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⌈ Secret Post #3836 ⌋

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Comments

[diet_poison]

I still can't believe this is something people argue about.

what about people who say they switch? are they part of the war?

[kaijinscendre]

I assume those people are like Switzerland. Never taking sides just hoping they don't get taken over by the other two groups.

[(Anonymous)]

Switcherland. Where do I apply for citizenship?

[kaijinscendre]

Here. http://archiveofourown.org/invite_requests

[kallanda_lee]

I love you.

[(Anonymous)]

I laughed.

[froodle]

Best comment of the day.

[(Anonymous)]

Because, in some fandoms, many people write characters differently depended on who tops or bottoms (or switch, though I've always found that when they switch, there's still a preference and characterization is influenced by that) and each fan defend their choice as the "IC one."

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, this. In classic yaoi, it's not really just about the sex, it's about the personalities. Writing a character as a top is more likely to bring out their stronger or more aggressive qualities, and writing a character as a bottom is more likely to make them vulnerable and emotional. Honestly, I don't think the characters even have to actually have sex in these sorts of fandoms, that's almost secondary. It tends to be a fight of how you interpret the characters themselves.

[diet_poison]

That sounds like a really annoyingly constraining and limiting way to write men in relationships. But then I've never been into yaoi specifically...

[(Anonymous)]

It can be. It can also be a fun exploration of different existing character traits. Certainly they don't have to act a certain way, but in yaoi, it can be interesting to look at one character being more dominant, even if just momentarily. *shrug* It doesn't have to necessarily mean it's out-of-character.

[(Anonymous)]

This is why even though in theory I would love bottom!Sam, in practice I hardly ever read it. The Sam Winchester in those fics is a fragile, weepy, passive parody of a romance novel heroine.

[(Anonymous)]

this x10000000000

[otakugal15]

This is true. I noticed that a lot when I was super into the Sherlock Holmes films fandom. And I admit, I had a preference for top!Holmes that was hard to find because they all preferred bottom!Holmes and I hated seeing be turned into this...woobie baby.

At least when I DID find top!Holmes, they didn't write Watson as a woobie. I felt like those writers had respect for both characters as opposed to one (i.e. Watson).

[(Anonymous)]

Absolutely. It takes a lot of investment to be as smug as Team Switch people are in yaoi ship wars.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh fergodssake.How about the investment that "only the right person must top because anal is the be all and end all of gay sex and one of them must be the woman" heteronormative, fetishitic, stereotyping tripe, takes?

It's fucking ANGER, not "smug".

Too close to home?