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save us, xkit

[ETA 7/22/2023: I'm honestly laughing about this one, given that the latest hell feature is halfway driving me off.]

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I do truly get why some lesbians are really into m/m, but the assumption that all of us prefer ships with no women in them is so, so, weird to me. 

I like male characters individually, I very easily identify with them, and I enjoy their relationships and dynamics with others of any genders. But when it comes to romance, 90% of the time I do not give a single fuck if there aren’t one or more women involved. So I keep seeing these posts about how this m/m ship or that one is what gay people really want, or how only straights would like X, or how m/m shipping is part of being a lesbian in fandom or whatever, and it’s just like … speak for yourself, sis.

(Look. My femslash and het ships are not activism. But they are impacted by my orientation because it deeply influences how I engage with romantic content. This is probably true of most people! But it doesn't give any of us a claim to dictate how the're going to interact for everyone!)

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Avatar fandom has always been a disaster area, but tbh nothing expresses my current opinion so much as



diocletianscabbagefarm on Tumblr responded:

oh dear do I even wanna know

I replied:

Zuko/Sokka shippers are attacking Katara for being in a rival ship homophobic, somehow.

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cmollyo on Tumblr said:

Just found this absurd JA conspiracy theorist-here’s the title of an article he wrote about how Darcy is a manipulative narcissist who made up the Wickham/Georgiana plot: Last Summer in Ramsgate, at the SharpElves Society website. He also wrote an article analyzing Darcy’s smiles, in which, amongst other conclusions, he posits that Darcy not only wrote poems to Jane when she was fifteen, but that Darcy and Bingley are lovers. He’s obsessed with the ‘shadow story’

I replied:

Oh, that guy’s haunted Austen fandom/critics for ages. I first ran over him on the Austen-L mailing list years ago and there was actually a chapter on him in a book on the vagaries of Austen fandom. It’s best to ignore him.

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An anon asked:

in light of today's avatar fandom wank, what's the worst wank you've witnessed over the years for this series?

I replied:

I wasn’t part of the ATLA fandom when it first aired (I had only the vaguest idea of what it was for years afterwards), so I’ve missed out on a lot of undoubtedly terrible incidents!

But in my personal experience, the absolute lowest point was people calling Korra “Whorra,” something they still do (as in, “I saw it yesterday”).

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I actually finished something, and in under 4000 words!

It’s an original short story that I mostly wrote five years ago and have never been able to finish, until I sat down to do it today and just … finished it in a couple of hours. IDK but finally I have a workable draft.

(It also wouldn't exist if not for fandom, because I was thinking of Aragorn/Fíriel But Darker, and also Cesare, and also generic fairy tale heroes. So i smashed it all together because I had to write something really fast for a class, and somehow it's one of the better things I've written, lol. *fingers crossed that i can do something with it*)

[ETA 7/22/2023: I've submitted it three times or so since then, but I've always had some messy sections in the middle, so I do want to try again now that I've cleaned it up. We'll see—I do "believe in it" as it were, but with a lot of uncertainty about getting across what I'm trying to, so ... >_>]

primeideal said:

Congrats! That’s a great feeling.

I replied:

Thank you :)