Someday I'll get the hang of properly cutting stuff. Maybe.

[beckerbell]

► - Do you know what else I've been spending the last few days doing? (Well, it was last week, but by the time I had time to post this....) Watching the whole late night talk show scene's latest huge kerfluffle and, good god, is it ever entertaining as hell. I'm seriously going to miss this when it's all over. So far, the best place I've found

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[beckerbell]

Sometimes it's hard not to fall into the pitfalls fandom lays out for us. I get this in One Piece fandom all the time, because the ZoSan doujinshi is so pretty that it destroys my sensibility and I start liking that crap. It's the same with the woobiefication of the bastard characters--I know it's OOC, but the writing is so pretty--! I'm getting that way with Hibari sometimes, too. THE DOUJINSHI IS JUST SO PRETTY. But then you get something where he's an actual little vicious demon and it's so much better.

It's similar enough to what happens with bastard characters that I can sort of understand it, but it still becomes frustrating, because I love the characters as bastards! That's what makes them interesting in the first place! If I wanted fluffy sweetness, I'd be reading shounen ai!

(All that goes out the window for porn, though. I have my priorities, okay. :|)

OMG YOU SAW THE SHIZUO/IZAYA, TOO?? I AM GOING TO CLING TO YOU PRETTY MUCH FOREVER NOW. Well. Not that I wasn't going to before, but.

I went in pre-biased because of all the art I'd seen, but it was still kind of amazing just how fast you went from 0 to 100mph with that pairing--one minute, hm, this show is cute enough. The next, HOLY MOTHER OF GOD THAT IS MY NEW OTP RIGHT THIS INSTANT.

[zauberer_sirin]

I guess characterization is too big for me, even if I do sometimes like pretty writing even if the fic doesn't agree with my vision of the characters (even if I have a ridiculously large collection of FMA doujinshi that has cost me a lot of money and where I only find like three books that really depict my otp as I see them), so yeah I can see the temptation of the prettiness. But I have huge difficulties with characterization when it's off, because it's the reason I'm reading fic in the first place, to see this people.

OH GOD I HATE WHEN THEY TRY TO SWEETEN HIBARI I HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT. (hopefully i'm not doing it myself in fic, i hope i'm not)

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD THAT IS MY NEW OTP RIGHT THIS INSTANT.

PRETY MUCH MY REACTION! And I tried to justify the OMG THEY'RE SO HOT with feelings of "but you get the feeling of so much history with them!" and such. I want epic fic about their backstory.

[beckerbell]

I think part of it is being such a fanart junkie, you slowly get worn down on these things. Art, to me, can be all about the visual style, rather than about what's "IC" or not. It's just a step further to doujinshi that's about the artist's style more than it is about the characterization. And then I'm one of those fans.

It doesn't help that I often have small fandoms that I just pine for, so I lower my standards, otherwise I'd be sad and lonely forever. (I miss having standards sometimes, though. And I find it so interesting to hear from someone who has a different view on this than I do!) I'm slightly better about fic, at least?

(I think I really went downhill in Tenipuri fandom. I love that fandom, but there's not exactly a lot of ICness going on there.)

I want epic fic about their backstory.

YOU AND ME BOTH! It seems like they definitely have a lot of history and I almost caved and went to read manga summaries just because I am that desperate to know more about them and I'm not sure I can take the pace of only one episode a week! Especially when they're not even main characters!

FANDOM HAD BETTER START PROVIDING FIC PRETTY SOON OR I'M GOING TO BE CRANKY.

(P.S. It's not just me, they totally look physically similar to Dino and Hibari, even if their personalities are completely different, right? And I feel like that should make me like them less, that they're just a pale copy, except I kind of love them all the more for it. IF FANDOM LOVED US THEY WOULD WRITE CROSSOVERS. Good crossovers, I mean.)

[zauberer_sirin]

It's not just me, they totally look physically similar to Dino and Hibari, even if their personalities are completely different, right?

OMG THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT I THOUGHT WHEN I SAW THE EP. I said nothing cause I thought I was going crazy and Dino/Hibari had taken over my life (which they have, but that's another conversation) and that I was just being lame BUT YES, I THOUGHT THEY LOOKED SIMILAR.