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Temperatures are estimated to fluctuate between active panic and total apathy into the next weekend. Main assignments will have a minimum temperature of regret and a complete climate change once editing is complete. Expect treat writing to continue at all free hours unless the dangerous front of procrastination cropping up in the Northeast successful moves into the area, effectively killing the treat storm conditions for the season. 

 

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

People who think she is some super ultra racist are massively underestimating the general level of racism in fandom. If people pulled up many-years-old meta every time someone's name was mentioned a lot of people would look really bad. (She is definitely not the most racist person in yuletide this year.)

But she:
1. Says the quiet part out loud
2. Doesn't know when to stop digging, shut up, and apologize
3. Does not admit she was wrong, in general, even when she clearly was and she clearly knows it
4. Does things she thinks are anti-racist that read as the opposite to fans of color, due to not shutting up and listening to fans of color (or other people in general)
5. Has enough of a history of doing these things consistently that just seeing her in a conversation or fest is enough to set a lot of people off (she was at the center of the first! ever! yuletide racism wank! in the first! ever! yuletide! and things have gone from there.)
6. Has been prominent in certain parts of fandom for long enough that she has become a useful whipping-girl this year, especially given her role in the original design of AO3

[(Anonymous)]

What's the first-ever Yuletide racism wank? This was way before my time.

[(Anonymous)]

I was very new to fandom at the time, but I believe it was something about she wrote a casefic set in the 19th century and there was something about the way she portrayed a character/plot point (possibly an OC of color?) within the setting/plot that someone else said was racist. It was subtle enough that it started a long meta fight about whether it actually was racist or not, with lots of people on both sides who still have good rep in fandom, and she never conceded anything. If you look up her 2003 YT fic on AO3 there's comments on it that preserve the edges of the fight. Most of her later wanks have been similar - she does stuff that's just on the line of deniably racist, often while thinking she's being inclusive, and then does stuff that stokes the flames instead of calming them, and that means the next time she lands on that edge there's less benefit of the doubt for her.

I don't think I even ever read the fic, I remember it mostly because I had written a historical Jewish headcanon into my YT fic that year and was tiny and terrified someone would call me out for antisemitism I had put in without realizing, but it seemed to be limited to people arguing over Franzeska's fic only and nobody noticed mine. I don't know if she already had history that made people look at her fic more closely, or if that was close to the start of her getting a reputation. As you can tell my memories of the details are very vague but it was definitely Franzeska's fic.