#[ i do need to note-- i don't mean unaffiliated from the /fandoms/. that's much more a choice if you wish to write outside of it. ]

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🔥🔥 // on whatever you wanna let out - let it all out 🫂

Prompt: Send me a “ 🔥 “ for an unpopular opinion. // Accepting. // @voyagaer

Dissociating characters from their franchises and creators. I know that this has been on the uprise recently with HYV, and while I understand people wanting to 'protest', the concept of trying to dissociate a character from the person or franchise that created them is in my opinion, really relatively abhorrent. What gives you the right, morally, to take a creator's intellectual property and claim it as your own? To just entirely go 'this canon character is now my fandomless OC' or 'this character is entirely unaffiliated with HYV'— here's a newsflash for you that I can't believe that I have to even note: you can never do that. You can shout 'unaffiliated' all day long, from the tallest rooftops, with a megaphone, and with all possible conviction in your heart, but that doesn't make it true, not even in your own mind. Someone else's creation will never be yours, as it will never not be theirs. And quite honestly, people don't realize that claiming any different goes against the current legislation set in place surrounding intellectual property. It's simply that you, me and everyone else here simply run blogs on tumblr.com, writing depictions that don't matter in the grand scheme of things, that you don't get in trouble for it (though you should, in my opinion). None of what you do will affect HYV's profits, as no one over there will even find what we do. All that your shouting of 'being unaffiliated' will do, is speak to your character, principles and morals, which all, I'll say very earnestly again: are abhorrent if you think that it's justified to even consider claiming anything of anyone else as your own. It doesn't even matter if you entirely repurpose an existing canon character into what you'd 'like them to be', they still belong to the original creator. Basing an OC on a canon character is one thing, but even then it can only be very roughly so, as the laws on copyright are very strict in many countries.

But I just— I get so worked up about this even on even the mere principle, because I've had to utilize copyright legislation in the past to take my property out of someone else's hands, someone who thought that it 'really wasn't a big deal'. Well guess what, it is a big deal to people who've created the thing that you're using in any capacity whatsoever, on principle and morally so, before we even touch on what it says about the 'feelings' that people preach so harshly about. We can apparently talk all day about how people are bad on a moral level when it comes to disrespecting anxiety and people's feelings, but when people do stuff that's actually wrong on moral principles and legally, that apparently should be forgiven and accepted. Right, okay. I have no respect for those who do things like this, absolutely none. God, it's just the audacity of people, really. We've entered an era and generation where people have absolutely no concept of respect or what it entails.

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Man, the biggest disappointment of the clone wars, by far, is how BARELY the clones are even characters. 99 got as many lines as most of the other boys. I was expecting echo to have at least *one* episode between invited to be an arc and being sploded. There's still a few seasons left, but I'm only a few from umbara, which means it's time for hardcase and dogma to get, very possibly, less development than cutup and droidbait. I know the bad batch is going to disappoint me in new and exciting ways, but it's.... very unsettling. The random old jedi dude who helped ahsoka find her lightsaber has gotten show attention leaps and bounds beyond arguably every clone we've met. At a minimum, fives and rex will beat him out eventually, for sure, but they've been around for three whole seasons and are losing, badly, to a one-off rando unaffiliated with any main characters.

Like, I was so excited to meet monnk, and stoked to see it was a three-parter where he was featured, so SURELY-- no. fuck you. if you don't already recognize his armor in murky low light, you don't even get to know if he's talking. I watched one mortis episode and skipped the others, because it was AGONIZINGLY dull and i don't need three episodes to tell me anakin is super powerful and gets dangerously attached to his people. I can't believe we dumped all the dathomir momentum for THAT, and there weren't any clones or zabraks to make things fun

Not that I'm.... unhappy here. I'm just kind of stunned by just how much fandom creators are carrying this franchise on their backs. I would still say it's a good show, but i would be DRASTICALLY less compelled if not for fanfic to expand on all these characters who show up to get a name and die. People clown on cody for barely having a canonical personality, but I'm almost halfway through, and he's got more to him than almost every other clone character 🙃 The most developed clone so far is 99, and that's because he's a clear-cut Tragic Archetype 🙃🙃🙃

Just IMAGINE this show with a more modern form factor, something closer to SU maybe, where you've got a large-scale plot happening, but it's easy to zoom in on tighter episodes as necessary, but ALSO can integrate side characters in little ways to round them out before they're central to the plot. 'But SU has a smaller cast--' COOL then take your notes from transformers! I'd hesitate to say most animated versions do a good job of giving the WHOLE cast balanced attention, but it's still an improvement. Imagine I had some idea of who jesse was before umbara! Or kix! That would be wild! But I think they've had one or two throwaway lines each, and it's such a waste of potential.