KHFFR & Yaoi Halloween

[sincere]

I'd like to thank anyone in khfanficrants who pointed out that digging up a rant from nine months ago that someone made on their personal LJ and posting it out of context? Is a little lame. Slow news day over there, or what?

I'd also like to laugh at anyone in khfanficrants who didn't actually read what they were replying to, and so made generalizations about how it's bad that I made a generalization that they're all hypocrites, when in fact it was the poster generalizing that they are all hypocrites, and I myself was very specific. The moral of the story is: Generalizing about generalizations about generalizations is bad.

Also, new glossary term: Yaoi Halloween! I have been instructed to pass this one on to you. Yaoi Halloween is when two or more entities in elaborate love polygons are wearing masks that happen to resemble the members of a given fandom, e.g. Zexion and Demyx (in the case in question). Yaoi Halloween is the exclusive territory of badfic.

Comments

[kay-willow.livejournal.com]

Right! That part was supposed to go in there somewhere and got lost in my accursed attempts at logic.

I can't remember if cp_jacksparrow linked to Li-san's entry in his/her/its rant, but the issue was much the same -- "I found this posted privately in someone's personal LJ, now to make a mockery of them in public!"

[alba-aulbath.livejournal.com]

I believe CP simply copied and pasted the post into KHFFR. Anyway, everyone had the same reaction, that it was bad form to pry apart someone like that, especially since they were a member of the comm.

Not that members of the comm are invulnerable to being disagreed with/discussed about, but it obviously was a retarded thing to do.

[kay-willow.livejournal.com]

It wasn't the same reaction. At all. :\ I can't prove it because CP bahleeted, but I remember. There were dozens of comments that were really short-sighted and hurtful. Only a few people saw through it and went, "Wait, that post had nothing to do with Axel/Roxas. Your rant is the only thing that mentions Axel/Roxas."

Everyone else was too happy to jump on-board the hate-train because it was going to a familiar destination: Akurokuville. My most vivid memory is of one whore saying, "This is the reason why I'm embarrassed to be an Axel/Roxas fan. I wish people like this would stop making a bad name for our ship." Emphasis mine. Even Axel/Roxas fans were embarrassed because people like the fictional person CP was mocking were shipping a pairing she like.

It still makes me mad. Yay sheep. And half the wank that made CP delete the post was actually not "disagreement" at all, but because a mod got pissed off that CP deleted her thread, right?

Rawr.

[alba-aulbath.livejournal.com]

No, I'm pretty sure there was a similar reaction. My memory's fuzzy about it, of course, but there was definitely a lot of us who had a similar reaction.

Yeah, a few of us mods were pretty P.O.'d.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

'fraid most of the comm was all up in arms about the stupid Axel/Roxas fans. It was when some people disagreed (Yume started that, IIRC) and when libekory showed up, the drama bahleetion occurred. I know a lot of people were boggling, but not many managed to comment before the post disappeared.

[alba-aulbath.livejournal.com]

I know a lot of people were boggling, but not many managed to comment before the post disappeared.

Hence my "a lot of us" statement. Which does not apply to "all".

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

No link, just copied and pasted strategic sentences.