Would you ever make a hatsune miku binder? For thomas jefferson cosplayers?
Anonymous said to shapeshiftersinc: Hey IS there a Hatsune Miku print binder? Or could there possibly be?
Hey there, anons. Sit down with me for a sec. Pull up a chair.
When I first saw that fanart of TJeff in the binder last year, I was absolutely delighted. Thrilled. I was grinning all day.
Taking a modern AU of a historical racebent-AU RPF? And putting this character in a custom-print binder? I felt honored, included, like I’d contributed a tiny thread of imagination to this rich tapestry of fandom that we all weave.
(A bit on my fandom background: I’m old enough to remember when 50 Shades was a Twilight AU. I remember when the only way to find a gay character was to make one. My favorite Harry Potter fanfic is still the one that shipped Snape with Jesus.)
So I wanted to reach out to that artist, and thank him. That art made me genuinely happy every single time I thought about it.
Buuuut, he’d turned off his inbox. Okay, that’s legit. I wondered if he had a twitter or an instagram, maybe. Something where I could thank him publicly, and maybe he’d see it, instead of trying to slide into DMs.
I found a few posts, responding to waves and waves of hate - and then locked accounts, everywhere. He’s been getting shit for this since 2017. He finally deleted everything last month. Y’all probably saw this because it’s going around again, after three god damn years of people harassing this artist over this work. The transphobes on Reddit (which is, let’s face it, 90% of Reddit) have gotten ahold of this one and will not let go.
So at this point, I don’t know whether you’re asking in earnest. I don’t know whether you actually want this binder print, or whether you just want to say “lolol Thomas Jefferson’s Hatsune Miku binder!” and see if I’m in on the joke, if I will say “lol never in a million years” or “lol sure” or any variation. That’s the disadvantage you get by asking on anon: I can’t assume good faith, in this internet, on a topic like this where the creator (this amazing creator! who brought us something really wild and delightful and
that nobody else ever thought of!) has been abused so thoroughly by the people he trusted to receive his work.
Here’s what I want to do. If you want this binder, you can get it. It will be $200; I’ll design the print based on the fanart, make it available in Spoonflower, and have it printed to make into a binder. If you want to do the design work, the binder will be $100.
Every dollar you pay for this garment will be set aside in a separate account, to be claimed by the artist, when we can get in touch with him. We will put out a periodic call for him to contact us.
It’s the very least we owe this guy.
Email us if you’re serious about this, and we’ll get it started.
A note on discourse. If you’d like to argue about whether this fanart is “right” or “moral” or not, I encourage you to reflect on the racism practiced by people who harassed this black artist off of the internet. I also encourage you to go to Reddit, a medium explicitly set up for that kind of tail-eating endless cagefight, and throw your voice into that void instead of this one. Any argument made here will not reach the artist or his friends.
Hamilton!ModernAU!Thomas Jefferson in a Hatsune Miku binder is a postmodern masterpiece that the internet did not appreciate in its time. If I ever do reach the artist, I’m paying him for a framed print.
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