5: It's cool you came to like a character you once hated, but please don't become condescending over it. Maybe that's not your intent, but could you be very careful to not trash yaoi fans in expressing your love for Relena or het in general? Since as far as I knew, it's not a necessary part of becoming an adult for EVERYONE to fall in line and love het pairings or characters (male or female) that some people have good reason for being annoyed with.
For example, I do NOT like Meryl Stryfe in Trigun. I can barely tolerate her even with the best of writers (lilithisbitter, Glass Bullet), and with almost any other writer (especially from the subset of fanwriters whose characterization of "Meryl's a repressed submissive fembot who just wandered in from 'Sex in the City'," depressingly describes a LOT of the Vash x Meryl smut).
This doesn't make me any less of even a fan (I just prefer the canon incarnation where she's better written and around less), and it certainly doesn't make me any less of a person or an adult. (I'll tell you if I'm ever carded on my shipping prefs. ^_^). It just makes me someone who doesn't like Meryl Stryfe or the Vash x Meryl pairing in general, and since there's many people who DO, there's no need to be upset about one who doesn't.
15: Y halo thar, gender roles! I'm a yaoi/slash fan. When I argue that a pairing would be more popular if the characters were opposite genders, I'm assuming the dynamics stay exactly the same. And yes, IMO, it IS that squick over "ewww plz nooo not THAT" that divides a lot of the angrier shipping lines in fandom.
19: Is it just me, or are a lot these ana secrets bragging about how thin the OP is? Seriously, WTF. Yes, you're not a "fat weeaboo." We get it. Now go eat some food (or go starve, I don't care).
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For example, I do NOT like Meryl Stryfe in Trigun. I can barely tolerate her even with the best of writers (lilithisbitter, Glass Bullet), and with almost any other writer (especially from the subset of fanwriters whose characterization of "Meryl's a repressed submissive fembot who just wandered in from 'Sex in the City'," depressingly describes a LOT of the Vash x Meryl smut).
This doesn't make me any less of even a fan (I just prefer the canon incarnation where she's better written and around less), and it certainly doesn't make me any less of a person or an adult. (I'll tell you if I'm ever carded on my shipping prefs. ^_^). It just makes me someone who doesn't like Meryl Stryfe or the Vash x Meryl pairing in general, and since there's many people who DO, there's no need to be upset about one who doesn't.
15: Y halo thar, gender roles! I'm a yaoi/slash fan. When I argue that a pairing would be more popular if the characters were opposite genders, I'm assuming the dynamics stay exactly the same. And yes, IMO, it IS that squick over "ewww plz nooo not THAT" that divides a lot of the angrier shipping lines in fandom.
19: Is it just me, or are a lot these ana secrets bragging about how thin the OP is? Seriously, WTF. Yes, you're not a "fat weeaboo." We get it. Now go eat some food (or go starve, I don't care).