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hetalia2008-09-10 04:56 pm
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[Issues...?? Discussion?]
Hello, I'm not posting from my primary account mainly because I don't know how sensitive the fandom is right now and do not wish to start a flame war of a sort regarding the subject I will be writing about in this entry. I just want to begin with the fact that I'm a huge Hetalia fan and I light up everytime I meet someone else who share these feelings so you and I are the same. I respect and love all of you in this community, for your entertaining contributions and for your creativity in general and for just being loyal fans with interesting things to say. The translators are doing a great job too and we've all got to respect them and appreciate them more. Without them, it wouldn't be possible for a lot of non-japanese speaking fans to follow the progress of Hetalia in the first place. I don't mean for you to kiss their feet, but just remember they're humans too.
This isn't what I wanted to talk about however, lately I've noticed other issues.
As the community is growing larger and the fandom is spreading, a lot more entries are posted everyday and this isn't primarily a bad thing, it's great that we're all supporters and that we want to show it, however. The posting willl only get more frequent in the future as we keep on growing and don't get me wrong because I appreciate that you're all taking an active interest in the fandom and it's a joy to see but sometimes I just can't drag myself over to the community to look at every single new post because there's just so much of it lately. Especially fanart entries, sometimes there are even more than one post by the same authors within tighter time frames and I find that a little strange. In the beginning I didn't mind but now that we're starting to get so many artists bundled up in one community, I'm wondering if we should have a time rule or fanart rule of a sort for posting? To avoid double posts and similar issues I mean. I know that you're all eager to show your next new work and share your (wonderful wonderful) creativity but to respect people who feel a little or the same as I do, I think it would be an idea to maybe think of what I'm about to propose as a choice?
To keep posting to a minimum, why don't all the artists, instead of making several small entries, gather up their fanarts and dump them all in one big entry for the sake of being more organized instead? I just can't seem to keep up anymore and that may be because I'm growing old and gray but I hope you can see my point... I'm not very good at english as it isn't my native language so I hope I didn't make a cultural mistake to offend anyone.
Another issue is the fact that we seem to be deriving from canon now, in this community. I love looking at all your "original fancharacters of hetalia" but that's it, they're mainly original fancharacters and as much as they have Hetalia next to their names, they're still original and not canon. It's fun to read about them and look at your designs, I respect your creativity full out so I'm not entirely sure how to adress this whole situation in the first place, I guess I don't really want to call it an issue but more than that just want to alert you guys that we're about to go somewhere else with this. It's a little bit confusing even if it's loads of fun.
Maybe we could make another community for the fancharacters? That way you can talk and discuss about them as much as you want and without confusing new hetalia fans that weren't there from the start and might get confused about the canonity if you post original characters to a fan community.
I'm always a little clumsy in my writing please bear with it, if I offend anyone, please point out what you thought was offensive and I'll try to make it clearer. I'm not a linguist, just a clumsy and silly fan who needed to vent some of their thoughts. Maybe see this as feedback and points that could be improved?
Thanks for reading and please ask me if you don't understand something I was saying.
This isn't what I wanted to talk about however, lately I've noticed other issues.
As the community is growing larger and the fandom is spreading, a lot more entries are posted everyday and this isn't primarily a bad thing, it's great that we're all supporters and that we want to show it, however. The posting willl only get more frequent in the future as we keep on growing and don't get me wrong because I appreciate that you're all taking an active interest in the fandom and it's a joy to see but sometimes I just can't drag myself over to the community to look at every single new post because there's just so much of it lately. Especially fanart entries, sometimes there are even more than one post by the same authors within tighter time frames and I find that a little strange. In the beginning I didn't mind but now that we're starting to get so many artists bundled up in one community, I'm wondering if we should have a time rule or fanart rule of a sort for posting? To avoid double posts and similar issues I mean. I know that you're all eager to show your next new work and share your (wonderful wonderful) creativity but to respect people who feel a little or the same as I do, I think it would be an idea to maybe think of what I'm about to propose as a choice?
To keep posting to a minimum, why don't all the artists, instead of making several small entries, gather up their fanarts and dump them all in one big entry for the sake of being more organized instead? I just can't seem to keep up anymore and that may be because I'm growing old and gray but I hope you can see my point... I'm not very good at english as it isn't my native language so I hope I didn't make a cultural mistake to offend anyone.
Another issue is the fact that we seem to be deriving from canon now, in this community. I love looking at all your "original fancharacters of hetalia" but that's it, they're mainly original fancharacters and as much as they have Hetalia next to their names, they're still original and not canon. It's fun to read about them and look at your designs, I respect your creativity full out so I'm not entirely sure how to adress this whole situation in the first place, I guess I don't really want to call it an issue but more than that just want to alert you guys that we're about to go somewhere else with this. It's a little bit confusing even if it's loads of fun.
Maybe we could make another community for the fancharacters? That way you can talk and discuss about them as much as you want and without confusing new hetalia fans that weren't there from the start and might get confused about the canonity if you post original characters to a fan community.
I'm always a little clumsy in my writing please bear with it, if I offend anyone, please point out what you thought was offensive and I'll try to make it clearer. I'm not a linguist, just a clumsy and silly fan who needed to vent some of their thoughts. Maybe see this as feedback and points that could be improved?
Thanks for reading and please ask me if you don't understand something I was saying.
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Well im sorry if i made you mad (i somehow have luck to piss ppl off lately ORZ D; ) maybe it would be beter to hide under vodka and wait for russia chan to pick me up~
Maybe it might be my fault cuz i draw a lot of things and they dont take me much time and i totally forgot that other people might need their time ^_^;
Well anyway unless we dont have 2 pages of spamz messages daily its not that bad :D
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