Scaring off fans, again?

[arson_attrition]

[I know; it's been ranted about before.]

I'm a het fan. Really and truly, I am. Even in KH [which has so few females]. Riku/Kairi, Namine/Repliku, Roxas/Olette, etc. ... I promise, I like them!

But, even though I'm going in, expecting a hetfic ... do you have to slander yaoi in your disclaimer?

"NOT A YAOI FIC!!!" ... Okay. I could tell from the

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[destructively]

I'M PRETTY GOOD

[dorked]

And this is the reason why I keep to myself in fandom. :x There's elitists on all sides of the spectrum, really, and they usually outnumber sane fans.

[arson_attrition]

Yeah, sad, isn't it?

[kurenai_tenka]

...you know, for all the comments 'LULZ IT WONT HAVE BEEN A GUY', I don't see what's so mind-bending about a gay men drawing...gay men.

As for who did it first...well if yaoi is 'Japanese drawing of two men together' then I suppose it goes back to early Japanese art...which was...more often than not done by men.

....man that was a total tangent. Anyway, word on the rant. XD

[kosmic_kinsei]

I don't see what's so mind-bending about a gay men drawing...gay men.

I don't, except that it's a rarity to see a guy like yaoi these days. It's possible a man "invented" yaoi a while ago and then the girls took to it, who knows?

But homo-eroticism is ancient, which can also lead back to the ancient Romans and/or Greeks (lol I need to do my history homework) and spawned its little devils in Japan at one point, since I hear Japan is a little more "open", per se, on homosexuality than most other countries.

Bah, I'm not sure about the above. I need to do my homework. But anyways, I'm pretty sure yaoi didn't just start with a horny thirteen-year-old girl or the like.

[kurenai_tenka]

Yeah, first thing I think of is the Greeks too. XD Obviously I omitted it from my example due to the context being Japanese, but yeah. As for Japan, their homosexual samurai culture sort of covers their open minded thingum. And their old belief (in some places) that love between two men was better/stronger than that between men and women.

But yeah, I would certainly think not. XD But it's like people are shocked when guys do like yaoi, which is so stupid it's untrue.

Also, love the avatar. XD

[arson_attrition]

It's really not. I regularly hang out with three gay men who thoroughly enjoy reading and cosplaying yaoi. Maybe it's just another one of those "who ya know" situations.

Homosexuality is still sort of a taboo in the old fogies, but in the modern cities, it's a bit more accepted. I guess it's sorta like SanFran and Seattle for the U.S.: some people still don't like it, but they just get over it.

[abrogate_nadir]

Agreed. It's their fic and all, but those kinds of disclaimers can drive away potential readers and can make the author look close-minded.

[arson_attrition]

Exactly.

[ponchomoron]

Yeah, I always get irritated when there are disclaimers like that, even though I'm a het fan. (While I do like yaoi and yuri, my OTPs are usually hetero).