Oh, okay. Didn't catch that -- I thought a m/m example and its fanfollowing would in earnest be interesting to examine.
The Hatari migration as presented in canon is a little odd to me. I came up with a rather elaborate bit of headcanon to explain it and I might end up writing that this meta month, since the doujin I was saving it for might never end up being written.
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I agree that it's an overreaction. I hadn't quite thought about how that actually depowered the female character, though, and I thank you for showing me that.
Or people can be imposing their real-world biases onto a fictional world where flying horsies defy everything we know of physics.
Well... psychology is something I'm not willing to leave behind under the pretense of fantasy. Our cultural beliefs of how much a homeland should mean are contemporary, but the experience (if done right) is forever.
And if the experience is depicted poorly, go wild.
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Date: 2011-09-20 03:56 am (UTC)The Hatari migration as presented in canon is a little odd to me. I came up with a rather elaborate bit of headcanon to explain it and I might end up writing that this meta month, since the doujin I was saving it for might never end up being written.
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I agree that it's an overreaction. I hadn't quite thought about how that actually depowered the female character, though, and I thank you for showing me that.
Or people can be imposing their real-world biases onto a fictional world where flying horsies defy everything we know of physics.
Well... psychology is something I'm not willing to leave behind under the pretense of fantasy. Our cultural beliefs of how much a homeland should mean are contemporary, but the experience (if done right) is forever.
And if the experience is depicted poorly, go wild.