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Jun 15, 2010 20:22

So, a SPN Big Bang author, gatorgrrrl, thought it would be "the best idea ever" to write a RPS story that takes place in present-day Haiti, in the aftermath of the earthquake. From the summary and the excerpts I've read, it fits into a long history of such fiction, especially in film, as gabby_silang points out.

[ETA 6/16/10: The author has locked her story and ( Read more... )

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little_tristan June 16 2010, 13:56:50 UTC
It's really hard to pull this all together and understand it just from the comments, although I'm getting the idea. It's hard not to. (Showing his teeth? Really?) But when I try to follow the links to the fic, it says it's protected and I'm not authorized. If it had been removed, I'd say that was a good thing. Like the author had gotten the point. But this suggests that it's still there, just not open to everyone. Is there a way in? Because given the level of outrage, and my own feelings on the subject of race, I really want to see this, in context, for myself.

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amonitrate June 16 2010, 23:32:34 UTC
Thank you for alerting me, the story has been placed under lock, and her new apology is here.

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little_tristan June 17 2010, 00:04:40 UTC
That's quite an apology. Although, reading through her earlier entries, I saw something else that made me want to step back and ask a lot of questions. Sadly, that entry is comment locked, so I can't. But she said that writing for ourselves and not for the reader is the #1 rule of things NOT to do. That we should, in fact, write for the readers. And that's the exact opposite of what I've always been told. I mean, yes, we need to look at our work critically and try to judge if it's blatantly offensive to large numbers of people (who aren't insane, that is; for instance, I have no problem with offending homophobes), but if writers are obsessed with pleasing any number of unknown potential readers, nothing would ever get written at all.

I wonder if that's her way of saying she's out of the game.

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amonitrate June 17 2010, 00:09:10 UTC
You could always PM her, I suppose.

I'm not entirely sure how that difference interacts with the way that story failed? I rather think it would have failed in the same way whether she was writing for herself or writing for her imagined readers.

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little_tristan June 17 2010, 00:21:51 UTC
She said she just wrote the kind of fic she likes to read without thinking about how other readers would take it. Which does lead one to wonder if what she likes to read involves huge gobs of racism. I guess I'm not really sure how that fits, either.

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amonitrate June 17 2010, 00:26:54 UTC
Ah. Yeah, it could. I mean, as she pointed out somewhere in the comments to her story (not visible any more), as if it was a defense, this kind of story is made into movies all of the time. See gabby_silang's post on the topic, where she made a list off the top of her head.

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