You Asked For It, Part 2
Jan. 28th, 2005 12:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
emmagrant01A few more rants. I apologize if I didn't get to your topic, but I think this will be it! Fandom time is really limited for me these days... ;-)
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helens78 requested a rant on slash fen expressing disgust at het sex in fic. I have to say I really, really don't get why so many slash fans have a "eww, gross!" reaction to het. Are they sexually repressed or something? It seems a bit strange that someone (typically a heterosexual woman, right?) would find descriptions of sexual activity between two men hot, but would be turned off by a description of heterosexual sex. It really boggles the mind, and it seems hypocritical too.
I like het fic, personally. I've written het. I have plans to write more het. There's a perception that slash is, on the whole, of better quality than het fic. I don't know if that's true, but that's not what I'm talking about. I can understand why a lot of fans wouldn't enjoy the bad het fanfic that's out there. I don't like any fic that reads like a cheesy Harlequin novel or bad porn, whether it's het or slash. But every now and then someone has a "yuck! het!" reaction to something that's well-written, and I really don't get it. How can someone find that distasteful, when it's what they do in bed?
oconel requested a rant about Star Wars. She left it fairly open, so here's what I'm going to rant about. (I think it could be adapted to apply to HP as well...) How could people LOVE The Phantom Menace and HATE Attack of the Clones???? I mean, WTF??? Yes, I understand AOTC lacked Qui-Gon, but that's because he was DEAD. I was really disappointed in TPM when I saw it at the theater, and I stopped being a SW fan for a couple of years because of it. It was beyond disappointing -- I was embarrassed by it, and I thought maybe I'd outgrown SW at long last. It was only after seeing AOTC that I started writing fanfic again, because that film energized me to get back into fandom! After AOTC, I had hope that everything would turn out all right for the series, even after the horrors of Jar-Jar and midichlorians and the immaculate conception and "wizard!". None of that crap was in AOTC, and it just... rocked. Love, love, love it. Serious lightsbaer action, bearded!Obi, kick-ass!Yoda, hot!Anakin, parallels with ESB, and so on.
But it totally sucked that I joined MA just after falling in love with that film, only to find myself in the middle of a barrage of "AOTC SUX!!!" posts. Oddly enough, I got involved iin the HP fandom after reading OOTP, and it was a similar experience. (Why do I always arrive in a fandom a couple of years too late?)
eristeleute requested a rant on the re-introduction of the so-called Marriage Protection Act in Congress. You know, it's hard for me to express the degree of anger and resentment I feel about this! I had myself convinced that the Republicans had just pushed this issue during the election to stir up their base, and that nothing would really come from it because the majority of Americans, while not necessarily supporting gay marriage, were uncomfortable amending the Constitution to ban it altogether. There had even been some indication that Bush was willing to let the whole thing drop quietly. Guess I should've known better, but I was hopeful. It's depressing, and sad, and makes me really, really angry. But I'm going to fight it in whatever way I can. By the way, if you haven't read it, everyone should pick up a copy of Jonathon Rausch's book Gay Marriage: Why it's Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America. jedirita recommended it to me, and I'm SO glad I read it! If you need ammunition for talking to your closed-minded friends and relatives, READ THIS BOOK! It changed the way I think about marriage -- my own marriage, even.
On a completely different note: remember when I complained about my computer problems last week? We ended up having to wipe and reformat the hard drives on all of our computers. This actually turned out to be a good thing, because it "fixed" all the problems I've been having with my laptop lately. I managed to save all of my documents, but I lost all of my IE bookmarks. :-( This only sucks because I had a ton of HP and SW fics bookmarked that I was going to add to my recs pages... On a more positive note, I LOVE Firefox! Thanks to everyone who recommended it!
Cryptic bit for those folks who know what I'm struggling to accomplish in RL at the moment: Wish me luck this weekend -- I think it's going to happen after all... :-D
helens78 requested a rant on slash fen expressing disgust at het sex in fic. I have to say I really, really don't get why so many slash fans have a "eww, gross!" reaction to het. Are they sexually repressed or something? It seems a bit strange that someone (typically a heterosexual woman, right?) would find descriptions of sexual activity between two men hot, but would be turned off by a description of heterosexual sex. It really boggles the mind, and it seems hypocritical too. I like het fic, personally. I've written het. I have plans to write more het. There's a perception that slash is, on the whole, of better quality than het fic. I don't know if that's true, but that's not what I'm talking about. I can understand why a lot of fans wouldn't enjoy the bad het fanfic that's out there. I don't like any fic that reads like a cheesy Harlequin novel or bad porn, whether it's het or slash. But every now and then someone has a "yuck! het!" reaction to something that's well-written, and I really don't get it. How can someone find that distasteful, when it's what they do in bed?
oconel requested a rant about Star Wars. She left it fairly open, so here's what I'm going to rant about. (I think it could be adapted to apply to HP as well...) How could people LOVE The Phantom Menace and HATE Attack of the Clones???? I mean, WTF??? Yes, I understand AOTC lacked Qui-Gon, but that's because he was DEAD. I was really disappointed in TPM when I saw it at the theater, and I stopped being a SW fan for a couple of years because of it. It was beyond disappointing -- I was embarrassed by it, and I thought maybe I'd outgrown SW at long last. It was only after seeing AOTC that I started writing fanfic again, because that film energized me to get back into fandom! After AOTC, I had hope that everything would turn out all right for the series, even after the horrors of Jar-Jar and midichlorians and the immaculate conception and "wizard!". None of that crap was in AOTC, and it just... rocked. Love, love, love it. Serious lightsbaer action, bearded!Obi, kick-ass!Yoda, hot!Anakin, parallels with ESB, and so on. But it totally sucked that I joined MA just after falling in love with that film, only to find myself in the middle of a barrage of "AOTC SUX!!!" posts. Oddly enough, I got involved iin the HP fandom after reading OOTP, and it was a similar experience. (Why do I always arrive in a fandom a couple of years too late?)
eristeleute requested a rant on the re-introduction of the so-called Marriage Protection Act in Congress. You know, it's hard for me to express the degree of anger and resentment I feel about this! I had myself convinced that the Republicans had just pushed this issue during the election to stir up their base, and that nothing would really come from it because the majority of Americans, while not necessarily supporting gay marriage, were uncomfortable amending the Constitution to ban it altogether. There had even been some indication that Bush was willing to let the whole thing drop quietly. Guess I should've known better, but I was hopeful. It's depressing, and sad, and makes me really, really angry. But I'm going to fight it in whatever way I can. By the way, if you haven't read it, everyone should pick up a copy of Jonathon Rausch's book Gay Marriage: Why it's Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America. jedirita recommended it to me, and I'm SO glad I read it! If you need ammunition for talking to your closed-minded friends and relatives, READ THIS BOOK! It changed the way I think about marriage -- my own marriage, even.On a completely different note: remember when I complained about my computer problems last week? We ended up having to wipe and reformat the hard drives on all of our computers. This actually turned out to be a good thing, because it "fixed" all the problems I've been having with my laptop lately. I managed to save all of my documents, but I lost all of my IE bookmarks. :-( This only sucks because I had a ton of HP and SW fics bookmarked that I was going to add to my recs pages... On a more positive note, I LOVE Firefox! Thanks to everyone who recommended it!
Cryptic bit for those folks who know what I'm struggling to accomplish in RL at the moment: Wish me luck this weekend -- I think it's going to happen after all... :-D
