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Kay ([personal profile] sincere) wrote2006-09-08 05:02 am
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On the subject of [profile] khfanficrants

In my experience, there are two kinds of shippers.

1) Fans who like pairings.
2) Fans who like unusual pairings.

People in group #2 seem to feel entitled somehow, like it's personally offensive how people of a #1 persuasion enjoy their favorite pairings even though everybody else enjoys them. If you don't like Axel/Roxas? Good for you. That's something you're entitled to. I have no complaints and welcome your "alternate" pairings.

But don't automatically leap to smack down the pairing, don't sneer at people who do like it, don't insist that it makes you physically ill to see it on your flist. It's your oversensitivity, not the popularity of the pairing, that's causing you problems.

Don't hate the ship! Hate the stupid fangirls who flood the ship with OOC poorly-written ridiculous fluff that has nothing to do with the actual canon. If those stupid fangirls were flooding your flist with Luxord/Demyx, you'd all hate that pairing too, but it's still not the pairing you hate. It's the stupid fangirls.

What I'm saying is, when someone goes, "It sure is hypocritical that all the people who sneered at the concept of 8/13 day get very excited about 9 month," don't whine about how 8/13 day was different because of all the spam. It's still hypocritical. Both ideas are perfectly stupid. Don't bash the idea of having a "day" for a pairing and then turn right around and insist it's okay when you do it for a pairing that offends you less.

Because you know what? The pairing isn't hurting you.

The stupid fangirls are hurting you.

You, and your oversensitivity, is what's hurting you.

Edit, 6/22/07: Welcome, people from KHFFR. You should be aware that this post was made nine months ago after a huge amount of ranting about "AkuRoku" Day that was way more annoying than AkuRoku Day. Enjoy your blast to the past.

Also, for those of you who actually bothered to read and didn't just go off what the poster said: Please don't claim that I am generalizing all of you into a box by generalizing absurdly yourself. I don't actually think you're all a single entity. I'm sure you're all unique snowflakes with your own wonderful opinions, but you have to understand that in the mob roar of "WORD" it's hard to hear them.
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[identity profile] kay-willow.livejournal.com 2006-09-07 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I do totally agree with that assessment. XD No strong females in the game! People ignore the strong females in the game! CoM offends me! CoM is god!

There's always something. Fandom is constantly at war with one another. XD

I'm not sure which is worse: the stubborn stupid fangirls, or the stubborn intelligent fangirls!

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[identity profile] sphere.livejournal.com 2006-09-07 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Fandom stupidity is just a given. I mean, there's always going to be something godawful to gawk at, but why whine about everything else? It's just fandom.

Maybe someone should make a tv show out of it... "Today on Fandom Bitchfight, we have kAwAiIchAn999 fighting for the belief that 'Sora is a cold, insensitive Demyx-Murderer!!!' against OT3fan's belief that 'The Organization was attempting to destroy Hollow Bastion... more.' Now remember, we have ambulances standing by, and the winner gets hair extensions and plastic surgery to cover up the damage. Now, fight!"

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[identity profile] shoiryu.livejournal.com 2006-09-07 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
the belief that 'Sora is a cold, insensitive Demyx-Murderer!!!'

I've seen that person. She wrote a long, rambling love letter to Demyx in the Demyx community, raving about how he was a pure being of light, and Sora was a dirty, filthy keeper of darkness.

I'm only barely exaggerating the terminology.
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[identity profile] kay-willow.livejournal.com 2006-09-07 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I SAW THAT. It was terrifying. O_o It was the first thing I ever saw when I went to the Demyx fan comm, her screeching about how there's no light for Sora, never, he's eville rant rant rant, and Demyx is waiting for her in the afterlife, and the comments I saw weren't "Seek psychiatric help!!" they were "Wow, you're so brave for saying that."

That's when I decided it wasn't the comm for me. XD

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[identity profile] shoiryu.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Hahaha! I was the first commentor on that entry, essentially going, "...I think you're misinterpreting Demyx /and/ Sora as characters?" and her only reply to me was LOL I KNEW I'D SCARE SOMEONE. The sanity, she is /strong/ with this one!

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[identity profile] sphere.livejournal.com 2006-09-07 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I was there for it too. It's the most extreme I've seen that point of view, but not the only time I've seen it.

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[identity profile] shoiryu.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
I just can't understand how anyone can look at Sora and see "the fucker who murdered innocence".

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[identity profile] maladaptive.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Are we talking about the deranged girl that thinks she's gonna marry him?

I've seen her too. She's almost as crazy as she is unintelligible.