Jaina (
effervescible) wrote2005-11-08 09:11 am
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So tiresome.
Can we agree to a moratorium on "I like slash as much as the next person, but why do people slash THIS pairing? It doesn't make sense because they seem so straight/there's an age difference/they have canon interests....etc" posts?
Wishful thinking, I know. And sometimes I even agree with the poster. But really--this kind of thing is getting so boring and most slash is based on subtext, which is more than a little bendy depending on who's interpreting it. So why bother?
Wishful thinking, I know. And sometimes I even agree with the poster. But really--this kind of thing is getting so boring and most slash is based on subtext, which is more than a little bendy depending on who's interpreting it. So why bother?
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I mean really. Why do writers find certain characters attractive and feel the need to create scenarios for them in genres that turn them on? This guy turns me on, yaoi fiction turns me on, so I’m going to write this guy in some yaoi fiction. Oh no, it can’t be as simple as a humans creative logic at work here, there must be something I’m not grasping because so many slashers are doing it and I just don’t get it.
Let me shake the pink magic 8-Ball my daddy’s insta-credit card got me at the mall last month and find my answer that way.
*shake shake shake*
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I just wish fandom could find a more interesting issue to stalemate over.
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While the the rant is valid, the stalemate about 'validate the rape' still wages on.
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These days, I find that it's downright arrogant of me to go around saying 'X 'ship is just wrong because of (insert my own personal opinion here)'. Be that as it may, no one else really gives a shit, especially not people who like X 'ship. Or maybe I've just seen too much 'OMG you should never 'ship those two because my own personal opinion says it's just not right!!11111'.
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And occasionally you get the "Maes Hughes is married and loves his family so you can't write slash about him!" business... I know many people who agree but it's not like married men never cheat on their wives with other men.
To be honest, not that many characters in my fandoms (Harry Potter and shounen anime mostly) seem "gay" to me but I don't let that stop me from slashing them. But I have a friend who is a slasher and thinks the idea that Severus Snape could be straight is completely laughable, and I just cannot relate to why she thinks that. (She also thinks Ron is straight and not even possibly bi, yet I'm the one who writes Ron/Harry. Go figure.)
Sorry, rambled a bit, but this is a topic that interests me.
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Though I did have someone threaten to kill me once for a non-standard het pairing.
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But what are your thoughts on yaoi?
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a) interesting things do come along
b) very occasionally I like to post myself
c) I'm already a member so I can comment on the wanky bits instead of watching from f_w
d) I've been there so lng I feel kind of loyal
e) Idiot Girl is there now and even though she'd have nothing to do with me leaving it, I have that whole "I'm not letting her run me off" idea now. XD Which is funny, considering I usually forget she's even there and get a jolt when she's suddenly on my flist.
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I've pondered deleting it a couple of times, but like soddam and gomorrah, there's a few people trying to convince me there's enough 'good posts' to keep it up.
But if I do delete it, don't look back, I take no responsibility for any pillars of salt on lj.
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Anime fandom is still fighting over sub vs. dub, twenty years after the question started up and ten years after DVDs made it a moot point. People looove their dead horses.
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Yeah...tell that to the dozens of ex-altar boys showing up in court to testify.
((^__^))
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Anytime this rant comes up, it's like a big flaming n00b sign. How long do you have to be on the internet before you realize people will slash anything with two legs and a dick?
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In a sexy stick-figure sort of way.
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And eventually all you want to do is go, "You know, back in my day we had to walk ten miles, in the snow, uphill, both ways just to get our Mulder/Krycek slash!" Then you wave your cane at them and tell them to get off your virtual lawn.