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while talking to my friends on a big walk last night, we got to discussing art, and when i said that "as much as i wish i was the illustration type, i think my strength is sequential art" they immediately started telling me which comic pages i've made that are their favorites 😭 i was really touched

whenever i talk about the existing events that are not accessible for amateur doujinshi participation on the one hand i'm talking about anime cons and on the other hand i'm talking about like, small press shows. it's interesting bc imo they're kinda inaccessible in opposite directions

a great dissection of why a lot of fandom drama doesn't only boil down to "these people are thinking too much about [insert series here] and need to touch grass." there's another layer to the way folks get obsessed (for parasocial/self-important rewriting/clout reasons, etc) that gets glossed over

by asneakyfox on tumblr:

one big thing i think people outside fandom (like, all fandoms, fandom in general, not any particular one) tend to misunderstand is they know it's a subculture of people who are weirdly deeply invested in fictional media, and they hear about drama caused by people in those subcultures being unhinged in not-fun ways, and they think the unhingedness comes from the fact of being overinvested in works of fiction.

which is a natural assumption, but in my experience that's not really the case? like in my experience the drama llamas in fandom are usually not the ones who are just genuinely very deeply into the fiction. i've known people who are basically thinking about star trek or x-men comics or supernatural pretty much 100% of their free time and ime that type of person is usually very nice and surprisingly functional in their regular life. when someone's a constant nexus of fandom drama it's usually not that they are obsessed with the actual work of fiction the fandom is about, it's at least one of the following:

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but their unhealthy parasocial relationships with one or more of the people who created it

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but some elaborate shared-universe subset of fanfic about it that's only barely related to the original at this point, and/or an esoteric reading-against-the-text reinterpretation of the source material (often if the canon is active and ongoing this leads to becoming actively hostile toward it for its inevitably increasing failure to conform to their preferred fanon)

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but the fandom itself and gathering clout within it, so that the source material basically only exists to them as a tool for scoring points in increasingly arcane fandom disputes

and very often you get the same person doing 2 and sometimes even all 3 of these, and that's where the trouble really starts.

this might be a tough pill for the "be gay do crimes"/"punch nazis" crowd but i do actually think that folks need to stand on that shit and publically jump people as a social conditioning tool when words don’t work. put your money where your mouth is and put your hands where an idiot's mouth is

i can't reply to each QRP critiquing what i wrote but i am genuinely glad it's brought up debate/concern about how we look at art. for those considering it in good faith, thank you. there's no point arguing with willful misinterpretation, but i did want to respond to these common points for now:

Solaire (🔮🐏 pondering my shorb)@solairelunaire.bsky.social · last wk.

thinking about the popularity of so many "redraw trends" and plagiarism of compositions by all sorts of artists (it comes up often for gposing but 2D artists do it too). i have to sum up my discomfort with it as follows: it's artists treating other artists the same way A/I treats art as data

if the odyssey ever seems like other stories you've encountered that's because it's one of the four stories humans have alongside "this annoying twink has to deal with his shitty family", "two wild dudes hate each other but they become friends with homoerotic overtones", and journey to the west

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