Manga artist Mimei Sakamoto rips Japan's moe culture in an upcoming issue of Shukan Bunshun. "This fetish you call 'moe' is a pedophiliac fetish and is nothing more than perversion," she says. "In other countries, they'd call what you're fantasizing over 'child pornography' and you'd all be arrested."

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Trigun

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sarajayechan requested my thoughts on Utena/Anthy so here I go. ( OMFG SPOILERS LIKE A SPOILING THING )

Can we agree to a moratorium on "I like slash as much as the next person, but why do people slash THIS pairing? It doesn't make sense because they seem so straight/there's an age difference/they have canon interests....etc" posts?

Wishful thinking, I know. And sometimes I even agree with the poster. But really--this kind of thing is getting so ( Read more... )

Am I the only one who thinks the term "fanbrat" (and its derivatives) is an assy word to use? No doubt there are times it's an accurate descriptor, but when I read it in a post, I think of how silly a fanficcer I was back in the day--how I wanted to write goodfic but I had areas of stoopid that I just didn't see. Sure, I sucked, but not on ( Read more... )

Oh, my god, so much word.

My favorites:

2) Adding sex to one's favorite series has always been a core foundation of what drives fanfiction. Get over yourselves, genficcers. It's not bad just because it has sex in it. Personally, I find genfic a more dangerous copyright violation than wild out-there yaoi/slash sex, as potentially it has a far ( Read more... )

Ask me my opinion on any character from any fandom, and I will say. If I do not know the fandom, I will say what I think I know based on fannish osmosis.