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bunnydoll

Your Opinion: Fanfic-Related Matters

Jan 11, 2008 04:34

Terrible evening/night last night, just a nightmare of pain--thank goodness for YouTube and stacks of new DVDs! :) Now I'm settled in at the computer and in the mood to get opinions on random things that pop into my head.

Here's a question for those of you on the FL who write/read fanfiction. I suppose it's mildly adult in nature.

( Yes, I'm up at 4 am, and I'm wondering weird things )

Comments 15

sharona1x2 January 11 2008, 11:04:20 UTC

I can read anime characters paired in NC17 stories with no problem. With fic based on live action movies or TV, I no longer can do that. I used to be able to, but anime must have changed me. ^_~

I just discovered House fandom, and as much as I like House and Wilson, I prefer them as friends. With Torchwood, where the gay is canon, I can read kissing, but I don't go for anything more graphic than that. I guess it has to do with the way I associate the characters with the actors that play them. I don't really do that with seiyuu, at least not to the same degree.

I hope that makes a little sense!

bunnydoll January 11 2008, 11:25:34 UTC

No, it makes a lot of sense, I think I agree with you. :) With real people involved, especially, it makes sense to me. Out of curiosity, what's your opinion on RPS? I'm guessing you don't partake.

sharona1x2 January 11 2008, 11:43:23 UTC

No RPS for me. I wouldn't read Real People Het, either. I don't enjoy reading speculative fic about the sex lives of real people, and I wouldn't want anyone to write something about my sex life. I can't imagine how some of the people featured in RPS stories must feel when they find out about them. Hopefully, they just shrug it off.

I don't try to convince people not to write RPS. I just stay as far from it as I can. Live and let live. ^_^

bunnydoll January 11 2008, 11:59:53 UTC

I'm completely with you here (on both not liking it and on not trying to force this belief on others--what do I care what people perv about?). I don't think I've ever actually read any RPS, even out of morbid curiousity.

It came to mind because I recently found it for a Food Network program I watch religiously! For some reason the thought of that with people who don't even play characters--who just portray themselves on a show--was double mind-blowing and squickworthy to me. I feel guilty enough that I think one of the guys on that show is cute in the first place, thank you very much. ;)

squidlet January 11 2008, 11:30:59 UTC

Hikaru/Akira from Hikaru no Go

Gingetsu/Lan from Clover

Lots of others.

I think most of the time it's because I don't see authors doing it in a way which I think is IC. Fandom builds its own culture of How Things Should Progress to porno and it's sadly not the way that I can be persuaded to accept a sexual relationship.

I think also, that the more I obsess and observe the dynamics of a certain "couple", the less I can be persuaded to read NC17 things.

bunnydoll January 11 2008, 12:03:39 UTC

Very true. Fandom and I agree on very few things about the dynamics of relationships. (Heck, we don't agree on much in general--I've resigned myself to this!)

Many of people put a lot of emphasis on writers who are inexperienced sexually writing about sex, but it's equally (or more) jarring to read someone who doesn't seem to have a lot of insight on human interaction write about relationships/friendships/whatever.

squidlet January 11 2008, 14:22:46 UTC

The longer I spend in fandom the less I can be persuaded to let go of issues just so I can enjoy the warm glow of fannishness.

but it's equally (or more) jarring to read someone who doesn't seem to have a lot of insight on human interaction write about relationships/friendships/whatever.

You know the sad conclusion to that is that most people are living life without really knowing what they're doing.

akaibara January 11 2008, 13:41:26 UTC

I'm a peeeeeerrrrrrrveeeeeerrrrrrt~~! If I like 'em enough to think romantic thoughts about them, it's all downhill from there. ^_^

However, I've got to chip in my 2 yen to the RPS conversation. RPS is yucky. =P I'm not even really all that fond of live action slash. (All the jokes I made during Return of the King aside. XDD) Real guys sweat and fart and play with the smoo they find in their bellybuttons. While that's just part of the territory in being in a relationship with one, I can't say my idealized sexual fantasies involve much in the way of scratch and sniff. XD

(*also makes you hot tea, cookies and tucks blanket around you*)

bunnydoll January 11 2008, 14:05:10 UTC

Agreement here on the RPS side as well. It probably doesn't help that whenever I see, er, "teh buttsecks" all I can think is "ow, ow, OW." XD;

Mmm...cookies. *snuggles up*

akaibara January 11 2008, 17:15:38 UTC

Well, not to mention 'teh buttsecks' means 'teh hygiene' is necessary. Or at the very least 'teh baby wipes', much less 'teh enema'.

Which I guarantee fangirls are not even thinking about. XD

prillalar January 11 2008, 14:41:00 UTC

Not as such, although the more I actually ship a pairing and want them to be happyhappy, the less I want to read/write explicit fic about them. There's no difference for me between animated and live-action fandoms. And there have been pairings I didn't really ship at all that I wrote a lot of R/NC17 about because they were fun that way. Hmm.

petronia January 11 2008, 23:04:59 UTC

Instinct says that yes, there're lots, but I can't come up with any off the top of my head. ^^; Probably if I can't/don't want to write/read a pairing having sex I just don't think of myself as "shipping" that pairing, as opposed to merely being fond of their interaction. Like Ed/Al in FMA.

With regard to anime vs live-ac etc. it's all a matter of habituation, I suspect. I used to be weirded out by RPS too. =_= (Also I just don't consider most of the targets of RPS I've seen to be that attractive, which puts a damper on things.)