Unpopular Fandom Opinions

[kennahijja]

(gacked from ella_bane)

Yup, unlike the fanfic heresy a while back, these are contentious (and not surprising, if you know me). But I still love you, all right! You don't have to agree, and are welcome to hit me with dead carps too!

1. It almost physically hurts me when fics are taken down just because the author falls out of love with them or decides to leave fandom.

2. I hate it when people try to tell others what they shouldn't write/draw because it's immoral/harmful/whatnot. But watching people self-censor their imagination is even more painful.

3. Compared to the utter wrongness of dragging RL – employers, lawyers, police, spouses – into fandom disputes, plagiarism is *nothing*. Because hell, it's supposed to be us against the mundanes – running to RL authorities is, well, treason to the Cause!

4. Once your work's out there, it's fair game for just about everything except posting under somebody else's name – especially for reccing, reviewing, downloading, sharing and writing spin-off fic for. Deal!

5. Ron haters make me msad [... except for Ron-haters with a pureblood pedigree, a riding crop and a nice line in acerbic banter]. (yeah, that's pretty much plagiarised from ella_bane, but she's dead right! And amended after intercession by fee_absinthe, who, as always, has the priorities right)

6. The 'say good things or say nothing' attitude to feedback that seems to dominate fandom annoys me to no end. But bitching about concrit makes me *really* mad.

7. 'Anymore' bugs me even more than 'cum'. Though not quite as much as 'orbs'.

8. LJ name changes... meh! Fandom name changes suck in general, unless it's for good RL reasons. It's hell on those of us with brains full of holes.

9. Taking your OTP(s) seriously is seriously silly.

10. As long as there's slash and gen, we could almost do without het, couldn't we? *ducks*

ETA: One of those is a joke - just in case it's not obvious.

Comments

[snorkackcatcher]

Mostly agree, oddly enough. :)

#2: Depends what their imagination throws up. For some stuff, I'd be delighted if they'd keep it to themselves.

#3: Generally, I have no problem with the mundanes, even if I'm not very good at being one a lot of the time. :)

#7: But none are as annoying as the use of 'length' to mean cock, er, penis.

#10: *follows trajectory of duck to ensure dead carp hits regardless*

Well, I did say mostly agree. :D

RE: with a dash of OT

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

#2. No - that's what 'don't like, don't read' is for.

#3. Everything that makes their offical side squint at fandom too closely makes me nervous...

#7. Really? That's something I can live with for variety (you can only use cock so often...

#10. ... and deservedly so! ;)

Re: RE: with a dash of OT

[snorkackcatcher]

#2. No - that's what 'don't like, don't read' is for.

I'm not arguing with people's right to do it. It would just be nice if they would sometimes step back and look critically and think 'hang on, this really is creepily weird'.

Re: with a dash of OT

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Well, I end up thinking that a lot, but teasing the creepily weird out of my subconscious and twisting it into story form is what makes up 50% of the fun of writing - well, for me. It's probably not the most common reason for writing :).

Re: with a dash of OT

[snorkackcatcher]

Maybe not. :) I tend to be more uneasy about expressing my inner creepy weirdo in the form of plotbunnies -- especially as any given bunny would, practically speaking, be at least 500% creepier and more weird written by a male writer.

Re: with a dash of OT

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

especially as any given bunny would, practically speaking, be at least 500% creepier and more weird written by a male writer

Ah, bah! No way! Well, that's coming from someone who only some very few weeks ago figured out that said writer *was* a male writer, *ducks*. Should try to kick that automatic assumption that everybody in fandom is most likely one of the girls ;).

Re: with a dash of OT

[snorkackcatcher]

That's OK. The situation appeals to my sense of irony on more than one level. :)