(Untitled)

[kokanshu]

This isn't directed at anyone in particular, just ranting. A secret on f!s today set me off. Normally I'm pretty chill and it takes some serious stuff to get me worked up, but I'm getting kinda sick of feeling like I'm doing something wrong just because I'm doing something that I like.

So I'll say it straight up: Fandom owes you jack shitYou find

Comments

[arson_attrition]

Word.

The only problem I have with Axel/Roxas is its insane, rabid fans that make it too .. repetitive. Don't get me wrong; I've written it myself and rather enjoy it ... but it's nice to see a mix-up, too. You can only read a pairing so many times before most of the dynamics get covered.

[kokanshu]

I dunno, I think cause of fandom cliches a lot of dynamics haven't been covered, but I'm working on remedying that myself. Which I guess kinda goes with my point, haha.

[relmneiko]

Case in point: Roxas almost never tops. Height rule at work!
Also most Axel/Roxas fics are from Roxas' perspective. ...I actually can't even think of one that's from Axel's. O.o

[kokanshu]

Haha, am I allowed to pimp my own stuff now? I've got Roxas topping (while wearing a dress, as well) in the first part of Eleven (AU), here on ffnet or here on LJ (doesn't go into heavy detail, as the focus of that story isn't porn.) Axel's voice comes way easier to me than Roxas', so I'd say the majority of my stuff is from his POV, but the one that I immediately think of is Rare Birds, which was my first KH fic, here on ffnet and here on LJ. There's also Partners in Crime (AU) (ffnet, LJ), which was written for the kink meme, and is Axel's POV and has Roxas bottoming from the top

[relmneiko]

Ooooh I always like recs, even the self-pimpage kind. A friend of mine complains daily about the lack of Roxas topping and combs the Pit for exceptions, so I thought I'd seen everything! It's nice to be proven wrong. :D

So I'm not the only one who thinks about that sort of thing then. At the very least there is a booming trade in fake ears in tails, I'm sure.

Aside from the height rule, there is the fact that within the game Axel is chasing Roxas around, trying to get him to remember stuff, and after that he continues to dog Sora's steps. It's easy to pull that dynamic over into fic - and those roles slide ever so nicely into a cookie-cutter seme-uke dynamic. Sigh.

[kokanshu]

I'm ususually pretty quiet about pimping my own stuff, but hey, anything to relieve someone else's fandom disappointment :D

Axel's behaviour (and his seeming desperation) always made me think he'd fit more into the uke side of things, but then, I thought the same about Riku in the first game. Fandom proved me wrong (not that I go with seme/uke archetypes at all anyway.)

[relmneiko]

Yeah, Axel's quite eager to please. I always got the feeling that Roxas could pretty much get him to do anything he wanted.

Even though I know the whole seme/uke thing is totally lame and unrealistic, just being in fandom makes it hard to get away from. :/