[ SECRET POST #2517 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2517 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Fandom-specific peeves

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I have a general dislike for canon nazi shippers, particularly ones who are arguing against slash, but the thing that caused it was fairly fandom specific.

90% of the Cybertronians ever shown in most of Transformers are mechs - i.e. male-seeming. Only one in ten Cybertronians were ever female-looking and acting.

The slash side of the fandom takes that at face value, supposing that the numbers of femmes are extremely low, and thus supposing that mech/mech relationships are a total non-issue. On the meta side, it also makes the idea of high numbers of mech/femme relationships seem very infrequent.

But canon shippers still think m/f should be all that happens, even in G1 (cartoon-verse), where femmes were considered extinct until Elita-1's group (of FIVE femmes) was found. That's a hell of a lot of mechs who will never have romantic opportunities if m/f is the only way acceptable (and this is in a 'verse where the canon way of making new Cybertronians is to build a body and have them "brought to life" by some mcguffin).

I am glad I haven't run into any rabid het shippers since I got into The Hobbit, as unlike Transformers, a race with a gender imbalance is totally canon in the section I am now shipping in, instead of just implied in most places. Dwarves only have one third of their population female, and not all of them will marry, and Dwarves have a very strong One True Love belief too (I think it was very much a thing of Tolkien's).

I know Tolkien canon also says a lot of Dwarves get lost in their craft, but even so, that does not mean it is totally unreasonable to accept that maybe there's room for male/male relationships being more acceptable for them.

But then I'm a slasher, and I don't really give a shit about all those "respect the canon!" arguments. At least not when it gets in the way of having my shippy fun.