I had to share this

[silverthunder]

Fuck it. This subject is WAY too controversial.

I can't seem to say what I want to about it, either, without thinking it's come out totally wrong.

Ignore this post. PLEASE.

Comments

[quinconcinnity.livejournal.com]

Umm..actually, I agree with part of all three statements. I only like non-con if it's extraordinarily well done. I also feel that child-rape is worse than adult-rape because children are less emotionally developed.
They don't recover nearly as well as an adult in the same circumstance would.

I also occasionally get irritated by fics where all the character's are gay. It's unrealistic, and it takes some of the fun out of reading a yaoi fic for me.
Historical AU fics where it's treated as normal and everybody is happily gay really bug me, sometimes. Where is the adversity?
It wasn't like that.
Part of the appeal for me is in the taboo. The struggle against a societal norm! Bucking tradition, and throwing it in the face of those who make the rules!
Oscar Wilde was put in prison for writing a book! A book which hinted so subtly at homosexuality that a modern day reader might not catch it if they didn't know the references.
People were stoned for being gay! They were run out of towns on a rail!
I want a dose of reality in my historical fiction!

Also...it's definately the whip. And the phrase, "Seeing you squirm is so delicious."

Umm...I'm done ranting now. Sorry. *slinks off*

[silverthunder]

So you feel people should be condemned for writing rapefics or choosing to make "perfectly straight characters" gay? That was what was pretty much said.

I don't think het fans should have to like at least one yaoi couple, so why should they think I should have to like at least one het couple?

To each their own, is sort of what I'm saying.

[quinconcinnity.livejournal.com]

0.0 Not at all!
I didn't read the wank...I'm one of the lazy ones. I'm just saying rapefic isn't usually my cup of tea. Though it probably seems hypocritical of me-considering all the sexual harrassment Jyou endures in my own 'Ghost'.
I wouldn't condemn anyone for writing anything. And the 'perfectly straight characters' thing is funny. It's fanfic. They can be gay if we want them to be. The het fans pair up characters who wouldn't get together in a million years in canon all the time.

The 'all gay all the time' thing is a minor pet peeve of mine. Mostly in settings where it seems unworkable. But I love your fics, and Dragonflie's too.
I wouldn't stop reading them or fail to enjoy them just because sometimes you make all the pairings yaoi and yuri.

Though I might pause to be vaguely irritated with you around the time the fifth or sixth yaoi/yuri pairing shows up.
I acknowledge that that's my problem not yours. You can write what you want.
*gives you a cookie*
Now please don't bite my head off.

[silverthunder]

I'm sorry if I seemed snappy. ^^;; It's been quite the day.

Actually, people who think that any yaoi fan who will make "all of those straight male characters" gay are "the stupid brand of yaoi fangirl" make up one of my pet peeves, that's all.

Nothing against you. You can like what you want. :) Really.