#bc if you don't like spop you're a homophobe or whatever

[adorawasright]

i feel really bad for the original adaptations of certain media when a reboot is announced, because you end up seeing a beloved classic be torn to shreds as it's constantly compared to the new show.

i think this way about the original she-ra and i guess voltron, too. i'm not sure if og voltron was good on its own, but regardless i feel bad for it since many people on youtube make fun of it to compare to vld.

both of these cases remind me of the way the fullmetal alchemist fandom treats the 2003 adaptation. brotherhood is always deemed "the better one" because it follows the manga while 2003 is considered to be some "edgy fanfiction", even though it has a way more realistic and critical approach of its themes - not to mention it diverging from the manga being a deliberate choice that was approved by the creator. brotherhood is a basic shounen (which, btw, has a very insensitive view of genocide and imperialism) while 2003 deconstructs the genre.

i know all of these shows are different from one another, but speaking as someone who didn't grow up with them and only watched them recently, i hate how reboots are always used against the original shows, the latter obviously deemed inferior. i'm not saying you're not allowed to like the reboots, but you need to acknowledge the role of the original adaptations. if it weren't for them, the reboots wouldn't even exist.

maybe the original shows can be silly or kind of wild when you look back, but they were popular back in the day and changed an entire generation (idk about voltron because i don't think it was popular in my country, but the point remains about she-ra and fma). please stop ignoring that.

and by the way, nobody is a bad person for preferring the original adaptations.

[n7punk]

I’ve seen a lot of fandom blogs get heat for this recently, but mainly spop & lok, I think? But the basic premise is that certain ppl feel that adult fans shouldn’t make adult content (nsfw or otherwise) w/ adult characters bc they’re “children’s characters” who belong to kids & using “their characters” & “pretending to relate to them” is wrong. It makes no sense to me?! These characters don’t belong to anyone & there’s nothing wrong w/ adult fans making adult content w/ adult characters.

part 2:

I don't really have much to say to this because I think these people are either stupid or homophobes. They never go after the het ships/fandoms with the same argument, or at least not with the same veracity. If you're asking me to explain their logic: sorry, I can't, they don't have logic, or what little that they do have ignores obvious facts like how kids shouldn't be online unsupervised (at least not on sites like tumblr, ao3, twitter, etc) and the fact that the sites where a lot of the nsfw fandom content is have explicit filtering.

Characters don't "belong to kids" just because kids look at them too. Kids love batman and a lot of superheroes, but you'll also find them fucking even in canon itself because they're adults and most adults do that. LOK and She-ra fall into what I call "younger audience oriented", which means it is labeled as a kid show and ostensibly marketed that way, but it has a lot of appeal to adults and 20-somethings as well. There are officially licensed $120 She-ra rings for sale - in only adult sizing. That merch isn't marketed at kids or their parents. It shows that Dreamworks is well aware of their adult fanbase and catering to them. These people are ignoring the fact that the adults in the fandom are producing NSFW for themselves or for the other adults. NSFW is always going to exist and be findable on the internet - it doesn't matter which characters the NSFW features, it doesn't magically harm children with psychic damage if it's Bruce Wayne, or Adora Grayskull, or any other consenting adult. Kids should be using safe search and explicit filters and not see the content regardless.

I could write a whole take-down of the logic, but it doesn't matter, because it's not genuine caring/logic that motivates them. I'll say it bluntly: These people are trying to get their foot in the door. They think this is their most "acceptable" opinion, so they'll get you to agree with this, and then they'll shame you for creating NSFW gay content at all (or whatever else it is that they actually have their base issue with, but it's usually this). This is them cloaking by using something that they think they might be able to slowly convert you with. It's sometimes TERFs, targeting creators who produce trans or just gay fan content. Sometimes it's puritans against all sexuality, not just LGBT content. Regardless of who it is, they start with this, because it's more acceptable to suppress.

I don't know what their endgame/trajectory is, but I recognize a "foot in the door" argument when I see one. Do not give them space in your mind - you poke a hole in their logic and the whole thing falls apart like the Jenga tower it is. Just block them on sight. I do. You can't argue with people who have no logic or refuse to let theirs be informed by facts and reality.