LOL WE TOTALLY DID THAT TOO! Soulbonding and "muse" stuff totally gave us cover to sidestep the whole "your misery dick must be THIS BIG to ride the multi train" problem.
Man, apparently at least onesourced fictive a friend knew came from an animated source and found non-2D visuals really weird. That just sounds like Uncanny Valley hell! (And god, imagine if you came from a super stylized or bad '90s CGI source and felt that way! That sounds like a horror story premise! Were I in that position, I'd find that suuuuper upsetting!)
We aren't really in fictive space, since being insourced kinda weeded us, but we definitely remember plenty of soulbonders who seemed to have intensely ambivalent relationships to the media--they would hate it, watching/reading it would always seem to deeply fuck with their heads, but they couldn't stop, because it was their only connection to themselves. It was always sad to see, like they couldn't build their lives forward so kept trying to crawl back into their pasts, when everything made sense to them.
And yeah, I feel like if you're a creator yourself, you quickly realize that "canon" is kinda bullshit, influenced by deadlines, pagecount limits, budget, and stupid shit like, "okay, by law we can't show red blood without censoring, so blood's hot pink now." We pretend it's some pure unsullied artistic vision, but material constraints always apply. Indeed, those limits often DEFINE the art!
Like, we have fictives from different drafts of the same source, and that's fascinating! Most of the time, they agree on how things went, and then they run into a glaring contradiction and suddenly the seams show! But we don't really have a place to discuss this, because it seems like everything falls into the false binary of, "it is exactly 1:1 like consensus reality in all ways, otherwise it's existential despairing unreal." It's like there's pressure to never discuss those seams, even though I think that shit is important and interesting!
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Man, apparently at least onesourced fictive a friend knew came from an animated source and found non-2D visuals really weird. That just sounds like Uncanny Valley hell! (And god, imagine if you came from a super stylized or bad '90s CGI source and felt that way! That sounds like a horror story premise! Were I in that position, I'd find that suuuuper upsetting!)
We aren't really in fictive space, since being insourced kinda weeded us, but we definitely remember plenty of soulbonders who seemed to have intensely ambivalent relationships to the media--they would hate it, watching/reading it would always seem to deeply fuck with their heads, but they couldn't stop, because it was their only connection to themselves. It was always sad to see, like they couldn't build their lives forward so kept trying to crawl back into their pasts, when everything made sense to them.
And yeah, I feel like if you're a creator yourself, you quickly realize that "canon" is kinda bullshit, influenced by deadlines, pagecount limits, budget, and stupid shit like, "okay, by law we can't show red blood without censoring, so blood's hot pink now." We pretend it's some pure unsullied artistic vision, but material constraints always apply. Indeed, those limits often DEFINE the art!
Like, we have fictives from different drafts of the same source, and that's fascinating! Most of the time, they agree on how things went, and then they run into a glaring contradiction and suddenly the seams show! But we don't really have a place to discuss this, because it seems like everything falls into the false binary of, "it is exactly 1:1 like consensus reality in all ways, otherwise it's existential despairing unreal." It's like there's pressure to never discuss those seams, even though I think that shit is important and interesting!