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fandomsecrets2012-02-11 03:19 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-02-11 03:19 pm
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(Anonymous) 2012-02-12 04:27 am (UTC)(link)I think you're misinterpreting.
I have no interest in reading about heterosexuality. (No, I'm not straight myself.) Het itself, for virtue of being het, is not my thing. However, no het relationship is ONLY a het relationship. There are sweet, cute het relationships, angsty het relationships, het relationships as an awesome partnership between two badasses, rivalry het relationships, etc. While het isn't a draw for me, badass/badass ships and rivalry ships are, and some of mine happen to be het ships. Even though the gender configuration isn't my favorite, it doesn't mean that there's nothing there at all to like about the relationship.
Do I ship those het pairings as hard as I do the queer ships that I love? No. Do I ship them at all? Yes. Do I read fanfic just for sexual reasons? No, and if the OP does then it's reasonable if they only like one sort of ship.
But the reason I think it smacks of unconscious homophobia is that there are all kinds of het ships and all kinds of queer ships, and if the OP finds nothing likable about any ship that is between two people of the same gender or even any character that's LGBT, nothing likable at all, then the OP probably sees any gay character/ship as nothing more than "gay". I don't think the OP needs to prefer queer anything to het anything, but the point is that it looks like the OP doesn't like anything involving gay people.
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(Anonymous) 2012-02-12 06:20 am (UTC)(link)I just wanted to point out that some people have lives and just don't have the fucking time to experiment with every goddamned shipping possibility out there. Yeah, incidentally, all of my ships are het. But by "all of my ships," I mean the total number of "my" ships can be counted on one hand with some fingers left over. Does the fact that there are no slash ships on that hand make me a homophobe? Sorry, but I don't fucking think so.
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(Anonymous) 2012-02-12 07:37 am (UTC)(link)If you like <5 ships and they're all het, then no, that doesn't say anything about your feelings on queer people.
However, most people in fandom, at least the ones I've known (and who knows, the pool of people I know is probably not very representative) have many more than that. It's not always a case of having no life outside fandom, so get off your high horse. You are not superior to people who spend more time on the internet than you do.
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The number of ship I'll read about is < 5 because there are only so few characters I'm interested enough to read about outside of canon.
So I really don't think people should make assumptions on whether someone is homophobe or heterophobe based on what they do in fandom.
Time is short, and in addition to everything else that's been said, not everyone strives to be popular by being extremely productive about every existing pairing, or writing fics on request...
Just because you write fic doesn't mean you *have* to write some for friends / fandom fellows.