Fandom Roundup (alternate title: Starrie Rambles Geekily, But This Is Nothing New)

[starfoozle]

+ How many of you guys watch Clone Wars, out of curiosity? Anyway, I've been following it for a little while, and decided to join this one capslock comm for it on my other journal. I'm beginning to think that was a mistake. While, yes, I appreciate the hilarity of slash, awkward lines and Obi-Wan/Ventress madness, the whole "let's sexualize Anakin'

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[starfoozle]

I think I may leave the comm soon for that very reason. Ahsoka is a cute kid, but certainly not in THAT way, and I'm really uncomfortable with people essentially turning her into a sex kitten. Yes, yes, there's that whole "she's fictional, alien and a cartoon, so why should it matter" justification, but I don't care. Debatable kiddie porn is still debatable kiddie porn. Ick.

Ugh, fanwank. I'm forced to wonder if the sort of gag rule that seems to apply to arguing against people's kinks creates more drama than it stops, though.

I am so with you on the interaction=sexualization thing. It's not just you, trust me. I'm a genfic-loving kind of girl, because my favorite thing is the interaction rather than the 'action' that seems to inevitably pop up. I get very fed up with the whole "Oh, they're friends/close, so you KNOW they must be banging each other behind the scenes!" thing. *headdesk* Oy vey. Fandom, can we please, as a whole, get over ourselves?

(Also, argyle_octopus and I watched Fern Gully together last summer. We've got a tradition of renting ancient animated flicks that used to scare us as kids, but Fern Gully was actually just as bizzarely terrifying as we recalled. I mean, a Pollution Monster! Who oozes smoke and poison and flaaaaames, and kills the rainforest! Augh. *laughs*)

[starfoozle]

This is one of the truest things ever typed, and I love you for it. Obviously we are bonking behind the scenes!

*promptly dies of the lulz* Though, you know, if we were fictional, it would be trufax. *headdesk*

Agreed, agreed. This especially gets me in Star Wars fandom, because hello? Supposedly-celebate Jedi, for one, and then a whole galaxy of other species with perhaps different bedroom habits? But alas, people don't seem to consider any of this at all.

At the very least, *puts on Future-English-Major-glasses*, I plan to take this into consideration in my own writing, and pass the word and ideas around to my fellow writers. Small steps, you know.

By the by, I totally snagged the Shiv!icon. It was too cool to pass up. :)