Happy early birthday to me and random fandom ramblings
..Well, my birthday is on Tuesday but the chance that I'll ever remember to update this on my actual birthday is slim, so I'll put this here now. I've already made tenuous plans about what I want to do for my birthday, I just have to figure out when I want to do them. I might try to get the shopping done over the weekend, or if that fails my actual birthday will work too. This year my Mom got tired to trying to figure out what I would want for birthday and just told me that she would take me to pick something out. So far I'm thinking I'll pick out a nice video game to keep me distracted. I already have bookstore gift cards left over from Christmas since I was waiting for the paperback version of the books I wanted to come out. I can get all three this way, instead of being stuck getting only one hardback.
Anyway on the video game front, does anyone know any good XBox360 games? RPG preferably, and no first person shooters please. I fail at those mightily.
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On another subject entirely, I have been getting back into Yu-Gi-Oh. It was my very first anime fandom that I actually got heavily involved in, and I remember it being very crazy. I read fanfiction, wrote some myself, and even had my own horrible Yu-Gi-Oh sue! But it was kind of fun, and after watching the most recent series I found myself with more Yu-Gi-Oh plotbunnies pouncing around inside my head. (Whee random timetravel crossovers between series!) As I started writing out the fic, Tea/Anzu suddenly stepped up to take a sort of main character status.
This surprised me for a couple of reasons, one because I hadn't planned to include her this much, and because two, I hadn't liked her very much. However, as I continued to write I found myself having fun with her. She's an easy character to write, and I couldn't remember why I had disliked her. Seriously, I could not remember what it was about her that my teenage self hated. There were no episodes that stood out as her being really annoying in my mind. Her friendship speeches weren't nearly as bad as everyone tried to make them be. So...why had I hated her again?
It wasn't for shipping reasons because I didn't really ship any couples in Yu-Gi-Oh at that time.
It wasn't because of anything to do with Yugi because I didn't care about him. So why did I dislike her so much?
Then I remembered that back then it was something of a fad in the fandom to hate on Tea/Anzu for...for...for liking Yugi I guess. At least I saw a lot of it coming from people who supported Yugi/Yami and someone saw Tea as a threat. That was a big part of the fandom and I remember reading tons of fanfiction everyday. From what I can remember, the Tea in those fanfictions was not the Tea from the show. She was some sort of bitchy harpy that had somehow turned homophobic and lived to break up the happy yaoi couples. I can honestly say that must be the Tea I hated. The Tea from those fanfitions, and not the real Tea. It really was stupid now that I look back on it. At least now I'm a little older, a little wiser, and hopefully will actually be able to writer her in character.
One last thing that boggled me today: Someone complaining that people in the Saint Seiya fandom all hated them for liking yaoi and yuri. People from the Saint Seiya fandom. Hating someone for liking yaoi. A fandom that is basically founded on yaoi hating someone for liking it. I mean, it's not my thing but I have never seen someone run out of the fandom for it. O_o Just what corner of the fandom were they lurking in...?
Anyway on the video game front, does anyone know any good XBox360 games? RPG preferably, and no first person shooters please. I fail at those mightily.
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On another subject entirely, I have been getting back into Yu-Gi-Oh. It was my very first anime fandom that I actually got heavily involved in, and I remember it being very crazy. I read fanfiction, wrote some myself, and even had my own horrible Yu-Gi-Oh sue! But it was kind of fun, and after watching the most recent series I found myself with more Yu-Gi-Oh plotbunnies pouncing around inside my head. (Whee random timetravel crossovers between series!) As I started writing out the fic, Tea/Anzu suddenly stepped up to take a sort of main character status.
This surprised me for a couple of reasons, one because I hadn't planned to include her this much, and because two, I hadn't liked her very much. However, as I continued to write I found myself having fun with her. She's an easy character to write, and I couldn't remember why I had disliked her. Seriously, I could not remember what it was about her that my teenage self hated. There were no episodes that stood out as her being really annoying in my mind. Her friendship speeches weren't nearly as bad as everyone tried to make them be. So...why had I hated her again?
It wasn't for shipping reasons because I didn't really ship any couples in Yu-Gi-Oh at that time.
It wasn't because of anything to do with Yugi because I didn't care about him. So why did I dislike her so much?
Then I remembered that back then it was something of a fad in the fandom to hate on Tea/Anzu for...for...for liking Yugi I guess. At least I saw a lot of it coming from people who supported Yugi/Yami and someone saw Tea as a threat. That was a big part of the fandom and I remember reading tons of fanfiction everyday. From what I can remember, the Tea in those fanfictions was not the Tea from the show. She was some sort of bitchy harpy that had somehow turned homophobic and lived to break up the happy yaoi couples. I can honestly say that must be the Tea I hated. The Tea from those fanfitions, and not the real Tea. It really was stupid now that I look back on it. At least now I'm a little older, a little wiser, and hopefully will actually be able to writer her in character.
One last thing that boggled me today: Someone complaining that people in the Saint Seiya fandom all hated them for liking yaoi and yuri. People from the Saint Seiya fandom. Hating someone for liking yaoi. A fandom that is basically founded on yaoi hating someone for liking it. I mean, it's not my thing but I have never seen someone run out of the fandom for it. O_o Just what corner of the fandom were they lurking in...?