Fandom and Fanfic and Wanking and Spock Is Gay (Jigga Whuh)?

[40cakes]

So somebody made a post in marysues about fans with "mental abberations" who pervert canon and blah blah blah.

A while back, I made a comment in kannaopheila's journal about people who hook up two characters just because they're pretty getting on my nerves.

And thus, clarification.

I'm not really deep in the WeiB fandom. Actually, I'm not anywhere near it. Let's just say I have a passport and a language guide should I ever decide to visit. But I've seen it in pictures.

Somewhere, that makes sense. Really.

There's a whole helluva lotta yaoi in them thar parts. Which sure, yaoi exists, I haven't been shown anything to draw me to that side of the Force, but I don't deny it. But I want to analyze that.

Yohji is just about my fave character. He's a pervert, and them's my people. He sure does like the ladyfolk. It'd make sense that he sleeps with men.

WHAT?! Granted, the men he hangs out with sure are effeminate, but come on! What's his pick-up line? "Hey, you've got a hole, right?" Perhaps if someone wrote a fic where he bears his soul...he was kind of an outcast growing up, and knew he was gay at a young age, but he wanted to deny it so much, he wanted so badly to be straight, that he really tried to be a ladies' man. And he sobbingly confesses all this to Ken/Omi/Aya/Crawford/Schuldig/Nagi/Farfarello (another point) who decides to help him through this tough time with gay sex. But instead, we see a Yohji ripped directly from Queer As Folk, ready to club and get down and dirty with the menfolk.

Trigun is quite possibly maybe my favourite anime in the whole yooniverse. I lurve Vash and Meryl and want those crazy kids to get together. Of course, that didn't stop me from being a co-writer on a Knives/Meryl, and egging on jaina in writing a Wolfwood/Meryl. The difference between these weird pairings and the one I described above?

These are fucking hard stories. Trying to keep everyone in character while they do decidedly out-of-character things is just as tough as it sounds. What separates slutfic from any other KxM on Fanfiction.Net? It's not a romance. It's as realistic as it can be for a story about animated characters who live on a desert planet and rely on giant light bulbs for survival.

Typical KxM on FFN:
Knives: Grr, I'm evil!
Meryl: You're a jerk, that's what you are!
Knives: You talked back to me! Instead of killing you, I shall fall in love with you!
Meryl: And I will transfer every lovey dovey emotion I have for your brother to you!
:: snugglecakes ::
Vash: I was wondering when those two crazy kids were gonna make it. *sigh* L'amour...

I really hate those stories. I think it's because I have a soft spot for Knives, and hate to see his character besmirched. It's all the manga's fault - it showed us that he was the twin who had the curly hair while his brother got stick-straight, always stands up perfect hair. Trust me, it's enough to drive someone to genocide, it really is.

And someone brought up that fanfic is how people play with the canon. Right. Play with it. Not put it through a paper shredder, set fire to it, and rewrite it. You want to support Trigun yaoi. Fine. Tell me how it works. Tell me how it works when Vash spends the first half of the series chasing skirts (even telling a male assassin in his hotel room "I don't like sleeping with men - especially one as ugly as you"), and Wolfwood flirts with Milly until they finally get to sleep together (though I've heard some great theories on the latter. Sue - the anime community has some *interesting* views on film theory, I gotta tell you. I should write a new text based on what I've learned).

And yes, I know that I'm not only a geek, but a friggin' wackjob. While writing this, I'm contemplating, "Casey, why are you taking this so seriously?" I'm not entirely sure. But it's my journal and this is something that's been irritating me for some time and grar.

If you wrote a het fic starring Shuichi or Yuki in the Gravitation fandom, you'd be beaten to death. Really. I've seen those fangirls. Why? Well, first because yaoi fangirls can be rabid, and second, because the two guys spend the entire series pretty much doing each other. You can't deny that. "Oops, not gay anymore, whaddyaknow! Fa la la la la!"


The difference between fanfic and totally out-there-nothing-to-do-with-the-series-tripe is that fanfic has some basis in the reality of the series. You want to write about pretty guys having sex? Fine. Make it believable. You want to write a het fic about main characters? Fine. Make it believable. You want to write a story where a teenaged boy has sex with a pie? Fine. Make it apple. There's a line between a fanfic and a completely original fic with other character's names tacked on.

Oh, and I don't think Spock's gay. Or straight. He's just always seemed very asexual to me. Really. He's just...Spock. Kirk, on the other hand, is fuh-laming. Him and Bones, man...whoo.

>^..^

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Bleh

[zelamenomiko.livejournal.com]

Heh, my favorite excuse for that scene in the Slayers fandom is, "If it had been Zel that had caught her, she'd have kissed him instead!"

Suuuure, and Zel REALLY tried to catch up with her. He wouldn't have moved if Gourry hadn't gone ballistic and chased after Lina first. ^^