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Krait ([personal profile] krait) wrote2013-05-21 10:37 pm

Minor grumping.

Dear Homestuck authors:

If you are writing an all-human AU, please tag your fic with that!

Hint: tagging it with plain old "AU", or any subcategory thereof (such as "college AU") does not remove the need for a "Humanstuck" tag.

Thanks.

P.S. - I realise this is a matter of personal taste, but why do you all write so much humanstuck fic?! Your fic would be a thousand times better if it were, say, a coffee shop AU or college AU or rock band AU, or whatever, and did that without ducking out of the issues that come along with mixing two disparate cultures and species! Call me a one-trick pony, but watching humans and trolls pair up and accomplish life goals is ever so much more interesting when you don't take away two-thirds of the potential conflict before the story even starts.

Sigh.

P.P.S - Star Trek fandom, this goes for you, too. (I haven't been reading you nearly as much, lately, but that may change when/if I see the movie, so you can't hide forever!)
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[personal profile] soc_puppet 2013-05-22 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I've got a friend who's totally into speculative fiction but can't for the life of her figure out where to start with worldbuilding. When the world is already built for you, though? No excuse. Part of a character for me will always be their backstory and the world and elements they grew up with. Take that away, and no matter how carefully you try and weave in similar elements and backstory tidbits a part of me will always think I'm reading original fiction with characters who happen to somewhat resemble someone familiar.

I'd maybe buy all the trolls speaking English at least, but all of them being white and US-ian is just anathema to me. I'm too used to them having black hair and at least somewhat darker skin. GingerKat in particular is an instant backbutton for me, because way to reinforce negative stereotypes about redheads, fuckfaces. (Also because he's frequently a main character in what I read, and that just means if we're going to have any diversity it'll probably be Conveniently Diverse Friends Group rather than EastAsian!John. Blech.)

Yes yes yes, exactly. Exactly to all of that.