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you though this was gonna be a christmas post? guess again bitch! happy hanukkah! may your latkes be delicious and you have a blessed holiday season! אני אוהב את כולכם כל כך !!!

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yeah, no shit if you change the words around in a story, they’ll mean different things and people will have different reactions to them. if you change all the words in recipes from ‘flour’ to ‘thumbtacks’, you’re going to get a different recipe too.

fanfiction isn’t claiming to be original work because that’s not what it’s trying to do. the whole point of it is to be a transformative medium that transforms an original work, so arguing that it’s not doing its job properly as an original work is like complaining that 2d animation isn’t doing its job because it’s not 3d enough

the fact that something relies on your existing knowledge and emotional connection to a previous work doesn’t mean that thing is bad. tons of published works use references to, for example, biblical events because many folks have established connections to those events and know what they mean. imagine getting mad at the divine comedy because if you changed all the references to the bible, it wouldn’t make sense. or getting mad at young frankenstein because if you aren’t familiar with horror movie tropes, it’s not funny

howdy, i just wanted to clarify, to make sure i come across properly, that this wasn’t a strawman of some stronger argument or some point i just made up. i made this post because of a post on my dash saying exactly that: that fanfiction is bad specifically because it relies on your connection with established characters, and that this can be ‘proven’ by changing the name of the characters on any fanfiction. i can’t find it off the top of my head, but if anyone does have a link i’ll share it

and i’m also talking about the actual, not made up or strawmanned, case where someone mentions the possible literary value of fanfiction and people immediately jump in with some obviously disgust-motivated bad faith reading like ‘YOU MEAN KINKY PORN? I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU’D SAY DISGUSTING SEX PORN IS LITERATURE’ as though it’s everyone else’s problem that graphic voltron smut is the only possible use of fanfiction that they’re capable of imagining 

if you claim ally ship to the trans community then you can’t ignore the bad things that happen to especially trans woc. and if you’re a white trans person you can’t just talk about other white trans people. it just shows that you only care about trans people if they are white and that shouldn’t be the case.

“This has happened to me before,” she said. “I’ve been trans my whole life. I’ve been harassed and bullied my whole life. None of this is new, but it’s still just kind of like, ‘Who cares?’ and then ‘Why do you need to be aggressive?’”

At first, Cox said she debated sharing her story on social media and wondered what she “could have done differently,” before realizing “it’s not my fault that this happened.” She also thanked her friend, who immediately recognized that Cox was the “target” of the attack and deescalated the situation.

And here’s the Instagram live she posted talking about the incident

Edit- I love the one I got :>

Hi @panicaesthetic thanks for being respectful.

1. I didn’t call jamie hewlett racist, i said he used racist caricatures in his art. I also doubt most of his newer art was intentionally racist. There are some older things of his that definitely are.

2. I think this picture from an artist on twitter shows why “his art was simplified” is not an excuse.

(Yes I know noodle isn’t korean, the logic still applies) also I know for a fact he didn’t need to do a slanted eyed asian character, cause there are pictures of phase one noodle with more opened eyes but smaller eyes that would’ve worked fine and portrayed that she was asian.

3. Here’s (as a mentioned in my post) noodle’s song machine icon, which is still used offically

...Steven’s whole life? Most of it? Things like going to work at the shirt shop and Big Bagel, things like practicing piano with Greg occasionally, things like hanging out with gems from time to time, hanging out and calling Connie, etc.

I am only one person, I cannot draw every SINGLE event that happens. If I did, I would

1) Burn out immediately

2) Bore most of my audience and

3) Lose track of the plot. 

Once I establish that something happens once - like I did when Greg started to teach Steven piano - you can reasonably assume it continues in the background and the reason I don’t illustrate it is because it’s not relevant to the storyline at the moment.

A story is a movie. It’s a montage of the most interesting clips, a shorter, abridged version of Steven’s life that makes narrative sense. It’s not a 24 hour security camera.

Reading Skills Check Time:

And suddenly that blog will start getting people literally asking them for permission to hold certain opinions. I don’t mean someone just asking “hey can I get your feelings/opinions on this subject” but “is it okay if I think/do xyz?” like some child asking their parent if they can go somewhere.

Worse, is when these blogs start taking these questions seriously and feeding them answers. Like they suddenly start believing that they truly have this authority. I mean it’s bad enough when people do this and the blogger is just like “well I have my own opinion but don’t ask me” but when they start to actually act like they can tell other people what they are “allowed” to do.

This I the creepiest fucking thing on tumblr I swear.

Why would you give some random stranger on the internet that much power over your mind? Why would you be so afraid of forming your own opinions that you have to ask someone else to give you opinions to hold?