Rant. >____>

[daruki]

I’ve managed to feel pissy, utter irritation and annoyance, hate, weariness, ticked-offnss, disappointment, emoness, depression, anger, indignation, frustration, confusion and SHEER HARD ANGER all in less than 12 hour. This has got to be the shittiest post-birthday day I’ve had as long as my memory’s been functional, and the worst day of 2007 to

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[sylviaviridian]

I'm always up for a good debate without taking offense if ever you need to blow off steam...in fact, I occasionally seek out such debates, so I'm more than happy to argue things out with you if you'd like.

I don't think there are any solid definitions...fanon is anything not-canon, I know that, but the definition of crack does vary greatly. Sometimes it does mean just joke pairings like Kratos/Noishe, but to some people it seems to mean any pairing with little or no actual proof in the canon, in which category Kratos/Zelos certainly falls due to their almost total lack of interaction onscreen.

I did read the whole fandom rant...I used to react like that, back when I did the whole OTP thing, but I've mellowed out since then, for the most part. (Some things will still set me off, but overall I'm calmer.) As far as the whole bazillion pairings thing...I don't know how I do it, or rather I don't know how anyone else doesn't. There aren't many (if any) pairings that I hate for the pairing's sake (mostly just incest or pedophilia), although there are characters I detest and I usually don't like pairings involving them. *shrugs* I guess it's mostly a matter of getting to know the characters and understanding what possibilities exist for connection...and also, if there's a ship that I can't see but someone else loves, I don't take that as a personal attack on my views. I just accept that that person and I see different things in the same characters.

http://www.fanfiction.net/f/305814/ Here's a forum on ff.net that you might be interested in...

[daruki]

I'm going to RAID your entry right after this. I saw it yesterday, but I had not the space nor the time (it takes me up to a few hours to type up stuff in debates), so doing it today.

That's my problem. Crack is a term me and friends often use to joke around, so it means MOCK and NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY to me. And I positively BLEED ZK. >__>;;; the similar way we could say meowsy bleed KY, and hm, Sakurabubbles? bleed ZL. So I'll probably over-react if someone says, er, THINGS, about my OTP. >_>;;;

I was thinking last night and came to a realization: I'm not a fan-thing, since these have no brains and just flail around and follow whatever canon there is: I can think. But I am a fan-BRAT. I have the maturity and intelligence to voice my opinions in an intelligent manner, but I still harbor the stubbornness and frustration a kid experiences when, er, well... sort of like Mithos throwing fits over Martel. And how Genis behaves in general. And to think I don't really like kids... Perhaps what's needed is indeed time and experience. Perhaps I need a few more years on me to learn to overcome UNNATURAL REVULSION and my still deep-rooted prejudice and hate that develops itself around a crapload of stuff that's POPULAR.

Ann well... I'm fine with pairings I can't see. But when it comes to one of these pairings I can't stand, especially from someone who is close to me and knows me well, I suppose I burst, which the first time happened last week-end. >___>

Ah. Pedo, for me, it depends. But since my first OTP ever was actual twincest, I'm very lenient over incest in general. I've neve rhad a strict religious upbringing, so that makes me open for many things. But in the end, the only possible explanations I can come up with most of my repulsion is because the pairing is too POPULAR and I see it bloody everywhere, which then starts off an unconscious hate mechanism in my head. For trust me, I hated no pairings after my 1st PT in ToS. All that came with time... including the ones I spent surfing around ff.net. They all sprouted half a year after I first got the game, I think... >_>;; -shakes head- That's what I'm trying to get rid of. The sheer illogical founding reasons of my dislike, and how I throw tantrums over it such as a kid would. >___>;;;

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Sorry... for rambling... again... llll -Also has something in her systems that always makes her type long stuff- But it really helped me think. I'll check out the C2 later. For now... -skips off to your LJ- I feel better today, so hopefully my prejudices won't get the better of me and my refutations won't sound as bad as Mithos going all over Martel. ^^;;;

[sylviaviridian]

Rambling helps me think, too, so no problems there. ^_^

Time and maturity is always the best cure, I've found. At some point, you'll realize that there's just no point in hating something if your hatred is never going to change it, that the hate is only going to cause you pain and not them, and when that happens, you'll be able to let it go. Until then, enjoy the intensity of your reactions, because someday you'll mellow out and be hard-pressed to recapture that feeling of righteousness.

Twincest is different for me...it depends on the canon, but it's not quite such a trigger for instant disgust as other siblings, or worse yet, cross-generational incest. (Kralloyd for the lose, even if it's unspeakably hawt sometimes. >>;)

And yeah, I know exactly what you mean about hating something because it's popular. And you will, one day, be able to pull back, look at things objectively, and judge pairings solely on their own merits rather than on their popularity. (When that happens, you'll get frustrated with the fans instead of the pairings.)