Hi, it's Sholio from ff.net, just dropping a line to say YES! YES! YOU ARE SO RIGHT! I also come from a background of h/c and smarm (even before I knew the word for it or knew what fanfic was). I don't *mind* slash and yaoi, but the parts of the slash that I groove on are the friendshippy or h/c parts and the cuddling -- if there's sex, I usually skip it, not 'cause two guys in bed bothers me but 'cause I just don't really care; let's get to the good part and have some nice character torture already! :D
But anime fandom is really lacking in those sorts of stories. I guess I was terribly spoiled by my Stargate and Invisible Man fandoms -- where there was lots of slash, true, but also soooo much h/c that I was one happy fangirl. And then I started getting into anime fandoms and ... there's almost nothing. What's the deal?
The Roy/Ed thing in FMA fic was kind of a turnoff for me, because it just so completely overwhelmed all other kinds of fic, and here the fandom was so new that we hadn't even got a chance to get to know the characters yet -- like I said, I don't mind slash, but it's the relationship that interests me and the characters didn't even really HAVE a relationship yet in the series, so why did everyone seem to want to put them in the sack together? (Well, and I had to stop reading FMA fanfic because FMA fans are not good about giving spoiler warnings, and I got a couple of major spoilers about future events in the manga and am still kind of ticked off about that, come to think of it.)
Anyway, I think it's kind of sad if the only way that fans seem to be able to express one character's love for another is in the form of sexual love. Romance has its place -- although as a genre it never really appealed to me for its own sake, as with slash, I can be easily convinced of a particular pairing if they work well together. But it's not the only thing, and it's so overdone anymore that I'm starting to develop a knee-jerk anti-romance attitude when I'm surfing fic, which is kind of sad, but it's just so prevalent that there's hardly any fun in it anymore ...! I think it was DBZ fandom that really pushed me over the edge...
Sigh. Now I'm depressed. I need to go find me some good SG1 or ST smarm to cheer myself up. :)
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Date: 2004-03-02 10:20 pm (UTC)But anime fandom is really lacking in those sorts of stories. I guess I was terribly spoiled by my Stargate and Invisible Man fandoms -- where there was lots of slash, true, but also soooo much h/c that I was one happy fangirl. And then I started getting into anime fandoms and ... there's almost nothing. What's the deal?
The Roy/Ed thing in FMA fic was kind of a turnoff for me, because it just so completely overwhelmed all other kinds of fic, and here the fandom was so new that we hadn't even got a chance to get to know the characters yet -- like I said, I don't mind slash, but it's the relationship that interests me and the characters didn't even really HAVE a relationship yet in the series, so why did everyone seem to want to put them in the sack together? (Well, and I had to stop reading FMA fanfic because FMA fans are not good about giving spoiler warnings, and I got a couple of major spoilers about future events in the manga and am still kind of ticked off about that, come to think of it.)
Anyway, I think it's kind of sad if the only way that fans seem to be able to express one character's love for another is in the form of sexual love. Romance has its place -- although as a genre it never really appealed to me for its own sake, as with slash, I can be easily convinced of a particular pairing if they work well together. But it's not the only thing, and it's so overdone anymore that I'm starting to develop a knee-jerk anti-romance attitude when I'm surfing fic, which is kind of sad, but it's just so prevalent that there's hardly any fun in it anymore ...! I think it was DBZ fandom that really pushed me over the edge...
Sigh. Now I'm depressed. I need to go find me some good SG1 or ST smarm to cheer myself up. :)