#somebody let me talk about orientalism and the depiction of ambiguously brown characters in love stories written by non-brown cultures | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

bmpmp3 · 2 years

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kinda sucks how so many people get up in their feelings when they hear the word “trope” nowadays as a person who just really likes narrative media analysis. i have to like carefully word myself with “recurring concepts” and “common story elements” lest someone goes off because they think the very concept of tropes is Horrible because they hate fanfiction or whatever (sorry buddy tropes are like archetypes and genre conventions its a relatively neutral term to describe patterns in storytelling ur gonna have trouble avoiding them (although what the marketing machine has done to the word is pretty awful but thats just because advertising is evil) and also relax i think fanfiction is fine) OR someone who’s really deep in the fanfiction world but embarassed that someone said the word “trope” out loud will freak out (unfortunately I don’t read very much fanfiction because i tend to prefer original fiction so i dont really know what you’re talking about but please have more confidence in your hobbies i know you work very hard) and in the end im just sitting there like. alright. can i go back to talking about common character archetypes in early 2000s shoujo manga now

#also too much of the stuff i wanna read fanfics of are all things that are too forgotten to have fics of 😔#wheres my fic of random mid tier decently rated but entirely forgotton 2007 shoujo manga number 873492483403. where is it #but for real its rough out here. and dont get me STARTED on trying to bring up any other film or literary criticism concepts #can we talk abotu orientalism i wanna talk about orientalism im dying to talk about orientalism for the love of edward said #somebody let me talk about orientalism and the depiction of ambiguously brown characters in love stories written by non-brown cultures #foaming at the mouth holding up ambiguously brown prince from a fictional amalgam of various south and western asian countries number 124382 #(yknow i used that example because thats one of my strongest areas of interest but like #if youre not familiar with the more formal uses of the term 'trope' thats a good example of how the term itself is neutral #BUT the trope being drescribed (ambiguously brown etc etc) can be anything from neutral to an actively harmful portrayal #a trope as a concept is not bad. but some tropes are born from harmful perspectives or ideals #tropes originating from orientalist stereotypes for example. and thats why i wanna TALK ABOUT THEM LET ME TALK ABOUT ORIENTALISM PLS IM BEGG #)#anyway. my hobbies are pattern recognition.#holds your hand and we frolic off into the sunny field

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