Vent post
Hi! This is me venting, please don't read if you are easily annoyed by (what you may think are) wrong opinions.
On tumblr somewhere a post came up about voting for Dean/Cas in a 'favourite television couple' competition, and I clicked through because I like voting in things and it turned out that they were up against Bo/Lauren and I despaired. People trying to get me to vote for Dean/Cas over a Canon Queer Lady couple make me so mad.
I went through my history for this post to find the actual link and now I feel even worse because Dean/Cas won.
I've been in Supernatural, I get that they're awesome, but it just feels like this represents EVERYTHING that can make me uncomfortable in fandom. Ignore the LEGIT example of awesome queerness in favour of queer baiting (I haven't watched SPN in years, but this is the sense I've always gotten from the official show stuff). Ignore the TWO badass female characters in favour of these male ones. In general, this culture has really been getting to me lately. Like, yes, I enjoy my dude slash, I really do, but I don't want it at the expense of the really awesome female characters. I want BOTH! I want brilliant, tropey, sexy f/f to be as frequent as the m/m.
On that note, here are a few f/f recs - which are in a different post so that people can get the recs without the bitchy commentary.
For reference, this is Bo/Lauren:
On tumblr somewhere a post came up about voting for Dean/Cas in a 'favourite television couple' competition, and I clicked through because I like voting in things and it turned out that they were up against Bo/Lauren and I despaired. People trying to get me to vote for Dean/Cas over a Canon Queer Lady couple make me so mad.
I went through my history for this post to find the actual link and now I feel even worse because Dean/Cas won.
I've been in Supernatural, I get that they're awesome, but it just feels like this represents EVERYTHING that can make me uncomfortable in fandom. Ignore the LEGIT example of awesome queerness in favour of queer baiting (I haven't watched SPN in years, but this is the sense I've always gotten from the official show stuff). Ignore the TWO badass female characters in favour of these male ones. In general, this culture has really been getting to me lately. Like, yes, I enjoy my dude slash, I really do, but I don't want it at the expense of the really awesome female characters. I want BOTH! I want brilliant, tropey, sexy f/f to be as frequent as the m/m.
On that note, here are a few f/f recs - which are in a different post so that people can get the recs without the bitchy commentary.
For reference, this is Bo/Lauren: