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AnOminous said:
There was actually a time when a lot of the fun stuff going on on the Internet originated from SA in some way.

The problem is the SJW vermin who currently inhabit it were never responsible for any of that. They are the maggots who are gnawing on the corpse of what they murdered. Long, long ago they drove away the only people who could honestly take credit for any of that.
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When did Something Awful turn bad?
 
How can you go this far on a TVTropes thread that talks about entry pimping without talking about the Whateley Universe?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/WhateleyUniverse

According to its Laconic page, it's apparently a series about "Transgendered X-Men as written by H.P. Lovecraft".
I remember seeing it quite a bit when I first discovered the site a couple of years. It seems like there are still quite a lot of examples cluttering the trope pages. I wasn't even near the forums because it didn't really caught my attention until I read this thread, though.
 
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Sperg said:
I thought so too. Apparently, it falls under Web Original, but I guess it's because it has multiple authors and a shared universe. I guess that makes it less fanfictio-ny?
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It's still fan fiction unless they have the rights to the stories involved, which they certainly don't in the case of the X-Men.
 
Pointless Pedant said:
It's still fan fiction unless they have the rights to the stories involved, which they certainly don't in the case of the X-Men.
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It's not fan fiction. The characters, stories and setting, while supposedly heavily inspired by X-Men and the Marvel universe, are its own thing (at least, that's what the page says). Like how 50 Shades of Gray started out as Twilight fan fiction before the author Ctrl+H'd the names so she could publish it.

I couldn't tell you if a copyright lawyer could shred that argument or not, but it passes on a basic, superficial level in that I can't just use Ctrl+F to find trademarked mutant names like Magneto or Wolverine on the trope page, and trademarked names I can find are shout-out style characters (i.e.: similar characters that a fan might recognize them, but not the character itself).
 
SuperSheep said:
It's not fan fiction. The characters, stories and setting, while supposedly heavily inspired by X-Men and the Marvel universe, are its own thing (at least, that's what the page says). Like how 50 Shades of Gray started out as Twilight fan fiction before the author Ctrl+H'd the names so she could publish it.

I couldn't tell you if a copyright lawyer could shred that argument or not, but it passes on a basic, superficial level in that I can't just use Ctrl+F to find trademarked mutant names like Magneto or Wolverine on the trope page, and trademarked names I can find are shout-out style characters (i.e.: similar characters that a fan might recognize them, but not the character itself).
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OK, I didn't know that. In that case it isn't fan fiction, even though it was inspired by it.
 
  • The episode "Strays" has an obvious and explicit pro-immigration message. But given that the shows's co-writer and most of the actors are from Latin American immigrant families (with Rita Moreno being a first-generation immigrant herself), and that it was made in a time when anti-immigrant racism in the USA was on the rise (especially with the presidential campaign and subsequent election of Donald Trump), it's hard to blame them for wanting to drop that anvil.
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Apparently they find the One Day at a Time reboot woke af
 
So America turning into a "brown" society is good and Eurabia becoming a reality is progressive, but a single white family living in Africa or South America is "cultural" appropriation.
 
friedshrimp said:
If these shitters love South America so much why don't they go live in it.
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Uncanny Valley said:
Because they'll infect it with their whiteness, duh!
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Lackadaisy said:
Not enough anime girls and chicken tendies
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The "southern cone" of South America, Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, all have a higher proportion of white population than the United States and are fairly modern societies with general internet access. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the tropers came from there themselves.

There is actually a lot of diversity in Argentina, but it's between the Spanish, Italians, French, and Germans. The black and Muslim population is next to none.
 
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