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WCDT Strips 4326-4330 (10-15 August 2020)
Onionvolcano:
A lot of craftsmanship goes into this. I love seeing townspeople in the background we've seen before.
Gnabberwocky:
--- Quote from: SmilingCat on 11 Aug 2020, 20:07 ---
--- Quote from: Gnabberwocky on 11 Aug 2020, 13:39 ---I see why straight-up modifying the characters should be avoided in the QCverse and on the forums, but that doesn't mean it's a terrible thing to do in any situation. J. K. Rowling recently slammed trans people, and the fanfic community retaliated by releasing a wave of stories that portrayed Hermione as a trans character. If Rowling can't respect that trans people are human, then she deserves to have her work "disrespected."
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That feels like the fiction-writing equivalent of calling someone you don't like a poopyhead, or sharing a meme with your friends that already agree with you. Or sharing a meme as a form of political engagement in general.
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I don't think I said what I meant to quite right. Let me try again.
Millions of kids grew up reading Harry Potter, and certainly many of them were trans or wondering if they were. They fell in love with that universe. When J. K. Rowling spoke out against trans people, those kids essentially lost that world. Yes, they could read it any time they wanted to, but it would always be with the knowledge that its creator hated them. When these fanfic writers portrayed Hermione as trans, they found a way to give the Harry Potter world back to those people.
My point here is that by writing these characters your own way, you can separate them from their creators. It isn't about insulting Rowling (I know I said the opposite before, but that was badly written); it's about returning the world to those who lost it.
Again--this doesn't apply to QC, because Jeph's a good guy. I just want to clarify that rewriting characters isn't an act of destruction.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Tova on 11 Aug 2020, 20:00 ---Okay. I mean, I kinda want to say that we should agree to disagree over your suggestion that crush means I want to pursue a relationship with you. And I can kinda see why it might seem like it does. But it doesn't. Childhood crushes are a thing, and they don't mean the world is full of children looking to pursue romantic relationships.
Don't make me bust out the dictionary. No-one wants that.
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Would it be more accurate to state that a crush involves some degree of infatuation?
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Gnabberwocky on 11 Aug 2020, 21:31 ---
--- Quote from: SmilingCat on 11 Aug 2020, 20:07 ---
--- Quote from: Gnabberwocky on 11 Aug 2020, 13:39 ---I see why straight-up modifying the characters should be avoided in the QCverse and on the forums, but that doesn't mean it's a terrible thing to do in any situation. J. K. Rowling recently slammed trans people, and the fanfic community retaliated by releasing a wave of stories that portrayed Hermione as a trans character. If Rowling can't respect that trans people are human, then she deserves to have her work "disrespected."
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That feels like the fiction-writing equivalent of calling someone you don't like a poopyhead, or sharing a meme with your friends that already agree with you. Or sharing a meme as a form of political engagement in general.
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I don't think I said what I meant to quite right. Let me try again.
Millions of kids grew up reading Harry Potter, and certainly many of them were trans or wondering if they were. They fell in love with that universe. When J. K. Rowling spoke out against trans people, those kids essentially lost that world. Yes, they could read it any time they wanted to, but it would always be with the knowledge that its creator hated them. When these fanfic writers portrayed Hermione as trans, they found a way to give the Harry Potter world back to those people.
My point here is that by writing these characters your own way, you can separate them from their creators. It isn't about insulting Rowling (I know I said the opposite before, but that was badly written); it's about returning the world to those who lost it.
Again--this doesn't apply to QC, because Jeph's a good guy. I just want to clarify that rewriting characters isn't an act of destruction.
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Look up "Giuseppe Stromboli" for a good laugh.
SmilingCat:
--- Quote from: Gnabberwocky on 11 Aug 2020, 21:31 ---I don't think I said what I meant to quite right. Let me try again.
Millions of kids grew up reading Harry Potter, and certainly many of them were trans or wondering if they were. They fell in love with that universe. When J. K. Rowling spoke out against trans people, those kids essentially lost that world. Yes, they could read it any time they wanted to, but it would always be with the knowledge that its creator hated them. When these fanfic writers portrayed Hermione as trans, they found a way to give the Harry Potter world back to those people.
My point here is that by writing these characters your own way, you can separate them from their creators. It isn't about insulting Rowling (I know I said the opposite before, but that was badly written); it's about returning the world to those who lost it.
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*shrug* if it makes people feel better about playing in her sandbox I suppose. But I don't think it's quite the grand gesture or protest or reclamation you think it is.
It's a fact of life, though, at some point some creator of something you love is going to say or do something (maybe a lot of somethings, Hello Lovecraft my boy!) you're gonna hate. How a person reconciles the story they love with the thing they hate is up to them.
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