babilu

If I weren't dizzy and, in general, unable to actually form well-thought paragraphs: this would be a very long post about attacking (black) women for their sexuality, personality, and ability to do their job.

This is not how we go about discussion on Spock/Uhura, jsyk. We do not call nuUhura immature or manipulative; we do not say "she sexed her way into The [sic] Enterprise"; we do not say she has mixed priories (I'm sorry — someone has just watched his planet implode; if you really sit and continue to do your job, I'm going to have to go with bitch. YMMV, apparently); and we do not, under any circumstances, mistake canon for fanon ("she ~cockblocked~ Jim").

Thank you for that dollop of misogyny, Fandom. I thought we were past this part of nuTrek.

You can probably expect a longer, more well-polished version of what I am about to say later. None the less:

Look, it is perfectly fine if you do not like AU fanfic. You like your favorite characters a certain way, and for some people, that is not changing obvious identifiers and or settings. It's cool; it's your choice — please, have fun in that sandbox.

But stop throwing your sand into my sandbox. I like AU, and I like subverting identifiers. I like using that to explore the character and actually come to know the character's personality outside of labels. And sure. You can know a character inside and out in their original universe, but they should not be so defined by certain identifiers (supernatural elements, occupations, etc.) that you forget the complexity of the character and that identifiers are only influences. And that happens so much in OU fanfic (the defining with trite identities and being unable to recognize what could, also, influence characters into the same behaviors), I like turning to AU fanfic. Fuck it, man. Simon Tam can be just as compassionate and overbearingly protective as a cop as he can be as a doctor. (And this is not touching -ist undertones of some defining.)

With that in mind, stop standing over my sandbox and pissing in it, too. "99% of AU fic is crap." Great, that means 99% of OU fic is crap, too. You read that; you read that crap — it's no better or worse than my "crap," so go take your sand shovel and shove it up your ass. Or, at least, learn to be a little fucking creative.

This half-hearted rant is brought to you by this post, linked on metafandom. It turned, unsurprisingly, racist and ethnocentric. Guess what, guys! Spock isn't Spock if he's not Jewish Vulcan.

metafandom is prone to fail; it happens. It's disappointing, but it happens. I am not going to make a giant post in response to this. As much as I want to, I have better things to do than make myself angry and waste time preaching to the choir; someone is going to set those people straight for me, and bless his or her heart when they do. They have more patience than I do.

Anyway.

1. Get out get out get GET OUT, if you dare do this. Wanting LGBTQ representation in the media is great! It's wonderful; it's so many things I can't even think to name right now. But you show your exploitative ass when you use your favorite non-heterosexual pairings to say you want it. That is not wanting queer representation; it's wanting your sexual fantasies or whatever satisfaction you get out of pairings handed to you on a sliver platter. WE ARE NOT HERE FOR YOU TO TOUCH YOURSELF AND CUM. WE ARE HERE TO LIVE AND BE PEOPLE JUST LIKE YOU. Stop exploiting us.

2. If you're going to try to veil your fail, don't use something like House/Wilson as "proof" the writers/network/whoever you're pointing the finger are homophobic or heterosexist. Something like House? Has real proof. Her name is Remy Hadley. She is bisexual, cool. Not so cool? Her relationships with women in series were self-destructive stunts; after she's better, she goes onto a relationship with a man. THIS IS YOUR HETEROSEXIST PROOF. Use it.

3. Sometimes characters are just friends, and them being friends isn't automatically a sign of homophobia from the writer(s). Writers decide a character's sexuality themselves, not the fans. Not you, the writer. A writer that writes all straight characters isn't necessarily homophobic, maybe simply heterosexist. You have to be observant and pay attention to decide this; it's not because of one fact.

4. The rest is keysmash and just full-blown rage.

"She would purr for Inara. Grow a cock for Inara, pink and hard and perfect, just to watch her eyes close in bliss when she slid it inside her."

Grow a cock for Inara
Grow a cock for Inara
Grow a cock for Inara
Grow a cock for Inara

Femmeslash: YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

hamiltonia (12:34:58 AM): ypou could just find a random blonde guy
babilu (12:35:06 AM): lol what
hamiltonia (12:35:15 AM): ....it would work, lulz
babilu (12:35:33 AM): ...find me a picture
hamiltonia (12:35:49 AM): ahahaha no wai
babilu (12:35:55 AM): yes way
babilu (12:36:03 AM): it's your suggestion; do it
hamiltonia (12:36:18 AM): I r lazy ;_;
babilu (12:36:23 AM): ;w;
hamiltonia (12:36:35 AM): i'm sure /y/ would work
hamiltonia (12:36:40 AM): hell
hamiltonia (12:36:45 AM): request gw yaoi
babilu (12:36:52 AM): omg no
babilu (12:36:56 AM): I've seen the shit they post
hamiltonia (12:36:57 AM): why? ;;
hamiltonia (12:36:58 AM): Oh
hamiltonia (12:36:59 AM): lol
hamiltonia (12:37:02 AM): like what>
hamiltonia (12:37:04 AM): *?
babilu (12:37:09 AM): it's really badly drawn shit
babilu (12:37:18 AM): or the designated uke is ultra girly
babilu (12:37:35 AM): which means I can't find anything of Quatre actually being a guy getting fucked in the ass
babilu (12:37:48 AM): because it's all of a girl being fucked in the ass
hamiltonia (12:37:56 AM): ahahhaahahahhahahahahhaahah
hamiltonia (12:38:07 AM): it's funny because it's trueeeeee

There are no words to describe how idiotic it is to tell someone to grow thicker skin because they find something offensive; there are no words to describe how idiotic it is to assume "well, what do you find funny?" is an effective argument; and there are no words to describe how idiotic it is that some people think stereotypes are okay and not harmful.

Why, yes. This is about APH fandom.