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⌈ Secret Post #5555 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What trends in your current fandom do you just not understand?

[dancingmouse]

I'm not in any Fandoms at the moment, but something I never understood over the years was turning a character, usually a Female one who's disliked simply for existing, into a raging asshole/slut/homewrecker. You could write your Slash without villifying the Female characters, you know. Just put her on a bus and continue your Slash-capades.

Re: What trends in your current fandom do you just not understand?

[(Anonymous)]

For the record, I very much dislike this kind of character assassination in fics. That said, it makes total sense to me. It's basically the vindictive jealousy impulse--very similar to the one that drives some people to hate the person their crush is into.

For some people, it's not enough to merely put the character on a bus to get her "out of the way." They need to make her worthless. They need to erase any regard the main character(s) ever had for her, out of seething jealousy over the fact that she ever came between their OTP. They have to make her utterly unlovable, so they can retroactively overwrite any love her ex ever felt for her. It was never love! She merely tricked him into feeling like he was obligated to love her, or like she was his only option, or like he didn't know what love was so maybe it was whatever he felt for her. But it wasn't actually love; the only one he's ever really loved is [other half of pairing].

Honestly, I think if the author knows they're indulging their inner jealousy gremlin when they write character assassination fics like this, then I have no problem with it. I get it, even. I'm a hardcore mono-shipper and just the thought of rival pairings makes my lip curl, so like, I get it. But some people are in complete denial. They will swear up and down (and post long tumblr rants) about how they're "just writing the character as she really is." Those are the people I back away from. I mean, at the end of the day, they're not really hurting anyone; they can write and believe whatever they want about the character. I'm just not gonna hang around for it.