SIGNAL BOOST

[musical_emjay]

WOW. So. My fannish attention is all over the fucking map lately, and I haven't read a single SPN/J2 Big Bang from this year's crop yet, but something has been called to my attention that I really, really can't stay quiet about.

Please take a moment to go here and read up about the latest absolutely galling pile of racist fail to come out of SPN

Comments

[faunaana]

Oh my lord, the cat thing - there's a WHOOLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEE lotta fail going on, but the CAT THING is REALLY getting under my skin.

Ugh, ~magical negro~, indeed. DNW

[musical_emjay]

God, yeah. I DON'T EVEN---THERE IS SO MUCH FAIL. SO MUCH. I just clicked through to bossymarmalade's entry with all the quotes and I didn't even read half of them before I started laughing in that sort of giddy, hysterical HOW DOES THIS EVEN EXIST IN REAL LIFE way.

But the cat thing. AUUUUUUUUUUGH. Like I saw someone say in one of those posts...it's the fuck you cherry on top of the shit sundae.

What's also depressing is how your post is the only one I've seen on my flist so far. PEOPLE, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS IN PLACES OTHER THAN THE ANON MEME :|

[faunaana]

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS IN PLACES OTHER THAN THE ANON MEME :|

YES, YES, YES!

[apey1013]

I had skimmed past that one when I was checking out the BigBang list, didn't have any interest in even reading the full summary. THANK YOU for the warning because WTH is wrong with people?

[musical_emjay]

You're very welcome, my friend. I DON'T UNDERSTAND PEOPLE, EITHER :|||

[caithream]

I was scrolling through the Big Bangs during lunch today and when I saw that summary my eyes literally went o_o to O_O!!!! I know absolutely nothing about it ('cause really this kind of stuff just... is a huge embarrassment squick for me) but even just writing a story, ANY story, fandom or not, around some so tragic and so recent is just... no. Noooo. I mean, if someone had written a ~love story~ around the events of 9/11 even NOW, almost 10 years later, I'd be offended. I just don't understand using something so tragic and real for something so superficial.

[musical_emjay]

Yeah, the huge steaming pile of racist fuckery aside, this earthquake happened SIX MONTHS AGO and the effects of it are STILL HAPPENING. People are STILL DYING. Real people, real children -- (gotta love the "warning" for "non-graphic death of children" in the author's notes) -- and yet somehow all that pinged for her was how it would be the perfect backdrop for J2 falling in love. That is so TASTELESS and TACKY and OFFENSIVE I just cannot even :/

[fledmusic]

OH MY GOD, NOOOOOOOOOO.

WHO ACTUALLY DOES THAT?!??!?

[musical_emjay]

IDEKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!

IF YOU WANT TO FIND A LEGIT REASON TO KILL YOURSELF THIS EVENING, PLEASE GO HERE TO READ SOME CHOICE EXCERPTS FROM THIS STEAMING PILE OF RACIST IDIOCY.

[fledmusic]

Umm, just, the cat. Yeah.

“Disneyland isn’t half as exciting as this place,” he said.

IT'S SO GREAT HE FINDS IT ALL SO EXCITING~~~~ WHAT THE HELL

[star_maple]

There are one or two insensitive or clueless AU fics every year in Big Bang, and I've come to rely upon it like the tides. (AUs are my favorite, but there are certain limitations when your story has to be about two young white guys, and sometimes their white friends.)However, the thing I find interesting are that all of them are really well-written from a technical perspective. They use correct grammar and spelling and punctuation. There's a beginning, a middle and an end. The action moves along at a good clip. There's clever dialogue. It would be an okay to good story if not for the massive FAIL inherent in the subject. It's like they get to a certain skill level and think they need to really challenge themselves and push their boundaries and don't really consider the consequences

[musical_emjay]

YES. That's one of the things killing me the most. I was so excited for her story! I had no clue what it was supposed to be about, but I remembered reading her fic in the past and knew that it was very high quality. But NOPE, SORRY, HERE'S 80K OF STEAMING RACIST FAIL INSTEAD :/

I'm...kind of not that surprised though, actually. This kind of "I DON'T THINK ABOUT IT IN TERMS OF RAAAAACE" racism is exactly the kind that most often comes from educated, smart people, the ones that like to claim they have tons of friends who are POC and would never think they were ~~different. Which is exactly where I was in my early days in Fandom, before I was confronted with all of the fantastic meta the criticism over the years that forced me to realize just how WRONG and FUCKING STUPID I was being. Right now it seems like the author's only half-assedly owning up to her shit, so we'll see how it all turns out, I guess.

[star_maple]

I haven't read the author's apology yet, but I think a half-assed apology is progress, actually. I mean, she's worked on this for months and no one brought up problems before and she posts it, excitedly expecting positive comments and then gets this reaction. Regardless of your subject, your first response is going to be defensive-- especially if a whole crowd comes after you. I mean, back in the days before the internet had pictures, I got one e-mail from one person on a (hopefully) much less failtastic slip-up and my first response was defensive until I calmed down and read it a few more times and thought about it. So any response that is not, "Why are you so mean to meeee?" or "Haters to the left!" or anything else that is just summarily dismissive I have to look at as an open door-- it's going to take time to change ingrained thought processes that she's had for 20+ years.