136. Um. So the kink meme is messed up. Aren't the kink memes of a lot of other fandoms messed up too? Granted, this one has the potential to be a lot more offensive, and it lives up to that, but don't most kink memes take every possible weird and messed up kink and push its boundaries? I don't see why it would be unusual for a kink meme of Hetalia to be like this. No, I don't approve of it, but I'm not surprised. If you don't like the Hetalia fandom you can avoid it, boycott it, and such, but don't judge all of us because the kink meme does exactly what a Kink meme is meant to do.
Yes there are hetalia fans who are messed up enough to request it, but that doesn't mean that all of us do.
I dunno, I am tired of Hetalia being looked down upon as a fandom. There is some real gold in the kink meme, and then there are things like this. The fandom itself is kind, with very little wank, and very little conflict. The community is even so mild that people are trying to bridge the gap between the Japanese and English fandoms. It's kind of wonderful.
I guess I might be a bit desensitized, but really, there are a lot of offensive things in fandom in general. When I got into hetalia I had a lot of misgivings because I thought "This has the potential to be really messed up," and it does, but what is amazing is that it only really manifests in the kink meme. The fandom as a whole is really quite wonderful, polite, and politically correct on the whole. In the end, I can't stop people from posting pedo shit, incest, bestiality or anything like that, or fic about the rape of Nanjing... I can't agree with it, but I suppose it's something along the lines of if you want to write it, write it, because I can't stop them and I don't want to spoil the peace of a relatively quiet and wank-free community. I'd rather they post it in the kink meme than in the main comm, after all, and I'd defend their right to do that.
I dunno, "I can't agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it", sort of.
136.
Yes there are hetalia fans who are messed up enough to request it, but that doesn't mean that all of us do.
I dunno, I am tired of Hetalia being looked down upon as a fandom. There is some real gold in the kink meme, and then there are things like this. The fandom itself is kind, with very little wank, and very little conflict. The community is even so mild that people are trying to bridge the gap between the Japanese and English fandoms. It's kind of wonderful.
I guess I might be a bit desensitized, but really, there are a lot of offensive things in fandom in general. When I got into hetalia I had a lot of misgivings because I thought "This has the potential to be really messed up," and it does, but what is amazing is that it only really manifests in the kink meme. The fandom as a whole is really quite wonderful, polite, and politically correct on the whole. In the end, I can't stop people from posting pedo shit, incest, bestiality or anything like that, or fic about the rape of Nanjing... I can't agree with it, but I suppose it's something along the lines of if you want to write it, write it, because I can't stop them and I don't want to spoil the peace of a relatively quiet and wank-free community. I'd rather they post it in the kink meme than in the main comm, after all, and I'd defend their right to do that.
I dunno, "I can't agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it", sort of.