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I have been beset, of late, by "draw your character in this outfit" prompts, and decided to make dressup dolls of the whole ensemble cast of "Ariadne's Angels," so I could put any outfit I want on them in a pinch. I decided the first thing I should do with them was make a reference sheet for their Standard Looks!

If you'd like to know more about these characters, feel free to check out their exploits on Tumblr and ao3!

I'm probably gonna get yelled at for saying this but sometimes something isn't a real problem in fandom, you just learned a Japanese word describing a general fandom practice and got scared and decided it meant "The Bad Ones" of that practice

Whenever you see someone being like "we don't mind when women enjoy or even create m/m content, we just hate fujoshis" you are being racist. If you mean "I hate the way some female fans treat gay men like fetish objects" then say that, and we can have a conversation based on that, but "fujoshi" is, I cannot stress this enough, just a word for any woman who likes M/M content, for better or worse. It may have started out as a reclaimed insult (by the way, the insult was based on "liking gay shit makes you perverted and sinful," not "please respect the humanity of gay men") but it does not make a distinction between The Good Ones and The Bad Ones. You just decided to No True Scotsman it and that the English word for that should describe The Good Ones and the Japanese word for it should describe The Bad Ones

Same goes for the people I saw just the other day whose discord server explicitly disallowed "Yaoi" but said that M/M content was allowed. What they meant was "M/M content is allowed as long as it isn't pornographic and fetishistic." What they actually said was "M/M content is allowed, but M/M content is strictly forbidden," and expected you to understand that the Japan-Adjacent term has porn/fetish connotations while the English-language term for THE SAME THING refers to the "normal, non-perverted" version.

It'd be like if you used the word "cartoons" to refer to all Family-Friendly animation, regardless of style or country of origin, whether it's Japanese or American or French or whatever, and used the term "anime" to refer to all animated pornography regardless of style or country of origin. There's plenty of animated pornography that isn't Japanese! There's plenty of anime that's not pornographic! But this is the sort of thing you do when you say shit like "obviously women can read stories about gay men, but NO FUJOSHIS"

OP is correct and smart for saying this. this is related to/a subset of how people are about non-fandom foreign words, too, like how people say "Christians worship God (good), Muslims worship Allah (bad and scary)" when gues swh. gu. guess what. gues s w hat Allah mea. guess what the word "Allah" means--!!

I don't know- I feel like English uses words from other languages that act is a precedent for 'fujoshi'. One wouldn't say that gung-ho (gōng hé) is the same as cooperate. The connotations- which is what we are discussing here- is different because the uses are different between cultures.

Same as how 'kitchen towels' are either cloth towels for the kitchen (us) or paper towels (uk). Cultures have different meanings for the same words.

Don't get me wrong- it matters that we dont use Japanese words to be derogatory. But other words- Neko, kawaii, and anime. Yaoi has connotations different from BL, which are also different from LGBT Lit. I think that you're conflating similar words having different connotations with intentional or subconscious racism.

If you got this far into my very plainly worded post still thinking that I'm taking issue with loanwords having a different meaning in the language borrowing them than in their native language, I really don't know what to tell you.

If "gung ho" was used to mean, specifically, collusion on a criminal conspiracy, and regular cooperation was just called "cooperation," would you get it then? If we said "friend" to mean a friend, and "amigo" to mean an accomplice to a crime, or said "cute" to refer to something that's cute and "kawaii" to refer to the object of a fetish, would you understand why "different languages have different connotations for the same word" doesn't really negate the fact that choosing to differentiate between The Neutral One and The Evil One by using a foreign word for The Evil One is a weency bit racist? If the connotation for "tea" was just tea, and the connotation for "chai" was that it was specifically a dirty and unhealthy kind of tea, would you then see the issue?

All the examples you provided— neko, kawaii, anime— the loan words all mean "specifically the Japanese version of the thing they mean generically in Japanese." It's a Chai Tea situation. If you were arguing that the difference in connotations between a Fujoshi and a female slash shipper is that one is Japanese and one is not, maybe we could talk about "different connotations," but if the different connotation is that the English loan word "Fujoshi" is a bad fetishizer, while the standard English word just means the same thing "Fujoshi" means in Japanese, then what you're arguing is basically the same as saying "boyfriend" means a man you date while "novio" means an abusive boyfriend

I'm not missing the point that the connotations are different here. That is exactly the point I am making. The connotations we've chosen to attach to the loanwords "fujoshi" and "yaoi" are based in racism. So you're left with two basic options. You can

I have been beset, of late, by "draw your character in this outfit" prompts, and decided to make dressup dolls of the whole ensemble cast of "Ariadne's Angels," so I could put any outfit I want on them in a pinch. I decided the first thing I should do with them was make a reference sheet for their Standard Looks!

