Unpopular Fandom Opinions
Aug. 26th, 2006 10:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kennahijja(gacked from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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 memsad [... 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.
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
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.
no subject
Date: 2006-08-27 02:54 am (UTC)Also, why yes, I do read those tacky romance shelf novels sometimes. They are a guilty pleasure, and some of them are horrible and some of them are smokin' hot. Like, you know, fic.
Either way, nothing about the way you made your comment looked to me like anything other than a suggestion that the only people who read het are either young (and foolish) or of a group you consider stupid: Mills and Bloon Housewives.
no subject
Date: 2006-08-27 03:10 am (UTC);)
< / sarcasm >
no subject
Date: 2006-08-27 12:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-28 02:58 am (UTC)