Thank you, although I think what's going on is a bit different. From my position, it looks like non-animation/comics/etc.-fans aren't used to thinking about animated and drawn mediums, so the categories end up lumped together out of ignorance (or a "they're all the same" mentality). These media are also being removed from equally relevant categories (e.g. TV, film, books & lit) as though the live-action common to media fandom is the not-needing-to-be-stated definition, the non-differentiated norm, so everything else is other and excluded.
For clarification, I recognize the usefulness of putting animated films and shows under a separate animation category, and in the interest of keeping the categories useful I support it. But this permeating idea that TV and films are inherently live-action and their categories require no special definition to justify removing animation is a bit frustrating. It's part of a pattern of behavior/ideas/attitudes that keeps excluding my fandoms.
After hearing references above to the AO3, I went and checked out the categories there. I see that "Cartoons" are inexplicably combined with "Comics & Graphic Novels" over there. Without the reasons for that I can only guess why, but it looks like another case of outsider-not-seeing-differences in the OTW. That's in addition to the term used being "Cartoons" instead of "Animation", which is another annoyance.
Sorry, I've spilled my tl;dr thoughts all over you. Here, have a towel.
ppl have totally used Ogi Ogas as canon, though -- I recall at least one tentacle rape fic
I totally read that fic too. :) There was also at least one manip/fanart and some filk, but I still wouldn't think of him as a canon type. I don't expect the categories to be perfect either, just generally useful and not working under the same thought processes that have caused so many problems of inclusion up to now.
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For clarification, I recognize the usefulness of putting animated films and shows under a separate animation category, and in the interest of keeping the categories useful I support it. But this permeating idea that TV and films are inherently live-action and their categories require no special definition to justify removing animation is a bit frustrating. It's part of a pattern of behavior/ideas/attitudes that keeps excluding my fandoms.
After hearing references above to the AO3, I went and checked out the categories there. I see that "Cartoons" are inexplicably combined with "Comics & Graphic Novels" over there. Without the reasons for that I can only guess why, but it looks like another case of outsider-not-seeing-differences in the OTW. That's in addition to the term used being "Cartoons" instead of "Animation", which is another annoyance.
Sorry, I've spilled my tl;dr thoughts all over you. Here, have a towel.
ppl have totally used Ogi Ogas as canon, though -- I recall at least one tentacle rape fic
I totally read that fic too. :) There was also at least one manip/fanart and some filk, but I still wouldn't think of him as a canon type. I don't expect the categories to be perfect either, just generally useful and not working under the same thought processes that have caused so many problems of inclusion up to now.