If you'd like to know more about these characters, feel free to check out their exploits on Tumblr and ao3!

im like the guy in the infomercials they depict in black and white doing everything inefficiently and having a thousand tupperware containers fall on me when i open the cupboard

Actually the funniest bit of Songbirds and Snakes is when the games are over, and the better people in Snow's life all expect him to understand why people hate this government, now that he's seen the suffering it's caused in the arena and in the districts, and he has a full Light Yagami Soliloquy about how actually he is in favor of those things before finally being like "yeah no, rights is important, totally, I totally dislike atrocities just like a Normal"

Me when I have principles I stick to even when they don't directly profit me:

Lucy Gray's POV during this scene:

every sex scene in a movie is necessary, actually. we called for a vote on it while you were in the bathroom. yeah, even the people who were on the fence voted in favor of it because you were being a whiny child. and we don’t like you.

Well as an aroace I say it’s my right to be a whiny child, and I think there should be more scenes of dental flossing and earwax removal and lice inspections and discussions of pets with worms. Those are important plot points too.

(No I’m not a puritan, I’m a queer. I find sex scenes boring and annoying and sometimes gross, like if 90% of movies had a scene that incorporated pimple popping because it’s so popular.)

Come on guys I’m being sarcastic. I’m aware that sex exists. I’m aware that op thinks I’m a whiny child and already hates me. They’re entitled to my opinion and I’m entitled to mine, as a whiny child. 🙄And I’m not “using” aroace *people* to make a point; I am being one aroace person with an opinion that I’m allowed to speak.

Hey man how’s it going?

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The new prompt for all artists is to draw your character, or a favorite character, like the "Location Mentioned" meme! I made a template under the cut, so that anyone can participate!

Sometimes I see posts on here and feel like a lot of you have internalized the idea that the qualifying prerequisites for being LGBT are being cool and interesting and subversive, and that the fact that everyone in the community happens to be attracted to their own gender or else stepping outside of the gender assigned to them is just a happy coincidence, and not like, "not only a qualifying prerequisite, but the SOLE qualifying prerequisite." Being gay IS cool, but THAT'S the happy coincidence. Like I'm sorry to break it to everybody but even boring gay people are gay and even cool straight people are straight, because being gay is not about being cool, it's about being gay.

Replace gender with sex :3

It's a sexual orientation not a gender orientation.

I have been beset, of late, by "draw your character in this outfit" prompts, and decided to make dressup dolls of the whole ensemble cast of "Ariadne's Angels," so I could put any outfit I want on them in a pinch. I decided the first thing I should do with them was make a reference sheet for their Standard Looks!

If you'd like to know more about these characters, feel free to check out their exploits on Tumblr and ao3!

Sometimes I see posts on here and feel like a lot of you have internalized the idea that the qualifying prerequisites for being LGBT are being cool and interesting and subversive, and that the fact that everyone in the community happens to be attracted to their own gender or else stepping outside of the gender assigned to them is just a happy coincidence, and not like, "not only a qualifying prerequisite, but the SOLE qualifying prerequisite." Being gay IS cool, but THAT'S the happy coincidence. Like I'm sorry to break it to everybody but even boring gay people are gay and even cool straight people are straight, because being gay is not about being cool, it's about being gay.

Replace gender with sex :3

It's a sexual orientation not a gender orientation.

I have been beset, of late, by "draw your character in this outfit" prompts, and decided to make dressup dolls of the whole ensemble cast of "Ariadne's Angels," so I could put any outfit I want on them in a pinch. I decided the first thing I should do with them was make a reference sheet for their Standard Looks!

If you'd like to know more about these characters, feel free to check out their exploits on Tumblr and ao3!

IT'S TIME FOR ANOTHER DELICIOUS

stay thungry out there!