Sooo perusing the tag for Ji and what I learned is that:
*It doesn’t matter how small the fandom, Artists will never let andro characters stay andro
*90% of artists will see a nonbinary character present a little femme and turn them into a woman
*Never touch the 9s fandom with a 10 foot pole LOLLL
Hi anon! So. I knew you'd come. Because I know you've been sending rather mean asks to people. I did genuinely enjoy drawing that art, but I think it's important that I make use of this opportunity
Let me be clear in this. This is something you clearly hold dear. This is just a very very firm tap on the wrist to try and make you reconsider what you're doing.
1. If you do not like something, and it is not actively doing harm, you can block people rather easily. It's not necessarily entirely morally just to, but if you must complain, do it behind closed doors and not to an artist themselves.
2. Gendering of dresses is an inherently misogynystic world view.
I did not give Ji curves. I left their face relatively unchanged. I just drew them wearing something considered feminine, and if that alone is an issue with you, it is not a moral failing of mine to do so. And I don't need to know. And nobody does. Even if I DID do those other things it wouldn't call for such meanspirited words. Not to me or towards anyone else.
I did not draw Ji looking embarassed in that dress. It was not used to humiliate them. They wear a backless robe Ingame with their thighs very out and little but a loincloth to cover in between. A fishtail dress is objectively more modest than what they wear canonically.
Would you have come to me and complained if I drew ji in sweatpants and a vest and said I made them too masculine?
Intentionally erasing androgyny is not the ballgame here. It's about drawing Ji in something pretty.
3. We, as westerners, are tourists in this fandom. And feminine beauty standards do not apply so rigidly in Asian culture.
I know you sent a very mean spirited ask to an asian artist.
Nine Sols was made for it's Taiwanese audience, obviously. But it's Asian one as a whole more primarily than us.
We are allowed to take issue personally with certain aspects of that culture, (though this one is something I quite respect because, as a woman I think dresses are awesome and everyone should be allowed to wear them) but moralizing dislike never does anything for anyone.
I think I've got everything I needed to say out. Be kind to artists. And if you don't see enough of what you want to, draw it yourself. Thanks.
