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If things don't change, they turn stagnant.
This is fairly common knowledge and something all of you should be familiar with.
The problem as I see it is that we've all be come so ******** p.c. and afraid of offending our fellow writers that no one is complaining about the masses of trite, badly-written fics out there.
Now I'm on about twenty mailing lists for yaoi fan-fiction and on every single list when a fic is posted and the writer begs for comments all the comments are complementary. I don't care if it's the most idiotic fic you've ever read. (Picture Heero in a tub of lime green Jell-O, Duo getting ready to bang his brains out and Wufei sitting by and crying about the injustice of it all.) Every bit of commentary is complementary.
Now it may just be that people are trying to be polite and not post criticism to the mailing list. But looking at my own experience with writing and posting fan-fiction I know that I have never received any negative commentary.
This is not a good thing, my friends.
When we just compliment and don't criticize then we get what's happening now in the GW fan-world. There is an overload of bad fiction being produced and those of us with the intelligence to know good writing from bad are either leaving the genre, or getting quite frustrated by having to dig through a shitload of crap to maybe find one decent story.
All of the above holds true with web pages as well. Thanks to the free servers like Geocities and Tripod, anyone can have a homepage. I like the idea of that. Everyone should be able to have a space where they can express themselves. The downside to this is that now anyone can have a homepage, find the slowest loading animated gifs, tacky backgrounds and stupid Java tricks throw the whole mess up on the server and think that they're a web designer
With everyone complimenting the hell out of them, these kids are never going to learn what real design is. If you keep getting complements on your site, no matter how shitty it is, where is your reason to change it?
Everyone, we need to stop this. Yes, we all need to support each other. We are a minority and our love of beautiful boys ******** each others brains out is probably not going to win us any friends in the normal anime community.
But this does not mean we have to accept crap.
Speak your mind, people. You're not a bunch of ******** sheep.
Thank you and goodnight.
 cynbaby · Sun Sep 03, 2006 @ 12:49am · 6 Comments |
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You know, the elitism in the BL community is really starting to grate on my nerves. I'm sick and tired for having to defend myself for liking graphic, full-out smut. When I read a story I want my panties to get wet. I want to get all hot and bothered. Yes, I like a good plot and, yes, I like a well-crafted story, but there are times when you just want pretty mindless smut.
It's gotten to the point in the fandom it seems as if you're not a true fan if you only go for the light, happy, fluffy BL stories where there's no graphic sex, nothing bad ever happens and you're left scrubbing your teeth after reading to get rid of the sticky sugary feeling.
I want my boys naked and ********. I want them screwing each other sore, clawing and biting. I want my boys talking dirty, getting all sweaty and grunting.
I have no use for boys that sit and spew poetry at each other.
These "elite" fans even want to regulate what we can and cannot write about.
Rape in this fandom is fairly prevalent. Why? Don't know. Does it bother me every time a non-con shows up in a fic or in manga? Hell no. Rape is a common fantasy. Most writers and artists stick to it being the "forced into pleasure" type of thing that's so common in bodice-ripping romance novels. I like my boys being shown that, yes, they will like this and they will like they way it's being given to them.
Does a fic or manga that shows a traumatic rape bother me? No, not really. It's not real. It's all in someone's head. I like things that slightly bother me. Even better if while they're bothering me they make me think.
Are we to the point now that we're dumbing down everything just in case impressionable eyes might see it? Do we really think that some youngin' might come across one of our fics and decide that this might be something fun to do? I'm all for things being age appropriate, but I know when I write I don't think about censoring myself so that little Suzy Q. Fan won't have her delicate sensibilities ripped to shreds.
I guess I'm just a dirty old perv. I like things that get me hot. I don't go out looking for things that bother me but if I come across them I take it for what it is: a fantasy.
Please note that this is not directed at anyone in particular. If I have any form of contact at all with you, then it's definitely not directed at you.
cynbaby · Thu Jul 13, 2006 @ 12:48am · 2 Comments |
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What the ******** is up with fourteen year olds in the fandom?
Fourteen year olds in the fandom who are bragging about using mommie and daddie's credit cards to buy graphic stuff.
Fourteen year olds in the fandom who run around squealing at the top of their lungs about their favorite pairings.
Fourteen year olds in the fandom who think that Gravitation is the be all and end all when it comes to BL series.
Fourteen year olds in the fandom who will stalk their favorite characters in costume at a convention screaming and begging them to do 'yaoi things'.
When did being fourteen mean that you were entitled to porn? I find these kids boasting about how they got their hands on this bit and that bit that's illegal for them to have.
Yes I did my share of finding nasty dirty stuff when I was that age, but I had the common sense to keep my mouth shut about it! I knew I was getting something I wasn't supposed to have and I went through great lenghts to hide it so that it wouldn't be taken away from me.
I was reading a thread on a message board where some of these bips were talking about getting Viewfinder when it's finally released and how they were grossed out about the graphic non-con scenes...but they were still going to buy it anyways!
There is a reason that an age limit is put on the books. Now I know that most of the time the drones working at the bookstores don't know enough to check for an ID - but that dosen't mean that kids should just be able to waltz in and buy things of this nature willy-nilly.
Just think about the outrage that kids buying regular old het porn would cause? Now just think about the outrage that will come once a conservative mommy or daddie actuly LOOKS at what little Suzy Q. Fangirl has been sneaking into the house.
Scary thought isn't it?
I'm just praying that some degree of maturity will come with these fans getting older - or I really fear for the state of the BL fandom in the U.S. when these kids hit the age of majority.
cynbaby · Mon Jul 03, 2006 @ 12:19am · 11 Comments |
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In case you all haven't figured this out yet I've got a bit of a obsession with Asami Tohjoh's Denkou Sekka Boys.
So much so that my partner in crime Nikita and I started a petition to have it get a North American release.
Denkou Sekka Boys petition
The folks over at DMP have stated that one of the top ways they find new series to license is through petitions and fan demands - so we figured it was worth a shot.
Feel free to help us pimp this out. ^_^
cynbaby · Wed Mar 23, 2005 @ 12:48pm · 2 Comments |
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Really if you want to know the real me the best way to do this is to go and check out my live journal Waisted Space
There are a few simple truths to me
I look more interesting on paper or on a computer screen than I am in real life.
I'm really not as cranky as I come across as. Unless of coure you're a freaking idiot - and then I am even crankier than I seem to be.
I am a pervert and quite proud of that fact. You can't make me feel guilty about this fact. I'm quite happy with how I am
I rather enjoy being a geek.
I have an art degree, but I am finding it rather useless.
I am a voracious reader. Give me a book and I am a happy girl.
I guess that's me in a nutshell.
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cynbaby · Mon Dec 20, 2004 @ 07:09am · 1 Comments |
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