My favorite is rabbit

The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing is fantastic. I've never played the game, but I loved it. Go, read it now. I expect to be remembering it in fond fear for a long time, much the way I think of Flesh Mechanic. For all I love silly Harry Potter romances, things like this are what make me really love fanfiction... the crazy ass "what if" AUs that get into your head.

I'm in the middle of trying to finish two stories, so that's why I'm reading Animal Crossing fanfic. Makes perfect sense, right? One SH2 fanfic, and one HP exchange fic so it's all secrety secret. I don't know when I'll ever write my next Lucius/Ginny fic. Sniff, sniff.

And also...

One of the things that kept cropping up race wank (and I'm going to summarize this badly) was that fact that when people perceive you have some kind of prejudice, that doesn't mean that you need to explain to them that you don't... you need to acknowledge their feelings are valid and then think about your own actions. All this OTW meta is starting to remind me of racism wank. It goes something like this:

Anti-OTW Fan: I don't feel represented by OTW. I feel that they exclude me by (doing something that the person elaborates on here).

Pro-OTW Commenter: But here's a million reasons why the OTW is great!

Anti-OTW Fan: I don't feel included.

Pro-OTW Commenter: But here's more reason why they/we aren't excluding anyone!!



Iif something was truly inclusive, would as many people complain and feel excluded? And I'm not really asking that just to be a jack-ass, I'm kind of wondering if I'm missing something here, because I don't feel at all welcomed by/interested in the OTW and I can see where some of their "philosophy" or whatever the hell they want to call it would actively offend people.

If the OTW is really this umbrella that is supposed to cover all of us, how many people should really still be standing out in the sunshine, wondering what the hell is wrong with all the people cowering under said umbrella and feeling like they probably wouldn't really let them underneath it if it rained?

Ok, half-baked OTW thoughts are done. It's back to pretending to write some fic.