JoJo Reader Inserts

Evening dress, 1878.

White cotton organdy, lace, pink satin ribbon, pearl buttons.

-Peri

Well, the entirety of my syllabus is a full explanation of creating with intent, and intent is not "versus" doing research and applying it!

Also,

"I wanted to challenge myself, using my amateur art skills and my teaching skills, to convey to creators how that makes us as a community feel, and little things they can do to more intentionally create their Black characters (and therefore show more care for their Black audience). There's more to us than adding to a diversity quota. There's more to antiracism than a checklist!"

-My FAQ

There's a difference between writing a character and just happening to make them Black, and Choosing to Write a Black Character. That is, one that is purposely, "I intentionally thought about the importance of the Blackness of this character as I wrote them, as well as the Black audience that will see them, and it shows".

Most of you don't do that. You write a Guy and go "I'll just say he's Black, boom I'm Progressive and Woke and Inclusive!" Meanwhile, it's a shell of a character that you will be angry at me for thinking could be better if you'd put a little more active thought into it, because How Dare You Question My Good Intent?!?

It's just treated like an "absence" because it's been force fed to us as the "default" experience- that is, it doesn't "have" to be Said or Thought About because we're supposed to treat it as the Expected Normal, something we're just supposed to assume the existence of, and everyone else's experiences are a deviation that must be elaborated on. It's not "White", it's "normal".

Dress

around 1860

France

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(this came out of a conversation in the comments on a previous post about an author threatening to stop updating a fic because of lack of engagement)

So there’s this idea that fic writers should write for themselves and not care too much about stats or engagement,

and i totally get the sentiment behind that. if writing becomes entirely about stats and external validation, something important does get lost - creative freedom and joy, conviction in your own writing

but i also think:

“i write for myself, but i post for others.”

because posting fic is not only self-expression. it’s social. ao3 is called an archive, but emotionally it often functions as a community space.

people post for connection, for participation, for others to bear witness to their pain and trauma and grief,

and i don’t think most people are asking to be admired so much as acknowledged. there’s something deeply human about wanting another person to encounter something that mattered to you and go:

“ok, yeah, I see what you were trying to say. I see you.”

especially because fanfic is often people processing very real feelings through fictional characters at a safe distance, one step removed,

and then uploading that deeply personal thing into a shared archive and hoping somebody else might connect with it.

And i think that’s why it hurts so much when you summon up the courage and post a fic into the void and you get nothing back,

and then it’s like,

Evening Gown

c. 1848-1849

by Edward Molyneux

Printed and Brocaded Silk Afternoon Dress

c. 1905

Black Silk Gauze Gown

c. 1866