no, seriously, what?

[lazulisong]

I don't know what is really worse, that someone turned Tego into a girl or that they then made Tego and Ryo incestuous sibs. ....this same person had written one where Tego is trans, but in that one they were merely second cousins

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[pashoshi]

...did they make Tegoshi a girl and make him and Ryo incestuous siblings in the same fic? D:

[lazulisong]

Yes.

I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY WANT TO HURT RYO EITHER.

[pashoshi]

*cries* Are they aware that incest between siblings of opposite sex is even worse than between siblings of the same sex, since they have the possibility of having mutant babies? Also, WHY?

Fandom really seems to like doing awful things to Ryo. Or having him do awful things to other people.

[lazulisong]

now you know that earth logic is just crazy, Ilana!

I don't even know. It does seem that there's a big tendency in fandom to do mean things to characters you like - not just in JE, but all around - which has always puzzled me. If you like a character, why are you writing fics where they suffer? and then have it end badly? the classic example I'm thinking of is in CCS fic, where people would write angsty fic about Touya and Yukito or Syaoran and Sakura and then they'd just sort of drift off and never talk to each other.

[pashoshi]

...well, see, I can't really talk because I think it's been established by now that I like to torment Ryo in fic. >.> Mostly it's because I find angst interesting, and so I like to heap it on whoever I like writing about. But stuff like psycho fic or rape fic or incest is a whole different category of torment, and that I really just don't get.

[darkeyedwolf]

Awhile ago I would've said BUT THEY'RE SO PRETTY WHEN THEY'RE SUFFER but having spent the past two days wading through endless fic where the NCIS uke is beaten, raped, and suffers complications from the plague, I have to chime in and say SERIOUSLY WHAT'S WRONG WITH GIVING THEM PUPPIES.

[lazulisong]

AND A COOKIE, GIVE THEM A COOKIE AND A HUG. And a beer, if they want it!

I don't mind angsty fic if it's done well but I don't go out looking for it and I really don't enjoy reading about people having mean things done to them for the sake of mean things being done to them.

I don't even know! Fandom is weird, and I would rather write about characters I like being happy! ...even if I do put them through shit first, which I have done in the past, I admit.

[darkeyedwolf]

I like hurt/comfort, but sometimes fic lingers lovingly on the "hurt" part and I have to curl in the corner and plot elaborate AUs in my head where they all get married and have children and go butterfly hunting. ;__;