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Your result for The Fan Fiction Personality Test...

The Mindgamer

Everything is possible, nothing is ever really over.

Fanfiction is a creative outlet for you. You don't intentionally write it, it just happens. You find inspiration in several fandoms, but are not obsessed with only one.

You like to explore "what if" situations. What if this character had never made this very choice? What if this event had taken place sooner, never, elsewhere? What if these people had never met?

You are likely to write Alternative Universes, fan seasons or sequels and just follow your (sometimes pretty strange) plot bunnies.

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Comments

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I'm going to make a longuer answer later, as I have to leave... just:

I've also talked to a lot of people who said they were afraid to voice any kind of dissenting opinion in these kinds of blogs. And I thought, "Afraid?" Because that's really about the last thing anyone should feel when it comes to expressing their opinion, no matter how potentially offensive their opinion is. (In fairness, some people have also confessed to being intimidated by me, and this is really the last thing I want ever.)
I understand that feeling and I think it is unfortunate, BUT! when you're a member of a minority and you see people off-handedly using words and concepts that have been historically (perhaps in your personal history) used to demean, humiliate and terrorise you and in general teach you your place as a lower member of society/a freak/a subhuman... how do you think that make them feel? Or, more importantly, when they dare to voice a complain or a request to not use those words this way and that in answer people flip out at them angrily, call them names, call them slurs, ignore them, dismiss their right to complaint, question their intent ("you're just looking to be offended") (and I have seen all these things happen, sometimes to me), how do you think that make them feel?
In general, History and society make a good job at making most members of minorities quite a little bit more than afraid of even making a complaint, even in a frivolous context such as fandom.

Because when that person removed me from her flist in punishment for voicing a complaint the message to me was clearly "how dare even voice such a request! Keep silent or else I won't socialise with you"
And it's not the first time I receive such a message.
Do you think I wasn't afraid of commenting?

So, no, I don't think it's good that people in general be afraid of voicing an opinion, but if the choice is between people who have more privilege and advantage in society (though no evil of their own, just the way society is biased in their favour) be afraid of using possibly problematic words or of disagreeing in certain blogs/communities, or the members of minorities who are all too often made to keep silent by the systematic discriminative inertia of society be afraid of voicing their anger and suffering when some expressions are used; I know which one I'd pick.

[shiinabambi.livejournal.com]

That is very unfortunate. I wouldn't defriend someone over something like that! I'm more "to each their own,"; you pick your words, I pick mine, free discourse is great and minds may or may not be changed by it.

In other words, people are free to complain! And I'm not going to hurl slurs at them, but I might shrug. IDK, if they can make a case for why that word made them afraid and unwelcome, I might be convinced! There are some words I don't use, after all. (Mostly racial epithets, I have yet to find any reason to want to use them.)

I don't think "ignored" is as bad as the other things on that list. You have the right to voice your opinion. You don't have the right to have everyone agree with you. And that's what makes debates interesting! :)

So yeah, I'm privileged. I don't deny that. But there are so many ways it's possible to be "privileged," I am in some and not in others. I hate how people assume that just because I have some privileges, I must have all of them. I try not to get into this stuff because it's personal, and it cheapens it to bring it into every internet debate, but yeah, my life kinda sucked too.

I do make an attempt to not be a dick, but I have yet to be convinced that slang is this huge oppressive force. Maybe that's my error. But, it's the conclusion that seemed most natural to me. I'm doing the best I can, but it's in my nature to need to understand a thing before I adopt it into my philosophy--I have trouble just taking someone's word for it.

Back to the original topic, I think "canon nazi" makes linguistic sense, because the Nazis were strict and oppressive. But canon nazis don't put people in ovens, and I find it hard to imagine anyone would seriously confuse the two. I realize it's a lighthearted application of a serious concept, but that's inevitable--the more you tell people to be serious and not laugh, the more irresistible it becomes. It's human nature that in any unfunny event, someone will push that envelope. (I've seen Holocaust/Hitler jokes, 9/11 jokes, recently dead celebrity jokes, dead baby jokes, etc.) I don't think commanding humanity as a whole to be somber is going to work. The word "nazi" is getting reabsorbed into the language (I've seen other uses, like "Christmas nazi") and I think of it kind of like language compost, breaking it down and taking nutrients from it.