part 363 paper snowflakes

[aphanon_meme]

It's... December! I can't believe it's almost the end of another year. Time is weird. Anyway! There's been a lot of neato Hetalia news in the meantime! That game (that I can't get working but will look at videos and screencaps of so I can play vicariously)! The image of the first doll! The musical promo images!! What are you most excited for?

Enjoy part 363!

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Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

ah, i see. i do hope himaruya fills in some more info about persia. sigh. i wish for new characters in general, himaruya would've done a bit better job with introductions. i think he has improved though, czech and slovakia got what i'd consider a more concrete intro where, whether or not i like these characters, i at least got a pretty clear sense of what their personalities are from the outset. unlike say, poor india, where... i want to like the character, but to be perfectly honest i'd have to make up almost ALL of his personality because himaruya's canon didn't give much to work with. and that kills it for me.

yep. that's my big problem with fandom fights, they always happened before too of course but back it was "you're stupid/this isn't canon/that character is lame," not "you're a bad person and liking what you like is equivalent to being an abuser/a racist/a sex predator." heck, even when people bashed ships for being abusive in the old old days, they typically bashed the ship they didn't so far as to claim shippers of an abusive ship were contributing to real life abuse.

there was an article comparing tumblr to overzealous, hypocritical church ladies that i think sums up the culture perfectly.

not to mention this uncomfortable victimhood complex; people don't just dislike something in fandom, they make out that the fact of a thing they don't like existing is somehow victimizing them. likewise, one of the only ways to deflect blame from yourself is to claim to be, in one way or another, a victim.

i didn't really catch the beginnings of that stuff on lj (luckily, perhaps). i was probably buried too deep in slash to notice, and i already avoided places like ontd.

i'm hoping it'll pass in time and i do think sjwism has subsided somewhat from its peak but it is persistently there and especially likes to flare up as weaponry for people to bash on characters/pairings/interpretations they dislike.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

I really hope Persia will be featured more often, especially during the Safavid era where there's plenty of interactions with Turkey and Europeans. I was so PUMPED UP for India back in 2011-2012 and it's really a shame he got featured afterwards in illustrations because Hima could've at least done some strips with China about the political situation nowadays instead of just the "Bollywood boy & elephants" facade. Not that I mind that but there's much more to explore about his character. I liked Czech's and Slovakia's introductions and liked the Romania and Bulgaria sketches. Hima has been proven to be effective when it comes to writing about his favourite pairs. He pretty much signed me up on RomBul.

Sjwism is prevalent and won't change unless the political climate in fiction changes as well. With the constant patronizing of offensive ships (incest, abuse undertones...) and the toxicity of callout culture (REMEMBER THING X DID 5 YEARS AGO????), I really don't know how the virtiol is going to rebrand itself. You can't even point the flaws of female characters without people screaming "omg u misogynist", even if they are brash and nasty, you get the "well i hope u dont like male characters like that :))".

And I hate how "ableist"is thrown at every moment for practically anything.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

i'm hopeful he'll return to india and persia at some point too, was surprised he didn't because i mean there's a bit of a subgenre for that in yaoi (exotic, dark skinned seme with quasi-indian-ish or middle-eastern-ish fashion) so i think they'd be popular in japan if given a bit more fleshing out and some interactions with others. i liked india's friendship with prussia, but i don't think india stands out enough or rather i have difficulty imagining in in various situations aside from wanting to share dance with people which... is kind of a service-y trait, it doesn't fill in much about his personality or motivations.

yeahhhh i feel like fandom kind of overcompensated in trying to correct the past where people would slap strangers with "yaoi paddles" at cons or make rape jokes constantly. but now we've got the opposite problem and it seems actually a lot worse than the former problem; or at least much, much more pervasive. i find it extremely difficult to avoid the sjw thought police in most fandoms, whereas it wasn't that difficult to avoid the obnoxious fans of yesteryear. and the yaoi paddles type at least never doxxed people.

/sa

[(Anonymous)]

*him in

*surface-y trait, ha omg... if it's service-y i suppose it'd be a whole other type of dancing wow