Just wanted to thank you and send you my admiration for your courage and sharing this with everyone.
Some things are, right now, too much of an open wound (rather re-opened) for me to respond to at this moment in my floundering fanfic life...
As a multi-ethnic person, it took years... years and a lot of *nudging* from friends to help me to 'step back and lighten up about fanon LM, due to his innate racist, sadistic, vile, opportunistic nature, etc., as a writer I should be 'open' to the word of fantasy literature, 'it's not to be taken as Real Life history/fact', 'you'll develop as a writer if you relax a bit, have some fun, be creative''let loose', etc.
And this is by friends who are people of every colour/race, religion and background: in fact, it was my very first fic submitted at one archive where one admin, who happened to be a person of colour and urged me to not 'write an evil Lucius, she was soooo tired of him being portrayed that way-- and when I started writing him as dubious but not sadistic/clearly supremacist, she was happy. From my newbie pov, I thought, 'Oh, to have my writing 'accepted/approved', I need to ONLY write him a certain way...
And now, especially now when I, also an inveterate seeker of approval here in the world of HP fandom, have discovered a need to play in the HP fandom, am exhausted by trying to meet some deadlines along with keeping on top of other fandom-participating-venues, am left feeling very... *can't find the words right now*
Your essay lends itself to not only forcing all to face up again, if they have been in denial beforehand, to the fact that JFK's Canon Lucius Malfoy is an uber-supremicist Death Eater but also to Severus Snape, as well, of whom our entire fandom is more or less centred/based on.
The dilemma is, who am I to deny others of their freedom of expression/speech in fanfiction?
Also, if hate material is being written and spread--I want to know about it-- I want the individual or group to be 'outed' by their own blatant points of view-
I question the whole existence and nature of fanfiction; definitely, my participation in it. I'll leave it at that, for now.
Just, for what it's worth, I am so sorry for your pain and that you've ever, ever felt and feel from others the pain and hurt that you do--by what is/was considered to be a 'fun and a tension free zone' for some.
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Date: 2012-08-28 05:06 pm (UTC)Some things are, right now, too much of an open wound (rather re-opened) for me to respond to at this moment in my floundering fanfic life...
As a multi-ethnic person, it took years... years and a lot of *nudging* from friends to help me to 'step back and lighten up about fanon LM, due to his innate racist, sadistic, vile, opportunistic nature, etc., as a writer I should be 'open' to the word of fantasy literature, 'it's not to be taken as Real Life history/fact', 'you'll develop as a writer if you relax a bit, have some fun, be creative''let loose', etc.
And this is by friends who are people of every colour/race, religion and background: in fact, it was my very first fic submitted at one archive where one admin, who happened to be a person of colour and urged me to not 'write an evil Lucius, she was soooo tired of him being portrayed that way-- and when I started writing him as dubious but not sadistic/clearly supremacist, she was happy. From my newbie pov, I thought, 'Oh, to have my writing 'accepted/approved', I need to ONLY write him a certain way...
And now, especially now when I, also an inveterate seeker of approval here in the world of HP fandom, have discovered a need to play in the HP fandom, am exhausted by trying to meet some deadlines along with keeping on top of other fandom-participating-venues, am left feeling very... *can't find the words right now*
Your essay lends itself to not only forcing all to face up again, if they have been in denial beforehand, to the fact that JFK's Canon Lucius Malfoy is an uber-supremicist Death Eater but also to Severus Snape, as well, of whom our entire fandom is more or less centred/based on.
The dilemma is, who am I to deny others of their freedom of expression/speech in fanfiction?
Also, if hate material is being written and spread--I want to know about it-- I want the individual or group to be 'outed' by their own blatant points of view-
I question the whole existence and nature of fanfiction; definitely, my participation in it. I'll leave it at that, for now.
Just, for what it's worth, I am so sorry for your pain and that you've ever, ever felt and feel from others the pain and hurt that you do--by what is/was considered to be a 'fun and a tension free zone' for some.