That's awesome that you're exploring less fluffy versions of Poe/Finn. The fandom needs more variety like that.
I think it's luck of the draw over whether your fic will get attacked by these people. Because it's more about their own fandom reputation than actually caring about issues in race, they don't bother to examine and explore issues before posting about them. But they want the cred for being seen to 'fight' racism. So if one person happens to stumble upon a non-fluff Stormpilot fic and decides it's racist for portraying Finn as anything other than an adorable puppy in the shape of a human, they'll post an angry rant about it. And all their followers will reblog that rant, and add their own rantiness to it. And it will spiral and spiral and none of them will have actually read the fic or will actually understand what it is they're claiming is racist. So suddenly there's a whole angry movement against a fic, with everybody riling each other up, and not a single voice of reason.
I mean, I definitely agree it's in the execution a lot of the time. But a big chunk of TFA fandom doesn't care about valid reasons or discussion, it just wants to dogpile and be patted on the back for it. So it becomes about timing and luck, too, and hoping your fic won't get noticed by somebody looking for half-assed SJW points.
Fandom as a whole has such huge issues with racism, and there are genuinely messed up depictions of TFA characters, particularly Finn, that should be addressed. But it's getting drowned out by people yelling at anybody that doesn't ship their ship and calling themselves progressive for it.
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That's awesome that you're exploring less fluffy versions of Poe/Finn. The fandom needs more variety like that.
I think it's luck of the draw over whether your fic will get attacked by these people. Because it's more about their own fandom reputation than actually caring about issues in race, they don't bother to examine and explore issues before posting about them. But they want the cred for being seen to 'fight' racism. So if one person happens to stumble upon a non-fluff Stormpilot fic and decides it's racist for portraying Finn as anything other than an adorable puppy in the shape of a human, they'll post an angry rant about it. And all their followers will reblog that rant, and add their own rantiness to it. And it will spiral and spiral and none of them will have actually read the fic or will actually understand what it is they're claiming is racist. So suddenly there's a whole angry movement against a fic, with everybody riling each other up, and not a single voice of reason.
I mean, I definitely agree it's in the execution a lot of the time. But a big chunk of TFA fandom doesn't care about valid reasons or discussion, it just wants to dogpile and be patted on the back for it. So it becomes about timing and luck, too, and hoping your fic won't get noticed by somebody looking for half-assed SJW points.
Fandom as a whole has such huge issues with racism, and there are genuinely messed up depictions of TFA characters, particularly Finn, that should be addressed. But it's getting drowned out by people yelling at anybody that doesn't ship their ship and calling themselves progressive for it.