Is it all just A/C?

[finmagik]

I was wondering, I've been a member of this group since November and all I've seen is A/C. I recall there were other characters in the book. How come I've never seen, any Horseperson fics or TeenThem slash? Hmmm if it is all just A/C I'm afraid I'm going to be a bit disappointed.

Comments

[fenris_wolf0]

Feel free to post some other pairing. Personally I prefer A/C, but hey, to each their own.

On the other hand when the day comes that the other characters pairings become predominant, I can skip off to a different fandom which is what I usually do when that happens: and it happens in most fandoms, that the pairing most clearly hinted at in the book/movie ends up being considered gauche and not 'original' enough.

Oh well, no big deal. I'll still have the book when that happens... :D

[fenris_wolf0]

I sympathize completely: it has happened in every fandom I have followed for any length of time. To the point where the one I am most involved it now gets newbies starting their introductory posts with 'I despise the x/y pairing, anything but x/y and... ' which I always find rather nasty: any other character or pairing bashing gets stomped on pretty hard, but because x/y has a lot of UST in the original show, you get some ugly reverse discrimination.

This does not mean that I do not appreciate a good alternate pairing (most of the ones recommended above I read a long time ago), just that I see no point in dumping on the main fandom pairing because it's 'cool' to do so. Not that I am suggesting that the original poster did so: I am only venting because I've been chased from too many fandoms by such changes and the unsubtle pressure exerted on writers to write alternate pairings in order to seem cool and fashionable.

[dreya_uberwald]

I am only venting because I've been chased from too many fandoms by such changes and the unsubtle pressure exerted on writers to write alternate pairings in order to seem cool and fashionable.

I've noticed this quite a lot in the various fandoms I've flirted with over the last few years. It's understandable that when you've got a fandom like the GO, which does tend to be heavily focussed on one particular relationship, it's going to be frustrating for fans who aren't quite so enamoured with pairing. But there's a huge difference between stating that you'd like to see something different - like the poster here - and trying to put pressure on other individual writers - which I have seen happen and is just incredibly rude. Disliking something because of personal preference, or because you feel it's overdone and are bored with it, is understandable. But deriding something purely on the basis that lots of other people enjoy it strikes me as fairly stupid and amusingly immature.

[fenris_wolf0]

But deriding something purely on the basis that lots of other people enjoy it strikes me as fairly stupid and amusingly immature.

Oh yes, yes it is. But far too common... I am surprised but gratified to hear that I am not the only one to have noticed this phenomenon, by the way.

And as before, I am replying based on my own experience in a lot of different fandoms, I am not targeting the initial poster here.

[slythwolf]

Oh, has it? That kind of thing would never happen if they'd stop poorly dubbing things into English and putting them on American television. In my day, you had crappy fifth-gen fansubs and liked it, and KxH was canon, dammit.

I really hate when people get that way about pairings. "Oh, everyone's written that because it was the 'cool' pairing, it's tired now." Shut up, random!fan. I like what I like, not what other people think is "in".