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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.
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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I don't get this need to bitch about pairings - yes, there are pairings I don't like/don't see/have never read a fic of that hasn't made me break out in hives but I bitch about them to friends, or on my own LJ or similar 'private' settings.
"Don't like it, don't read it."
Is that reeeeeeeally so hard to get?
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Why does fandom have to be about what I want YOU to do with your talents? Why can't you do whatever the hell you want and I'll do whatever the hell I want?
Jealousy, of course. Wah wah, comment on what I write, how come only the stupid OOC fluff gets comments~no subject
Character Development! Such is dirty words and slander for lo, shall the characters remain forever as canon left them, no matter the time or trauma undergone. All else is OOC and flamebait.
*dislikes fannits*