"More fic/fandom ranting"
05 / 29 / 04
thoughtful
To those who say yaoi fans are hypocrites when someone writes a het fic for a shounen-ai/yaoi series, you got it wrong.
See, the majority of yaoi/shounen-ai fics are using canon characters. Canon. Remember that. What I have a problem with is, usually with shounen-ai series, there are not that many canon female characters, so in order to write a het based fic, an original character is introduced.
And usually falls into the realm of Mary Sue.
If given a choice between reading a Touma-Mika fic, or reading a Yuki-OC fic just because the writer can't bear the thought of him being in a homosexual relationship, guess which one I'm going for, hands down?
I don't have a problem with canon het fics. I don't make a habit of reading them, but I don't have a knee-jerk reaction of gagging on my lunch the same way I would with an OC introduction. Especially when it's obvious the only reason they did it is because they couldn't handle the thought of canon homosexuality.
I can't nor won't say this is the case with every single person, but I'm fairly certain that's the more common mindset of when yaoi fan complain about het couples.
Yes, I'll admit, Rinoa of FF8 annoys me to no end. She makes me grit my teeth. To me, she seems like a Mary Sue character a lot of times. Still, she's canon. So I just keep going whenever I see Squall-Rinoa fics.
Seeing Tsuzuki with an OC just because there's no possible way he could ever like Hisoka like that is what makes me want to throw up. At least with yaoi FF8 fics, the other character is going to be canon, so there's less of a chance of the MS syndrome.†
† Obviously this does not count for wildly OOC portrayels thereof.
So you can call it being a hypocrite. I'm more inclined to think it's just a severe case of MS allergies, given the usual ratio of femmes in such series.
Sorry, spammers forced my hand. Comments reviewed before being published.
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I agree verily with thee in that aspect, LNchan... Especially when you KNOW that the Mary Sue is going to get to the extreme...
( 7:53 am )