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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[captain_elessar]

Ahsoka annoys me. She's like a Mary-sue. She's even the right age.

Also, there's a woman who goes to my church and suspiciously looks like a hutt. She has no neck. And a non-flattering haircut. Her eldarly mother looks like a troll. Yoda, perhaps?

[starfoozle]

Bah, Ahsoka. I thought exactly the same thing at first, but lately my attitude towards her has shifted from "zomg please fall in a hole, Lekku-Sue" to "okay, she's more of an annoying kid sister type, but she's okay." She's still not one of my favorites, but she's got potential, I think. I just hope the writers act on it eventually.

Haha, a Hutt! We had a woman come into school for college-stuff last year who I could have sworn was the Kaminoan Lama Su in disguise. She was tall, rail-thin, with huge eyes and that eerily flat, hypnotic sort of voice. it was somewhat disconcerting.

[captain_elessar]

Wow. The Kaminoans look like they're anorexic to me. They're very pretty and graceful, but sooooo... skinny. Yes.. and the voice. The sort of voice that would tell you to jump off of a cliff and you'd do it. However, I harth that planet because I love the rain. I'd totally live there.

[starfoozle]

I adore Kamino, too, cuz three of my greatest loves are rain, the ocean and high-tech cities. I'd totally live there as well -- I could spend a semester abroad working with Kaminoan scientists, and then I'd befriend a bunch of the clones. It'd be awesome. :D

[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

[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. :)