[ SECRET POST #184 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #184 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 131 secrets from Secret Submission Post #027.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 ] broken links, [ 1 ] not!secrets, [ 1 ] not!fandom, [ 1 2 3 ] personal attacks.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Monday, July 9th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[case]

the way most of these secrets seem gendered -like a real man couldn't like slash? Fuck off and die already-

Oh yeah, and whoa, where are you getting all that? I don't see any of it and I'm a guy who likes slash...

[pretentioustfu.livejournal.com]

I'm referring to the comments on the pro-yaoi secret in the last post that bashed the poster (although posting her SAT scores wasn't a wise idea) and to the general idea that many of the "omg yaoi ruined my fandom" people promulgate that if people were real men and women, they'd write het, so they must be prepubescent fangirls.

[case]

Yaoi has ruined fandoms for me. Retarded OOC fannish drivel in FF7? Count me in. I love the game, but I hate the fandom. It happens. Doesn't make me any less of a real man or woman, and it doesn't mean I'm implying that anyone else should or should not do something. I could state "yaoi ruined FF7 fandom for me" and it'd be true.

All I'm saying is, I think you're reading way too far into this stuff.

[pretentioustfu.livejournal.com]

All right. I apologize if I was. I've been in my share of fandom flamewars, and these just hit some sore spots for me (if you've ever been told, in all seriousness, to "get out of our sandbox" for writing a character as not in love with his fanon het romantic lead or to "stop ruining our fandom" for exploring his darker side, it's very easy to take offense to stuff like this).

I'm sorry.

[case]

No problem, was more confused than anything else. *dies*

And no, I've never been told anything like that which is surprising actually *dies* since I've been writing slash for like uhhh a couple years. But moronic people are everywhere. ):

[pretentioustfu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Trigun fandom was a rather unfriendly place for slashers (especially twincest slashers, which I was somewhat at the time, I'd write KxV among other pairings) from around 2004 until around early 2006. Especially if you wrote Vash as anything but a walking stick of glitter-sugar and the kindest, most attentive boyfriend ever *headdesk* and you weren't friends with the right people. Things have definitely improved for now, but. . . I'm very sensitive to "hehe, het is like soooo much better you tards, 'cause it's canon and slash will never be" type stuff.

[iamadoughnut.livejournal.com]

Oh god. Let's try pointing our newly learned gender theory indignation toward something that's an actual problem next time, shall we?

[pretentioustfu.livejournal.com]

I've already apologized for it. Please look at the above comments.