Curse of knowledge
Thursday, 8 June 2023 12:17![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yvannairieCurrently struggling with what to make of the fact that a lot of people's "characterisation" really boils down to giving characters traits they find cool, righteous or "relatable" with little regard to how those traits would actually interact with their established characterisation.
Like, there's nobody out there making their fave "gay and homophobic", as interesting and potentially well-tracking trait that would be.
because we can forgive if our fave assaults people and flirts w/teenagers but not if he's LDP
Date: 8/6/23 23:09 (UTC)did you want to give me an invitation to complain about that time i suggested offhandedly that X Character that i like was probably politically right-wing and everyone jumped on my ass, or?
HELLO??? That sounds wild, tell me more.
Date: 9/6/23 07:02 (UTC).... I did now! :D
Re: HELLO??? That sounds wild, tell me more.
Date: 9/6/23 22:53 (UTC)A bunch of people were like "M I thought you liked X Character", "M I thought you were all on board 'what if X Character was an egg'", some people (maybe jokingly?) called me an anti?, at least one person was like "I like X Character, are you insulting me? Insinuating that I'M a right-winger?
It was weird and I just sort of dipped on that server after that. The thing was, it was supposed to be anti-free, kink tomato, your fictional tastes don't determine what you like in fiction, so that was incredibly shocking to me.
Re: HELLO??? That sounds wild, tell me more.
Date: 10/6/23 10:18 (UTC)..... yeah. What the hell, that is definitely beyond the pale as far as how to handle headcanons you don't like. The "are you calling me a right-winger" thing is particularly apalling.