Comments | sarolynne: Okay, fandom, let's have some words about how you see yourself.

sarolynne

Okay, fandom, let's have some words about how you see yourself.

Mar 07, 2010 17:18

Actually, I admit, we could have a metric fuckton of words about a right shitload of things. But I had something in particular in mind today. Today, what I was thinking about in particular is how you seem to think you are just dominated by slash. When I peruse various fandom areas, it seems to be this narrative I run flat into time and again. ( Read more... )

dear god she doesn't shut up does she?, yes really, rambling, saro's doing that thing again, fanstuff, rantyrants, fear my feminist rage, meta, contemplating the ceiling, screed, meta meta, wait is she a troll?

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llamrei March 8 2010, 02:32:45 UTC

As someone who shipped only het until I was like... 20, you're absolutely right. I was a fan of Gundam Wing het, for instance! The fandom was there! I don't recall ever being upset that there wasn't a fanbase for it!

I still ship het a lot, because for me it's certain pairings that click and not really what genders they are, and sure, for some het pairings there is a lot less fic than there is for the slash pairing. ...But there are also fandoms where it's the other way around. It's really what pairing happens to become more popular, and when it's a slash pairing that becomes the most popular, people start believing it's clearly only because it is slash.

sarolynne March 8 2010, 02:39:09 UTC

Yeah, I agree with that--that it's not just about the genders. Gender is only a part of who a character is, and really, not normally all that hugely important of a part.

People somehow assume that Sasuke/Naruto ends up popular just because they're two guys, and not because, you know... they are epically in love with one another, whether or not that love is romantic in the canon. XD

llamrei March 8 2010, 02:41:59 UTC

Sasuke/Naruto is extremely popular for many reasons, most of which have very little to do with the fact that they are boys. If either of them were female, they would likely be considered the canon love interest.

sarolynne March 8 2010, 02:44:15 UTC

It is so true. If Naruto were a girl, Sasuke/Naruto would have EVERYONE sure they'd eventually become canon.

That's my thing with slash--most of the slash pairings that I like, if the characters were opposite sexes, would seem like a potential love interest. Not necessarily a canon love interest, no, but still definitely as much a love interest as any number of het ships I liked.

So why not ship them too?

rosalui March 8 2010, 04:10:22 UTC

THIS THIS THIS. <33

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