Fandom Secrets Was MADE OF WORD

[redbrunja]

117: Fuck yes.

Also, author of 115: please come over to my lj. You are completely dead-on and I would LOVE to discus the awesomeness of Sai x Sakura with you, as well and find out where you found that amazing fanart.

160: While I feel your pain, HINATA knows Naruto quite well. It's him that has no idea who she is.

(Also, I was gone all day so I couldn't answer comments - I'll be responding to comments tomorrow. Also, remember to set your clocks forward.)

Comments

[ivy-chan.livejournal.com]

I must be lucky in having a wide bunch of slasher friends (I've written slash myself, but it's not my main genre) who aren't anti-feminist. I've heard of the ones who are, mostly in rants from the slasher friends and in ffrants.

I try not to make assumptions of people because of ships or genres, mainly because I ship things like Zutara (which gets bashed) and Harry/Hermione (which gets bashed to high heaven) and femmeslash (while not being a lesbian, which surprises people somehow). Sometimes, though, you run across a walking negative stereotype and it's really, really annoying.

[ivy-chan.livejournal.com]

Especially if it's a negative stereotype of YOUR ship. "Stop being on my side! YOU MAKE MY SIDE LOOK STUPID."

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I try not to make assumptions, but I lot of the time I know I do, simply based on prior experience.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I think your inferring a lot of things that I am not saying.

What I said was "I try not to make assumptions, but I lot of the time I know I do."

I'm not acting like I have moral high ground; I'm being honest about the fact that I don't always manage to not make snap judgements about people based on prior experience with people who share those same traits.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

"I acknowledge that this is similar to behaviors I don't approve of, but it's okay because I've had bad experiences with misogynistic slashers". If that wasn't what you meant to say, I can accept that, but please take note that that is exactly how it came across.

This isn't what I meant to say at all, and I'm sorry that that is how it came across.

I'm sorry that you've experienced homophobia in the het community and I don't recall the details of the prior conversation or why I stopped replying but I do know that it's wasn't a deliberate slight or a way to ignore what you were saying.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Was it LAST december or january? Because I vaguely recall getting into a debate right before I left for France, and then when I finally had internet, I ended up deleting a lot of comments that were very, very out of date.

And I will think about how the reverse of my opinions would sound to me.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

Cute icon, by the way.