Comments | libekory: Fanlistings. Oh god why.

libekory

Fanlistings. Oh god why.

Nov 25, 2006 04:17

Beware all ye who enter here: I might complain about a pairing you like. Trust me, it's not the pairing I'm complaining about. It's the idiotic way it's being presented.

( Pairings keep fallin' on my head... )

caution! falling opinions, fandom = sigh, bitter libek is bitter

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refracting November 25 2006, 15:46:02 UTC

Must run as I'm late to work, but there are video game character fanlistings at TFL.org. You have to go to the main video game section and then there's a subsection in that.

libekory November 25 2006, 17:13:56 UTC

....you're right! And many of the fanlistings I was looking at last night are available there, too, although...not...all of them. (And the Roxas fanlisting at TFL.Org is actually different from the one at TAFL.Org. Sneaky!)

I wonder how they let this happen. XD

refracting November 25 2006, 23:24:43 UTC

*drive by comment before being whisked off to do familial duty stuff*

Apparently the stuff at TAFL.org is ONLY for the anime/manga versions. Everything at TFL.org under video games is only for the video game versions. Doesn't make much sense to me for things like this, but eh.

libekory December 2 2006, 20:03:53 UTC

But that's just DUMB. Bah. (Also, TAFL.Org has one of the ugliest sites I've ever seen. The colors alone are hideous. D:)

maladaptive November 25 2006, 17:35:17 UTC

The Larxene/Axel people make me convulse with a mixture of howling laughter and blinding rage. I like that pairing, dammit, why do all the fans have to be so fucking nutbars? (Yeesh, and people complain about the crazy yaoi fangirls-- look at your own behavior, it's not limited to yaoi.)

The people who omg need their pairing to be canon or else they can't like it really baffles me. And I really only see this from self-proclaimed het fans-- maybe they're so used to getting what they want, they forgot how to use their imaginations? It just baffles me.

libekory December 2 2006, 20:22:10 UTC

Heebunnysheepthing. ♥

The main problem I have with Larxene/Axel fans is that the relationship they attempt to portray is warmfuzzy-generic boy-meets-girl -- i.e., nothing like Axel and Larxene's actual canon relationship. (This puzzles me to no end, but I've come to accept it. Well, it's really not that different from how a typical slash fangirl reduces her boys to Seme and Uke so that their names, backgrounds, and personalities are totally irrelevant ( ... )

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libekory December 2 2006, 20:02:44 UTC

*snork* The pretty is actually ANOTHER reason I resent them! Typically a decent fanlisting does nothing but steal a good name for a website and a good idea for a layout. (Obviously we don't need to worry about that for any of these, but.)

orangediscord December 2 2006, 18:43:58 UTC

Winter Wonderland.

Wow.

I don't know. XD I've never found fanlistings to really be of any use, 'cause like you've mentioned, there's no content. Its like, great, I've read your platonic reasons about why this pairing is totally 'right', and then...there's...nowhere to go except hit the back browser. XD

Karen goes squee.

libekory December 2 2006, 20:01:15 UTC

I know, right? Bah, waste of space. Make a SHRINE. At LEAST do that much. But ninety percent of them seem to be composed of "Copy-pasted text intro, Copy-pasted text 'About', Link to 'Codes', Link to List of Fans Who Don't Even Have Relevant Websites, Link to 'Home'". What the hell is the point of that. :\

orangediscord December 3 2006, 09:12:10 UTC

Yeah.

Its like...to comfort other people and assure them that they still believe in the pairing? XD I don't know. AT LEAST PUT UP SOME USEFUL links, y'know? Maybe... I'm actually just pretty addicted to fanfiction right now. And fanart, never shall I leave out the fanart. They deserve love too. ;~;

libekory December 3 2006, 15:32:15 UTC

I dunno; I always figured a shrine was more for oneself (and the character) than other people, so that part, I wouldn't worry about if it were me. XD I've felt differently in the past, but at the moment I'm kinda like, who cares if anyone ELSE believes in a pairing! I do. :D

(But then, I tend to like really mainstream pairings, even in my slash. Which is to say, usually not something that's CANON, but something that has a lot of accumulated canon moments that show how much they care about each other, even if only in a friendly way. Axel/Roxas is a new type of this for me, given Axel's nigh "I loved him" sentiment in Betwixt and Between, and Sora/Riku is the most adorable best friend slash ever.

(But like, I tend to avoid most Organization XIII slash; aside from the aforementioned one, the only pairing I really believe in is Marluxia/Larxene; and I'll opt for some manipulative porn with Axel in the mix there, or some very-slightly-sexual tormenting of Namine by Larxene. I like the idea of Demyx/Xigbar because to me that explains how ( ... )

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