Who let the jackals out on fanficrants?

[matrixrefugee]

WARNING: Major ranting here....

Second time in a week. I go on fanficrants to vent about the sheer number of fics that push or at least poke my squick buttons in a particular fandom, and I get jumped on for it. I admitted to not being comfortable with "A Knight's Tale" slash and people come back with stuff like this and this and This or especially This. The other time it was people jumping on me for being uncomfortable with incest fics in the "Supernatural" fandom, but I took that rant down because I felt like a fight was breaking out and I didn't feel like ending up on Fandom_Wank *again*. I thought this was a community where you could air out your fanfic griefs and get a certain amount of support, not get stomped on for not being "OH KEWL!!!!!1111" over certain fics/types of fics/pairings. I go through periods when I'm not comfortable with slash, or I just don't like seeing it in a certain fandom. I don't know why I get this way, but it happens. I'm not asking people to agree with me, I just want to find a safe, non-judgemental place to vent and have my fannish feelings respected. I just feel like, God forbid anyone should want gen or -- quelle horreur!!! -- het fics. [/sarcasm] They're just shy of acting like those wankers who get all "U R TEH H0M0PH0BE!!111111" if you're not comfortable with certain slash pairings. Unfortunately, it's people like this who only cause my discomfort with slash to get worse, and then I start getting uncomfortable with explicit het fics and sometimes with romance at all. Does every fic have to involve romance (all right, I admit to writing romance fics myself, but I try to make it more about the characters and their relationship with each other and less about the hormones)? Does every character have to be paired off? Is it at all possible that some characters might be straight or even asexual?!

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[--flood.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yes. I'm in a debacle myself over Star Wars fan fiction.

I'll shift OOC for good here, I'm rather lazy and half asleep.

Fan fiction is like this for me -- I'll write some. Then I find covens of sickos and proceed to feel bile come up... The Internet is full of weirdos. Many of us (everyone posting on your journal, I AM SURE ;-) ) write FF, RP, just for fun. It's all fine and good. Some people publish, some don't. Some have characters as headspace dwellers. I daydream a lot, myself.

It's an ESCAPE! But some...ehh, they cross a line of some sort and here I go again, wanting to find a bag. =/

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Remind me to tell you the story of the Three-Month-Long Smith Fanbrat Debacle... it's quite a horror story, but it's laughable looking back on it. What makes it even funnier is that the offending writer only half-understood how Agent Smith's 'mind' (what *DO* you call the information-processing aspect of an AI's essence? Their processor?) really worked, and when those of us who were well-steeped in the film trilogy-canon would point out where she'd come up horribly short, she'd go into conniptions over how good a writer she really was, blah, blah, blah, blah.