Ranting. Heh.

[silverthunder]

Argh. Okay. I paid a trip over to yaoi_rants. And I really shouldn't have - all it's doing is pissing me off. I thought it'd be fun, really. Maybe I'd see some poking-fun at stupid cliches in bad fanfiction.

Too much stupidity, though. Seriously. Every time I think I've come across a sane poster, they someone bring it back to that evil, EVIL point that is the defense of the self-proclaimed "sane" yaoi fan.

"Well, yeah, I like yaoi as much as the next person, but come on, you can't just make perfectly straight characters gay, right?"

Watch me bang my fists on the ground in frustration. The HELL? How can so many people agree with this opinion and not see the complete and utter bullshit it is?

It's intolerance disguised as tolerance! The FUCK you are open-minded! Who's to say which characters are "perfectly straight" anyway? You? Suppose I don't agree with you? Then I guess I'm rabid and stupid, since obviously you have the last word on the subject. I'd better consult you before I decide to like a pairing, or I might look stupid. Right?

Save me from patronizing nitwits! I have reasons for my choices - just because you don't buy them doesn't mean they're not valid. Shut the hell up and leave me alone if you don't have anything productive to say. I don't criticize YOUR choice of pairings, so leave mine the hell alone.

I'm sick and tired of people who connect pairing to badfic. Just because someone writes a certain pairing doesn't automatically make their fic BAD. Conversely, this also doesn't mean it's GOOD. The quality of the fic depends on the skill of the writer and their ability to handle characterization believably. NOT on the pairing.

Pairing has nothing to do with it! Every pairing has its share of badfic. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that if you look at things proportionately, most pairings probably have close to the same ratio of badfic to goodfic as others. Some pairings have more written for them, so the number of badfic is larger. Does this make the pairing bad? No. It makes those particular fics bad.

If you feel the urge to associate pairing with badfic, go take a look through your own pairing's fandom and ask yourself honestly how many fics THERE are bad.

Badfic is everywhere. It's not limited to yaoi, to het, or to any one particular pairing. It's a staple in fandom. Nothing makes your pairing inherently better than mine, no matter how "canon" you think it is.

So, pull your head back out of your ass and get over it.


I can really bitch with the best of them, can't I?

Comments

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

This would be one of the reasons I tend to avoid a lot of fandom. Narrow minded people who declare they are right and all the "Me TOO!" people that follow them.

This is also the reason why I accept all pairings. It's just easier and I don't care. Hell, I'll read just about anything by an author that I like because I know that the writing will be good (case in point, I just read Ed/Al fic by Kinslayer. I don't even read FMA fanfic). People have tried for hours to find a pairing that I would refuse to read and failed. They can't grasp the idea that, no really, it doesn't matter as long as the writing is good and the justification is there.

I am these people's worse nightmare. A smart, calm, yaoi-loving writer who won't argue with them and really will read any pairing.

[silverthunder]

I can't read just any pairing, and I'll admit it. I have pairings I hate, and I could list off the reasons I don't like them. But, hell, I'm not going to say the pairing is somehow inherently WRONG because so-and-so is so obviously this way in canon or because there is so much badfic for it, or whatever.

I hate Takeru/Daisuke, but it's not like I can't see why people like it. And I hate Heero/Relena, but I'm not going to argue that he so would never want her because canonically he is just gay and no one should argue with me about it. That's stupid! I make jokes and light comments about that sort of thing... These people are actually serious. >_<

Gaaaah. It boggles the mind.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

That's generally my philosophy. If you can make it work? Coolness. I think the only time I've ever written fanfiction is just to prove that yes, it is possible to make X pairing work. There are pairings I don't like, but that's usually just b/c I've never read a fic that made it work. I love being proven wrong.