Regarding snark and Fic and TWOP: When I tried to read TWOP, what bothered me was the tone that was taken. I'm not sure exactly when in the history of the site I was trying to read it (though it was quite early since Farscape was in it's first or second season).
Regarding race/gender/etc.: I think that ultimately, I believe in story first and foremost, and in the serendipity of things. I hate the idea of writers trying to "adjust" how they tell a story in order to try to please certain groups of people (in any direction) or feeling like they should or shouldn't hire a given actor or actress who *fits* the roll because they're trying to make a quota or be "balanced". Sometimes things work out that way, sometimes they don't. I am all for anyone and everyone being able to participate in fandom and meta, and I'm all for more material that focuses on different races and cultures and sexualities, etc - but as both a fan and a writer and artist I resent the hell out of the implication that I can't just write the characters that come to me in the story that they give me without having to agonize over being politically correct and inclusive. Art *shouldn't* be inherently politically correct or we run the risk of having one of those fake, plastic, brain-washed societies that you read about in distopian fiction.
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Date: 2009-03-12 05:42 pm (UTC)Regarding race/gender/etc.: I think that ultimately, I believe in story first and foremost, and in the serendipity of things. I hate the idea of writers trying to "adjust" how they tell a story in order to try to please certain groups of people (in any direction) or feeling like they should or shouldn't hire a given actor or actress who *fits* the roll because they're trying to make a quota or be "balanced". Sometimes things work out that way, sometimes they don't. I am all for anyone and everyone being able to participate in fandom and meta, and I'm all for more material that focuses on different races and cultures and sexualities, etc - but as both a fan and a writer and artist I resent the hell out of the implication that I can't just write the characters that come to me in the story that they give me without having to agonize over being politically correct and inclusive. Art *shouldn't* be inherently politically correct or we run the risk of having one of those fake, plastic, brain-washed societies that you read about in distopian fiction.