Squall and Weepy Uke Syndrome

[dancingspiral]

For a while, I've not been hip to the jive of the psuedo-Japanese terms that yaoi fangirls seem to have adopted. This is not surprising, considering I'm not a big fan of most yaoi fan fiction. For a while, I've seen the terms "seme" and "uke" tossed around several fandom communities and only recently decided to enlighten myself as to what these

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[gunshou]

I approved this, but as per the rules, please place everything after the first paragraph behind an LJ-cut. Thanks.

[dancingspiral]

Sorry... Fixed. I'm running on little sleep and lots of coffee.

[gunshou]

No problem! Thanks for the fix. :D

[solitaryjane]

Word.

I think we'd all enjoy fanfiction more if more thought were put into shaping a relationship rather than zomgtehsmexxors!! And I also hate the seme/uke stereotype. It's one thing if you're writing fanfic of a yaoi original where the seme/uke is enforced, but completely another matter if it's regular shonen anime (like, say, Bleach, or D. Gray-man), or, in this case, FF game titles. It's kind of hard to change, though, because fangirls usually read fanfiction first, and then write. By then they're probably already influenced by the stereotypes and are imitating, to an extent, and nowadays the notion is so drilled in that it's hard to change all over again.