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bomberqueen17:
I’m still thinking about that Rey/Poe fic I read earlier where Finn just totally didn’t exist. It really weirded me out. I mean, sure fine, I’m a polyshipper, but– I could be down with pretty much any configuration there? And like. !!!
I’m thinking it over and if there was a fic where Poe just wasn’t there? Provided they weren’t, like, currently on the Resistance base where Poe canonically lives, that wouldn’t be weird in the slightest. I could buy a scenario where a recovered Finn took off after Rey and the neato X-Wing pilot who was in five minutes of the movie just didn’t get mentioned again. (It’d be weird though if they were with the Resistance and he was just gone. Unless they were on another base, which would require less than a sentence of clarification, for me.)
Rey and Poe never actually spoke in the movie, so if Poe was just not around, I could totally buy her never having a reaction to that.
I’m not telling anyone what to ship. I will read anything and I really don’t care. But like. If you’re gonna remove a lead character you should probably at least explain why. I get that it’s complicated sometimes. I do. And I appreciate that it wasn’t like Ye Olde Female-Character-Hating Days Of Old, where you’d just pick the canon het love interest and make her An Unreasonable Harpy so the dicks could touch without impediment.
But like. You gotta address it. Even if it’s flimsy.
And it’s worse when that character happens to be the one whose casting started a furor among racists on the Internet. You cannot be alive and in this world and in this fandom without knowing that’s a thing. You can’t do this innocently. You just can’t. It’s an understandable thing to happen in your initial draft (i get it! i do!) but you have to catch it. It’s not innocent and it’s not nothing, and it sucks that it’s that way, but it is.
Sigh. Yeah. I feel chagrin that I was so taken up with the id-catering effect of the porn I just failed to notice this flaw. :s
oh I got really far into it, and it’s even worse because it basically opens with the scene that has literally every other named character in the Resistance in it, and I just was distracted. It wasn’t until I’d gotten through that scene and was on to the others that I started thinking hmmm… there was something weird about that…

ineptshieldmaid:
bomberqueen17:
I’m still thinking about that Rey/Poe fic I read earlier where Finn just totally didn’t exist. It really weirded me out. I mean, sure fine, I’m a polyshipper, but– I could be down with pretty much any configuration there? And like. !!!
I’m thinking it over and if there was a fic where Poe just wasn’t there? Provided they weren’t, like, currently on the Resistance base where Poe canonically lives, that wouldn’t be weird in the slightest. I could buy a scenario where a recovered Finn took off after Rey and the neato X-Wing pilot who was in five minutes of the movie just didn’t get mentioned again. (It’d be weird though if they were with the Resistance and he was just gone. Unless they were on another base, which would require less than a sentence of clarification, for me.)
Rey and Poe never actually spoke in the movie, so if Poe was just not around, I could totally buy her never having a reaction to that.
I’m not telling anyone what to ship. I will read anything and I really don’t care. But like. If you’re gonna remove a lead character you should probably at least explain why. I get that it’s complicated sometimes. I do. And I appreciate that it wasn’t like Ye Olde Female-Character-Hating Days Of Old, where you’d just pick the canon het love interest and make her An Unreasonable Harpy so the dicks could touch without impediment.
But like. You gotta address it. Even if it’s flimsy.
And it’s worse when that character happens to be the one whose casting started a furor among racists on the Internet. You cannot be alive and in this world and in this fandom without knowing that’s a thing. You can’t do this innocently. You just can’t. It’s an understandable thing to happen in your initial draft (i get it! i do!) but you have to catch it. It’s not innocent and it’s not nothing, and it sucks that it’s that way, but it is.
Sigh. Yeah. I feel chagrin that I was so taken up with the id-catering effect of the porn I just failed to notice this flaw. :s
oh I got really far into it, and it’s even worse because it basically opens with the scene that has literally every other named character in the Resistance in it, and I just was distracted. It wasn’t until I’d gotten through that scene and was on to the others that I started thinking hmmm… there was something weird about that…
