[ SECRET POST #2780 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2780 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I judge slashers who do nothing but erase, shame and bash female canon love interests to get them out of the way of the idiotic sausage fest. Suck on that, you misogynist pig.

[(Anonymous)]

I kinda have to agree. I've lost interest in slash mainly because I've learned to associate it with a number of things that disturb me. Just the whole internalized misogyny, objectifying men, awful rapey yaoi tropes, etc...

Not that het fic doesn't have it's own faults too but it's caused me a lot less discomfort.

[solticisekf]

much rage, so hate.

[diet_poison]

...how do you know OP is one of those slashers?

[(Anonymous)]

I agree in general, but it sort of depends on your definition of "erase." I don't consider off-screen break-ups to be erasing, for example, but some rabid fans certainly do.

[(Anonymous)]

THIS

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it's just me, but I despise "love interests" -- meaning any character whose primary purpose is to be in a romance. Because this almost always means that they are relegated to emotional support for the other half of the couple and that isn't interesting to me. At all. I have to find a character independently interesting before I can ship them.

Unfortunately, love interests tend to (overwhelmingly) be women.

But this is the reason why, while I love Ron/Hermione (because I love both Ron and Hermione independently), I've never been able to like Harry/Ginny because I feel like Ginny was written expressly to be Harry's "perfect" love interest. And I don't even ship Harry with anyone! (Honestly, I don't know why I can't ship him, but I just have a block where it comes to that).

If not liking "love interests" makes me a misogynist pig, then so be it.

[(Anonymous)]

No, you see, love interests are actually fascinating women who fell upon the misfortune of being dreamed up and written by misogynist pigs. But their real selves are awesome and you have to write them awesome in your fanfic.

Male love interests are total props, though. They need to not exist. Don't write about them, and definitely don't make them awesome if you do write about them.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm kind of confused as to what this comment is trying to say.

Regardless, here's my two cents on love interests and fanfic.

I have no interest in trying to turn a canon love interest into an interesting female character. Why? Because, in general, I've noticed that these characters get little to no backstory, complex motivations, or character development. With that in mind, I'd honestly rather just write original female characters.

Usually, I find myself slashing because there are two well developed characters with backstories, motivations, and character arcs who have great interactions and onscreen chemistry. They're both interesting characters in their own right and so I like to ship them together. They just happen to both be dudes in the case of slash.

[(Anonymous)]

Go get bent on a sausage, feminist cunt.

[(Anonymous)]

Because misogynistic het definitely doesn't exist. There absolutely isn't any het that bashes rival female characters, or turns women who are super competent in canon into weepy damsels in distress who need to be saved by their male love interest. I've absolutely never seen that, not even once.