[ SECRET POST #3034 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3034 ⌋

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Comments

[kallanda_lee]

I'm still baffled at how often people say this, apparently. I've been reading slash since i was 17 and I almost never came across the "eeeeww, het" people.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed.

I mean, I'm sure they exist, but they're pretty easy to avoid.

Barring some fandoms -- I think Death Note had quite a bit of Het is Ew sentiment but that was largely due to the fact (I imagine) that all the female characters in that work were either horridly minor characters or majorly sucked.

[(Anonymous)]

I've run across a few. Bafflingly, they were all ardent third wave feminists. Femslash was awesome ( except they never d
seemed to either read or write any. Het was the worst thing ever. But have two guys stand in the same room? Massive slash goggles were go!

[(Anonymous)]

They kept quiet about "het" but I've run into a few "ewww, girl characters" people and I was left a very sad panda.

[(Anonymous)]

Neither have I, in 15+ years of reading slash across a multitude of fandoms.

I've seen the very young/new/inexperienced slash fans thinking female characters 'get in the way' of their ships, but I've never seen the backlash against het that OP's talking about. I can't actually remember the last time I encountered a slash fan who talked a lot about het fics in general, let alone the last time I ran across one who called it "icky" or any variation thereof. I've found that most people who read slash exclusively just, you know, read slash and don't pay much attention to what other people are writing or doing.

No doubt some fandoms might lend themselves to this more than others, and it could just be that I'm lucky not to have run across it, but given the time and the sheer number of different fandom types I've been involved with over the years I find it hard to believe it's as prevalent as this secret makes out.

[kallanda_lee]

Same, I've seen

-people disposing of canon female love interests in not so gracious ways
- people who admit the're just not that into het
- even people who say they're okay with certain sexual act if it's a guy and not a girl

But not eeeeew, het.

[slashgirl]

I'm not a fan of het and some of it does make me go "ew" but mostly I find it boring--I can find het relationships as the default in pretty much the majority of film, tv and books; I don't want or need it in my fanfic. Most of the time (I have written maybe two fics with het pairings in 20 odd years of writing fic).

But I usually just say it's not my thing and leave it at that. I've seen far more people going "ew slash" than "ew het".

[otakugal15]

Funny, I've stopped reading slash because I got tired of all the tropes and reused ifeas that were never that different from another.

I have my favorites, but I don't seek anything new anymore.

[slashgirl]

Not sure what this has to do with my comment...oh, wait, you're saying slash is boring because I said het is boring. Because god forbid people have differing opinions on something.

So, basically you're saying "ew slash". Hope it made you feel better.

[otakugal15]

And you are implying "ew het."

I don't even read fic anymore, het or slash, because it's gotten samey and boring. But you started it and I added to it.

Eat it.

[nightscale]

I've not been reading it for as long, but yeah pretty much. I've seen some people say they're not that into het but never a whole contingent of 'ewwww het' people, I mean they more than likely do exist but I've not run across them yet.

I'm more likely to see the canon love interest getting shat on or ignored tbh and I see less of the former these days than I did say 10 years ago.

[kallanda_lee]

Honestly at this point I'm starting to suspect that some people interpret "I'm not really into het" as "ew, het".

[(Anonymous)]

Do you read reviews for the fics you read? It's something I mostly see crop up in reviews to fics that have a primary slash pairing, but make mention of a secondary or completely background het pairing. (Occasionally up to and including daring to mention a canon married couple, like a character's parents.)

It also occasionally turns up when a ficcer who primarily writes slash decides to write a het fic, which is even more baffling.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Recently I've found a lot of people hate any mention of a pairing besides the main one, though. A lot of secondary slash side pairings get hate too if they appear.

[(Anonymous)]

Which is also asinine, but I have definitely seen secondary and background pairings get hate specifically for being the wrong type of pairing, while other in-type pairings get cheered or ignored, and it's not a recent phenomenon.

[kallanda_lee]

I do read reviews on occasion, and haven't seen it there much.

I can't s I have experience with the authors swapping pairing much.

[(Anonymous)]

Looking at your reply to the anon below, you're not in the fandoms that are the worst for it. Anime and manga fandoms are pretty bad, and Harry Potter fandom slash-vs-het wars could get pretty toxic back in the day. (Then again, Harry Potter fandom wars of every stripe were pretty toxic, so.)

[(Anonymous)]

What were you into back in the day? It was far more common in animanga fandoms than it was in other kinds.

[kallanda_lee]

Not animanga. X-Files, Marvel even back then, Buffy and Angel

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I'm virtually exclusively a slash shipper in animanga fandoms and I can't recall ever seeing much of it either. The worst shipping wank I've seen in my fandoms over the years have been either het vs. het or slash vs. slash. I'm struggling to ever remember any big shipwar between a het and a slash pairing (Naruto, maybe? Not in the fandom so can't say either way) -- I've seen much more of than in recent years in TV show and movie fandoms tbh.

[(Anonymous)]

Same.

I mean, I do come across people who are sick of heteronormative views and the fact that there is very little representation for other sexualities compared to hetero but nobody ever says het is gross or anything.