One of the things I've found the longer I am in fandom - especially the longer I'm in parcipatory fandoms and not just reading/watching things without interacting directly with others - is that my patience for offensive bullshit decreases by the second. And by orders of magnitude
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*HIGH FIVES!*
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I've also never understood how people who claim to like a person or a character can be equally as invested in hating the people that person has chosen to have a relationship with and therefore could be fairly safely assumed to be "someone they enjoy spending time with".
This. Also, complex backstory and complicated people are good for fic, yes?
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And a million times yes to that, too! Exactly!
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...oh god, that just reminds me that there was definitely a point in one of the games I watched this weekend where the commentary referred to a guy's stick as his "magic wand". /o\ LOLOLOLOHGOD.
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And yeah, that's such a huge part of why it both stands out all the more and makes me even more furious, because it's just like "...oh great, there's only one lady in this whole thing and I'm meant to loathe her? Thanks. :("
Oh good grief, yeah, that would be wicked frustrating. :( I'm so fucking sick of women being defined by their menfolk/potential menfolk. IT'S 2012 JFC.
Hee, yeah, too true. And I enjoy the fuck out of a lot of those things, I just wish we could all be more consistent about only uplifting the good parts and leave the shitty bits on the slush heap where they belong.
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