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coalie ([personal profile] coalcube) wrote in [community profile] coaltide2022-12-25 04:57 pm
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Merry Crisis

On the 7th night of Hanukkah my vindictive author gave to me....

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(Anonymous) 2022-12-27 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh ok! if he gets together with his rapist and blackmailer that's totally cool.

Very pern of you.

(Anonymous) 2022-12-27 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's not the fact that the fic was CNTW rather than specifically tagged that was the problem.

It's that it was a gross transphobic piece of garbage.

(Anonymous) 2022-12-27 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
A story about a trans character living in a transphobic world, dealing with shit, but coming out on top anyway with his gender publicly affirmed isn't automatically a gross transphobic piece of garbage. Actually.

Yeah sexual assault as backstory becomes transphobic when it's the only story that gets told but also, this is Pern, sexual assault is everybody's backstory.

(Anonymous) 2022-12-27 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
No, it's not automatically gross transphobic garbage, but that specific fic, which I have read, is.

(Anonymous) 2022-12-27 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
She's not the rapist and blackmailer, she's the old friend who repeatedly offers him a free out from the coercive environment of the weyr.

--coalie below who's actually read the fucking fic now.

(Anonymous) 2022-12-27 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
But since that didn't happen in the fic, and it *is* implied in the fic that he's going to have no recourse but to get together with his rapist and blackmailer...

What the author meant to write is irrelevant, since they didn't write it. What they did write is shit.

(Anonymous) 2022-12-27 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
It isn't though?

He thinks that in the aftermath of the assault, which is pretty realistic sort of thoughts from someone in the aftermath of an assault and in that enviroment, but he impresses Bronze and the rapist doesn't Impress, in Pern context that means he suddenly has enough power and status that he is not going to ever have to. (He might end up doing it anyway if things go really shit but it will be with him in the position of power now, not the other guy.)

(Anonymous) 2022-12-27 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
He impresses bronze, which means he's going to be forced to out himself to the rider of every dragon his dragon chases, which is potentially many more than if his dragon only rose once in a while.

(Anonymous) 2022-12-27 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
No? Bronze dragons only have to out themselves to the riders their dragon *catches*, and there are dozens of bronze dragons in every chase, and a good rider has a fair amount of control over who he catches (and can generally choose not to rise.) He could fly in a bunch of flights, never catch anybody on purpose, and people would only think his dragon was a bit shit and/or picky. He could always be somewhere else when gold dragons are rising, and never rise for greens, and people would think he was a bit prudish but bronzes get away with things.

He spends the whole fic thinking he's going to Impress a Green and then he *will* have no choice but to out himself when his dragon flies, and that will just have to be the price of being a dragonrider (and "if I impress a Green I will get raped" is canon whether you're trans or not, if you don't want that mentioned in your Pern fic, DNW it) but he *doesn't* Impress green, so he *won't* have to.

He has to out himself if he wants to have sex in which he's not careful about not outing himself, but would be true regardless.
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