I wouldn't say you're a "bad" yaoi fangirl, because that would imply that if you're a fan of yaoi, you should ONLY like that, and eh--if you're bad, so am I, and most of the people I know. [laughs] These days, I find it easier to classify myself as just a fangirl, and let the fun comes as it does. ^_^
What I think the overall problem is, in both Western AND anime fandoms, is that writers--and humanity, as a whole--are obsessed with the idea of romantic love. It's been glorified forever throughout all forms of literature and performance throughout history; since childhood, at least in America, we've been inundated with the idea that there MUST be a romance, there MUST be someone who's in love with someone else or else the story loses something. Take movies for example--they can be almost painfully predictable about who's going to end up together in the end, even for a movie presumably about friendship. You get this a LOT with younger fen, especially those who're at the stage of boyfriends and dating and OMG HAWTIE! (which I seemed to have bypassed entirely, but what the hell, I think I have more fun that way XD).
Songs, too--I don't listen to the radio at all any more, because I got sick and tired of love songs or breakup songs or what-have-you-something-with-romance songs. I gloat and glitter over bands that have no love songs; the reason Bad Religion has scored so high with me is that the ONLY lovesong I've heard from them is "I Love My Computer," which is just funny. XD But, still, there's that same thread of "love is all, and it's not a good story if you don't have it"--hence why so much of fen is insistent on putting SOME kind of het or slash into all fics.
I'm all for gen and the friendship; even my GB fic, where I'm a hardcore mindless OMGOTP! BanGin fan, I think I may only have one or two outright slashfics; the rest can be construed as gen on the same level the series itself is. (Which is to say, if you're snarky, it ain't gen at all, but if you're willing to suspend disbelief, it's all good!) There's just the issue that so much anime fen is OMGRELATIONSHIP! and thus genfic gets buried under the masses.
I wish you luck in finding anything! Please pass along anything for any of our shared series? ♥
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Date: 2004-02-23 03:50 pm (UTC)What I think the overall problem is, in both Western AND anime fandoms, is that writers--and humanity, as a whole--are obsessed with the idea of romantic love. It's been glorified forever throughout all forms of literature and performance throughout history; since childhood, at least in America, we've been inundated with the idea that there MUST be a romance, there MUST be someone who's in love with someone else or else the story loses something. Take movies for example--they can be almost painfully predictable about who's going to end up together in the end, even for a movie presumably about friendship. You get this a LOT with younger fen, especially those who're at the stage of boyfriends and dating and OMG HAWTIE! (which I seemed to have bypassed entirely, but what the hell, I think I have more fun that way XD).
Songs, too--I don't listen to the radio at all any more, because I got sick and tired of love songs or breakup songs or what-have-you-something-with-romance songs. I gloat and glitter over bands that have no love songs; the reason Bad Religion has scored so high with me is that the ONLY lovesong I've heard from them is "I Love My Computer," which is just funny. XD But, still, there's that same thread of "love is all, and it's not a good story if you don't have it"--hence why so much of fen is insistent on putting SOME kind of het or slash into all fics.
I'm all for gen and the friendship; even my GB fic, where I'm a hardcore mindless OMGOTP! BanGin fan, I think I may only have one or two outright slashfics; the rest can be construed as gen on the same level the series itself is. (Which is to say, if you're snarky, it ain't gen at all, but if you're willing to suspend disbelief, it's all good!) There's just the issue that so much anime fen is OMGRELATIONSHIP! and thus genfic gets buried under the masses.
I wish you luck in finding anything! Please pass along anything for any of our shared series? ♥