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Shounen Manga: Not Even Once.
LEFTISH SFF FANS WHO CLAIM TO BE ALL ABOUT EXPERIMENTAL AND NON-LINEAR STORYTELLING/METANARRATIVE/YA FICTION THAT'S ACTUALLY APPEALING TO ACTUAL YOUNG ADULTS/FICTION THAT'S APPEALING TO READERS FROM A WIDE VARIETY OF COUNTRIES AND ETHNIC AND SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS/FICTION THAT DEALS THOUGHTFULLY WITH ABUSE AND NEGLECT BUT ISN'T EITHER FETISHISTIC H/C OR CRAPSACKITY PROBLEM FICTION/FICTION WITH QUEER CHARACTERS WHOSE STORY ARCS AREN'T ABOUT BEING QUEER (SEE: CRAPSACKITY PROBLEM FICTION)/FICTION WITH A VARIETY OF FEMALE PROTAGONISTS WHOSE STORY ARCS AREN'T ABOUT THEIR BEING FEMALE (ETC)/FICTION THAT DOES ALL THIS SHIT WHILE BEING OVERALL JOYFUL AND FUN AND NOT TAKING ITSELF SUPER-SERIOUSLY:
"UGH NO WAY AM I READING HOMESTUCK, HAVE YOU SEEN THE FANDOM???"
YEAH SEE THAT'S WHAT A DIVERSE YOUNG AUDIENCE ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE, THERE'S PILES OF PORNY FANART AND SHITTY COSPLAYS AND CONTACT-EMBARRASSING KID-BEHAVIOR, AND A PRIORITIZATION OF VISUAL FANWORKS OVER WRITTEN 'CAUSE A GENUINELY UNUSUALLY LARGE PROPORTION OF THE AUDIENCE IS ESL OR DISABLED
FUCK YOU
SO IT LOOKS LIKE FUCKING LATE-90S-EARLY-2000S MEDIA AND ANIME FANDOM BUT ANGRIER, AND THE RESPONSE FROM A SHITTON OF US DUMBASSES WHO ENTERED SFF VIA THAT CRAP IS EXACTLY LIKE THE RESPONSE OLDER-SCHOOL SFF FANS HAD TO US
WE ARE BORING AND SELF-FULFILLINGLY DESERVING OF ALL THE IMMATURE GUILT WE HAUL AROUND FOR THINGS WE CAN'T ACTUALLY AFFECT BUT NARCISSISTICALLY THINK WE CAN, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, SELF-CENTERED INDIVIDUALLY-CENTERED AMERICAN NARRATIVE OF POLITICAL CHANGE
YOUR COMING-OF-AGE STORY IS A TRAGEDY IF YOU DIDN'T MAKE THE REVOLUTION HAPPEN BEFORE YOU WERE OLD ENOUGH TO FUCKING VOTE
"UGH NO WAY AM I READING HOMESTUCK, HAVE YOU SEEN THE FANDOM???"
YEAH SEE THAT'S WHAT A DIVERSE YOUNG AUDIENCE ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE, THERE'S PILES OF PORNY FANART AND SHITTY COSPLAYS AND CONTACT-EMBARRASSING KID-BEHAVIOR, AND A PRIORITIZATION OF VISUAL FANWORKS OVER WRITTEN 'CAUSE A GENUINELY UNUSUALLY LARGE PROPORTION OF THE AUDIENCE IS ESL OR DISABLED
FUCK YOU
SO IT LOOKS LIKE FUCKING LATE-90S-EARLY-2000S MEDIA AND ANIME FANDOM BUT ANGRIER, AND THE RESPONSE FROM A SHITTON OF US DUMBASSES WHO ENTERED SFF VIA THAT CRAP IS EXACTLY LIKE THE RESPONSE OLDER-SCHOOL SFF FANS HAD TO US
WE ARE BORING AND SELF-FULFILLINGLY DESERVING OF ALL THE IMMATURE GUILT WE HAUL AROUND FOR THINGS WE CAN'T ACTUALLY AFFECT BUT NARCISSISTICALLY THINK WE CAN, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, SELF-CENTERED INDIVIDUALLY-CENTERED AMERICAN NARRATIVE OF POLITICAL CHANGE
YOUR COMING-OF-AGE STORY IS A TRAGEDY IF YOU DIDN'T MAKE THE REVOLUTION HAPPEN BEFORE YOU WERE OLD ENOUGH TO FUCKING VOTE