Participaty thoughts:

[dagas_isa]

On two fanficcy events that I'm unsure about:

1. From dark_agenda, in response to the release of the The Last Airbender Movie:

Re-write one or more white characters in the fandom(s) of your choice as chromatic/non-white/PoC, in a story of at least 500 words, with some acknowledgment of how the racial difference would make a difference to the story being told.

Most of my fandoms are animanga or J-drama in origin (which basically means CoC by default), but between just starting A:TLA and realizing how freaking awesome it is (oh, indeed it's awesome) and also doing a rewatch of Dead Like Me and realizing how few Asians are in the show despite the fact that it takes place in Seattle and the fact that DLM is actually pretty good at the race and gender isues is sort of making me wonder how either a Chinese-American or Japanese-American (and probably bi-racial) George would deal as a reaper, or as a worker at Happy Time. I suppose the question is how I want to address the issue and whether I can address it while being both a) sensitive to the issues and b) having a sense of humor.

2. And then there's hc_bingo. Honestly, while I really like the idea of bingo challenges, and there's a lot of hurt-comfort tropes I like to write (although I'm not sure it's really hurt-comfort I'm writing if I can't tell who the situation is hurting and who is doing the comforting, and if everyone has agency and still gets affected by the event), but at the same time there's a lot of prompts on the list available that I feel hugely uncomfortable writing, or seeing dealt with purely as a hurt/comfort fic.

Any thoughts on this?

Comments

[birgitriddle]

Well, one of the fandoms I write in has a lot of characters who are legally insane, but are seen as dangerous criminals. I tend to write a few of them in a sympathetic way. There are those who I can't write in a sympathetic way, but in real life, they probably wouldn't be considered legally insane. It just happens that the canon is not exactly in tune with real life like usual.

(If you're curious, I write Batman villain fic.)

[dagas_isa]

Ahh, yeah I can see that (though the 'always there' is the part that bothers me).

[birgitriddle]

Well, what I'm going to do is to play on the fact that people other than the "insane person" think that it's always been there, but it never was and it's more about dealing with that error.

[dagas_isa]

Ahh okay. That sounds kind of neat, actually.