There's a big difference between being an inspiration, and being everything and everyone you've ever hoped for.
That's a line Robin Whinnyams knows all too well.
Disclaimer:
Robin Whinnyams is not any real world human in show business, alive or dead. There really is a big difference between being an inspiration and being everything you've inspired.
Also, at least in our world, the movie "~Paint~ Patch Adams" was inspired by a real person.
Art Credit: I recolored and edited (part of) an official MLP comic panel (by pencils) into a robin-griffon. pencils does some nice work, don't they?
Chapters (1)
media.tenor.com/images/8db4e0943bba8b93edda997183037ce1/tenor.png
11495452
Same 😑.
Interesting take. A transgender story, overlaid on a thinly veiled celebrity story, through the lens of MLP. It'll certainly get some downvotes just because of its subject matter having a tax on here, but a neat idea all the same.
I wonder how the downvotes are split among people who support / oppose the transgender movement.
11595689
Do people ever stop to think that the downvotes come from the story being bad, and not transphobia (or any discrimination for that matter)?
11597905
Sometimes people try to measure the story's quality, and then think about whether the downvotes come from that.
Did you ever stop to think that maybe some rhetorical questions just assume the answer but not really, because that would be taking a stand by saying a story is bad or good, and JAQing isn't about that?
11597905
I thought about it, but dismissed the possibility.
This story is odd, going in two directions at once in a way that's difficult to put together (and arguably one of its points is that you shouldn't try to put them together, because being transgender isn't all about being transgender). But it's more well-told than most stories on this site, and much more ambitious. Yet it has a higher fraction of downvotes than the vast majority of stories on this site. I've seen utter shit with more upvotes/downvotes than this.
I really enjoyed this. I'm trans myself (howdy!) and really liked this story! Thanks for sharing :D
I really got hit hard by the line at the end:
My dad's has never been a big fan of my "gender issues," and I often felt like I couldn't ask for much out of him.
Idk, just some dork's two cents
This story caught my eye because it had a very high split beyween upvotes and downvotes. So something must be going on worth looking at.
The author is trying to do at least three things here: Reference the life of Robin Williams, discuss transgederism, and the relationships people have with celeberties, sometimes called 'parasocial' relationships.
Unfortuntately I don't think it does any of those well. The story is quite short for what it aims to cover; and the perspective is narrow and limited. There is no real dialogue per se and no action. It reads mostly like a summary of historical events instead of the events as they happened.
My suspicion on the downvotes is the people didn't like seeing Robin Williams' name used so transparently for commentary this way; or did not like their own view of Robin's gender roles challenged. Bad stories ususally get no vote, not a down vote. We are apathethic to mediocre work, not actively unhappy with it.
I hope the author will try again on these topics.