Questions Designed To Make You Hate Me

[redbrunja]

1. What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get?

Any pairing that involves two (or more) penises. I know, I know, that is as subjective an opinion as my feelings about coconut (worst flavor on the planet) and about as much fun to discuss (coconut is the flavor of the devil, people).

2. Are there any popular fandom OTPs you only BroTP?

Cara/Kahlan. Trust me, I see the subtext, I totally get where people are coming from with this pairing. In just about any other situation I would
be all over the hot, fierce ladies and their classic kind warrior/broken bird dynamic and rooting for them to have epically sexy sex… but I just want them to be friends and hang out and kill people together, while Kahlan sexes up her Seeker and ends up having little badass confessor-daughters with him.

3. Any fandoms that don’t appeal to you?

Hmmmm. There are shows/movies/books that I don’t feel the need to seek out fanfics for but if a narrative makes me feel fannish and there's a fandom, I'll participate. And frankly, I've had some good luck and good experiences even with NOTORIOUSLY psychotic fandoms.

4. Have you ever unfollowed/unfriended someone? Why?

HAVE I EVER. I have unfollowed people because our fandoms diverged, I’ve unfollowed people because I stopped enjoying the content that they posted, I’ve unfollowed people because I discovered that I didn’t like them very much, I’ve unfollowed people because my flist was getting unreadable, I’ve unfollowed people because they unfollowed me first.

For me, this questions was a little bit like, ‘do you breath air?’ Yes, of course, who doesn’t?

5. Do you have a NO!TP in [insert fandom here]?

I have many, many NO!TPs. (I’m defining this as the very idea of the ship makes me go ‘NO!’)

-Clint/Loki.

-Natasha/Loki. (I do ship Natasha/Clint fucking on Loki’s bloody, dismembered corpse. Or just murdering the fuck out of him and then having celebratory sex in the backseat of the getaway car.)

-Tony/anyone but Pepper. (If Pepper want to hook up with Steve or Natasha or Darcy or even some really fucked up dark!fic with Obediah, I'd be there.)

-Aang/Katara (FOREVER BITTER. Seriously, my mom recently found out that Legend of Korra existed and she was like, ‘do you want to watch that?’ And I went, ‘I’ll watch that when I stop being angry about the ending of Avatar.’ Nobody hold their breath on that score.)

-Andy/April – ugh, why would you pair an awesome, deadpan girl like April with a moronic waste of space like Andy!

-Veronica Mars/Duncan Kane.

-Blair Waldorf/Chuck Bass.

-Any variation of Elena/Damon/Stefan.

-Caroline Forbes/Matt Donovan.

-Regina/Charming.

-M'gann/Lagaan.

Aaron Cross/Eric Byer.

6. Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?

It's more often the writers ruining a ship for me.

7. Is there anything you used to like, but now can’t stand?

Naruto. Like, I was never under any illusions that the manga/anime was good - I was always just there for the fanworks, but I was undeniably READING the manga and at a certain point I reached my ‘this is bullshit storytelling' threshold and peaced the hell out. I also stopped reading Soul Eater. There was no big break up or anything like that – I just stopped caring enough to hunt down the next month’s scanlation.

8. Unpopular opinion about [insert fandom here]?

I can't think of any off the top of my head. Suggestions are welcome, though!

9. Have you received anon hate? What about?

No, I’ve yet to receive fan hate, therby solidifying my ‘no name’ fan status. I have had a ‘discussion’ that the person I was discussing the
subject with felt the need to delete my comments. I really wish I had screen caps, because I would have have LOVED proof that I was strictly
offering concrit about her fic and was in fact refusing to make it personal and comment about her husband his relationship with their child, which she kept insisting that I was.

10. Any fandom you’re ashamed of being in?

Avatar.

You know in the second episode of Green Lantern when Razer is like, ‘In my heart I am guilty of murder’? That’s how I feel about Avatar fandom. I don’t think I was ACTUALLY an obnoxious, overly passionate fan (okay, I was a little obnoxious and over passionate) but in my heart, I was REALLY obnoxious and over-passionate.

I really love Avatar as a show and I'm hugely grateful for its existence and the fanworks it inspired because it came to me at a time in my life when I absolutely needed it, but.... in my heart I'm guilty of being a bratty fan about the show and Katara/Zuko.

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Have I ever told you that I love that you don't care for male/male? Personally I like male/male PWP but anything romantic bores the crap outta me.

I think so, but I never get tired of hearing it. And I'm the opposite of you - there have been a handle of fics written by authors that I love that I've read even thought they're slash, and there's always a point where I'm like, 'ooh, excellently written interactions, excellently written interactions.... blah, blah, boys kissing, I'll skim that part.'


Random question! Have you watched/do you like the Kill Bill movies? I rewatched them this week and was chuckling over the fact that I generally don't like revenge narratives but I love Tarantino movies and so I thought of you because I know you like revenge narratives (maybe not Tarantino ones though IDK).

TRUE STORY, two days before I got your question, I had just watched the second half of Deathproof.


Oh, Tarantino. I have such mixed feeling about him. On one hand, his movies are so violent that they are hard for me to watch. On the other, he is such a fucking effective storyteller. I watched Kill Bill and remember being almost shell-shocked from the violence of it (I was early to mid teens, at that point) and not wanting to watch the sequel… but being so invested in the story that I couldn’t not watch volume 2.

And as much as I find the first half of Deathproof deeply, deeply, disturbing and uncomfortable to watch, I cannot stress how much I enjoy the lead-up to playing masthead and then the cathartic and so justified murder of the villain at the end.

[mistaria.livejournal.com]

Best icon ever.

Haha I totally agree about Death Proof. Watching the villain act like a little whiny baby after the shit he pulled in the first half and watching the girls take him down is very satisfying.

Didn't know you didn't care for strong violence! I can't take violence against animals/children but I'm pretty desensitized to everything else (except for stuff like the rape in Girl w/ the Dragon Tattoo--but I appreciate that it was portrayed so horribly as opposed to something like the almost rape in Watchmen). I love Tarantino for his awesome ladies and his humor. He is a very effective story teller to the point where I'll see movies about topics I hate seeing movies about if he's made it and love it (like Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained).

lol and probably the wrong place to put this but I loved Regina in last nights Once. Though I am sick to death of Henry just walking away from Regina after she does what he wants. I want to do a victory frolic with her in the early days of Storybrooke and I want to pet her after she starts getting sick of it (even though she would bite me). Although the twist with the guy at the end felt stupid. Oh and I want her and Emma to be forced to be together for an extended period at the end of which I will push them together and say "now kiss!"

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Best icon ever.

Thanks, I really love it.

Didn't know you didn't care for strong violence!

Yeah, I love action films and such but with Tarantino, where there is so MUCH violence and it's SO sexualized (often), it can get hard to watch.

lol and probably the wrong place to put this but I loved Regina in last nights Once.

I am so behind on once it's not even funny.