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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-01-05 02:40 pm

[ SECRET POST #2195 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2195 ⌋

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thursdaymoose: It's a fish.  With glasses. (Default)

Re: fanfic clichés you hate

[personal profile] thursdaymoose 2013-01-06 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
Related sexuality complaint:

Adam is happy and in a relationship with Carol. He loves her and finds her to be hot. He meets Bob and begins to wonder, eventually breaking it off with Carol and gets together with Bob.

Suddenly Adam is 100% homosexual.

Like I suppose some people have experiences like that, but it comes up a lot in fic, and especially feels weird when Adam/Carol is the canon pairing.
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Re: fanfic clichés you hate

[personal profile] lunabee34 2013-01-06 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I don't like that one either.

I tend to headcanon everyone as bisexual, possibly because I'm such a multishipper that I literally see everyone with everyone. LOL

Re: fanfic clichés you hate

(Anonymous) 2013-01-06 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Haha, I'm not even a multishipper and I have this tendency. Well, it's more like I tend to assume that everyone has the potential to be somewhat bisexual, though there are some characters that to me seem more towards one end or the other, Kinsey-scale-wise, or just ace. But yeah, in a general sense, everyone is bi.

I have a weird m/m ship where one half is a huge flirt with women in canon, so I get people saying, "Wait, isn't he straight?" and I'm just like, "What part of canon said that?" I write him as pansexual, but apparently if you're not explicitly gay, you must obviously be straight! And if you're fucking a dude, you're nothing but gay! /eyeroll
thursdaymoose: It's a fish.  With glasses. (Default)

Re: fanfic clichés you hate

[personal profile] thursdaymoose 2013-01-06 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
Sometimes when a character exclusively flirts with the opposite gender (and flirts a lot), it'll be weird for me to have a story mention his bisexuality casually. Yes, he's never claimed to be straight (though some of the relevant characters have), but it doesn't (in my mind) mesh with the way he acts in canon.

I've since gotten used to it, though, because it's pretty common (which I can understand, not every story featuring the ship needs to deal with their sexuality crisis.)
thene: PROTIP do not fuck with Minette (minette)

Re: fanfic clichés you hate

[personal profile] thene 2013-01-06 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
IA

I am bisexual, I find fandom to be a great place to write about people being bisexual, I am puzzled by all accusations about how this is gay fetishising/appropriation/not a thing.
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Re: fanfic clichés you hate

[personal profile] lunabee34 2013-01-06 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
*nods*

I identify as bisexual as well although I am married to a man at this point in my life.
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Re: fanfic clichés you hate

[personal profile] thene 2013-01-06 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
Ditto. It's a pity this is so taboo - it's just a fact that if you're bi, 90% of the people that hit on you are going to be opposite-gender. Most of the bi people I know - of any gender - are settled with an opposite-sex person at the moment. Fandom is important to me partly because talking about bi people is no big deal, so I get pissy with both people who insist that they're gay and people who insist that they're straight.