of their character. Because as much as I don't like it, Jouno is a side/background character. They don't have many defining traits, and you're just throwing one of the few ones they do have out of the window for convenience. At that point it's not Jouno anymore, you just stripped off their name and appearance and pasted it onto generic anime boy template 3.

And if you're going to go through the trouble of writing an entire fic about them, am I wrong to assume you'd at least like them a little bit? Please? Why would you want to change them?? Even AUs and stuff keep the character intact in the context of how they happen. This isn't even usually an AU, it's just canon universe except idk the magical eye fairy "cured" them. ("Cure" in quotations, disabilities shouldn't be seen as something to be cured)

Personally it just doesn't really sit right with me. I've briefly attempted fanfics before (and write alot as a hobby) and yeah, it's definitely more difficult to write a blind character but it's not impossible by any means and if someone doesn't want to write a blind character they can pick a. different. character.

And (oh no, Nyx is saying the thing) is that not literally ableism? I'm not a professional or someone who knows alot about it but it feels like blatant ableism with the excuse of "yeah just didn't feel like it" or "it's too hard" which is not okay whatsoever. Like, there's literally so many writing tools, reddit and Tumblr posts, there's examples, it's not that difficult guys. And by the way saying "I just didn't want to include it" about someone's DISABILITY is actually insane, like, I'm sorry what?

And hey, maybe they want to write a fic with Jouno and just don't think they can write him well with the disability. That's fine but for the love of god at least make a reason he got his eye sight back, hell it could even be a sideplot but just making him able to see with no explanation is annoying and frustrating as a reader because (I feel like) that's a very important part of his character. Again, it is a disability and erasing any character's disability in ANY form of media feels icky and ableist. ESPECIALLY when it's 'cured' for no apparent reason because disabilities shouldn't be treated like something that's wrong with someone and has to be cured. If anything it makes the character more interesting! Like yes, he has other things going for him but the at that point why not just write a different character? Or if it's a "oh, no, I wouldn't be able to write it well" okay, WHY NOT TRY?? You don't become good at it by not writing stuff like that and maybe it'll be fun to experiment!

Adding into the third paragraph, to be blunt, I gotta say Jouno not being able to see how hot his love interest is isn't that much of an issue. One of my favorite Suegiku fics has a part where Jouno maps out his face with his hands to try and /feel/ what he looks like and that was such a good scene and an amazing way to showcase what I mean. Another example could be voice, maybe he likes certain aspects of their personality or mannerisms, maybe he likes the way they smell or the feel of their hair, maybe how their hands feel in his etc. There's SO many good ways to make a romance between a blind and seeing character without having it feel cheap or bland! Like, even x reader oneshots or shitty smut fics, it's not difficult.

Yeah exactly!! And dw you're not a rewriter, I'm glad to have other people agree.

I didn't wanna use the ableism word but I definitely was thinking it- I just get paranoid about using big words in my silly annoyances.

yeah me too lol, originally wasn't going to say it but then person in replies sort of reassured my thoughts on it so I just went ahead

Let me start this off by saying that I'm not putting this out there to be hateful or anything, it's just a personal pet peeve, my opinion if you will. If you disagree with me, good for you for having free will, I'm proud of you. I don't hate anyone who does this, and I don't mean to sound hostile, but English is my second language, I already have no sense of tone in my native language, and also I'm overly passionate about shit that just doesn't matter. Take it with a grain of salt please.

Disclaimer out of the way, can I just say how much I hate when in fic Jouno's blindness just gets erased?? Specifically when there's just like an authors note saying "yeah I didn't make them blind" with no plot event to justify it? Specifically in a fic taking place in "present day" BSD where Jouno very much is blind, because I know they canonically became disabled later in life rather than being born like that. Fics exploring how they became blind? Muah, chefs kiss, intriguing. But I'm not talking about those.

It very much feels like it's just a cheap way to make Jouno impressed with how attractive their assigned love interest is (usually x reader but I've seen suegiku guilty of this too). As if that's the only thing that could possibly draw them to that person. Like screw personality, behaviour, idk- sound of voice or something, let's go the easy route! They see a hot person and immediately fall for them because that's easy! That's the only thing that could ever matter when being attracted to someone! /s

It's also erasing a pretty integral part of their character. Because as much as I don't like it, Jouno is a side/background character. They don't have many defining traits, and you're just throwing one of the few ones they do have out of the window for convenience. At that point it's not Jouno anymore, you just stripped off their name and appearance and pasted it onto generic anime boy template 3.

And if you're going to go through the trouble of writing an entire fic about them, am I wrong to assume you'd at least like them a little bit? Please? Why would you want to change them?? Even AUs and stuff keep the character intact in the context of how they happen. This isn't even usually an AU, it's just canon universe except idk the magical eye fairy "cured" them. ("Cure" in quotations, disabilities shouldn't be seen as something to be cured)

Personally it just doesn't really sit right with me. I've briefly attempted fanfics before (and write alot as a hobby) and yeah, it's definitely more difficult to write a blind character but it's not impossible by any means and if someone doesn't want to write a blind character they can pick a. different. character.

And (oh no, Nyx is saying the thing) is that not literally ableism? I'm not a professional or someone who knows alot about it but it feels like blatant ableism with the excuse of "yeah just didn't feel like it" or "it's too hard" which is not okay whatsoever. Like, there's literally so many writing tools, reddit and Tumblr posts, there's examples, it's not that difficult guys. And by the way saying "I just didn't want to include it" about someone's DISABILITY is actually insane, like, I'm sorry what?

And hey, maybe they want to write a fic with Jouno and just don't think they can write him well with the disability. That's fine but for the love of god at least make a reason he got his eye sight back, hell it could even be a sideplot but just making him able to see with no explanation is annoying and frustrating as a reader because (I feel like) that's a very important part of his character. Again, it is a disability and erasing any character's disability in ANY form of media feels icky and ableist. ESPECIALLY when it's 'cured' for no apparent reason because disabilities shouldn't be treated like something that's wrong with someone and has to be cured. If anything it makes the character more interesting! Like yes, he has other things going for him but the at that point why not just write a different character? Or if it's a "oh, no, I wouldn't be able to write it well" okay, WHY NOT TRY?? You don't become good at it by not writing stuff like that and maybe it'll be fun to experiment!

Adding into the third paragraph, to be blunt, I gotta say Jouno not being able to see how hot his love interest is isn't that much of an issue. One of my favorite Suegiku fics has a part where Jouno maps out his face with his hands to try and /feel/ what he looks like and that was such a good scene and an amazing way to showcase what I mean. Another example could be voice, maybe he likes certain aspects of their personality or mannerisms, maybe he likes the way they smell or the feel of their hair, maybe how their hands feel in his etc. There's SO many good ways to make a romance between a blind and seeing character without having it feel cheap or bland! Like, even x reader oneshots or shitty smut fics, it's not difficult.

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