Pairing Meta: The Appeal of Snake/Otacon from a Male Perspective

[outofmysystem87]

Whilst I am still working on my second story (thanks to Khronos_Keeper and Imre_Nico for agreeing to be my beta-buddies), I decided to do something I promised to do for a long time: an essay about Snake/Otacon slash from a male perspective. I managed to write this pretty quickly, so if you need clarification/elaboration/etc, feel free to ask.

Essay

Comments

[outofmysystem87]

I was simply trying to propose a theory that has some explanatory power regarding the appeal of Snake and Otacon's relationship to some males.

It seems that some of the points I made are also applicable to some females as well (as per Jianna's posts here).

However it also seems that this whole post, which was honestly a totally innocent attempt to simply engage in some meta discussion by offerring a theory up, devolved into a huge wank that offended a number of people, resulted in bannings, huge amounts of stress for a number of persons involved, probably drove the moderator mad, and probably generated enough bad vibes to rouse Great Cthulhu from his sleep.

I would like to thank runcible_spoom, jianna, khronos_keeper, thatkindofguy and thenecromance for engaging in sensible dialogue and raising discussion points about the theory.

I apologize for any emotional distress and grief that may have occurred. Let it be known it was anything but intentional.

I think that after I finish my second fic, and possibly my challenge entry, I'll get out of the fandom's way for a while at least.

[solidi]

...Okay, did you even read what I asked? I know what you were trying to prove, but you didn't even explain a thing. I honestly don't care what you told somebody else because you're not explaining and after reading that, I don't see how that has much to do with Snake/Otacon.

I have a quote to share with you that you should take to heart. "Never underestimate your audience. They're generally sensitive, intelligent people who respond positively to quality entertainment." If you treat people as if they're stupid, which it seems like you are doing here and were doing back over on fissionmailed, people will respond negatively. We honestly wouldn't have a problem with you if you actually took all crit people are giving you and not just get into a big word tantrum with "I'M RIGHT AND YOU'RE WRONG, SO THERE." which I've seen you do with everybody who says something bad about your essay. (see your comment with soviet_cowboy where you state "But I won't bother explaining further since you seem to have made up your mind." You're the one who has made up their mind, not us. If you actually seemed to care what people were saying and answered about what they wrote in a non-insulting fashion, we wouldn't have this issue.)