How would a fandom mischaracterize your Ocs?

MK_Wizard 2024-04-13 19:40:41 UTC #21

I'm no expert in this, but as a woman who is married, I can tell you that being a decent significant other does NOT come with gender roles. I'm a feminine woman not because I'm married to a masculine man. This is who I was before I met him and it's what I will continue to be with or without him. I'm me for me.

With that said, I get your disdain with making one character the "woman" and the other the "man". In a relationship, you are still yourself and that is the point of it working out. Being you and being loved as you are not following some kind of "role".

SumireHime 2024-04-13 19:48:23 UTC #22

Thank you for this. Honestly, I think my point is that there is no "girl" at all. They are men. Their gender role is that they are both "men in the relationship." Because they are men. Feminine and masculine don't make you a girl or a boy. They're men. A lot of BL readers who are girls like to insert themselves as they read, and I'm 100% sure that's what's happening. Even my queer readers choose a character to identify with more and insert themselves. It's so interesting to see. They'll make that character be whoever they want them to be no matter what the narrative tells them.

TheBlacKat333 2024-04-13 20:21:24 UTC #23

As a pretty femenine dude: yeah fujoshis are weird as hell.

SumireHime 2024-04-13 20:23:00 UTC #24

As a fellow a feminine guy: I completely agree. I'm glad you said it.

MK_Wizard 2024-04-13 20:59:11 UTC #25

Raising a glass to love being about LOVE not "roles".

allisoncandraw 2024-04-13 23:04:56 UTC #26

I love this trend lol 🤭 I post my comic on a lot of different platforms so I've seen some of this happen with my OCs

I've had people see my MC Bobbie as less intelligent than he is, probably bc he's often saying silly things for the sake of a punchline. But I don't intend for him to be stupid at all, I actually think he's very witty.

Another one I experience is Gabriel being seen as rude or mean. Bobbie is deaf and there are a lot of things Gabriel doesn't really get about deafness. But I don't mean for him to be a bad guy; he's just misinformed. He could stand to be less blunt about it though.

Stargazer31 2024-04-13 23:43:10 UTC #27

People would probably make Ross the "dumb one", or draw Ika as being incredibly effeminate because he's a trans man and they're basing their characterisation of him off of stereotypes rather than how he actually acts.
Yossele and Jafina would be stereotyped as religious prudes, or their faiths would just be ignored, and they'd probably just write Carmilla as the "funny fat girl."

TheBlacKat333 2024-04-14 06:28:31 UTC #28

Oooooh, I sure do looooooooove when they make trans male characters act super feminine/childish for some reason

(This is sarcasm. HEAVY sarcasm)